charlotteann

I have returned from my travels to the East Coast and my homeland of Montana. I also turned 24, so please feel free to wish me a happy birthday in the comments section so I feel loved and it looks like my blog gets comments. I am planning on revising the focus of this whole endeavor so that it might concern more pragmatic things. But before we get to that, here are some photos from two of my favorite places to eat in Billings, Montana: Caramel Cookie Waffle (first three images), and Bistro Enzo.

Pastrami sandwich

Chicken curry soup

Lemon bar

Beef short ribs

The Caramel Cookie Waffle bakes, cooks, prepares, and sells some of the most delicious and wholesome food I have ever had. Seriously, you can taste the love that went into its making. Well, maybe not so much in the Dutch candies they sell, but everything else there is simply and delightfully good. Aside from their sandwiches, pastries (savory and sweet), soups, salads, and baked goodies, they sell some seriously scrumptious stroopwafels. I already ate the 10 I brought home with me and thus have no photograph, but here’s the wiki article in case you have no idea what I am talking about. If you should find yourself in Billings and in need of a tasty, home-cooked style lunch, go here. Then buy a bunch of their cookies and give them to your friends so they will have no choice but to love you forever and ever.

Bistro Enzo has been a favorite of mine since they opened. The head chef is one cool dude, too. The food is consistently innovative and eco-conscious. They also have a kids menu and very talented servers - I’ve had worse at more expensive restaurants in San Francisco and New York. My lousy photograph in no way represents the melt-in-your mouth awesomeness of those (grass-fed!) beef ribs. I shouldn’t have ate all of them because of the crême brulée I was to eat later, but I did. And I liked it.

Now if you go to Billings you’ll know what’s up, at least for two meals. I have been eating at these places for years and they refuse to disappoint me.

Coming soon: packing your lunch.