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Montana's Rib and Chop House
Category: Restaurants Steakhouses Steakhouses [Edit]
1849 Majestic LnBillings, MT 59102
(406) 839-9200
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
15 reviews for Montana's Rib and Chop House
15 reviews in English
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Review from Zach G.
12/30/2011 1 Check-in Here
Fantastic Steak. Would give some of the steakhouses in Nashville a run for their money. Best place I ate at while in Montana.
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Review from Buzz M.
Billings, MT
3/15/2012
Why this place is packed every night I'll never understand. Really, it's just average at best.
Service is "Okay". Nothing to write home to mom about. You receive service but you'll hardly notice it.
The food is hit or miss. Seriously. I've given this place 4 chances and the best they could do for me was to underwhelm my senses.
The baseball cut Sirloin is a favorite here and it's pretty good but I've had better steak at Texas Roadhouse. Oh, and one important thing to remember: order your steak one temperature below what you want. They pride themselves on bringing these things out sizzling hot but they continue to cook. If you order medium you'll probably receive well done and have a dry hunk of meat to try and choke down.
Don't even THINK about ordering the Cedar Plank Salmon. It smells wonderful when they bring one by your table but mine was so dry my water glass evaporated.
If you're forced at gunpoint to go eat at this restaurant try the ribs. They're actually pretty darned good and with a side of garlic shrooms, the two make for a tasty combo. That being said, there are better places to get ribs in town.
If you go here for lunch, two people can dine on the chicken strips/fries as it's an enormous portion. -
Review from Starry J.
Oceanside, CA
5/25/2012
It's actually a 2.5 stars but since we don't have that option, I opted to give them 3 stars. I was in a big group that had reservations. Despite that, we still got to sit in the lobby and wait for 20 minutes before we were seated.
Our server was nice but the steak was way over cooked. I ordered a medium-rare and my steak came out closer to well done. I had a little pink in the middle but it was mostly brown all over. Not a good sign for a steak house. -
Review from Justin H.
Three Forks, MT
2/28/2012 1 Check-in Here
Overall, my wife and I enjoyed our visit here. It was busy for a Friday night but we were seated within 15 minutes. Our waiter did a wonderful job. I got the Baseball Cut Top Sirloin with a loaded baked potato. The steak had good flavor and was decent for a sirloin. My wife had the filet which was excellent. The loaded potato was good, except the bacon bits were cold which I didn't like. The tasted like they had just been pulled straight out of the fridge and thrown on the potato on the way out of the kitchen. We'll probably give this place another try down the road.
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Review from Mallory S.
Houston, TX
8/7/2011
After having the Apple Cobbler a la mode per a colleage's suggestion, I now have to come to Montana's Rib and Chop every time I'm in Billings. It is definitely the best apple cobbler I've ever had and is one of favorite ever desserts (this is comming from a serious chocoholic).
Cobbler aside, the Salmon with the Jamaican Brown Sugar Glaze is good (at least for a $16 fish dish at a steak place in Montana). The sweet, savory and slightly spicy flavors go together so wonderfully and in the three times I've ordered it the Salmon has always been perfectly cooked (Juicy and just shy of being undercooked).
From my few visits, service has been pretty decent. I just wish the sides weren't so bland and there was a green veggie option. Overall I'd be tempted to give this place three to three and a half stars but salmon and cobbler are so good, I give it four. -
Review from Rachel G.
Star, ID
6/23/2011 4 Check-ins Here
Aps: calamari, the good kind with the little baby tentacles. Aiole was spot on.
Phood: rib eye, rare, giant. Well seasoned, best steak I've had in a long time. Garlic mashed taters were ight. -
Review from Chris B.
Dallas, TX
8/31/2011
Great cut of meat, lots of local beers on tap, and a short walk from my hotel. All in all I think it was mission acomplished. Come to Montana this is what I expected and this is what I got. I will be back. I didn't give it five stars because there was nothing green on the sides menu. I needed something green to make my heart happy.
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Review from Sarah L.
