You sit here and think that Guy Fieri might just roll in and say "Dude, you're rockin' it" (or another Guy cliche that he's trademarked). Â We've been to Butte a few times in the past 20 years but the place was either being renovated or was so deeply divey and dicey that we passed it by. Â Butte native Sam Jankovich Jr (his dad was once CEO of the New England Patriots) has poured in some $ to Butte's oldest bar (113 years young), and you can have a beer and burger or fried chicken, plus any one of some other classics. Â
The burger is cooked right in front of you on the flat top. Â The cook's need to press that piece of meat down with a weighted flatiron leaves it too dry and well done for my taste, but the beef flavor so still there. Â Fries are made from real potatoes. Â You can play keno or bet on the ponies if you want. Â
Watch the 2004 movie "Don't Come Knocking", pick up Dashiell Hammet's classic "Red Harvest" (set in Butte in the late 1920's), and sit in the M&m for an hour or two. Â Good times.