Shellie's Country Cafe

Mady Rose

We usually love this place and our experience is usually upbeat and enjoyable. That was not the case tonight, July 21st 2022. We had Brenda V as our server. She was not very engaging, polite, or a good server. We saw her all of 4 times during our meal, once to greet us and get our drinks, once to drop off the drinks and get our food order, once to drop off the food, and once to get the check. She lacked basic customer service skills and was actually kind of snappy. Not a very happy customer after tonight's experience.

Matthew COS

What can I say? This review is based on only one trip to Shellie’s in the restaurant location that used to be Perkins. Haven’t tried any of their dishes except the jalapeño poppers that I bought when I was there this last time. So take it with a grain of salt if you’d like, but this is what I observed. First of all, we liked Perkins. Not everything there was super, but some things were very good, and the prices were reasonable. I could take my family of 5 there and eat for around $42 or so, and that’s with 3 kids meals and two adults meals. As this change to Shellie’s approached we were worried that we would lose our favorite restaurant, but we were hopeful that Shellie’s would be a change for the better. We were disappointed. 1st of all, the prices are WAY more, at least 30% higher or more on most things. When we went there, we had all eaten recently, so it was just for dessert. Let’s see, I got jalapeño poppers, ($9.50)!!! And my wife got onion rings ($9.95)!!! And one chicken nuggets kids meal, one milkshake, and one slice of chocolate cream Oreo pie, and 2 coffees. NOT a large meal, simply dessert and a snack. $48! I can imagine what the cost would have been had we all had meals. So much for our nice affordable Perkins. I forget to mention that my jalapeño poppers had NO SPICE at all, and were barely edible, the SIX of them for $9.50. I do have to admit that the chocolate cream pie was far superior to Perkins chocolate cream, so that’s good, but they will be seeing much less of us and our business than Perkins did. I will eventually try some more things there, and review those, but for now these are the feelings of my family. Bye Bye Perkins, we miss you already… 😢

Christina Spencer

Passing through Helena on business very late night, starving, we stumbled across this gem. Not only did the food hit the spot, our server Cameron A was amazing! The service was friendly and helpful and the food was delicious! The portions were the perfect size and the homemade German Chocolate Cream Pie was the best pies I’ve ever had. This was a very wonderful visit. Thanks to all the staff for the hustle.

J

Great customer service and one of the few breakfast diner type places in Helena. Our server was amazing. Food was a also good. The country fried steak is frozen so we didn't try that. The sausage gravy was a bit salty and not homage. Eggs Benny were good.