Broadway Diner

Baraboo, United States

3.9

Closed now

20 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards

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+1 608-356-3287
Website:
broadwaydinereats.com
Address:
304 Broadway St, Baraboo, WI, 53913
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Takes Reservations
No
Delivery
Yes
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Good For
Breakfast
Parking
Private Lot
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
No
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Casual
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
Beer & Wine Only
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
No
Waiter Service
Yes
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (Baraboo) 02:24 Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Business hours

Monday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Tuesday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Wednesday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Thursday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm
Friday 7:00 am – 8:00 pm
Saturday 7:00 am – 8:00 pm
Sunday 7:00 am – 3:00 pm

Description

Specialties

Broadway Diner is a 1954 fully restored vintage Silk City Diner built by the Patterson Vehicle Company out of Patterson, NJ. In 1954 fresh off the assembly line the diner found its home in Groton, Connecticut were it operated from 1954 to 2005 under the names A & P Diner, Twin Bridge Diner, Bridge Diner and Rosie’s Diner. Jeff and Vonnie purchased the diner and took pride in having it restored to its former glory, giving the Silk City Diner a new lease on life.

Jeff and Vonnie opened Broadway Diner in May of 2012 as a full service restaurant offering unique and fresh locally sourced products. Come visit Broadway Diner located in the historical downtown Baraboo, Wisconsin near Circus World Museum, beautiful Devil’s Lake State Park and the Wisconsin Dells.

Chef Jeff invites you to enjoy our «gourmet hash in a flash»; house smoked meats, juicy smash burgers, indulge in our homemade decadent pies, cheese cakes or our malts and sundaes featuring Sassy Cow ice cream. We also feature an award winning Wisconsin beer and wine selection. Families welcome, no reservations necessary… Come «put a little DINER in your day»

See you at the diner!

Jeff, Vonnie and the Broadway Crew

History

Established in 2012.

Broadway Diner is a 1954 fully restored vintage Silk City Diner built by the Patterson Vehicle Company out of Patterson, NJ. In 1954 fresh off the assembly line the diner found its home in Groton, Connecticut were it operated from 1954 to 2005 under the names A & P Diner, Twin Bridge Diner, Bridge Diner and Rosie’s Diner. Jeff and Vonnie purchased the diner and took pride in having it restored to its former glory, giving the Silk City Diner a new lease on life.

Jeff and Vonnie opened Broadway Diner in May of 2012 as a full service restaurant offering unique and fresh locally sourced products. Come visit Broadway Diner located in the historical downtown Baraboo, Wisconsin near Circus World Museum, beautiful Devil’s Lake State Park and the Wisconsin Dells.

Chef Jeff invites you to enjoy our «gourmet hash in a flash»; house smoked meats, juicy smash burgers, indulge in our homemade decadent pies, cheese cakes or our malts and sundaes featuring Sassy Cow ice cream. We also feature an aw

Meet the Business Owner

Jeff and Vonnie C.

Business Owner

Born of Italian descent, Chef Jeff Castree was destined for the culinary world when his passion for this industry and for food was recognized at an early age. It began in his family owned grocery store, Castree’s Pace Maker, run by his grandfather and father and the kitchens of his Sicilian grandmother Sara and Aunt Kate whose meals were always an event. He then began his own career starting as a dishwasher at the Angle Inn Diner in Rockford, IL. There he quickly discovered his niche; small diners, where the customer and the cook develop relationships while preparing food.

With thirty years of experience in places like Rockford Women’s Club, Rockford Hoffman House and the famous Ishnala Supper Club, where he catered to prominent guests such as Martha Stewart, and a culinary degree from Madison Area Technical College, Jeff was ready to fulfill a life-​long dream of owning his own diner.

With Jeff’s love for nostalgia and the open kitchen concept and his wife’s constant desire to recyc

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20 reviews of Broadway Diner

