The Immigrant Restaurant

This restaurant is for people with more money than sense. If you enjoy fine dining, head down to Milwaukee or Chicago. The Immigrant taught me the expensive lesson that the middle of Wisconsin is for supper clubs and cheese curds. I've never walked out in the middle of a meal before, so thank you for providing that story to me.My wife and I booked a reservation on New Years Eve. They had a very expensive prix fixe menu, which I'd expect from a fine dining restaurant. I have no issues with a restaurant charging hundreds of dollars per person for a meal like this. But I do expect the service and food to be fantastic, which it was far from.-It took over a half an hour for us to get water at our table. Our drink orders were finally taken after that.-Our waiter went on and on about how the restaurant has been nominated for 12 James Beard awards and won 3. THIS IS NOT TRUE. As far as I can tell, the current chef has won a single James Beard award years ago at a different restaurant. None of the previous head chefs have, and the restaurant itself hasn't.-Also, a waiter telling you about all the awards the restaurant has won is the tackiest thing in the world. I'd expect better from a fine dining restaurant. After every course he was basically telling us that the food was SO GREAT. It was obnoxious.-The menu was set for 9 courses. After 2 hours, we had only received 5 of the courses, most of which were so so so gross. We were starving and left.-One course was a fingerling sweet potato, cooked, cut in half, with fish roe on top, and a smelly piece of seaweed as garnish/decoration. That's it. Or at least, that's what it tasted like. If they did anything else to it, I wouldn't know. What was the point of that dish?-Another was foie gras with caramelized white chocolate. How do those flavors go together AT ALL? Why would you serve them as one of the first two courses? And that white chocolate wasn't caramelized, so why did you say it was?-At one point we were served bread with a side of butter that had chopped up seaweed in it. What's the obsession with seaweed? It ruined that butter. Who wants the gross taste of fishy salt with their bread?- Raw scallops with cold horseradish sauce and dill. It tastes like it sounds.Listen, I'm no stranger to fine dining. We expected the food to be edible, the service to be prompt, and the experience to be positive. The Immigrant failed on all fronts, ultimately leading to us ending our stay at The American Inn.But I guess the ambience had a certain charm to it. One star.

I ordered a five course dinner for about 200 per person. one course was edible. The rest included undercooked, chewy duck breast. Over cooked baby octopus. And some unmemorable stuff That I wanted to send back to the kitchen. Avoid!

Service was phenomenal Definitely a romantic atmosphere and very clean.. had the steak was very tasty would have loved my dinner better ending in a house made carrot cake! Will definitely be back

My husband and I celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary here in the Dutch room. It was amazing! Was one of the best of not the best meal of our lives! The attention to detail was amazing. All the flavors and textures complimented each other beautifully. We had scallops as an appetizer. They were the BEST! I had the lobster which was amazing. The veggies and sauce were amazing and it was deshelled. My husband had the short rib which had great flavor and was so tender. We ended with a great dessert of funnel cake and macaroons mmmmmm. I almost got got the cocktails were fantastic too! I had the mermaid and my husband had an old fashion called Clark Kent.It was so romantic we were in the cutest booth in our own room and service was impeccable all staff were fabulous! We can't wait to come back.

The tasting menu is delicious! My brother and I eat got one of the things so we were able to try everything! Servers were super nice and were very attentive. There is also a wine area in the front where you can get drinks before or after the meal. Decor is very cool as well. There is free parking underneath the hotel.

I thought the dinner was really good. Ambiance: true to the Midwest, the wood on wood theme which gives a rustic log cabin feel, continues throughout the restaurant with a regal feeling. The Midwest isn't as flashy as New York of SF, so craftsmanship in woodworking, pride in top down décor, shone throughout the restaurant. The bar was quite noisy though, took away from the atmosphere; but you can't control people.We started off the with the soup, then scallops for our starters. My wife had the risotto and I had the wagyu ribeye. The risotto had great flavor, well cooked. The extra's on it may have been too plentiful; good but too many. The wagyu was extremely flavorful (salty just like you would like in a steak). The sauce also was intriguing and wonderful. I did however find some inconsistency of the cut, flavors on one side of the cut were amazing and the other side not so powerful. It was interesting. Lastly we had the cake for dessert with ice cream and espresso nibs. It was alright, though my wife who likes desserts more than I do, said it was good. Service: Wonderful, quick, attentive and through. We asked why the restaurant has yet had a Michelin star, alas; no one knows..... Final rating 4/5, I think this could be 1 Star Michelin.

4 for the value. But delicious and quaint. Service was fantastic. Thanks for a memorable night.

