Bonanza Freeze — Restaurant in Butte

We stopped here on a recent trip to Butte, MT. We were hunting for ghosts and a small ummm good "hole in the wall" type burger place. Sometimes they have the best burgers.

We didn't find any ghosts. We found Bonanza Freeze instead.

First off the wait in the drive thru was long however I've waited in line longer to get my coffee so no biggie. The drive thru is really awkward when there are more than two cars. I was surprised no one bumped into anyone that day. Customer Service was polite enough. We had to wait a while more for our food to be ready. They have you pull up past the drive thru to wait but it just adds to the cluster frick.

We both ordered huckleberry shakes and a double cheeseburger. The cheeseburger had a kind of unique flavor. It was actually pretty good. The shakes are a different story all together as they were disappointing. I love huckleberry shakes so when I get a sub par one I'm not very thrilled. You guys may like them anyway but I'll tell you why I didn't care for them.

I know they used at least some real huckleberries but they were few and far between. There was not a lot of flavor to the shakes. What flavor was there tasted artificial to us. Strangely the shakes were very very purple. Usually they are a very light purple or white. I could be wrong about the artificial thing but it did not taste like others I've purchased and I didn't like it.

I can't say that I would or wouldn't eat one of the cheeseburgers again though the hassle of the drive thru might make me rethink that. I can tell you I'll not order a shake...

I’ll talk about the food in a minute. I want to first talk about the young folks who work here. As my family and I were eating, I saw two young kids (maybe 7 years old?) walk up and order two kids meals and begin to pay with change — they were struggling to count out the change but it was obvious they were gonna be short and so they gave it to the staff working to count. I figured the kids would only be a few bucks short so I ran over there to offer to pay the difference but by the time I got there to talk with a staff, I could see the young folks pulling out their personal money to pool together the remaining few dollars needed. This place has some quality young folks working there. They were friendly when taking me and my family’s orders but what they did later was really impressive to me. (I’m fairly certain that would not have happened in most of the restaurants back home in Portland 🤷‍♂️)

Now, onto the food. All the food items we got were great. There wasn’t anything incredibly unique about the food (except the smiley face French fries that came with the kids meal) but they all tasted great! My kids all loved what they got and my wife and I both enjoyed our...

We went here because it was the only not-sit-down burger place open on Sunday. We didn't look at reviews and had never been or ever heard of them, we only googled for burgers and here we went. And this place did not dissapoint. We ordered online and it was super easy to select everything and pay for it. The prices for the quality are extremely resonable in a time of $16 restaurant bugers. I think my bacon cheese burger was $5.50, maybe a bit less. The burger had great flavor! The fries were not your run of the mill frozen potatoes thrown in oil. These guys were not dried out or too salty and actually had a good crunch and flavor! I got a chocolate shake as well and it was very well made, not your average vanilla ice cream from cisco with hershys chocolate corn syrup kinda shake, but real chocolate ice cream. Service was friendly, pickup was painless, and everyone was wearing a mask which shows the company cares about their employees health. I would recommend this place to anyone looking for a quick bite or tasty ice cream treat. I can't wait to try the rest...