Palmer’s Steakhouse

I would NOT recommend going to Palmers! A group went for dinner.
Among other things our waitress was abrupt when it came to ordering. She put our leftovers that were being boxed on a tray that had A DIFFERENT TABLES dirty dishes on it! I tried to talk to the owner about the issues and was dismissed.

First visit to Palmer’s for a client dinner. This is a good old fashioned steakhouse. Started with a flat bread pizza special and the eggplant appetizer. Both were good, not great. The server brought a large portion of the eggplant which was twice the size we needed. She should have suggested the smaller size especially since we had a flatbread. The star of the show here is the steak. I had the Palmer’s Ribeye which was cooked and seasoned perfectly. $ 38. Meals come with soup or salad, and a potato or vegetable. The baked potato only comes with sour cream. You can pay additional for other sides. Wine list is excellent with numerous options and not outrageously overpriced. Service is good but courses came out to close together. Would have been nice if we had a little more time. Finally, the atmosphere is that of an old time local steakhouse. White tablecloths are here. But, don’t come expecting the ambience of a Gibson’s or Morton’s.

5 stars really isn’t enough for this place. Tony and Marie are running an incredible steakhouse. The food is awesome and the atmosphere is top notch whether you sit outside by the river, in the main dining room by the fire place, or in the bar area. If you come here once it will inevitably become one of your go to’s as it did for me!

A good steak house if you are looking for the same menu, day in and day out. Nothing unique but everything is always good. We go about once a month. For the price I think the steaks are as good as any other in the area. A great place to take Grandma and Grandpa!

I really love this place. Great staff, great steak and great atmosphere!
I wish there was better parking.

Had a fatty check and wanted some great steak I knew there was one place to go Palmers. The resturant is a bit snug but a warm home feeling. The waitress seems like a robot not having to look a paper seeing what the special were keeping good eye contact and with a smile. I had 8oz steak took a while but the bread they give while you wait is superb. The steak and mushrooms was mouth watering. The best way to describe biting into the mushroom is if you were biting a fine cheese. Though I can’t afford this place as often as I want when I have the cash this is my go to spot for steak.

My wife and enjoyed the most enjoyable meals ever. I had the Palmer House Bone In Ribeye and my wife had the lamb chops. Both were done to perfection. Unlike Mr. B’s, their entrée’s include a soup or salad and a baked potato or pasta. I had the pasta with garlic sauce and my wife had the potato. They were both delicious. I don’t know what you can do to a potato to make it taste any different but it did. We’ve ate there many times over the years and have never been dissatisfied.

Went to Palmer’s for dinner tonight with another couple and seriously had one of the best dining experiences I ever had!
We had 7pm dinner reservations so we arrived around 6:15 for cocktails.
The bartenders greeted us and we very nice and suggested some great drinks!
They had a wonderful drink menu, including a whole page of Moscow Mules! YUM! I started with the Minty Peach Mule and then had the Melon Mule — they both were fantastic.
At 6:58 the hostess came and asked if we were ready for our table. I could NOT believe it. The entire building was full and this place was running on time, on a Saturday night?!? Awesome!
Shortly after we were seated our waiter came by, told us the specials and refreshed our cocktails.
We started our with a couple appetizers: Eggplant and some Oysters. They were both delicious, but lets be honest, this place won Milwaukee’s Best Steakhouse, and we were all here for the steaks! My husband and I both ordered the Filet Mignon. I had the 6oz and he had the 8oz. They both arrived with mushrooms on the plate (at no extra charge!) and with our included side! I had a baked potato and he had french fries.
So how were the steaks? Ummmm — AMAZING! That was the most tender piece of meat I ever had! I wish I ordered the jumbo 12oz filet so I had more for lunch and dinner tomorrow! Not to mention, both were under $ 30! Any other restaurant these would have been like $ 40 and $ 50 a piece. Our friends had the Porterhouse and New York strip and they both agreed, they were among the best steak they ever had!
That wasn’t the only great part about dinner — the wine to go with our steaks was fantastic! This place has an amazing wine list! I must chuckle at the people/​reviews who say their wine list is expensive. That is like someone used to driving a Ford seeing a Ferrari on the lot for $ 80,000 and calling it «expensive» when it would be $ 150,000 anywhere else. Seriously, just because a place has great wine, doesn’t mean it is expensive. They had one of the best wine list I have ever seen — and that is for selection AND price! We had a bottle of Meiomi Pinot Noir with our appetizers ($ 44), and for our steaks, a bottle of Caymus Cabernet ($ 110).
I am still in awe by those reviews, so I had to do a quick check to make sure I wasn’t the one loosing it… lol and I wasn’t…ha
For comparison — that other steakhouse in brookfield
Meiomi $ 55 +25% higher
Caymus $ 160 +35% higher
It still boggles my mind how people say this wine list is expensive… either they are competitors of Palmer’s or just know nothing about wine…
Oh, and this was perhaps the most interesting thing of the night. On the way out, I asked if they had a huge day planned for tomorrow since it is Mother’s Day. There answer shocked me. «No we are closed tomorrow.» She explained the owners close the restaurant so everyone can spend the day with their family. I don’t think there is one other restaurant in the city closed tomorrow! Every greedy restaurateur will be open to cash in, just like stores being open on Thanksgiving! Palmer’s you are in a class above the rest!
We will be back!

Our favorite neighborhood steak house. The dishes are always good and confident! The staff is sweet and very helpful. It’s a place where friends gets together and have fun! Love the seasonal décor in the bar with 2 big, wide screen TV (great place for watching any sports event!)
You will come back here for the good food and friends you made while dinning here.
Inviting fireplace in the dinning room and lovely outside tables along the Bark River when the weather is nice.
Your kids will ask to come back again simply because they become friends with the waiter and waitress who serves you.
FREE WIFI to keep your kids busy!!!

