Forty-seven years of Friday nights
Wedgewood Supper Club opened in 1978 and has missed very few weekends since. Third-generation family-run, we are what a Midwestern supper club is supposed to be: the relish tray arrives before you order, the prime rib roasts slow all afternoon, the Old Fashioned is mixed the way the founder insisted — brandied cherry house-cured, never store-bought — and the jazz trio sets up six nights a week.
The menu is a catalogue of American supper club permanence: hand-cut USDA Prime steaks, slow-roasted prime rib carved tableside, walleye on Fridays, and Bananas Foster flamed in the dining room — followed by twice-baked potatoes finished on the silver cart. Portions are generous because they always were, and no one here has ever photographed a plate.
The room, and the ritual
- Tableside service the old way: carving, flaming, and the cart that generations of regulars wave over by name.
- Live jazz six nights a week — local players, standards, and the volume level that lets dinner stay dinner.
- Private dining for anniversaries, birthdays, and the weekly table that has met here every Thursday for decades.
Our guests are local families celebrating something or nothing, couples keeping a date-night tradition, and travelers who read about supper clubs and want the real article. Reservations are recommended for weekends; the bar welcomes walk-ins with the same pour it has poured since 1978.
Why we persist
Because hospitality of this kind is a practice, not a concept — learned at the pass and at the bar, one shift at a time. Wedgewood Supper Club is the classic American supper club: hand-cut steaks, proper Old Fashioneds, live jazz, and tableside service kept alive by the third generation of the family that started it.