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Place rating: 3
Chicago, IL
Funky atmosphere. Most breakfast joints in Baraboo serve traditional breakfast items (and most serve them well). Broadway definitely adds a more modern flair to traditional favorites, which is a nice change of pace for Baraboo. Fun to sit outside when weather is nice.
Place rating: 5
Reedsburg, WI
I came in for breakfast and I was glad I did. I got the best fresh omelet I’ve ever had! The décor is cute! And the the kitchen set up was pretty neat. I got to watch them make my omelet! It was breakfast and a show! I also got the biggest cinnamon roll I’d ever seen! Just talking about it is making me hungry!
Place rating: 5
Packwaukee, WI
This place is awesome. The food was delicious. The server was attentive but not overbearing. I Will be back.
Place rating: 5
Racine, WI
Southwest eggs Benedict scramble… Yumm. Wow. Delicious and creative. Eggs and pork carnitas over a house potatoe pancake with an amazing smoky hollandaise… Looking for a different breakfast menu? Go to Broadway diner! They have at least 10 delicious breakfasts menu items listed I have never seen before. I’m sure they will be delicious. We sat at the counter and watched one delicious plate after the other being created. Service was very friendly and prompt and their prices are so reasonable! We’ll be back every time we are in the area! Thanks Broadway diner! You put an end to boring breakfast!
Place rating: 5
Baraboo, WI
Good food, good music, good atmosphere! Located right on the main drag of downtown Baraboo. The service was excellent and the view as you eat and chat is nice too either way you’re looking.
Place rating: 4
Milwaukee, WI
While in the dells I found this cool old school diner draped in neon. It’s like a trip back to the 50S with stainless steel and glass. This place has serious old school charm and I really enjoyed stoping for breakfast, see my pictures. There is booths, tables and an old school lunch counter.
The woman who served me was great and did a good job and she let me roam and take all the pictures I wanted to show the world. The menu is small so you are not overwhelmed with tons of choice. I ordered the two eggs, sausage and home made toast.
The home made toast was very thick with lots of butter and good. The eggs were sunny side perfect. The sausage was the bigger kind and tasted like no other that I have had and was good.
Overall this was a great spot to stop for a meal and was about $ 7 for breakfast so don’t do the chain crap if your near by. This was a great experience to relax with a meal and have a memory.
Place rating: 5
Madison, WI
Broadway Diner is a beautifully restored 1950s diner with friendly and enthusiastic staff. We stopped here for brunch on our way to the International Crane Foundation. Had a great time. Both of us
had hash. My husband had the harvest hash and I the corned beef. Both gorgeous and made in house. Very large portions so come hungry. I couldn’t finish mine. Service was good and we had a booth right across from some of the cooking which was amusing to watch. Perfect place to stop on your way through town.
Place rating: 5
Baraboo, WI
Always always good food! Great atmosphere, helpful and friendly wait staff!
Place rating: 2
Riverside, CA
Came here for breakfast with high hopes for a great breakfast. Sadly, this little diner disappointed. I had the Downtown Breakfast with over medium eggs, hashbrowns, bacon and white toast. The eggs were fine, hard to mess that up, the hashbrowns had noooooo salt or flavor, the bacon was good, but the toast, oh the toast. It was so hard a stale it tasted like it had been sitting out in the wind for the last week! Highly let down. And a note to the server, when a mom asks you for extra napkins for a table with multiple children, please bring more than 2 extra! Overall, ok place that’s very clean and has great intentions. Prob won’t be back though.
Place rating: 2
Palatine, IL
This place was so cute from the décor but that is all they have going for it. The staff was surly and certainly not fitting with a diner. The food was so plain! I had the classic burger that had absolutely no taste. Kids had French toast and it too was really bland. So not worth it… Definitely skip it.
Place rating: 5
Madison, WI
Best Chicken Tenders we ever ate. We all stole off my sons plate. Chocolate Malts yum! Nice waitress. Atmosphere Atmosphere Atmosphere.
Place rating: 5
Deerfield, IL
Only reason I’m giving this a 5 is because Unilocal currently has it as a 3 and I think it deserves better (like 4 stars). This is a solid american Diner experience. If you’re looking for a no frills American breakfast Broadway Diner is a good choice. (Pancakes are great!)
Place rating: 3
San Diego, CA
My friend and I really wanted to like this place. It’s pretty cute, especially from the outside, and our waitress was friendly. The menu looked promising, with a fair number of veggie options and some tasty-​sounding sandwiches.
I opted for the black and bleu burger, and my friend went for the portabella sandwich. I specified medium-​rare on my burger, and was sorely disappointed with a dried-​out burger that was way over done. The blue cheese left something to be desired as well: not terribly flavorful. My friend’s shroom sandwich was really drippy, and totally soaked her bun. The next morning she complained of some indigestion.
