Toby's Supper Club

There's no place quite like Toby's Supper Club in the Madison area. Toby's has the old-school comfy vibe, super friendly service, beyond delicious food (no matter what you order) and a relaxed vibe even when the place is packed. I've found that if you show up after 6 p.m. on a busy weekend evening, you are likely to have a shorter wait than going earlier. Could just me my experience - not sure. But Toby's is worth the wait, no matter what!

Found this place in a "Supper Clubs of Wisconsin" book. So nice to see an old fashioned (true) Supper Club still operating in the Madison Area. One of maybe a handful. Literally right off the Beltline on the southeast side. When I say "true" Supper Club... it's right down the relish tray served with every meal. Made up of pickles, veggies, bread and a frosted cinnamon roll. Meals are served with a choice of soup or salad and also comes with a choice of potato. (The easy choice for me is the Hash Browns). So I found this place maybe 9 months ago and tonight is my 4th here. My new Madison favorite! No matter what you order, I highly recommend adding the shrimp. The breaded tails are some of the best I've had and go great with the steak. Drinks (especially Old Fashions) are great and the service is excellent. Definitely a "locals" hangout, but they have been super friendly every time I've been here. Will be packed around the prime eating times. I would recommend reservations or waiting until a little later to come in. It clears out a bit after 7. At least on a weeknight.

This was the 2nd time I've been to Toby's. The first was years ago and I wasn't impressed. This said, this evening I was impressed. Toby's is old school. Service was outstanding and the prices are modest at best. Two drinks, cheese curds, two old fashioneds, two steak dinners (filet and NY Strip) with a 20+ percent tip and we were still under $100. Drinks were good... spread that comes with the dinners is substantial: Relish tray, rolls, bread sticks, cinnamon rolls, and choice of potato, and choice of salad, homemade coleslaw or cottage cheese. I really appreciate the great prices and that everything comes with to make a full meal. You order your meal at the bar and when it's ready you're seated at a table. This works out really pretty slick. The bartenders and waitstaff couldn't have been more accommodating. Steaks were good... I might have preferred a little more aggressive seasoning on my steak, but the flapper was food and the sear very nice.

Toby's Supper Club has been going strong for over 50 years! Experience a Wisconsin style classic old fashion supper club! Toby's is well known for their drinks, fish fry specials like fried pike, chicken, steak, seafood, and cinnamon rolls served on Monday through Thursdays! They even have frog legs on the menu! My husband and I visited Toby's supper club on a Friday night after 8pm. I heard Toby's supper club gets extremely packed/busy, so we purposely went close to closing time. When I called, they told me they don't take reservations for Fridays and Saturdays its first come first serve. When we arrived, Toby's supper club was still very busy even at 8:30pm with a-lot of guests, a full bar, and a pull tab machine with people pulling tabs! If you have never been to Toby's, there is a sign at the front, explaining how they do things. They basically start you out at the bar, when you know what you want to order a server comes and takes your order, when a table is ready the server lets you know but it is definitely first come first serve. We started out with drinks at the bar and eventually a server took our dinner order when we were ready. Definitely try their most popular cocktail the Key Lime Pie martini which actually tastes like a delicious Key Lime pie! When a table was ready, our server seated us. We had the ultimate Wisconsin supper club experience! The ambience was dimly lit with candles at each table and old fashion crackers, bread rolls, and a veggie/relish tray ready at our table along with the soup and salads that came with our meal! I had clam chowder soup for an appetizer which was delicious! We both ordered ribeye with a side order of their jumbo butterfly fried shrimp! The fried shrimp is a must try with perfect golden crispy batter fried to perfection!My husband and I both ordered our ribeye steaks medium well. The steaks were super tender, juicy, and perfectly cooked! However, the steaks had absolutely NO seasoning or flavoring! We both had to heavily season our steaks with salt and pepper. Our loaded baked potatoes were pretty good!We had an amazing server! I think her name was Christa. She was very attentive, friendly, and had a great sense of humor! I could tell that she had been a server for along time! She made our experience very enjoyable! We plan to go back to Toby's to try more menu items. It is definitely worth visiting Toby's for the delicious affordable food, great fish fry, the cocktails, and the experience of a true Wisconsin supper club which is super fun!

Great food and drinks. Be prepared to wait anytime after 5:30 Had not been for sometime due to the popularity of people knowing the good is good and plentiful. Went Monday around 5:30 and did not eat until 1 1/2 hrs later. Luckily we were able to sit at the bar, ordered drinks. Bourbon old fashioned and a beer. Large beer selection including craft all in cans). You order entrees at the bar and when your food is ready they seat you Wife ordered the seared salmon and I had the frog legs. Hash browns come on a separate platter and were perfectly fried Service was attentive considering how busy it was.

This was my first supper club experience! We walked in and I was shocked at the amount of people I saw at the bar! The place is popular for their old fashions! Everyone at the bar had one! I didn't have one but my husband said it was very good and cheap!! We ordered the pretzel bites as an appetizer to enjoy while sitting at the bar and they were good but the seasoning on them I wasn't a big fan of unfortunately. After a while we decided to order dinner! If it's your first time coming here, arrive early! The wait is long! We waited 45 minutes but it was okay because we just enjoyed drinks at the bar. You order your food and then you get called to your table when it's almost ready! Once we were called to our table, they had bread, veggies and our salads ready! It was all simple but tasted so good! Our steaks shortly came out and I was so pleased!! My steak had to be cooked medium well and they achieved it perfectly. It was still juicy, not dry! My husband's steak was also delicious! The baked potato was probably the best baked potato I've ever had! It was the perfect texture and I was obsessed! The staff were so nice and checked on us often! Despite the wait, it was so worth it! The prices especially! I highly recommend!

This dinner was a bit of a let down unfortunately! Maybe there was a new chef? It took us over an hour to get our food served. My hubby got a steak that was very poorly and unevenly cooked and my salmon was extremely underdone. The parmesan peppercorn dressing for the salad was tasty! The flavor on my salmon was very very good but again, was undercooked. The hasbrowns were good even tho the "cheese" is a slice of american cheese which just looks funny when it came out but did the trick. It was very busy inside and not a calm relaxing environment as the bar is quite large and right in the middle of the restaurant which has limited seating as it is. The place is always packed with cars so maybe this was a flook of an experience. The waitress was nice at least!

Wow, what an interesting place...we met my college friends there for dinner on our way to Green Bay. They have you order your dinner at the bar and when your table is ready they set you and your salad and veggies are on the table waiting for you. They even had a pull table lottery machine too. I ordered the fried chicken and boy was it good. My friend had the pork filet, her husband had steak and my partner had the top sirloin. Everyone's entrees were so good. The baked potato my partner had was so hot it took 15 minutes before he could eat it. The rest of us had the hash browns and they were so good too. The place is far from fancy but the drinks are good and the food is solid!

I took out dinner from here on a Friday. Food took about 50 minutes to be ready. Prices were reasonable and there was a lot of food. Pan fried chicken was my favorite item. It was fried crispy. Clam chowder was good as well. Hash browns didnt have flavor. Coleslaw was good, and there was a lot of it. Fried cod was ok. Clam chowder was a good soup.

Good service with great prices! It was a little odd the process to get a table. You'll need to go to the bar first, get menus and then a server will come to you at a standing table to take your order. A table will become ready and then you'll be seated. Be prepared to wait though. Those fries are worth it!