Granite Falls Supper Club

I wanted to like Granite Falls Supper Club, I really did, but it just wasn’t in the cards.
On the plus side, this supper club is in cute little downtown Montello, and the staff there are very friendly. On the negative side: the food. The salad bar was unremarkable at best, iceberg lettuce and not-​homemade dressing. The desserts on the bar looked promising, like a spread at a church picnic, but was disappointing, like the spread at a church picnic (e.g., the cheesecake bars were obviously a no-​bake cheesecake mix you get at the grocery store, not homemade). As far as entrees, the meat was pretty dry, the mashed potatoes kinda gummy.
I’m glad we went here for the experience, but if I’m wanting a supper club in the future, I’ll definitely make my way out to Timbers on State Road 22 just north of town.

A little surprised with some of the negatives here. I just tried their Friday night fish, chicken, and ribs plate and was pleasantly surprised. The waitress was attentive and the entries were delicious… and affordable. Maybe I’m not as picky as some.

We recently stayed with my in-​laws who live in the Montello area, and they recommended we all go here for dinner. As their guests, we wanted to buy them a nice dinner, so they, my husband, and our two girls (7 and 12) went on Saturday night.
The street parking being full, we turned into the alley leading to the back parking lot. The place looked a total dump. The back entrance is wedged by a set of stairs that must lead up to an apartment above the restaurant. It’s also where the staff takes their smoke breaks. Amused, I thought, Hey, all signs point to this being a typical up nort’ dining experience: tasty, generous, and cheap.
SO. WRONG. On ALL counts.
We went for dinner, and you typically don’t order a hamburger and fries at a supper club on a Saturday night. So anything that was an option on the menu started at $ 11.95 — for the liver and onions. Next up the price range was broasted chicken, at $ 13.95. Everything else was $ 16.95 to $ 29.95. Ouch. This was not going to be cheap. That left tasty and generous.
I ordered the chicken and fried shrimp at $ 16.95. After placing our order, the waitress directed us to the salad bar. Surveying the four (seemingly) mayo-​based salads, I took a small spoon of what appeared to be crab salad. Then I took some iceberg that was obviously dumped from a bag, and surveyed my dressing choices: ranch or mystery red. After selecting ranch, I sprinkled a few bacos on. Voila. Fine dining in the sticks.
On to the soup. The choices were BLT and Chicken Gumbo. I chose BLT, because, well, bacon.
Getting back to my seat, I tasted the crab salad, and discovered it was some sort of weakly sweet white rice and pineapple concoction. WTH? Blech. My first thought was, between that and the chicken gumbo soup, they must have had a massive amount of white rice leftover from last night’s offerings.
On to the soup. Oh, the tragedy. I am certain that bacon never did anything to deserve that kind of treatment. The soup base was a salty, flavorless white goo, with exactly three ingredients: bacon, lettuce, and tomato. Oh, no, you say, they wouldn’t have put actual lettuce in a soup, right? You would be WRONG, my Unilocaly friend. It was limp and slimy, swimming in the white goo with a few chunks of uncooked tomato and flecks of bacon.
Buried to the axles in this meal, there was no choice but to go on to the main course. Surely there’s only one way to go from here, right?
Out came my 8-​inch wide oval plate (read: freaking SMALL) with two anemic pieces of broasted chicken (thigh and leg, couldn’t spring for white meat at $ 16.95), a saucer with a thick pasty puddle of salted MSG instant potatoes (aka «Garlic Mashed»), and… wait for it…
THREE shrimp.
Three.
Three! For $ 16.95! Did I mention this was $ 16.95?
At this point, I started feeling like I was missing something. Did a famous person once eat here, and that’s how this place hadn’t closed down? The far wall was tiled in mottled smoked mirrors, and cheap brass sconces dotted the walls. The chairs were rickety and sticky. The tablecloths were vinyl and the place mats were lacey-​edged paper. Blinking, I looked around me at the other patrons, wondering if I’d suddenly lost all perspective, or perhaps was having a minor stroke or aneurysm that was making me see the concave thigh and midget chicken leg as smaller than they actually were. Or was the unwitting participant in a prank video. No, I was perfectly healthy and there were no hidden cameras. This was reality, at the ritziest supper club in Montello. I pictured all the prom dates who came here, all nervous, believing this was Fine Dining. To my amusement and disbelief was added a tiny flame of anger.
But there was still the dessert buffet, I thought, and midwestern Lutheran values could not, would not permit that to be a disappointment such as these.
There was a lot of desserts. At first glance, it looked to be the saving grace of the whole dismal meal. Tortes, pie, bars, cookies, etc, all homemade. I took little bits of lots of things. Key lime pie, lemon torte, pretzel torte, fudge brownie dessert square, chocolate mint square, and some tiny cookies that would have been at home on a Christmas tray.
They ranked from omg-​awful-​spit-​into-​napkin to OK.
Sigh.
The only drinks ordered besides water were my girls’ sodas. The waitress never refilled them. The rest of us split two glass carafes of ice water.
Our bill, with a 15% tip (because our waitress, while not attentive, was friendly, and we are not a spiteful people), was $ 115. Four adults, two children, no appetizers, no alcohol, no steaks, no lobster, and soup with lettuce in it.
And that was the first and last time I shall ever visit the Granite Falls Supper Club of Montello.

