In the Kitchen:
with Steven Trent Smith
The rumor is a fact:
ruby’s was a Whitefish institution of the first magnitude. When it closed three years ago it was like a knife to the heart of its legions of fans, local and foreign. My family first discovered the restaurant back in 2000, and it became a frequented favorite. My teenage son loved the fact that they had Thomas Kemper root beer on tap. When we started selling food at the Whitefish Farmers’ Market during the summer, we’d also stop in to pickup their fried calamari and some salads to take home for dinner. And then – poof – Truby’s was gone. Other restaurants have come and gone in Whitefish, but the memory of dear Truby’s lived on. It was sad to walk by the old building on Central, now dark and bare. Then early this year a rumor made its away around the valley – that Truby’s was going to reopen, in a new location in Columbia Falls. Wow. What’s that gonna be like, we wondered? Well, I’m here to tell you that that rumor was in fact a fact. Truby’s has reopened, in the lodge complex at the Meadow Lake Golf & Ski Resort, just off Highway 2 in Columbia Falls. When I went there the first time, to interview owner Kristen Voisin, I was handed a menu to peruse. Imagine my delight when
text and photos by STEVEN TRENT SMITH
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