I went to Palmer’s Steakhouse with my family to celebrate my parents birthday & anniversary.
We had a reservation so we were seated right away. The server greeted us & got our beverages right away.
They have a great menu with a wide variety of steaks (and other things like lamb, ribs, seafood, etc). Some of the things on the menu came with salad (or soup but I’m not 100% sure). I got a salad but my only complaint was that there was too much dressing on the salad so I would recommend getting the dressing on the side. They also give you bread — and it was warm which was a bonus!
I ordered the ribs and they were fantastic — the meat fell off the bone and very tender… just how I like it. My husband had the lamb chops and said that they were very good. My dad had a steak (although I can’t remember what cut) but said it was delicious.
I would definitely go back and try something else on the menu because all the food was so yummy!

Visited Palmers while in town on business on a Monday night. Even on a Monday, there were a surprising number of people enjoying this classic destination. The service from start to finish was world class, even while sitting in the bar area. I ordered the Shrimp and Turf. The fried shrimp were perfectly flash fried with a light, crispy batter; best fried shrimp I’ve had in a long time, and that include my recent visits to Florida. The 6 oz fillet was perfectly prepared medium rare. If I lived in the area, I’d be a regular here. Such a pleasant departure from the predictable chain restaurants that dominate the landscape. Bravo Palmer’s!

I’ve eaten at Palmer’s about a half dozen times over the last couple of years, including date nights with the wife and dinner with the kids. We’ve also dined here with friends, including this past Saturday evening.
Great steaks and the cream of mushroom soup I recently had was one of the better soups I’ve had in a long time.
Service is always top notch and I can only recall very minor issue one time in the dinners we’ve had in the past. Most dining experiences here have been 4 or 5 stars. Consistently good.

This is our favorite place in Lake Country. Always feel at home in cozy warm environment. The staff is very attentive. Our favorite is any of the steaks and a side of Brussel sprouts and mash potatoes. Great selection of wine and always fresh home made desserts.
We come here for dinner or even just to have a cocktail at the bar in the middle of the week.
Thank you to the entire Palmers Steakhouse for making this such a great place

A popular local joint with classic steakhouse appeal, you can count on a great steak at Palmer’s.
Ambiance is over-​the-​top kitsch that you can’t miss. The place practically explodes with color every season.
The food is spot on. Wedge salad, amazingly flavorful filets and all the requisite sides (including very tasty truffle fries) make dinner a delight here.
Service is sufficient — no real problems, but nothing to write home about either. Improving the experience in this area would really take Palmer’s over the top.
Come in the summer and you can sit outside and enjoy live music. Bonus!

I wish I had better things to say about Palmers. I try to root for our local places but no more for here. Previous outings have been marginal but passable. This time, my friend’s burger was overdone, the beets for my salad were from a can, our server was not all there. So disappointing. The wine is very overpriced as well. I would not recommend this restaurant to anyone, sadly.

I’m a steak snob, so for me to give any steakhouse more than 3 stars, you know they earned it!
I was a little weary about the rating and lack of reviews, but then I looked at the filtered reviews at the bottom of the page and it quickly gave me confidence that Palmer’s is a 5 star steakhouse — read them for yourself!
I made reservations a few days in advance because I heard this place fills up fast, and thank goodness we did, when we walked in at 7pm the place was full! The hostess greeted us immediately, and to my surprise, took us directly to our table — running right on time — Kudos Palmers!
Shortly after being seated we were greeted by a warm smile and a friendly hello from our waitress. She was very friendly and very professional. She took our drink order. I had a glass of wine and my fiancé had a margarita. OH MY — You have to see there wine list! It’s one of the best I’ve seen in Milwaukee! I choose the Clos du Val Cab. They must have 40 wines by the glass — its a wine lovers dream!
For dinner I ordered the Filet Mignon and my fiancé ordered the nightly seafood special. The filet was one of the best I have ever tasted. It was prepared exactly as I ordered it and it was so tender! My mouth is watering thinking about it as Im writing this! My fiancé loved her seafood — I even tried a bit — it was delcious.
Each entrée comes with a choice of soup or salad AND a side item. How nice is that — any other steakhouse you will get ala-​carted to death on those! We each had a salad and for my side I had a baked potato and she had the vegtables.
After the meal they brought out the dessert tray which looked amazing, but we had to pass — we were stuffed!
Our bill came out to be around $ 95 for one of the best meals of my life. I gladly left a 30% tip. We will be back Palmer’s!
I also noticed there seemed to be a patio and the hostess told me they have outdoor seating over a river — Cannot wait to come back and sit outside!
You must try Palmer’s!

Great NY steak and sides. Good beer and wine list and service. Pretty pricey I think but I wasn’t paying.

Had a great meal with good service! Bone in ribeye with a great char perfectly cooked sides also very good! This will be my steak place from now on. My wife had a great filet special with a potabella sauce that was outstanding. For dessert we split the oreo cake a sweet moist treat! Can’t wait for next visit!

Overpriced and boring.
The food is very outdated and too simple, especially for the prices asked. I can make everything on the menu myself, which is pretty disappointing. The vegetables are drenched in oil/​butter, and the presentation is poor.
It’s not a terrible place, just stuck in the past, but this seems like one of the restaurants that people frequent when they are looking for fine dining, but don’t know much about food.

Palmers is fabulous. The steak is the best around. The service is excellent. The drinks are superb.
My husband and I have been here 5 times and each time it’s been a great experience. Yes the parking can be difficult, yet it’s worth the hassle.