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| - Our visit to Montana's was to use a gift card we were kindly sent after a horrific visit to a new location in the city. While perhaps being gluttons for food, we are no gluttons for punishment so opted to go with Calgary's original location that has been going strong for around 18 years. The service was initially outstanding, and the food was right up to what we expect a visit to Montana's to be and was hot, fresh and tasty. We had only one issue with this visit, and perhaps had I not worked for Montana's for 4 years in the late 90's I would have not had as much sympathy for the poor guy serving us! Their hostess slammed the poor dude! Several sections, split up as I remembered from back in the day. Three other servers who could have handled and accommodated any of his new tables in their section and appeared to be twiddling their thumbs with the two tables each they had, yet our guy was "quintuple sat" within about 10 minutes! A table of 4, then a table of 5, then a table of 8, another table of 2 and finally another table of 5. Luckily we were in no rush and after not seeing the poor guy at our table for about 20 minutes, but seeing him rushing around like a one-armed juggler, a manager came and picked up some slack for him, wrapped our food and got us the bill. This observation for a learning opportunity for the hostess aside, we enjoyed the excellent early service and were reminded of what I love so much about Montana's with the hot, tasty food that was completely absent at the other location. Still a solid "4 star" visit. The Antojitos are still exactly as delicious as they always were, and we tried two newer appetizers that we would definitely order again. Now, if only we can convince them to bring back the short lived, yet mouth watering Buffalo (baby) shrimp...
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