Kalispell, Montana

If you happen to be here (it is very near Glacier National Park), I can highly recommend Capers, an fairly new fine dining restaurant right on main street in downton Kalispell. It's not cheap - main dishes are in the twenties -- but the food easily lives up to the prices.

Jonah

Good to know - the last (and only) time I was in Kalispell a few months ago I ate lunch at a place downtown called the Alley Connection. It looked like a mountain lodge from the outside... but turned out to be a Chinese restaurant.

Weird.

Anyone been to this area recently? We were invited to a wedding and have decided to make it a summer trip. Looking for info on food obviously but also things to do in the Big Fork & Kalispell area. Will have car and looking to travel.

Not recently, but I spent quite a few summers as a child on Flathead Lake. I don't recall much about the food, except that they used to grow the most amazing cherries there. The flavor is easily the most powerful memory of my childhood.

As for things to do, drive the Going to the Sun road.

[T]he only American roadway designated both as a National Historic Landmark and a National Civil Engineering Landmark.

ETA: I'm not sure how far you're looking to stray, but twice when we've been out to visit Yellowstone we've stayed at a fantastic place just outside of Bozeman (5 hour drive from Bigfork) called Howler's Inn. It's a B&B attached to a wolf sanctuary.