HOBNOB Restaurant — Restaurant in Village of Somers

We were given a gift card to celebrate our 10 year anniversary celebration here. This has been on my list to try for quite some time. Overall, the ambience and atmosphere outweighed the quality of food; however for the experience alone, it's worth a go. You walk in and have seemed to time travel completely. The restaurant decor, bar, architecture is gorgeous as is the view of the lake. We had a corner booth which was both romantic and allowed for a nice, intimate setting. The service was very prompt and detail oriented. I was a fan of how our server integrated the history of the establishment as a part of the details on specials and other recommendations. They pride themselves in serving a full 3 course meal which would be of common practice for a true supper club where each entree comes with soup & salad before the meal. They also serve warm rolls and butter. We had a bottle of the Coppola Director's Cut Cabernet that was a featured item both of which was a great price point and delicious. For the soup we both ordered chicken dumpling. It was lacking in flavor, but once we added salt and pepper, it was delicious. Warm butter and rolls are always appreciated by this carb lover, so we were for that. They offer 3 types of salad: Hot Bacon Spinach, Caesar, & House with a creamy garlic dressing. I ordered the spinach salad, but unfortunately they drowned the spinach with dressing it was far too sweet and ruined it. The house garlic dressing was very good, but they do serve a large ramekin of it on the side, so I would recommend not using all of it or it may be too much. I ordered crab cakes. They were beautifully cooked and a perfect size. The flavor was on point as well but unfortunately the remoulade tasted like a thick thousand Island dressing, so I ate the rest without. My husband ordered the t-bone that was featured and initially it came out with the exterior looking like the color of pork and not steak, way too underdone. They did fire it for a bit more time, and when it came back out it was at a perfect cook with beautiful char grill marks. Unfortunately, the cut was only about a half inch thick and lacked flavor. The potato sides offered were just ok as well. The shining stars of the evening were the experience of sitting in the stunning dining room & bar area and the pianist they had playing as live entertainment. He was absolutely outstanding!!! He alone made the evening so much more enjoyable. I would most definitely return to sit at the bar, look out at the beautiful view of the lake on a Saturday evening and enjoy his top notch talent once again, with a bottle of wine or a novelty ice cream drink, although I would not make it a point to return for the food,...

We met our siblings for dinner last night, some traveled over an 1-1/2 hrs. We were sorely disappointed and will never go back. My husband is a retired Chef in the private club industry his whole life in the North Shore of Chicago and was so excited to find a Wisconsin supper club that served Prime Rib. My husband ordered a dirty martini with bleu cheese olives. The. martini was not a dirty martini, and when we got the bill they charged us $.25 each for the olives, and the waitress didn't mention that it would be an additional charge for olives. Don't martinis come with a garnish? In our whole life, we have never paid extra for olives in a martini. The garden salad that several of us ordered, my husband wanted bleu cheese dressing. A very small plastic container was served on top of the salad with some crumbled bleu cheese on top of sour cream, maybe a tablespoon. This is not bleu cheese dressing. And we found out again when we got our bill it was $3.75 additional (which we were never told was an upcharge). What a joke. My husband ordered the double cut Prime Rib and was looking forward to enjoying this meal. Turns out the waitress comes out and explains that the kitchen staff didn't have enough Prime Rib and for the double cut and a single cut for our brother-in-law, who also loves Prime Rib. We decided to go ahead and split the double cut and this was only at 6:30 p.m. on their "special Prime Rib Friday night". Who runs out of Prime Rib this early? Poor planning. When the Prime Rib was served, it was embarrassing and my husband didn't even know where to look. Even my siblings didn't know what to say. At best the 13 oz. single cut was maybe 7-8 oz. for $52. It was lukewarm and had absolutely no taste served with a black plastic cup filled with creamy horseradish sauce which tasted like sweet ranch dressing. Not the same. Not even au jus. A very very poor excuse for Prime Rib with a price tag of $52. The Au Gratin cheese potatoes were a scoop of mashed potatoes with cheddar cheese on top. The is not Au Gratin potatoes. The dinner rolls and Clam Chowder soup was very good. My wife's Walleye Pike was overcooked and dry. It tasted old. The ice cream drinks were ice cream with a drizzle of brandy and nutmeg on top only. They don't mix the alcohol into the ice cream and we ordered 3 different ones. This is not the correct way to make a supper club ice cream drink. The view of Lake Michigan gets the star. My husband said as we were leaving the restaurant, take a couple of good pictures because we will never be returning. If, however, you want to drive the 1-1/2 hrs for their Claim Chowder Soup and dinner...

My friends and I have been going to the HobNob every holiday season for the past 5 years. Driving 90+ minutes one way from Indiana. Previous years experiences have been what kept us coming back. Unfortunately, this year was nothing short of a complete disappointment. In addition to the menu prices seemingly doubling from previous years and the portions being noticeably smaller, we had issues with the food we received and the response I received from the manager. We visited on Dec 13th 2023 and were celebrating a Birthday and the persons whose birthday it was waited 10 minutes longer to get his food then everyone else at the table. Then his steak which he ordered medium-rare came out well done. This was a $56 steak so he brought it to out waitress attention and she said she would have another steak prepared the way he ordered. Another person in our party ordered the filet Oscar and the crab meat was just haphazardly thrown across the entire plate and mixed in with the asparagus and hollandaise sauce which was asked to be on the side. The replacement steak came out 10-15 minutes later and was equally as well done with absolutely no pink inside whatsoever. Even our waitress commented on how the second steak was clearly overcooked as well. He ate two small bites and said he didn't want to send it back again and would like to just have a drink at the bar because by that time the entire party had finished their meals so he didn't want to be a bother. I excused myself and went to speak with the manager. I told her what had happened and instead of a simple apology, her rather curt response was that because he had consumed a small portion of the steak (2 bites) the best she could do was remove $20 from the bill. I told her that was unacceptable and it was a $56 steak that was overcooked twice and not even eaten. She then said she'd send out a complimentary dessert and one drink. Even that came out 20 minutes later and after we'd already moved to the bar to free up the table for another party that was waiting. I understand that restaurants have "off" nights and that things do happen. Unfortunately, this experience was most likely our last of our years long tradition at HobNob. Had the manager simply apologized for the inconvenience and removed the steak that was not eaten, that would have been the end of it. No need for a dessert or a drink as what we came there for was to eat dinner.

On a positive note, both bartenders working that evening couldn't have been nicer. Great personalities and they were absolutely on top of their...