Binghamton, NY
12/29/2007
Bad on me for ordering seafood at a place called the rib and chop house. Bad on them that the "jamaican brown sugar" glaze on said seafood apparently consisted of water and brown sugar. I think this cedar grilled salmon was as bad a fish dish as I've ever had, and it came out literally on a burned plank of wood.
By odd coincidence, our waitress was someone we knew so I can't really comment on the service, but from what she told us, the rib and chop house is the kind of place where the managers get mad at the waitresses for not writing their name in crayon on the paper tablecloths.
So if you like that, and you like meat (or fish and chips; my mom's were great), and you have kids that you have to take out to dinner with you, it's probably a good place. Not sure why it's quite so popular though. -
Review from Agent C.
Boulder, CO
9/21/2009
Four-and-a-half stars. Strictly talking steaks and ribs - plus a loaded baked potato - this place has the others that I've tried in this area (Jake's, Walker's) beat. My filet came cooked to order: medium. They served it on a sizzling plate (a la Ruth Chris, but those guys overcooked my steak - so much for hoity toity national chains), and it was mighty tasty.
The calamari was only so-so, but based on the red meat, this place gets five stars.
And our server Ryan was quite good, too. -
Review from Wendy C.
Billings, MT
7/21/2011
I eat here a lot. I've always had great service. Best steak I've had anywhere. I get the ribeye. I also love the cedar plank salmon with the brown sugar glaze. Yum! I try to take friends who like to split dishes so I can get the steak and the salmon. :) One of my favorite places in Billings. I definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a great steak.
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Review from Russ N.
Billings, MT
1/11/2009
Bad service and a management that does not care. I ordered a steak and after a very long wait, it finally arrived at the table where the waiter proceeded to drop the towel they use to clean the tables on my plate. He simply picked it up, brushed off my steak and placed it in front of me and left without saying a word. After complaining to the manager I was rewarded with a replacement steak in a speedy 40 minutes later. And you guessed it.. they still charged me full price. Besides that the food is mediocre at best. This place is all hype. Go elsewhere!
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Review from Michael K.
Billings, MT
3/20/2010
I really tried to like this place, but it is just average. I have had better steaks locally and service is hit or miss. Overall not worth the prices....
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Review from Fn A.
Nevada City, CA
9/14/2011
Had a nice dinner with 6 of us enjoying excellent cocktails and beer first. Corkage only 8 bucks so we brought nice wine too. Filets and ribeyes were very good. My baker was only ok, but the squash casserole seemed to be a hit. Had to ask for bread with our salads, waiter looked surprised by the request. The server was very attentive and friendly enough. Dining room was a bit boxy with not as much charm as you would think. If you are serving $25 entrees you should at least have cloth napkins at dinner...just sayin! Overall quite pleasant of an experience.
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Review from Meghan P.
Birmingham, AL
6/2/2010
Not super impressed.
The most annoying thing to me was that a steak place in Montana should have a wide selection of steaks, right? Well, this was not the case. They had a big variety of foods. Oddest of all was that they had so many southern foods- gumbo, bbq shrimp... why?
I got a "baseball" steak and it came as I ordered it- a plus! It literally was round however, which seemed weird. The salad was pretty bad- pale iceberg (and not really even crunchy), and my side of squash casserole was strange. It didn't taste like squash casseroles you find in the south at meat n' three places (which it's supposed to be like), but besides that it also just wasn't good.
My friend had the cedar plank salmon, which she really liked. I thought it was ok, not great. Someone else had a hamburger, which was also fine. The fries were supposed to be beer battered or something, but they were 100% plain (not even salt).
The service wasn't great, just ok. She wrote her name on the tablecloth (she was standing upside-down to it, which was impressive). -
Review from Stephanie D.
Billings, MT
7/24/2009
We used to eat at the R&C often, but have found the food quality mixed. The last time we dined there, four of the five meals were not up to par. We've always had good service, but will definately be looking around for other places to dine. Billings is limited so we were excited when this place first opened. Darn.
