"This tavern is historic, but don?t eat. We went for lunch Sunday and were served food that should have made the restaurant embarrassed. The menu was not as posted online: a stripped down version which was disappointing but we thought we would still befine. But the quality and value turned out to be uncomfortably bad. Top of the list was an $18 entree priced schnitzel sandwichwith lingonberry on brioche (sounds nice? ? which turned out a slider sized chicken puck looking portion on a 5 inch appetizerplate, no plating. Bun that looked like it came from jewel. No fries (the server had said yes, it did come with fries , whichwhat appeared to be a packaged mayonnaise. Literally thought they sent the wrong item. Our server (who was kind throughout ,even looked embarrassed when she sat down the sandwich ?These used to be a lot bigger.? The brat they sent was supposed to be?grilled? and was in fact, boiled to mush and served on a dry hot dog bun. The cheese fries were served in a bowl with whatlooked like a pump cheese in the middle would have been happy with these from a street food cart perhaps. Turns out the ownerwas in the house and she said she?d ask him to stop over. We watched him turn her down and send her back to us to say ?foodprices are expensive? and then he walked away and ignored us. I felt terrible for the server who was put in the middle. This wasunreasonable. We know what we should pay in Chicago for good food and happy to do so. This was below the professionalstandard. We walked in positive and walked out negative. The historic pub and family story here is cool. Enjoying anOktoberfest beer in this space, probably would have simply enjoyed. But the food experience was in the realm of embarrassing foran established restaurant. Ps looking back at some old photos of food on these reviews, these look much better. Full sizedportions, etc. Nothing like our actual experience, so it seems like something has declined."
