Bonanza Freeze

A tiny little place right along the main street. It does have a convenient drive up window on the street side. In business since 1947 it is built quite a following. On my visit there is probably three or four cars in line all the time +6-8 people at the window. The service was good. The milkshake was plenty thick enough and the french fries weren’t cooked as much as I like them, but they were still tasty. This is a kind of businesses built on the backbone of America.

We wanted to try the famous Butte Pasty brought to the area while we were in town! We were not disappointed! The Pasty was brought to the area by Cornish mine workers. Outside seating or take away only but we also saw they deliver! The Root beer Float was delicious too!

A local burger and shake place. I ordered the steak burger, tater “gems”, and chocolate shake. Service was friendly and informed me that the burger takes extra time. I appreciated the information from the employees. The food arrived in a timely fashion. The tater gems were not fresh, unfortunately many of them had become petrified gems. The burger was large and loaded with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cheese. There was an additional sauce sort of like a thousand island dressing. Overall the burger was good! It was a bit on the dry side, but there was plenty of sauce to help. The flavor was good, but on the chewy side. The chocolate shake was smooth and sweet! Not a powerful chocolate flavor, more subtle. Overall I am glad I supported local, but the food needs a bit of an overhaul.

Very popular dive through for food and ice cream. The chocolate was not super rich but more creamy. The strawberry shortcake Sunday was also light and delicious. It had a sponge cake on the bottom, nice soft vanilla and the strawberries on top simply tasted freshly frozen/thawed and not that super sugary thick syrup fruit. So it was great! Prices were very reasonable.

I had great food & experience, but I will focus on just one thing: this places serves beautifully made traditional ice cream sodas with REAL FRUIT syrup. These are very hard to find in this region. The staff are a bit confused when you order it, but there’s def instructions in the back. They were perfect, and really let the ice cream do the sweetening, so it starts mild, lightly sweet & transforms as the ice cream melts. On the syrups, I’ve made them homemade, these can’t be purely that, the cost would be much higher, but I would guess they use both flavoring & chunks of fruit. Plenty of strawberries got caught in the straw (part of the experience!) and the 2nd night I bought two ice cream sodas for myself, and I did catch a raspberry seed in my partial, again that is GOOD. Freaking delicious, tbh I may never eat anywhere else in butte lol.

Bonanza Freeze is so good best chili dog I've ever had. Great deserts the brownie Supreme is next level with a hot cooked to order brownie. A must try!

Great little hometown burger joint with many ice cream options I had the chocolate malt it was delicious so it was my burger and the onion rings are fantastic! The girl that took my order was sweet kind and efficient and the food came out quickly! Great job I'll be back

Absolutely love the bacon cheesebugers and cheese balls! They have great food and ice cream treats!