No Sweat Cafe

love this place !
they have great breakfast. Blueberry pancakes are some of the best you will ever have.
this is true Montana. In a tiny hole in the wall space, but well worth the visit. Be prepared to wait if you get their past 8am.

Two stars because of the great customer service only. The food… save your time and go anywhere else, the reviews on here must be made up. Once we saw our plates I thought we were being served pet food and it smelled rank too.

Trying to find a meal in downtown Helena on Sunday afternoon at 2 pm can be challenging. So what a delight to be welcomed at 1:58 pm. We enjoyed outrageously good coffee (a special blend roasted by Montana Coffee Traders) and delicious huevos rancheros. Our food came out quickly, as we were the last customers order of the day. And our server came by and told us she was glad we had made it in.

A top end burger is served here! The meat is full of flavor and that bun is no ordinary Walmart special. Check this place first if you have a hankering for a burger!

Slow service
Food way too salty. If you have an hour and a half to spend waiting you might be OK with the food and service
I order toast and coffee. Not such a long wait.

Favorite place in town for breakfast! Fresh ingredients, made to order.

Food was good and we loved the atmosphere, but you better have a couple hours to spare. There was usually just one table eating at a time because the food was so slow that one table was done eating by the time the next table got their food.

Incredible food. Sometimes it takes up to an hour to get your food, but worth the wait! Using local food. Great atmosphere.

There was certainly no sweat this morning (especially by the staff) as I waited 45 minutes in a half filled restuarant for reasonably good (not knock your socks off) food. To few cooks, cash only, nice but disorganized service.

Zero stars if I could. Waited 45 minutes after we ordered for our food. It never came. We left $ 20 on the table and walked out. Never done that before.
HORRIBLY slow.
Dirty kitchen. I watched the chef give numerous hugs and kisses to people in the kitchen. She never washed her hands, never had on gloves, and then after touching other people, reached into some containers with her bare hands, grabbed cheese and kept on her way. GROSS!
Helena, I get that you don’t have many places to eat, and I’m sure the chef is the nicest lady (she did look friendly), but your servers are ridiculous and you are not running a business. My husband was a career chef and we both had never seen something like this before. I can’t.
Oh, and you’re not supposed to use your cell phones, it only takes cash and has super challenging hours to try to actually try it out. And their coffee is burnt. Why is this place still open and why does it get good reviews? You can do better making breakfast at home.

Best health breakfast I have had in Helena. A must try, The Oh miss … Very yummy!

super cute little place. when we got there we found a seat in a tiny booth, and service was quick & friendly.
I chose the enchiladas (veggie) and they were pretty good… but…remember that time your grade 10 boyfriend wanted to cook for you cuz his parents were out of town, so you went over, and he made you dinner, and you were impressed and told all your friends what a great chef he was? but when you think back to that meal it was just a bunch of basic stuff with a shitload of melted cheese on top. like, sooo much melted cheese, because that’s just how teenage boys cook? My enchilada looked/​tasted like that. (I peeked around the corner to see if maybe it WAS my old grade 10 boyfriend in the kitchen, but sadly no.) It tasted good though, but just LOOKED insane and the portion size didn’t seem right, and the amount of sauce on top drowned out the food underneath?!?
you know what I mean?
I’d definitely go back to this place to try something else though… great value for the huge portions.
oh, and they seem to hate cell phones being used in the restaurant which I think is awesome. I did pull it out to take a few photos, though.

Not good service. Ok food. Server needs some pretentiousil. Will never eat here again. Bland, cliché, and self absorbed.

Such a pleasant and warm experience. The staff was friendly and the food was AWESOME. It felt as though I had stumbled across a group of long lost friends… Loved every minute of it… And every bite!

I got the Ladies Bakery (I think, it was the second item on the menu) and it was REALLY tasty. Potatoes (in the form of hash brown), melted cheese, and tasty sausage.
My wife ended up focusing more on my dish than hers! Would definitely come here and again and get that dish.

Best breakfast place in Montana. My favorite is their Stumbo Lost Wages. Good food. Good service. Three decades of excellence on the Gulch. You feel at home the moment you enter.

We stumbled upon this little gem in downtown Helena via the wonderful Unilocal! reviews. It was a fantastic dining experience. We didn’t have to wait — we went the Friday after the July 4 holiday. The food was fantastic as was the service. Our only regret was that they were closed on Monday, so we were unable to visit again before we headed back home. Being closed on Mondays is completely understandable as everyone needs a day off :)

When I go to a place like No Sweat I think… I could open a place like this! The idea seems so simple– tasty food sourced locally when possible. When I went, only three ladies were running the show– cooking, taking orders, filling up coffee, singing and dancing to David Bowie, and washing dishes… maybe I CAN’T do this.
Anyway– they’ve got a great menu– nothing too fancy– with lots of tasty options. I got a scramble with potatoes, eggs, sausage and tons of cheese. My coffee cup stayed full and so did my belly– even though I got the half order. My total was $ 8. Totally worth it!
CASH ONLY.

Breakfast food comes in many shapes and sizes. Here in Helena, it took the form a Tibetan toad sprinkled lightly with green Tabasco sauce and washed down with multiple cups of organic black coffee.
Tibetan toad, you say?
It’s a portion of scrambled eggs tossed with sausage bits, green onion, and garlic, with hashed brown potatoes and wheat toast on the side. Admittedly, it could be called something else, but No Sweat Café has a global vibe, and casual Bohemian sort of feel where visiting toads from Tibet would not at all feel out of place.
Nor will you, if you happen to be passing through. The interior is warm, intimate, inviting, nothing fawning about the service, but not off-​putting, either. The locals won’t mind your presence, and the cooks in the kitchen will accommodate your order without undue hassle. A friend and I stayed for a longish hour, slowly working through our breakfast fare and sipping coffee until we had talked ourselves into exhaustion and needed some fresh air. We paid, said our goodbyes, and moved on.
No sweat. Just a good wholesome breakfast and wide-​ranging conversation. And no toads were harmed in the making of the meal, or or the lingering memory.

September 30, 2012. Breakfast. Crowded at 8:30 am but we were fortunate that no one ahead of us wanted to sit at the counter. There are maybe 8 seats at an L-​shaped counter and so we sat right down. Interesting set of choices on the menu. Not typical breakfast like ham and eggs or omelets, but a lot of scrambles with really nicely composed combinations.
The service was good. The coffee was very good. The owner is visible cooking everyone’s meals. Tight kitchen but she does a very nice job juggling it all. We hear she’s been at it for 35 years, so no wonder she’s got it down.
Music is chef’s choice and when the CD ended she came out to change discs. The wait staff and chef hum and sing along quietly. They really enjoy themselves. That lends to a very nice atmosphere.
I had a scramble with chiles and cheese. My wife ordered the scramble called Tibetan Toad. Beats me where the name comes from. It was sausage and cheese with some other fillers, but I forget what they were.
Love the hash browns. They cut the potatoes into very nice fine shreds with a food processor. The shreds look like angel hair pasta and they crisp up wonderfully.
Very fair prices. We’ll come back next fishing trip to Montana.