Maple Tree Supper Club

Awesome meal! My steak was best ever! Soup was homemade! Dede!!! Amazing waitress!!!

I only ever come here for the Friday Fish Fry. The lake perch is amazing!!! The tartar sauce is so good and the fish always comes out piping hot cooked perfectly. All entrees come with a choice of side as well as an unlimited soup/​salad bar included.
Come before 5pm or you will be on a wait… (on Friday that is. I don’t know about the other days).
The salad bar isn’t anything amazing. The lettuce they use is a bit meh. The soups are always very tasty.
Servers are all very nice and friendly, as well as the hosts. The atmosphere is very laid back.

My dining partner said the ladies room was okay, but I found the men’s room to be filthy. Disgusting. Flies. Can’t talk about much else when that’s what comes to mind about this place.

Well isn’t this a surprising little spot! If wood paneling, mallard art, and a salad bar with non-​salad items (processed cheese food? Oh, Wisconsin, you silly place!) is your sort of thing — then you need to go to this spot!
This really is a supper club that has not changed at all (including most of the clientele) and that makes it so much better. They don’t try to pretend to be anything they are not.
Drinks are strong and inexpensive. You get a loaf of bread served piping hot (mind you the whole loaf could be rolled up to a marble-​sized ball similar to Wonderbread) right away and most meals included soup/​salad bar. The salad bar had fresh tomatoes and cucumbers as well as other ingredients such as chick peas and beets. The croutons are homemade which is a huge plus in my book! The soup was also surprisingly good. The chicken noodle was very rich and classic tasting.
I definitely recommend that you get the special of the day and you will get a great meal. This is one of the last places I know of where you can still get poached fish (drawn butter anyone??) or fried. Their deep fried walleye was huge (the price was a little more than surrounding fish fry’s) but worth it as it was delicious!
This is not a health food spot. This restaurant definitely reflects a different era when it comes to what a meal should be. So go here, indulge, and hope the Maple Tree never changes!

Best supper club in a long time. Waaaay better than Watertower Chophouse. Friendly staff, fresh bread at table, small salad bar with 2 soup choices. To die for homemade croutons. And some of the best prime rib I have had in a long time. Also better priced. Watertower Chophouse has 14 foot salad bar with only 1 soup choice. And no fresh bread. Would recommend this to everyone!

This is the best supper club I have been to in a long time. I always look forward to their fish fry every Friday. I’m not a big fan of fish. In fact I will only eat maples trees fish. The service is great. The atmosphere is awesome. The bartenders know their stuff. You can’t go wrong with a dinner from the maple tree!

Visited with friends on 2÷7÷14 for the Friday Night Fish Fry.
+ Easy to access; huge parking lot — don’t let the plethora of cars deter you from walking in
+ Friendly host/​hostess — very accommodating and helpful
+ Bartenders were quick to help; we had a short wait for our table, and the barkeeps were ON our orders; zero wait. Very reasonable prices.
+ Average tap selection
— Salad bar is quite sparse; heavy on dressings and cheeses
+ Soup was FANTASTIC. Man… the chicken dumpling soup was obviously homemade and incredible
+ Broasted chicken. YES. YES. YES. I would order this by the pound and I’d inhale it and love every single bite.
— Unfortunately, I was here for fish… I ordered the combo plate (¼ broasted chix + a piece of fish)… Fish was overcooked, rubbery, and meh.
+ Kudos for offering broccoli and green beans as a side option
+ Reasonable pricing
— Server was absent, forgot drinks, and didn’t do a good job (and she was the owner’s daughter)
All-​in-​all, I wasn’t terribly impressed… I wanted to like this place, and I tried really hard to, but it ultimately failed to «wow» me. I sampled the fried perch; it was good, but overcooked and rubbery (like the baked cod). I also took a bite of the deep-​fried cod, and meh… nothing exciting.
Not a bad place, but it wouldn’t be my first choice for a fish fry.

The fish fry here is absolutely delicious! They recently started to offer beer battered fish fry and it has even more flavor to it making it even more irresistible. The salad bar that comes with is very good as well. The croutons for the salad literally melt in your mouth and the salad ingredients are fresh! I have to say my favorite salad bar soup from here is their potato soup for sure!
The bartenders are very friendly and are willing to actually speak to you as they get your order and joke around with you. The wait staff are also amazing, the waitress I had every time I’ve gone there remembers my boyfriend and I and we go only about once a month!
Also, although packed, the wait time is always short and it has great atmosphere!

