Thunder Bay Restaurant

Had a small private event here. It was a good choice. Staff and food were great. I would come back for sure!

The service every time I come here is great. The theme and ambiance of this place is always great. The location inbetween lake country and Milwaukee is great. Where is this place lacking? The quality of food. If this was not corporate owned and the restaurant manager or chef or franchise owner could pick their own dishes to prepare and quality of ingredients, this place would be hopping all the time.

While my prior visits have been good, our recent visit was far from satisfactory. Our party of four visited last Friday for a fish fry and salad bar, based on prior visits we wanted to take another couple to enjoy the meal. While the fish was decent, although the salad bar was mostly empty containers. What made it worse was three of the four people in our party became very ill within a half hour of finishing the meal. Based on what we all ate we figured our stomach issues were most likely the result of the salad bar. Paying $150 for a meal that was very unpleasant is problematic and although I dislike leaving negative reviews, we were extremely dissatisfied.

Love the salad bar! Great service and I felt the prices were just on point with the quality. My husband gets the French onion soup anytime it's on the menu and he said it was delicious. We will definitely be back!

Three friends had dinner on a Monday night and it was great. The wine was1/2 price bottles and every dish we had was delicious. Seafood, salmon and ribs were all cooked to perfection and the dishes were so large we each took home another meal In leftovers. Our server was Shan and she did a great job all around. Now we know there is Happy Hour M-F and we'll be back for that too.

Amazing seafood! I've been here numerous times and loved everything I tried. Also love the fireplace in the dining room. I'll be back!

Thunder Bay ruined our Thanksgiving.We love Thunder Bay. We have booked many family gatherings here, including hosting over 150 people at my parents 60th anniversary before dad passed. We were down to just ten of us this year, from more than double that in years past. When we booked a 3pm gathering a month ago we did not see any problems.We arrived and checked in. We were told we would be split into two tables, which we accepted. We were then taken into separate rooms, on opposite sides of the building. Five people seated at a table for six, and five at a table for eight. Two tables for four were immediately adjacent to the table for six, and a table set for ten was right next to the table for eight. We pointed this out - asked her to please consider putting us together. "I know what I'm doing." "You have to have separate tables with different servers." "Just let me do my job!" I said, "You know a bad Yelp review will follow if you do this. We're not going to fight with you."The second table near us stayed open for ten minutes after we sat down. My family sat together. My brother's family sat together. But we didn't sit together. Our waitress was very nice but said she couldn't do anything because the manager had decided. Twice my brother went back up and asked again. "She's doubled down and was quite rude." We had troubles paying for the bills together at the end. Where we normally would have enjoyed getting together as family, we could have stayed home and saved almost $500. And while every other person was nice, we simply couldn't get over "Laura" (I believe) because separating our family on Thanksgiving. Coming from both a service and public facing background, I hate to throw anyone under the bus like that - but as my brother said she "doubled down" when we asked, nicely, repeatedly. Other employees had to apologize for her behavior. And what was once our favorite "go to" place I'm not sure we will return to. It wasn't just a misstep, it was an arrogance and ruined memory. Nobody goes out together to get separated and sit alone. Giving a second star only because the other employees don't deserve what she did, and we have so many family memories at Thunder Bay from years past.

Poor service, tepid food, overpriced. I had not been here in years, thought the group should give it a try. Definitely will not be returning. The nice ambiance does not make up for the hour it took from ordering to getting our food. The only saving grace might be the salad bar that looked pretty decent. It was a cold day and we all wanted hot food which we didn't get anyway...

Always, always, love Thunder Bay whenever we are in the area. And where else can you find an endless soup and salad bar?

The food was delicious and the service was friendly. You should expect the ambience of a sports bar setting.