My husband and I followed the hostess to our table as directed, who had us stand around awkwardly as she stopped to gab with a co worker and fill up our waters. Ok? Then we sat down and waited forever for our waitress. My fish fry tasted like old shoe soles and my husband got the wrong steak. Additionally, they brought us bowls of community salad dressings which were passed from table to table after ours. Lastly the drunks we ordered never came until we were ready for our bill. When we complained our waitress apologized and said she would leave them anyway weather we drank them or not. But then still charged us for them. Much better super clubs in WI. Skip this place.

I go to montello once a year to visit my aunt and this is a great place with Prime Rib on Saturdays. They have a great Salad and dessert buffet.

First of all, the people claiming to be foodies & giving 5 stars should have their Unilocal license revoked. Lets be honest here people, this is the «nice spendy» place in town where locals come for special occasions because they’ve never had any better. Granted, this review is NOT for Friday stuff your face night– this is a midweek standard meal occasion.
Outrageous prices for less than mediocre food. My 6 pieces of overcooked shrimp & bland potatoes swimming in cream were nowhere near worth $ 18. But wait! What about the salad bar? Chicken & rice or dill pickle soup? Bagged iceberg lettuce, whole radishes, or chopped white onion? Bare minimum in offerings that were never refilled while we were there (6 – 7 pm would seem prime time but this is rural WI so maybe we should be in the bar by now??). These are obviously not «salad» people– it’s something to pass the time while you wait for your real food.
Hey don’t forget the dessert bar! So exciting. Who wouldn’t love a church potluck offering of store bought boxed choices. Actually, the 9X13 powdered cheesecake with canned cherries almost reminded me of my 70’s childhood but even mom (& jello) managed to make something edible– this was just awful.
The server seemed about excited to be there as we were. Had to literally tackle her to get another round of beers. The 2 stars given were because of reasonably priced beers. The only highlight of the evening.
Honestly, I appreciate old school Americana & kitchsy décor as much as the next person– but I would have appreciated an honest review of what this place had to offer. If you use the Internet, this is probably a place to pass.

Excellent food. Great atmosphere. Nice salad bar and dessert bar.

Legendary brandy old-​fashioneds and $ 10 all-​you-​can-​eat Friday fish, chicken and rib fries? I’ve died and gone to supper club heaven.

This was a first time visit for myself, my brother and our two lovely ladies. We were looking for a fish fry in Montello and someone recommend this place. So we thoufght we’d give it a try.
As Melanie Z stated it’s ok, it was very clean and possessed that old charming Wisconsin supper club feel. However the service was lacking, we all ordered the all you can eat ribs, chicken, and fish buffet. The ribs weren’t all that great, the chicken was my favorite of the three. It was broasted and was very juicy. The fish pieces were tiny and left a lot to be desired.
We arrived at 7 pm on Friday and it was somewhat busy, they had room for us. The price was $ 10.95 per person for the buffet, keep in mind they bring the foot to you so you can choose certain pieces of chicken. With 1 beer and 3 soda plus dinners it was $ 55, not bad for 4 people to eat in my opinion.

A great place to enjoy a good steak or seafood meal. They also have a nice soup and salad bar and a amazing sweets table for desert. I would also recommend going here for a new years eve meal. There is a bar for cocktails before your meal and they even raffle off Packers jerseys. On new years eve, they offer you some champagne as well.

Granite Supper Club is ok. I don’t think the food is anything to brag about. Its ok I love that they have a salad bar and dessert bar with your dinners. I’m a huge salad bar fan because I love loading up with lots of veggies before my meals so its nice for that.