Wisconsin Supper Clubs: Old-Fashioned Food and Fun
At these legendary social gathering spots, expect an enormous evening meal, cocktails your grandparents drank, and ice cream drinks spiked with liquor.
Primer to supper clubs
You know you're in one of these Wisconsin faves if:
1 The owner greets you warmly when you come in and immediately asks how your family is.
2 A relish tray is the first thing the waitress sets down on the table, and it sports celery.
3 Everyone's drinking whiskey or brandy old-fashioneds.
4 The server brings warm cinnamon rolls or sticky buns to eat with your salad.
5 Your nonsteak dinner options include liver and onions. (Or, on Friday nights, a fish fry.)
6 The waitress tells you the most popular dessert is a liquor-spiked ice cream drink.
7 You can't order lunch or breakfast, but the bar may very well open during Green Bay Packers play-off games.
8 They let you order dinner at the bar and then go to your table when your meal is ready.
9 Most likely, the building, and the business, have been there for more than 50 years.
10 The bar has TVs, but they are rarely turned on--unless the Badgers, Milwaukee Brewers or Packers are on.
Pictured: The 615 Club relish tray.
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