Tracy’s is back! Yay! That’s right, after being mysteriously closed for a year or so, the longtime GF institution at the corner of Central Ave. and just-a-block-from-the-Civic-Center reopened in mid-2019 under new management. Finally stopped by in Sept. Does not seem like it has as many historic pictures on the walls, and all the cool old table-top jukeboxes are gone,…
Category: Search for Best of Great Falls
The Search for the Best Breakfast in Great Falls: The Celtic Cowboy
Location: Way downtown, 1st Ave South and maybe 2nd Street Food: So far only tried the Irish Breakfast, and it is muy, muy Cost: Not real cheap. About $15 with coffee Value: For the price, you do get your money’s worth Atmosphere: Always kind of quiet and lonely. Just a few stragglers from the Hotel Arvon. But that is preferable…
The Search for the Best Breakfast in Great Falls: Lippi’s Kitchen revisited
Location: Central Ave. West about 6th Street, in the old A&W building So I stopped by Lippi’s again after a number of years, and tried some breakfast thing called The Mess or some such, that the server said was very popular. It was supposed to be a big mix of eggs and hash browns and cheese and whatnot, already pre-smushed…
Breakfast Not in Great Falls but Should Be: Huevos and Machaca
Location: Taqueria Guadalajara, Prescott Valley, AZ Let’s face it, our choices for decent Mexican food in Great Falls are not all that numerous. Really good choices, even more sparse. And places for decent authentic Mexican breakfasts? I’m not sure one even exists. So when you travel out of town especially to a southwestern state it’s mandatory to stop in somewhere…
The Search for the Best Breakfast in Great Falls: 5th Street Diner revisited
Tragedy has struck Great Falls. The 5th Street Diner is closing. Apparently the landlord, perhaps hoping to cash in on the current popularity of that 5th Street and Central intersection, decided the space was worth a lot more rent than the Diner proprietors were willing to pay. So the proprietors decided it was time to retire. Thus I, along with…
The Search for the Best Breakfast in Great Falls: Double Barrel Cafe
Location: 15th Street and 9th Ave. So, in the little house that’s been several businesses over the years. The Double Barrel is both old and new, being new at this location, but old as a successor to the old Double Barrel that was on the West Side for so many years. One of the proprietors here is a relation of…
The Search for the Best Breakfast in Great Falls: 2K’s Kafe Revisited
Location: 3rd Ave So. just E of Meadow Gold Over the years this has been sort of the go-to place when downtown early on a week day and looking for a breakfast bite. The building is what can only be described as unassuming on the outside in a working neighborhood, and it’s small and plain and cozy on the inside.…
The Search for the Best Breakfast in Great Falls: 5th Street Diner
This diner at the corner of 5th Street and Central occupies the space that used to be the lunch counter at the old Woolworth’s store that was there when we were kids running around the store and looking at the pet section and smelling all the delicious smells. The decor of the diner harks back to even before I was…
Breakfast Not in Great Falls but Should Be: Ann Sather Swedish Breakfast
We can only wish we could get this breakfast in Great Falls, but unless you have a Swedish grandma or something, you’re S.O.L. But you can enjoy it at Ann Sather on Belmont when you visit Chicago. Check out all that mouth-watering Swedish goodness there with the scrambled eggs: Swedish pancakes, Swedish meatball, potato sausage, lingonberry sauce, and some tasty…
The Search for the Best Breakfast in Great Falls: Goodtime Charlie’s
Goodtime Charlie’s occupies part of the R&R Casino mega-complex at 10th Ave. South and 38th Street that if I remember right was a motel long long ago, just west of Tokyo Massage. It’s main claim to breakfast fame is that it is open 24 hrs, picking up the mantle of departed and mourned east side 24 hr/late night breakfast places…