Red Lodge, Montana – Visitors to the Red Lodge restaurant off Broadway may be misled by the name Rock Creek Soda Hole.
It has a menu full of exotic beverages, bakes handmade doughnuts, and serves smashed burgers. That, however, is only the top of the iceberg.
“So obviously our name is a little elusive, kind of have to come in to find out what the soda hole is,” said owner Tiffany Bray. We want it to be your neighborhood donut stop, your daily drink stops, then kind of your hole in the wall restaurant that you just never knew what they were going to have, and I think we’re accomplishing that we do some pretty far out things.”
Tiffany Bray and her husband, Jake, arrived to Red Lodge from Arkansas four years ago. They opened Rock Creek Soda Hole in November, allowing the restaurant time to settle in and get input from the neighborhood. She stated that their passion for cooking drives all they do at their new restaurant.
“We just love food. It’s our love language, it’s how we like to receive love and give it. It was kind of the end game for us, we both have owned other businesses int he past in different industries and knew we wanted to do something with food. This building and everything kind of fell together, it felt right so we just jumped right in,” Bray said.
The menu is constantly changing with one purpose in mind: to create great dishes that the Red Lodge community would enjoy, and it appears to be working.
“Our community has been nothing short of amazing. They show up every day from the time we turn our donut light on to the time at 2 PM when we shut that door. We have regulars that come in and we know by name, we can see somebody coming in and we know what they’re getting and that’s the best part of it. Tourism is just a bonus, but we love catering to our local community as we’ve opened, and they’ve just been amazing.”
