Tom you need to take your readers (after a fine meal) over to the John Deere Headquarters and show them the fine museum on site, as well as the unique building and grounds its self. It is motor related the only thing is you can have model vehicle you want but the only color is green. Oh that right that is your favorite color.
Epilogue: judging from your photos down town Moline has improved from the hollowed out place I visited in 1993, that’s great.
My mom went to Augustana but I’ve only ever passed through the Quad Cities on my way to Iowa City. If I’m ever in the area I’d definitely check this place out
Enjoy the heck out of this sort of thing. In my opinion, we on the West Coast lack this sort of thing. And if we ever did, it would become a fusion restaurant with "world beats" within five years.
Supper clubs are mostly found in the upper midwest. Think an upscale, special occasion restaurant with a not rushed atmosphere, classic menu (steaks, surf & turf, maybe even a chateubriand for two) and classic cocktails. Go there with family and friends, then maybe a key party afterwards.
This pretty well covers it. Especially the requirements of an excellent Brandy Old Fashioned and a relish tray at least in the Wisconsin ones. And the place that Tom reviewed is way too fancy to be authentic, hence the ambiance requirement. There’s a whole culture out there.
Good heavens though, but do you like your steaks one step away from mooing, or was that some sort of marinade?
Medium-rare to medium-well is just about perfect! New York strips or Delmonicos are my favorites—I can’t deal with having to cut around bones! Mind you, if I can get a couple filets at a time, such the better! Quality AND quantity!
I would hope to have an absolutely decadent Caesar salad as an appetizer, along with some sort of endless bread thing, and with some sort of potato alongside the steak—maybe a twice-baked AND something else; if I’m at a noice steakhouse, French fries ain’t gonna cut it! If I have to miss dessert, I’m not going to cry about it!
But I would hope that someone else would be in charge of my transportation, because I’d be ingesting Manhattans on the rocks—HUGE SINGLE ICE CUBE—throughout the meal! With Luxardo cherries, of course! 🥃🥃🥴🥴
"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste"
Nothing at all against TK, I'm a relic of the '70's myself, this is just the first lyric that entered my head when I read this. If you don't recognize this line you are missing a decade of the best music. I was aware of the existence of supper clubs but was never invited to one.
I passed on seeing the Stones while I was in college because the tickets were $15–I know that dates me cause it would be a bargain today - $88 adjusted for inflation. I was poor, cheap, and not a huge Stones fan even then
And frankly, this isn't strictly a supper club. It's more supper clubbish. Typical supper club features include plush seating, low lighting, a bar that typically opens an hour or so before the dining room, wood paneling, and the aforementioned relish trays and Old Fashioneds. Most have a trapped in time, 50s to 70s vibe. This restaurant is probably automatically disqualified by its bright lighting, lol.
See my ACF posts on the Hob Nob in Racine or Benedettis in Beloit for true, 100% supper club characteristics.
On the subject of fine old fashioned iconic restaurants, I ate at Indy’s St Elmo’s last night. Not the best steakhouse I’ve ever been to (Chicago’s Asador Bastian) but I very much enjoyed it.
Nice! Your Cadillac looks so great parked on a city street. Don't write off staying at a fine hotel close to your house...my wife and I will nab one for special occasions (birthday, anniversary) when we don't have time to get out of town. Call the front desk...often they will have unpublished lower priced rooms on weekdays and in wintertime/off season.
Tom you need to take your readers (after a fine meal) over to the John Deere Headquarters and show them the fine museum on site, as well as the unique building and grounds its self. It is motor related the only thing is you can have model vehicle you want but the only color is green. Oh that right that is your favorite color.
Epilogue: judging from your photos down town Moline has improved from the hollowed out place I visited in 1993, that’s great.
Not open to the public anymore, when Jayson visited last year we tried. I had been there about ten years ago and it the museum was pretty interesting.
Gee that’s to bad, they had a wonderful gift shop and the building itself is so unique (exoskeleton of rust once steel beams)
My mom went to Augustana but I’ve only ever passed through the Quad Cities on my way to Iowa City. If I’m ever in the area I’d definitely check this place out
Did she ever meet Ken Anderson?