Service was excellent. The amuse bouche was a tiny slice of crispy pork belly with a dollop of a mustard sauce - very tasty.Cocktails were very tasty although the Big Hurt had a whole bunch of tiny rock hard little seeds that were dangerous! Probably 20 of them. The drink needs to be strained first before serving.My husband had the beet salad which he enjoyed as well as the new york strip from the tasting menu. He thought it was a bit too rare for medium rare, I thought it was just right. It had a great wine sauce. The roasted winter vegetables were very hard and undercooked though.The lobster creme brûlée app was way too cold, for whatever reason we expected it to be much softer, maybe even a softer set custard but it was more like a pate. The caviar detracted from the lobster flavor and overall it was disappointing. The tarragon tuiles needed fat and salt. If the dish had been served at room temperature - and with no caviar - it would have been a lot better.The aleppo pepper roasted squash soup was totally amazing however with great squash flavor and well seasoned and the accoutrements of crispy tuile, creme fraiche and pomegranate seeds(?) complemented it perfectly.The supposedly seared sea bass was really quite bad. It came out at most at room temperature. There was absolutely no sear whatsoever on the fish. Looked like warmed milk color. Not a hint of browning. It had also been sliced crosswise through the piece as if they were checking to see if it was cooked. A big no no. The green rice was tasty as well as the tan sauce underneath that was flavored with sweet chili sauce. One big leaf of bok choy separated the sea bass from the rice. If it had not been my husband's birthday I would have sent it back but I did not want to ruin his evening. Bread service was tasty although we had to request regular butter as the cinnamon butter was not for us. French rolls and seeded nut bread were delicious.They were out of several of the by the glass whites we wanted but were accommodating looking for subs.They brought my husband a free dessert - a luxurious chocolate truffle bar we could not finish. Cardamom cookies and a piece of chocolate with cranberry and nuts for each round out the meal.Since it's 2021 I think this menu needs some revamping and updating. Also the food needs to come out a lot warmer from the kitchen.

Sad to see some of these reviews, I think people forget that this is a Wisconsin resort. They aren't a Michelin star restaurant in NYC. It's still fine dining, but with the warmth and accessibility of a restaurant and winery halfway between Milwaukee and Green Bay. We did the Christmas Eve prix fixe menu and it was lovely all around. Absolutely delicious dishes, incredible wine. The oyster amuse bouche was one of the tastiest little bits of food I've ever experienced. Staff was absolutely wonderful, waitress and sommelier both.

I have been visiting the American Club for about 35 years, and one of the highlights of each visit has always been a dinner at the Immigrant Restaurant. In fact, I have oftentimes told people that the Immigrant is on par with the finest restaurants I have eaten at anywhere, although I last visited the Immigrant Restaurant in August (2024) and I would have to say that the experience was decidedly meh. Regardless, about 3 months in advance I reserved a couple of nights at the American Club over the New Years holiday for my wife and me, and made a reservation at the Immigrant Restaurant for NYE with every expectation for a great night of dining and hope that my fondness for the restaurant would be restored.Upon being seated at the restaurant, we waited a good 10-15 minutes before being greeted by our waitress, at which time we learned that the regular menu had been abandoned for a chef's tasting. This was the first I had heard about the revised menu, but we tend to be adventurous and it wasn't like we were going to be able to find a similar restaurant to go to at 7:00pm on NYE, so we braved forward. When we were handed the menu, it seemed awfully vague and weirdly artsy, so I told our waitress that I really couldn't get a good handle on what we were going to be eating and they would have to explain each course to us as we proceeded through the dinner. When provided, however, the detail didn't really help. The meal started with a raw scallop in a dill sauce. My wife took a bite and opted not to continue with the serving. I nevertheless ventured on - the dill sauce was good, but while I do enjoy raw seafood my preference goes to filet fish as I find the texture of raw shellfish (except for oysters, which I love) not to my liking. The strangest course was probably the fois gras, which I usually love. As best as I could figure out, the fois gras had been finely grated and served over little nuggets of white chocolate. It turned out to be a flavorless dust with an acrid aftertaste; again, my wife passed after the first bite, but I continued until I ran out of the chocolate to overcome the flavor of the fois gras. They did have a couple of more traditional courses, namely a sturgeon and a wild boar, although both of them were overcooked (the boar so much so we couldn't really tell if we had gotten a slice of meat or a "boar loaf"). Of the 9 courses (8 listed courses plus a complementary one), I would have to say that only one of them was "good"; perhaps a couple of them were mediocre, with the majority being bad or worse. My wife ate a meaningful amount of at most half of the courses. The only truly enjoyable part of the evening was overhearing the comments from the couple at the table next to us, who seemed as equally flummoxed and underwhelmed by the menu as we were.As the meal wound down, I started to feel uncomfortable, so we quickly paid our bill (much higher than either of us had guessed it would be) and headed back to the room. Suffice it to say that I spent the next 18 hours suffering from the harshest effects of food poisoning, with another couple of days of rest needed to fully recover from the ordeal. Spending the bulk of our stay at the American Club hold up in our room was not really the romantic experience I was hoping for my wife and me.We did share our experience with the American Club, and they expressed the requisite level of concern that our experience was "anything but exceptional." They provided a discount on the room, but curiously did nothing about the actual dinner. They also followed up with a phone call after we returned home, although as we were talking it became clear to me that the purpose of the call was not really to find out what had happened or to make it right, but to convince me that I hadn't gotten food poisoning from the meal at the Immigrant Restaurant (I have no doubt, although the only other source was another American Club restaurant where we had lunch that day, the Horse & Plow). That was disappointing and somewhat beside the point, as the surprise of the revised menu, weak service and nasty meal all combined for a horrible experience, regardless whether I got food poisoning at that restaurant.Final Note: As I was posting this, I saw another review of the NYE dinner submitted by Danny F. He does a better job of detailing the sketchy service and unwarranted pretension exhibited by the restaurant, and I commend his review to you. In that vein, though, when we were about to leave we were presented with a chef-signed copy of the menu, no doubt suitable for framing so that we could be reminded of our "magical" night. When we got back to the room and unrolled the scroll, we discovered that it was a menu different than the one we had. On this night, they couldn't even execute their self-important posturing well.