Millstone Family Restaurant — Restaurant in Spearfish

This is gonna be long because I cannot shorten how I feel about this place!

I came here thinking the food would be mid-ish bar food. Some certain pseudo shops I saw by Mt. Rushmore weren’t much comfort to that feeling.

But lemme bloody tell ya.

There was so much to it and I truly thought it was tiny. It had a salad bar and multiple seating areas. I’m not sure the name nor pronouns of the person who served us, but they were so kind and patient. Especially with our brother asking for a 3 soda combo at so many words per minute, Eminem would be put to shame.

They also helped dad with some directions to a hotel! Again, patience of a god!

Plus! They were so sweet and apologetic when I corrected them misgendering me! I was nervous to bring it up, but that server was literally perfect about it.

As for the food: it was amazing.

I don’t order lunch/dinner options, so take it with a grain of salt

But it was phenomenal.

I don’t like pancakes. They’re too soft and chewy and have an odd texture. But I like burgers and stuff like that even less (at the time, I didn’t know about the salad bar and was to anxious to change the script order I planned out in my head), so I got the pancakes.

Only once has a restaurant been able to make me like their pancakes. And it was Denny’s.

Only once. Until today.

Their pancakes are so good and I don’t even know how. The texture was different in ways I can’t explain, the fluffiness was perfect, it wasn’t overly sweet. So good.

The hash browns weren’t entirely crispy, as only the top and bottom of the stack(?) was crunchy and the middle was soft. But I ate the hell outta them anyways because they were still good.

Now to my favourite part.

I am a French fry and most things potato connoisseur. I like to see what restaurants have the best fries and if they’re worth it.

The look alone is what made me wanna try the fries. Something about how golden and crispy they looked made me curious.

So, after stealing a fry from my brother, I ordered a plate of fries. BECAUSE THOSE WERE THE BEST FRIES IVE EVER HAD IN MY DAMN LIFE. Maybe they’re not gourmet or whatever the piss.

But they were crispy, golden, flaky, warm, not soggy, didn’t have an ungodly amount of leftover frying grease. Just- perfect. I was already full from eating my pancakes and hash browns. Ya know what I did? I kept. Bloody. Eating. Not just because I wanted to, but because I NEEDED to. Those fries were so good. If nothing else, just go for the fries, I mean holy hell

The atmosphere was lovely, although a small bit confusing to look at with the closed-off building design. I found it a bit weird they didn’t have straws, but I’m guessing it’s for less waste?

Also there was this one crooked painting of a waterfall and I couldn’t stop staring at it lmao

Overall 11/10, would recommend. I wish I could plop one of those down in my home state ^^

Hope to come again some point soon!

Ps. If the person who served us reads this, you are absolutely amazing and I hope your day goes just as lovely as you made ours with your wonderful service!

And I still like your earrings and...

My family and I were starting our vacation and looked up this restaurant on our way from Mt Rushmore to our hotel in Spearfish. Looked good on line but was AWFUL when we got there. Our waitress clearly didn't want to be there and was more interested in gossiping and talking with the other waitresses than serving us. After getting seated and ordering, we went to the salad bar where the food was subpar, but the best part of the food all night, but only because the main course was disgusting. There was no cheese on the salad bar and the vegetables seemed old. I ordered the eggs, hash browns, bacon and toast, my mom ordered the walleye with sweet potato, and my dad ordered the fried chicken. My hash browns were cold, my bacon was limp, and both my eggs and toast were so greasy, I could see the grease running off. My moms walleye still had bones in it and when she asked for melted butter, the waitress took the butter off her plate and melted that instead of giving her new butter, so she didn't have butter for the stringy sweet potatoes. My dad's chicken was alright, it didn't have flavor and his hash browns were also greasy and cold. Any time we needed something, like a refill on water or straws for our drinks, we had to ask. And we ended up asking another waitress multiple times because ours didn't come near our table except to give us the bill. Everyone working seemed to not care at all and I would never reccommend this restaurant, even...

Came in for a nice lunch with my family that I'm visiting. Little did I know what I was walking into. A couple of the drinks got mixed up which is no problem. Our food also got mixed up and my party was given food that that didn't order. Was odd so we asked the waitress and she seemed to be newer in training which is perfectly understandable and wasn't quite sure how things got mixed up so we asked for the manager. I can't for the life of me remember the managers name but she was very uneasant, telling us we got what we had ordered. After some debate back and forth we asked to see the notes the waitress took to confirm the things we ordered. The manager was unable to produce such evidence of us ordering what we had received. After her telling us that we just had to "deal with what we got" cause she was unwilling to even help fix our food. At this point I was about to just walk out. But the manager would not let us leave the restaurant without paying for the food that we did not even order. At some point cursing was provoked and I had my children with me and do not condone that from any manager at any level. At that point I just paid the bill to get the heck out of there. I would highly recommend to anyone in that area to steer clear of this restaurant. It's sad that a manager is not willing to help resolve this...