Yeah I asked her and she said one of her friends dated him in college
Enjoy the heck out of this sort of thing. In my opinion, we on the West Coast lack this sort of thing. And if we ever did, it would become a fusion restaurant with "world beats" within five years.
dumb question at this point but whats a supper club?
those just look like restaurants to me
I was going to ask the same thing. We have no concept of them in the Pacific Northwest. I’m genuinely curious and not trying to be a dick.
just trying to figure out if its a real definition of something or a klockauism
Supper clubs are mostly found in the upper midwest. Think an upscale, special occasion restaurant with a not rushed atmosphere, classic menu (steaks, surf & turf, maybe even a chateubriand for two) and classic cocktails. Go there with family and friends, then maybe a key party afterwards.
Basically a nice, awesome steakhouse, but sometimes, an Italian restaurant might fit the bill!
LAVOS in the Palazzo Hotel lobby of the Venetian Resort complex in Las Vegas is one such example, if a bit $pendy! But eight stars out of five! 👍
Buddy V’s Ristorante on the Venetian side might qualify! (Less expensive, and one HELLACIOUS plate of lasagna! 😋😋)
This pretty well covers it. Especially the requirements of an excellent Brandy Old Fashioned and a relish tray at least in the Wisconsin ones. And the place that Tom reviewed is way too fancy to be authentic, hence the ambiance requirement. There’s a whole culture out there.
https://www.wisconsincheese.com/the-cheese-life/article/124/supper-clubs
I think it’s something that 70s LARPers use
Good heavens though, but do you like your steaks one step away from mooing, or was that some sort of marinade?
Medium-rare to medium-well is just about perfect! New York strips or Delmonicos are my favorites—I can’t deal with having to cut around bones! Mind you, if I can get a couple filets at a time, such the better! Quality AND quantity!
I would hope to have an absolutely decadent Caesar salad as an appetizer, along with some sort of endless bread thing, and with some sort of potato alongside the steak—maybe a twice-baked AND something else; if I’m at a noice steakhouse, French fries ain’t gonna cut it! If I have to miss dessert, I’m not going to cry about it!
But I would hope that someone else would be in charge of my transportation, because I’d be ingesting Manhattans on the rocks—HUGE SINGLE ICE CUBE—throughout the meal! With Luxardo cherries, of course! 🥃🥃🥴🥴
It was medium. Had a rather excellent marinade, haha.
the best-flavored meat is a pan-seared bone-in prime unground round steak. nothing like it and very hard to find.
"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste"
Nothing at all against TK, I'm a relic of the '70's myself, this is just the first lyric that entered my head when I read this. If you don't recognize this line you are missing a decade of the best music. I was aware of the existence of supper clubs but was never invited to one.
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith
https://youtu.be/-4cTIu0ZpS0?si=JAXb8XTBdYZhr2Eq
Ha. Yeah way past seeing em before they retire or die list.
I passed on seeing the Stones while I was in college because the tickets were $15–I know that dates me cause it would be a bargain today - $88 adjusted for inflation. I was poor, cheap, and not a huge Stones fan even then
wait that's Paul Niedermeyer.
except he doesn't have wealth or taste. 🤪
And frankly, this isn't strictly a supper club. It's more supper clubbish. Typical supper club features include plush seating, low lighting, a bar that typically opens an hour or so before the dining room, wood paneling, and the aforementioned relish trays and Old Fashioneds. Most have a trapped in time, 50s to 70s vibe. This restaurant is probably automatically disqualified by its bright lighting, lol.
See my ACF posts on the Hob Nob in Racine or Benedettis in Beloit for true, 100% supper club characteristics.
On the subject of fine old fashioned iconic restaurants, I ate at Indy’s St Elmo’s last night. Not the best steakhouse I’ve ever been to (Chicago’s Asador Bastian) but I very much enjoyed it.
It's beautiful .
Nice to hear the food's good to, that's not often the case these days .
-Nate
Nice! Your Cadillac looks so great parked on a city street. Don't write off staying at a fine hotel close to your house...my wife and I will nab one for special occasions (birthday, anniversary) when we don't have time to get out of town. Call the front desk...often they will have unpublished lower priced rooms on weekdays and in wintertime/off season.