06/02/2026
A few recommendations! Over the next few days I’m going to be sharing some of my favorite places to eat, awesome hikes, places to see, entertainment around the valley and hidden gems! Hopefully this will help my couples and their guests plan a trip of a lifetime 🖤
Whitefish:
Buffalo Cafe - Best Breakfast, Hands Down!
Amazing Crepes
Jersey Boys Pizza
Grouse Mountain Lodge - Cute place to stay too!
Whitefish Lodge, Fancier but awesome food and drinks also in the same building is the boat club bar menu
Jalisco - Highly Recommend, best tacos and margaritas
Polebridge- adorable little town with a bakery and restaurant up the north fork where you can find their famous huckleberry bear claws, the road is awful but worth the drive
Columbia Falls:
North Fork Pizza
Gunsight Saloon - Music and Food almost nightly in the summer, amazing mac and cheese and sweet potato fries
Nite Owl & Back Room Restaurant - Fry bread and BBQ at the back room, the wait will be long so be prepared but so good
Backslope Brewing
Kalispell:
Big Mountain Cider Works - Family Friendly
Sunrift Brewery
*Mooses - MUST try for pizza - fun, smalltown atmosphere, get some peanuts and enjoy the sawdust floor while you carve your name into the table!
Norms News - Candy store, burgers and shakes (next door is western outdoors if anyone needs boots or a cowboy hat)
Sykes Diner- best breakfast, big portions, there will be a wait but worth it
Fire and Dough pizza truck, must try to die for pizza behind black rifle coffee, get the honey on the pizza
Blue Samari- Sushi
Bigfork:
Sake to Me - Sushi: Reservations a MUST!
Burger Town- amazing pit stop and great burgers
Lakeside Brewery
The Sitting Duck- the best bloody Mary’s in town and bingo on Sundays
Garden Bar
Finley Point Grill
The Buffalo
Lakeside:
Tamarak Brewing Co.
Mavericks