Disclaimer: I’m from California and this was my first supper club experience. I’m also a picky eater and don’t like unhealthy «comfort» food.
I wasn’t sure what to expect but my relatives talked the place up. The food was okay but the ambiance of the place (or lack of) would probably prevent me from coming back again if I was in town. The salad bar was pretty disappointing, but I guess I’m spoiled coming from California. I expect every salad bar to look like the Whole Foods Salad Bar. Besides some lettuce and one type of cut vegetables, there weren’t really any other things you could add to your salad besides croutons and dressing.
We came on fish fry Friday so to eat in the spirit of the place I ordered the cod. Went for the poached instead of fried. it was good but two pieces was way too much for one person. Good if you want to take some fish home though.

Fantastic food, unbeatable service… We’ll be going back again soon! We enjoyed the broasted chicken and cod the most, though the lake perch was good too. Cheesy hashbrowns, a salad bar with soups… All delicious. What more could you ask for??? We received very friendly and prompt service even though the place was packed. This is a rarity. A MUST GO TO place within 10 min of Madison. With so many fish fries disappointing as of late, this has a good possibility of becoming our new #1. (We need to go a few more times before I honor it with that label!)

It’s a supper club. Please keep that in mind when reading (or writing) other reviews.
We went for brunch. It was packed. We got a table quickly. They had buffet only. The choices were very limited but good. The strawberries were enormous. There were home fries and hash browns, but the hash browns ran out and soon they only had home fries. The scrambled eggs were flavorless (cooked with very little oil) and there was only one meat choice which was ham. An old fashioned was tasty. There were no eggs Benedict or Belgian waffles as advertised on their website.
Brunch was only 6.99, which was fair for what you got. I would have a more expensive brunch with more selection, but it was just what the many patrons wanted.

The absolute worst ribs I have ever had, maybe because they were served ice cold. Salad bar was gross.
People in the bar were very loud and obnoxious.
Pass this one and go on up a ways to Halvorsons… much better place.

What a dump! On our first visit our service was OK until another patron took off her shoe and cleaned her toe nails with a knife and fork at the table. The server didn’t see a problem with this. The food on that visit was bland and tasteless. Unfortunately there was a second visit. I had no choice but to meet a friend there. The service was OK but somewhat lackluster and my food arrived raw. I sent it back and got a burned plate of food. At 45 years old I was, by far, the youngest person in the place. I think that Maple Tree saw its best days many, many years ago…

We decided to check this place out recently. It was very busy and looks like an established business. But we have learned that just because a place is busy doesn’t mean that all those people have good taste. It could mean something else entirely. I think the crowd was mainly because this is a place where a lot of the locals gather for drink and conversation.
From the outside this restaurant looks a little fancy but inside it is very casual. I think this works well for them as people feel comfortable to come here as they are and be able to order a variety of very nice entrees.
The bar is nice and big, the sort of bar I like to see in restaurants like this. Plenty of room. The dining room is set up like a large dining hall with tables that allow them to create seating for whatever group shows up. This can be a real positive for large groups. They could put together a bunch of tables real fast and have you seated quickly. But the atmosphere is very plain and dull.
Our table had a loaf of white bread on it with butter packets. It was good tasting but pretty basic. I would have liked a more dense and homemade-​like loaf.
The menu was moderately priced. I would say a little high for the atmosphere but some of the meals are a deal. I got the fried cod which was cheap. This came with choice of potato and salad bar.
I also ordered a mixed drink which was well made and priced a dollar less than I expected. The coffee was inexpensive too.
The salad bar is just the basics which was disappointing. But it was fresh. It was almost impossible to get to the ingredients in the middle of the service tray. Thankfully I have contortionist training from time I spent in the circus so I was able to wind my arm down under, up and then down to reach the eggs. Just at that time a server arrived and started to fill the selection next to where I was reaching which challenged my skills even further.
Our waitress was pleasant and efficient.
The food was warm, not hot and the breading on the fish was soggy, not crisp as I expected. The fish itself was cooked perfectly and was moist. But overall our food could have been much better.
We were satisfied with our meal and quite full. The bill was 30 dollars for two which included my cocktail. So very cheap.
So there are some positives and I can see why people may come here but it is nothing fancy and for some of the pricier meals I would be much happier eating elsewhere.

When we walked in we were told it would be a 15 minute wait… eventhough as we looked around there were atleast 5 tables completely open, cleaned off, ready for people to sit there.
The server was very nice, friendly and answered questions. The food was ok. It wasn’t exceptional and it wasn’t worth the price. All in all, it was ok and if I had a million dollars to spend and didn’t feel like cooking my own spagetti, I’d eat here, otherwise, I’ll make the basics as home for much cheeper.

The service was good, but our chicken and fish fry combo was not. The chicken did not have much flavor and the fish did not stand out to me. We did enjoy the bread they provided. We liked the spread cheese and the homemade croutons in the salad bar, but would like to see more veggies and mixed greens.
I am generally complementary when it comes to food reviews. I’d like to give them another chance but I’m not in a hurry to spend my money there. The place was packed and I suspect well known as a source of fish fries.