Glarner Stube — Restaurant in New Glarus

Our family has been going to this restaurant for over 15 years. It used to be a real treat. Our last couple of visits have been lackluster but we keep holding out hope for a return to quality. Our visit yesterday may have been our last.

I'll start with the worst-- the food. They had no salads available. One waitress claimed the cooler was broken. The other waitress was telling people that they were getting ready for the holiday shutdown (which was 3 full days away). My wife ordered the bone in ribeye medium rare. It arrived cooked past well done. I ordered the tenderloin cooked to medium. It came out raw in the center and flash burned on the outside. You wonder why we did not complain to the management? Our waitress did not return to our table for 30 minutes after dropping the food off.

Backing up to our arrival-- the place was fairly empty so we paused to enjoy a drink at the bar. We ordered a couple of old fashioneds. The young lady behind the bar was clearly very new because she didn't know how to charge us. The drinks were terrible. I don't object to new people learning but apparently her trainer was off to the side allowing her to fail.

I'm not sure what happened at this formerly great restaurant. I hope they find the path back to...

Glarner Stube menu proclaims, "Best wienerschnitzel this side of Alps". However, as compare to the similar cusines I have tasted in Osaka, Seoul, Chicago, LA, New York, etc. theirs Wiener is the very bottom of the totem pole in taste. The side dish of colesaw was the size of one mouthful, and not very tangy. We also had fondu. Fondu sauce was almost like condensed milk, and just a faint and almost no taste of cheese at all. It was porrest Fondu sauce I have ever tasted.

And, in addition they served Spotted Cow luke warm. Having tasted the beer at the New Glarus brewery tasting center, it was a poor comparison in presentation and taste. I don't know if their refrigerator was not set correctly, or broken. But, it was a bad experience in warm beer with poor tasting Wienerschnitzel at 35$. In Japan the Donkatsu is fried twice ot three times, as it was in Korea. If that is the best Wiener this side of Alps, I hate to taste whats on the other side.

I chalked this place as tourist trap. I will come back to buy more beer that I cannot get in Chicago. But, not this resurant. I would have much much more preferred hamburger from Culvers which is just down the street. At least Culvers never let me down...

I was expecting a lot out of this place. I've heard lots of good things from different people. I walk in and ask for a table for 1. The hostess tells me that it's going to be a bit loud in the dining room because there's a party. I say it's fine. I get service at a reasonable pace. I order some fondue, the special which was a pork rib sandwich and the roesti potatoes. They came out at a decent pace. Fondue was bland. Didn't really taste like anything. The bread was ok, some stale pieces. The pork rib sandwich was kind of tough and bland as well. It came with a cucumber sauce that was just ok. The presentation for the whole thing was abysmal. The potatoes were ok but also bland. Not enough cheese in there. There was potatoes stuck to the bottom of the plate so it made a big mess. There were kids running around the whole time and a lot of people walking around. The atmosphere was very dark for what I felt like the restaurant was trying to be. I paid a lot of money and this is supposed to be closed to fine dining, but it didn't feel like it at all. I will never...