Wisconsin Supper Clubs: An Old-Fashioned Experience
Here’s a cool book I cam across on Amazon (via someone else sending it to me)…
“Wisconsin Supper Clubs is a resource for and about supper clubs throughout Wisconsin that includes beautiful photographs of the unique supper club interiors, proprietors, and customers, as well as fascinating archival materials. Also recorded in this book are the regional specialties served at these clubs, ranging from popovers and fried pickles in the northern part of the state to Shrimp de Jonghe in the south. One Northwoods supper club even features fry bread, a traditional Native American dish uncommon to most any restaurant.
The “supper club experience” is a tradition embodied by many long-standing restaurants scattered throughout the small towns of Wisconsin. It is based around a bygone idea that going out to dinner is an experience that lasts an entire evening. The clubs emphasizing food made from scratch, slow-paced dining, and family-run businesses. Combine this with stately dark-panel decor, complimentary relish trays, and the best brandy Old Fashioned sweet you’ll ever have, and you have barely scratched the surface of the Wisconsin supper club’s appeal.”
via Amazon.com: Wisconsin Supper Clubs: An Old-Fashioned Experience 9781572841420: Ron Faiola: Books.
Cheeseheads: The Documentary 
Supper clubs are a long standing tradition from the small towns I lived around in Wisconsin. I was a bartender for one too, hardest service job I ever had, fun, but every customer was tough.
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