Our History
Take a look at the place, the people and the food…
Wallace Lake Supper Club History
Wallace Lake Supper Club is located on the southern shore of beautiful Wallace Lake one minute northeast of West Bend, WI just of Hwy 144 North on Wallace Lake Road.
Wallace Lake Supper Club presents an eclectic ambiance of Midcentury Modern, knotty pine, and lakeshore. A relaxed dining experience. Excellent service and delicious entrees accompanied by large selection salad bar, soups, potato choices, and desserts.
Prime Rib, the house specialty for over fifty years, is served every night. A center cut Beef Tenderloin or Bone In Ribeye is also very popular. Wallace Lake Supper Club also features Bavarian Pretzel Chicken, Frog Legs, Lobster Tails, Shrimp, Salmon, as well as a delicious Shaum Torte. Several other exciting entrees are served including Fish Frys on Fridays, nightly specials and sandwiches.
Wallace Lake Supper Club is available for larger groups and banquets depending on availability.
The dining room seats up to one hundred guests. The cocktail lounge, overlooking the lake seats fifty-two people between the bar and side tables.
Our Family Tree
How it all came to be…
In the beginning Wallace Lake Supper club was a summer home for Lucy and her family from the Milwaukee area in the early 1940’s. It changed hands to Emil Kufahl, his family opened the White Oaks Resort using the current dining area as a bar and four cabins once located along the western boundry of the property. Kufahl’s were convinced by several customers that they should start offering a Friday Fish Fry. In addition to adding a small kitchen, the Kufahls added a bait shop lake side. Rental cabins, boat rental, fish bait sales, bar business and Friday Night Fish Fries made the White Oaks Resort a hopping little joint.
Several owners succeeded Kufahls each bringing a uniqueness in talent, interest and personality. Karl and Mush Hansen greatly expanded the dinner menu beyond the Friday Fish Fry. At this time, the bar was located across the fireplace wall. The Hansen’s sold the supper club to Nick and Dorothy Jonas who named the restaurant Dot’s Club.
Over a twenty-two years, Dot’s Club became an inviting place to enjoy great food, warm company, the lake views and famous turtle soup. Nick and Dot added the Cocktail Lounge in 1974. The knotty pine was added to the dining room along with the beautiful fieldstone fireplace.
George and Carol Benike purchased the club from Dot and continued to enhance the reputation and kept the good times rolling until Karen and Bob Walden purchased the property in 1989 continuing the supper club tradition. They made several more changes to the dinning room, kitchen, and bar area.
In 2020 Kevin and Amy Zimmer purchased the restaurant renaming it Wallace Lake Supper Club. Many changes are in store for the building, including expanding the dinning room out toward the lake and moving the kitchen entirely. Please join us while we all watch these changes take place as well as continue to pour tasty drinks, serve great food, and grow the good times.