The Old Hotel Reviews | Kewaskum Restaurants & Bars

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A random stop for lunch, never been to the town or venue before. Based on our experience though I can tell you this.
The wings are bone-in, outta sight, and a great bargain at $5.75 for a dozen. I recommend the sweet chili wings.
Glarus and other local brew specials, some a mere $2 per bottle.
If you have been wanting to try a 'bearded lady' drink like I have, you are in luck, they have Early Times Fire Eater in stock, combine it with a Guiness and consider your lady bearded.
And guess what, they actually had Patty Day specials advertised on a table tent still so kudos to them for the green appeal.
The staff was courteous, polite, and prompt.
The only other item that was tried was the sandwhich soup combo which was not bad.

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Posted on 04.01.13 michael w.

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Bottom line: they have some of the best beef we've ever tasted in their sirloin burgers. The seasoning is mouth watering and the burger is juicy. The ribeye steaks we immediately identified by flavor (and we're correct) as coming from Kewaskum Frozen Foods. Excellent flavor. Cooked well and as we specified. We were very pleased. We've visited four times.

This is pretty much a quick in, quick out place to dine at. (We don't drink, so we're not ones to linger at the bar... we just head straight to a table.) So, if you're in the mood to sit and relax at dinner, this isn't the place. It's a little hurried regardless of the amount of tables available. If you just want some awesome beef fast, then check it out.

P.S. The soda is watered down, so just order a water (or an alcohol beverage), instead.

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Posted on 12.15.12 Pam J.

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Just like the last review started out, you worry when you walk in someplace @ 6:30 on Friday eve, and there are 4 people at the bar. The guy/host says 5-10 for a table, which again, we can see 5 empty tables alone in the bar area. The 3 tables we walked by, nobody eating fish. Friday nite. Wisconsin. Suspicious. I order the posted drink special, a "rail"Strawberry Â Margarita?? Nice of her to warn me, I guess. Ordered from the bar, not by choice, but not uncommon when restaurants want to turn tables quicker, I get that. But the flag went up as the waitress walked away, and said, "I'll come get you when the food is on the table." She did do that, actually fairly quickly, and our food was waiting on the table. Wife ordered perch"($14.95), I just had a double appetizer, nobody eating fish fry, must be a reason. Well, my haystack onion rings I had seen in the bar were pretty decent, batter a little salty, but just good and warm, not hot. My 2nd app, the advertised "fresh fried cheese curds" was one big lump of doughed together, well, dough, a medium lump, and a half dozen individual ones. I'm not one to shy away from fried battered foods, after all, I ordered two fried appetizers, but these were a little over the tops, and also were not real hot. I should be able to bite into the middle the biggest one when I set down w/o burning myself. Meanwhile my wife was trying to get me to try her fried perch, which starteed to look decent, I wasn't going to get filled up on my meal. Rubbery on the perch, it pulled back when you bit into it. So, owner I figure now was who seated us, came by, and we quietly told him in a pleasant voice we were not pleased with our meal. I know, being we didn't like any of it, he thought we were just out for free food, but we didn't eat any of it. But not usually the MO of someone chiselling a free meal. I really wish something would have been good, so it wouldn't have seemed that way to him. He did take the $3.95 curds off the bill. But he said he had the perch for lunch and they tasted fine. I told him they tasted fine, they were rubbery. He sad they get that way at th end of the perch season, and his were a bit rubbery, so tonite was the last nite for them on the menu. But he refused to take anything off the price. He contnued making excuse after excuse. He then come back and announced as he came by our table, that he went back and ate some of the perch off my wifes plate and they were fine, but wouldn't stop long enough for a conversation. However, I did at the hostess stand on the way out. There I got another unbelievable list of reasons why his food could be percieved to be bad, even though it wasn't. Apparently what you have to drink can make good food taste bad. Maybe, my wife did have part of a "rail" vodka lemonade before supper. Oh, and I learned that medications you are on could make his food seem not as good. I didn't argue, oh I wanted to, but am not a doctor, so thought my argument would probably be percieved as bitter, so we left. Funny though, the alcohol & medication apparently wore off quickly. My wifes hamburger and my chicken McNuggets tasted fine on the way home at McDonalds....if anybody reads this all the way thru, this is the truth, it's also the first review I have ever felt compelled to write. The thing that bothers me most about this is the reaction of the owner. I'll give anybody a mulligan on a bad meal, granted two of them coming to the same table at the same time, not likely. But for crying out loud, own up to it. Look around. Friday nite, fish fry, you half full, and not a piece of fish in sight when you look around the dining room? ...Maybe saturday nite is the nite acording to the other two reviews. Somebody else try it and write about it, I'll be watching.

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Posted on 06.08.12 Al B.

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Well you always worry about a place that is not real busy on a Saturday night but this place is a real gem. It has been awhile since I have been in this location this is the first time going here with the current ownership. I must say the dinner was well cooked and filled with flavor. I had the Saturday night special of prime rib. For starters I went with the chicken soup which was light but has some nice herb flavors with good size pieces of chicken. I choose the baked potato and veggies with the meal and nothing on the plate was a disappointment. Both the potato and the veggies were cooked well and added nicely to the steak. Now the steak it self it was perfectly cooked with different tones of spices and one of the most tender steaks I have ever had. It could have been cut with a butter knife. The meal was topped off with a homemade Oreo pie which was light and not overly sweet a perfect finish to a very good meal. Just a couple of things that kept this place from a perfect score. First, was served some rye rolls before the meal which were not very good. Other tables were given homemade bread which looked much better than the rolls. Second was charged for a refill on my iced tea which in today's world refills on tea, coffee and soda is almost normal, if they do charge you should tell the customer. The tea was very good and not the usual watery restaurant fair. Third the service was a little slow but it did not take away from the meal at all. The Old Hotel just needs to tweak a couple of small things and it can be a local destination place to eat a very good meal. I will happily return and look forward to another good meal.

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Posted on 05.27.12 Dennis K.