We've always enjoyed eating at Montana's Restaurant, in particular the one in Coquitlam in the Coquitlam Centre Mall. We've always been happy with the food, the ambience, and the service.
In stark contrast is the Montana's in Langley on the Bypass, in the mall just east of 200th Street. We've always found the service slow and our visits are usually a year or longer inbetween just in case things have changed.
We decided to give it another try on Friday night around 8pm. The restaurant was busy, but there were a few empty tables and we were seated right away. It took nearly 10 minutes for our server, Jenn, to show up with menus and ask what we wanted to drink. Though she returned in a reasonable amount of time with the drinks and to take our orders. We don't usually order an appetizer, though this time we did when I saw a new one on the menu - sweet potato fries. They took about 10 minutes to arrive. The chipotle dipping sauce was nice, but not enough of it. However the fries appeared to have been of the frozen variety and then fried as ordered. I've had better sweet potato fries at just about every restaurant in the Lower Mainland that serves them. Montana's sweet potato fries were limp and crumbled as we picked them up.
By now the time we finished the fries the restaurant was starting to empty. We watched as all the tables around us received their food, including the young couple at the table beside us who were seated about 10 minutes after we arrived. Half an hour after we'd finished our sweet potato fries, dinner arrived. I'd ordered the strawberry citrus salad which came with corn bread. I was really disappointed with the corn bread. Its seriously gone downhill since the last time I'd got it with an order. It was cold and crumbly, fell apart as I ate it. The salad was OK. The problem with the strawberries and they weren't sweet. They were red, but not sweet and ripe.
We finished eating and Jenn returned to ask if we'd like to see a dessert menu and I said yes. She showed up 10 minutes later with the dessert menu and then left. I mean, how long does it take to bring a dessert menu? Especially when it was after 9pm and there weren't that many customers. Although I would have liked the apple cobbler, that I've had many times before, I told Kerry I didn't want to wait half an hour for it. Jenn returned over 5 minutes later and we told her we'd decided not to have dessert, just the bill. It still took us almost 10 minutes to get that, pay, and leave.
Out of 5 stars, I'd give this Montana's Restaurant a one and a half.
And then we went to Dairy Queen for dessert!
Disappointing. This will be our last visit to this particular Montana's. We'd like to try the one in Walnut Grove by the Colossus and we're waiting for the new one in South Surrey on 24th Avenue, across from Wal-Mart to open. No one seems to know when it will open though its been completed for awhile and no tradespeople have been seen recently. There is a banner on the front of the restaurant saying "opening soon" but no further details how soon is soon.
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