Gilbert's Lodge

Our whole hockey team ate here... great service... great food....

Having other Tuesday night plans were futile. An argument was made and these guys ended up at Gilbert's Lodge in St. Claire Shores. A lodge this was. Stonework, a lot of wood work, and deer and fish adorning everywhere. Gilbert's is somehow attached to The Great Baraboo and The Shores Inn, both we have been to. Starting with the frothy tops, there were about 10 flavors on tap. $3.25 for a happy hour 22 oz ML (4.25 regular price). A pretty good selection of burgers. We had the Morning burger and the Great Northern Buffalo burger.
Morning burger was intense! We are talking about serious angus beef, bacon, fried egg, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, and pickles. All pieced together as sloppy as practical for $7.99.
Burger- 4
Price- 4
Service- 4
Overall- 4
The Great Northern Buffalo wasn't so great. For $8.99, it was pretty small and not huge on flavor.
Burger-2.5
Price- 2
Service- 4
Overall- 2.5
Gilbert's seemed like more of family joint that happen to have bar and patio. Nice place and nice people, for sure a place to start the evening with some good eats!

Let me tell you about my experience here the other night. We sat outside because it was a nice spring day. That's where the nice part of the review is over. The waiter came up and we asked for a drink menu. He said they didn't have one. I know that they have one I saw it last week. He just didn't want to go inside and get it. We got some beers and I'll tell you about those later.

We ordered an appetizer and after 20 minutes it came out and it was alright I guess. I ordered the fish and chips. And Jesus H. Christ I have never seen such a poor attempt at food making in my life. Someone clearly went to grab from the "Frozen Fish"  bag and accidentally grabbed three strips from the "Frozen Rubber Bullshit" bag and fried them suckers up. Charged me 11 dollars for that garbage.

But then they sat out for 20 minutes because they were cold when I got them an hour after we had arrived. My girlfriend got a salad and it looked ok I guess but it was the size of a dinner salad and cost 10 bucks.

Here's the thing that got me mad though. We had 3, 22 oz beers. I had 2 Oberon and my girlfriend had a Blue Moon. They charged us $7.50 a piece for the beers. We paid more for three beers than we did for our entres.  $7.50 a beer!?!? I pay less than that at Dragonmeade for craft-brewed, great beer.

This place is a rip-off. Get Gordon Ramsay up in this bitch and maybe I'll come back.