1878 On The Lake

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   Rich

   Milwaukee3 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on February 26, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Four of us dined at 1878. It was unanimous that the food was fantastic. Chef Nic was SUPERB. Our server, Jasmine, was the BEST!!!! We will definitely return for more!!
   

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   Karissa

   Milwaukee1 review

   5.0

   Dined on February 23, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Great menu options! Best filthy old fashioned. Ambiance was perfect! Would definitely go back again
   

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   Candace VIP

   Chicago2 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on February 22, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Beautiful venue. Great service by Christine. Ahi tuna appetizer was wonderful and a beautiful presentation. If you like martinis, try the spiced pear. Yum! Walleye entree was good, but fish fry walleye breading too thick and not cooked all the way through. Over all a great experience. Highly recommended.
   

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   Holden

   Milwaukee1 review

   5.0

   Dined on February 18, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   It was absolutely amazing, girlfriend loved the view we had the service was incredible although there wasn’t a hostess to seat us but other then that it was just amazing from the food to the service
   

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   hillary

   Chicago1 review

   4.0

   Dined on February 17, 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Beautiful lake front dining with wonderful service!
   

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   Jeff

   Milwaukee1 review

   4.0

   Dined on February 15, 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   This was a very good restaurant. It was a busy Valentine's night and the service was really fast. The food was amazing. The only problem was my wife ordered prime rib medium and is was well done. She still ate it but the temperature was off. Aside from that I would definitely recommend this place
   

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   Harrison

   Milwaukee1 review

   5.0

   Dined on February 15, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   My Girlfriend and I went in for a lovely Valentine’s Day Dinner had the most pleasant time. our server Christine was a wonderful, she was great with recommendations and her service was top notch highly recommended her to anyone going for a meal with great service. The food was wonderful highly recommend the Truffle fries, butternut Squash ravioli, prime rib and Risotto! Was a perfect way to cap off the night!
   

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   Rafael

   Milwaukee1 review

   2.0

   Dined on February 14, 2025

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 2

   Food was cold when it arrived and took about 2hrs to get all of our courses think it could have done better and faster with more staff or someone just taking care of the 3 igloos outside you pay extra to be out there should be taken care of better.Got there at 5:15 and didn’t leave until 7:30 took way to long.
   

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   Erin

   Milwaukee1 review

   2.0

   Dined on February 9, 2025

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 5

   There were of 7 us. As soon as our server Liz came to our table, we let her know that we’d like separate checks. And yes, we get that may be annoying and more work, but we’re at a higher-end restaurant and the prices of the menu items reflect a higher expectation of customer service. Liz told us “the system “ would only allow for 3 bills per table. Huh. We might have believed that load of nonsense …. except we were just at 1878 for breakfast that SAME day, and the server didn’t bat an eye when we asked for separate checks. We were too Midwest nice to point out that out. However a bit later in the service, one of us couldn’t help but mention to Liz that it seemed like processing 7 credit cards might even be more of a hassle than just splitting the checks. Liz told us that “the system” can only take a max of 4 cards. Again, we used 7 cards THAT DAY in the SAME restaurant. Again, none of us really knew how to appropriately respond to a server just straight out lying to our faces. And none of us had cash, so we were all a little panicked on how we were going to figure out the logistics of the random rules Liz kept announcing. But finally, one of us had enough wine and enough crappy service to mention that we were there 10 hours earlier and had 7 bills with 7 cards. That’s when Liz told us that the “system” was “too busy” to process that many cards. Folks, we were the ONLY people in the restaurant. Ummm, at that point it was clear that Liz knew we knew she was making this crap up, but almost daring us to do anything about it. Obviously the “system” was Liz and Liz just wanted to throw one check on our table and not spend a minute extra on anything. For this price point, that's unacceptable.
   

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    Rob

    Chicago1 review

    5.0

    Dined on February 8, 2025

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5

    2nd time wife and I dined here. Great experience each time. Beet salad outstanding. Filet was juicy and fine very well. Service was perfect. Soups were really good. Award winning mud pie stands up to its name, definitely recommended. Will be going back next stay.
    

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