Shelley's Supper Club, Little Chute - Thursday July 26, 2018

Shelley’s Supper Club in Little Chute just celebrated one year in business and is located on Main Street in the same building as Jacks or Better, a well-known Little Chute Supper Club for over 40 years.

    

We arrived about 6:45 on this summer evening and the intimate oval bar had only a few other patrons. The walls were not plastered with TVs as it seems almost every place is these days.  We ordered our standard BOFs and we were pleased to see that the bartender muddled them and they were served in a larger than usual highball glass.   The bartender offered us a menu.  In addition to the typical Supper Club offering, Shelley’s offers daily specials and a large selection of German Cuisine.  We enjoyed our drinks at the bar and after a few minutes a waitress arrived to take our order.  Paul ordered the special rib-eye with haystack onions and I went with the Muechner Schnitzel, a pork cutlet with horse radish, red cabbage and spaetzle.

   

The waitress returned and said that we could move to the dining room, Table 1, whenever we were ready.  Paul’s dinner included the soup and salad bar.  The soups were minestrone and cheddar broccoli potato.  Shelley’s did not offer the typical three cracker spreads (cheddar, liver pate, and garlic/onion), but did offer a port wine cheddar cheese spread (aka Kaukauna Club) which is always good.

  

Shelley was there and we assume she did the cooking.  My dinner, Muechner Schnitzel, included two very large pork cutlets with plenty of red cabbage and spaetzle.  It was really good and I ended up bringing about half of it home.  I especially enjoyed the red cabbage.  Paul had very high praise for his ribeye, saying it was tender, flavorful and done to perfection.  He ranked it in the top tier of  steaks he has had since our supper club journey began.  The haystack onions were crispy and the baked potato was good.

   

We did save room to try a Grasshopper at Shelley’s.  I don’t think the bartender had made many Grasshoppers recently, but these were very good.    We enjoyed our ice cream drinks and left Shelley’s very satisfied.

       

Shelley is definitely trying to keep with the traditional Supper Club atmosphere and food.  Her prices are very reasonable, our food was excellent, and the waitress was friendly and efficient.   We hope the people of Little Chute and surrounding villages and cities give Shelley’s Supper Club a chance.  I think they’ll be pleasantly surprised.