The fries were really good, and the service was also good, but the main components of our meal were disappointing. Meh.
Place rating: 2
Westown, Milwaukee, WI
To be fair, I truly applaud the time, effort, money and passion I’m sure it took to bring this beautiful piece of restored Americana to its current resting place in Baraboo. It’s worth a visit if you are into diners.
I’m not one to ordinarily order chicken fried steak, but when in a diner with homemade fare, I generally find it worth the splurge.
This dish was described as being hand breaded, but if the breading was done in-​house, I’m not sure why the goal would be to so closely match what one would find breaded in an institutional food supply factory.
It didn’t taste bad, but it didn’t live up to my expectations.
The gravy, interspersed with bacon bits, was pretty good and the mashed potatoes were complete with lumps. The accompanying mixed vegetables did not have the life cooked out of them, which so many places tend to do, but they tasted completely unseasoned.
Our server was good, and the other waitress was also hustling around both inside and out on the patio.
We also tried the peanut butter pie as their desserts are said to be homemade, and it also seemed somewhat mass produced.
In retrospect I wish I had tried their corned beef hash instead, as it was featured on the menu, and I would love to come back and do so.
Place rating: 3
Mount Horeb, WI
Baraboo, Bara who?
No, really, only a short drive away and lots to see and do.
We enjoyed Mirror Lake Park area, caught the Baraboo Circus Parade in honor of the original Ringling Brother’s Circus. We need to catch the museum next time.
We ate at Broadway Diner and I would give it 3 stars. It was crowded but managed to seat all 10 of us in less than 15 minutes at lunch time. The food took awhile to arrive and everyone was not served at the same time…
BUT the food was delicious.
We tried the Black and Bleu burger, kids cheeseburger plate– both moist and cooked to order. The adult burger was topped with an onion ring and thick cut bacon.
Kids’ chicken tender plate was good, real chicken and the kids ate all of it!
Salad, had no iceberg, ordered the nuts and berries (!!!) and had real vegetables, fresh berries and a light vinaigrette. The portabella sandwich was also devoured by my vegetarian friend and deemed delicious!
Next time I will have to try a shake and head over to check out the old circus posters.
Place rating: 2
Fort Atkinson, WI
We had heard great things, but so far it has been hit or miss. This is a summary of the five times we have been there. Their breakfasts have been better than their lunches. The serving sizes are not generous. The soup has been good. The last time I had the daily special: grilled cheese with cheddar, Swiss, bacon and tomato.
It was disappointing, dry and the tomato was forgotten. The small dish of cole slaw was mediocre. Over priced for what we got. The hamburger was a bit disappointing.
The service has been okay, polite and efficient. Overall, the food was average with glimmers of possibilities.
Place rating: 5
Baraboo, WI
Home-​made corned beef hash is their signature dish, and is fantastic. The Swedish pancakes are icing on the cake! Coffee is good, service reasonably fast and premises bright, clean. 50’s jukebox music, of course! Vintage B/​W photos tastefully around walls, thankfully have captions.
As a diner, is definitely 5 stars. My main problem here is that I always eat too much!
Place rating: 4
Baraboo, WI
Excellent food. Heavy but that’s diner food for ya. Burgers are ok but the specialty items are excellent. Desert is excellent, save room!
Place rating: 5
DeKalb, IL
Went here for late breakfast after a camp-​out at Devil’s Lake. SUPER-​GREAT place to eat!
This is an authentic Diner with a room added on that maintains the continuity of the original front structure. And yes, we got to listen to Wooly Bully, Sweet Talkn’ Guy, and a ton of feel-​good oldies.
Coffee – Delicious and great with their giant cinnamon bun – which was only like $ 2.49!
I got the corned beef-​hash which was better than any other hash I have eaten. The menu gives good details of how the food is made, and sometimes even where it is sourced. It was hard to decide what to get because you can tell there’s love in every dish. If you come after 11am you’ll loose out on a lot of good breakfast choices but there was still a lot of good ones available.
My friend got a burger with some fresh-​cut fries that looked delish, and he also loved the joint.
I’ve never been in a diner where so much attention was paid to QUALITY. I wish I lived in Baraboo so I could come back more often.
Place rating: 2
Shawano, WI
Stopped into this place for lunch one day and we all ordered something different. I ordered an Italian burger, I didn’t care for it. My brother ordered a cheese burger he liked it, My sister in law ordered an Quiche and she said she has had better. We also ordered Strawberry pie for desert and all 3 of us said we have had better in other restaurants. Would we go back there NO WAY!