Casagranda Steakhouse - Butte
Author: The Travelling Diners
The Traveling Diners
Casagranda Steakhouse - Butte
About a year ago a small group of Townsend residents decided to get together to make a monthly trip to visit restaurants outside Broadwater County but in the area. We have visited some outstanding restaurants! Since there are so many new residents in the area we thought we might share our thoughts on these restaurants.
Of course, we have great restaurants here in Broadwater County: the Mint has been providing great food in Townsend for over 80 years. The Bread and Butter Café has been open for almost 2 years and is already well known for their great breakfast and lunch dishes. The Big Bull, the Silos, the Bunkhouse, the Commercial Bar and the FishTale Bar all provide great casual dining food. And the Full Belli Deli is well known throughout Southwest Montana for their great sandwiches. The Mounty Moose is famous for their doughnuts and also has great breakfast and lunch meals.
We recently visited Casagranda’s Steakhouse in historic Butte. With its colorful history and great historic buildings Butte is always fun to visit! The Casagranda’s Steakhouse is located in the old Bertoglio Distributing warehouse on Utah Avenue just west of the beautiful old Great Northern Railroad Depot. The interior of the old warehouse has been renovated beautifully; the attention to detail is incredible, right down to the fascinating (and very clean) restrooms.
The restaurant was absolutely full yet we were seated very quickly after arriving. We started off with drinks from the bar that were prepared very well. A quick perusal of the menu told us the restaurant was serving meals in the old Butte tradition: in addition to our entrees, the meals included bread, soup AND salad, choice of potato, pasta or mac’n’cheese and a scoop of ice cream.
We started with appetizers: Deep Fried Ravioli and an Order of Crab cakes. The Crab Cakes were well prepared with a light, crunchy outside and a tender crab mix on the inside with a very tasty sauce. The menu stated we would get 3 Deep Fried Ravioli which we thought (with everything else) would be just a perfect amount. We actually received 12 deep-fried ravioli with a meat filling. They were perfectly done, the filling was very good and many of them went home with us in a go-box!
For entrees, we had a filet mignon, a rib steak and a house specialty, “Art's Spicy Cream Sauce of Penne Pasta”. The steaks were quite large and cooked perfectly and the pasta was cooked al-dente with a spicy (but not over the top) cream sauce. With dinner, we had a bottle of red wine from a very nice selection of wines on the wine list. The wine was very good and went perfectly with the meals.
Our server was efficient - there when we needed her, but without being intrusive, and of course Butte friendly. She was a Butte native and we had a nice time chatting with her about growing up in Butte.
All of this came at a very reasonable price. We were actually quite surprised that the meals were not priced higher. This was a great experience for our first outing and we highly recommend dining at Casagrada’s Steakhouse if you make a trip to Butte! The restaurant is located at 801 South Utah Avenue in Butte (just south of the main business district). We do recommend making a reservation. The phone number is 406-723-4141. You can visit their website at http://casagrandassteakhouse.com
