Ruby's Dining Room

Went for our Anniversary dinner. I ordered the walleye dinner - pan fried as recommended by our waitress. Husband ordered the prime rib melt. Both were soooo good ! Wish I would have taken pictures. Nancy was our server and she was nothing short of amazing! She was great on all levels. Would highly recommend!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Your Salad, Walleye

I would minus stars on food if I could. Had the "german" Oktoberfest buffet. It was disgusting!!!!!! Tables around us also voiced not liking it. I ate a small salad and mean small. I tried four items and one was worse than the next. I complained after we had to have another server get ours so I could complain. The manager came over and said, "have you ever eaten German food?". I answered my favorite restaurant is Gasthaus Bavarian hunter. She said she would discount the meal. Well, a whole $8 came off the $40 buffet price. What a bunch of bull that was!!!! Needless to say, I will NEVER BE BACK!!!!!!!!!!! Awful, don't do their speciality buffets, you will regret it!!!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 1

Great place, even though our server was super inattentive and barely stopped to check on us and was never seen much at any other tables .

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: Walleye

Skip the wild rice bowl.
On June 6, 2024 in the early evening my friends and I were seated in the Ruttger’s dining area. I looked at the menu earlier that day to select my entrée which was the Wild Rice Bowl. It sounded delicious because I have had similar dishes before made with purple cabbage and was looking forward to crispy baked purple tofu in garlic oil. Properly baked tofu is very crispy on the outside while flavorful and moist on the inside. So I hope you can appreciate my bitter DISAPPOINTMENT when I was served BARELY SAUTÉED, WHITE, LIMP tofu. I took a bite to discern its flavor I discovered it had none, other than RAW tofu. Regarding the advertised promise of garlic oil and baked purple tofu: there was none, I refused to eat it and had the waitron send it back. After around ten minutes the waitron presented me with the cooks mitigated version, the only difference was the tofu this time was deep fried in an attempt to attain a crispy exterior but like the first version it was FLAVORLESS and once again I had the waitron remove it from our table. My final DISAPPOINTMENT: the waitron did not offer me an opportunity to select an alternate entrée at a reduced or free cost. The only bright spot was the price of my dinner was reduced to zero.

My final verdict: Phbbfpt.

I assure you I will never dine in this restaurant again nor will I recommend it to any of my friends or acquaintances.

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Dear customer service,
As a courtesy, allow me to provide you a pre written generic and insincere response to my review of Ruby’s. Please feel free to copy and paste:

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Carl, we regret your disappointing dining experience at Ruby’s. Providing our patrons with a great dining experience and service is our utmost priority. Thanks for bringing your unusual experience to our attention.
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Had the breakfast buffet. Good service, place looks great. They charge for drinks apparently, and buffet felt overpriced.

Wasn't busy, the service was the worst! 15 minutes til we were even greeted. Waited for almost an hour for nothing fancy or special (food wise) my husband never even received his salad! We asked for it 3 different times, and their response was "yea I'll go check."He finally got in a to go box and it didn't have the meat that came with the salad. And they still charged us full price!!

A 5 star date night with your wallet in mind amazing seasonal menus under new ownership

Great place to stop and eat or relax with friends or family.

Where to begin with describing the experience at Ruby's dining room....For starters, I get goosebumps every time I walk into those hallowed halls. The great ceilings, the nostalgia, the history....if only those walls could talk....I'd go to Ruby's to eat week old Kraft mac 'n' cheese just to be there and soak it all in, but luckily I don't have to.In fact, the converse of that is also true....I'd go to eat in a cinder block bunker in January to enjoy the wonderful tablefare served at Ruby's. You can tell pretty quickly, and pretty easily, when you're dining at an establishment that employs a team of chefs versus a handful of cooks....and the chefs at Ruby's/Ruttger's don't disappoint. There are people who are "chefs" by title only, and then there are true culinary artists. The chefs at Ruttger's are the latter. The kitchen is their orchestra hall, the food is their musicians, and what ends up being served on your plate is their wonderful symphony.When the ambiance and atmosphere of such a historic, truly wonderful venue is combined with cuisine as magnificent as I just described?You get to enjoy the fine dining that can only be experienced at Ruby's Dining Room.

Great little stop off for breakfast on a road trip. Long interesting history of the resort. Great service and food

Stay away from the coffee, and breakfast. The walleye however is great. I had 2 breakfasts, lunch and dinner here. The fish was good. The lunch burger was decent but breakfast was horrible and took over 30 minutes to receive overcooked eggs, one piece of toast (usually you get 2?) and no fruit on my plate. Twice. I see a pattern.

Had the buffet. It was luke warm and very bland food. I dont need to stop by here again.