Manitowoc Herald-Times from Manitowoc, Wisconsin • 40

weekend dining out BY 0 emfj Join the club and enjoy a meal at Club Bil-Mar Restaurant Club Bil-Mar. 1 Owners Dennis and Linda Hebert. Location 3627 County CR, Manitowoc. Phone 920-682-1028. Hours 11:30 a.m.

to 3 p.m. Sundays; 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fridays; other days open to banquets and private parties. Reservations Not required for Sunday and Friday hours. Dress Casual.

About Club Bil-Mar The first thing you will notice about Club Bil-Mar (the name comes from the first owners, Bill and Marie O'Leske) is the size. It is the largest banquet facility in the area, with seating for up to 1,000 people. There are plaques lining the walls of the huge bar area denoting all the sporting groups that meet at Club Bil-Mar for meetings and banquets throughout the year. Among the items is an impressive display case of fish, recognizing the fact it's home of the Northeastern Wisconsin Great Lakes Sport Fishermen. Among the other groups that meet at Club Bil-Mar are Ducks Unlimited, the Manitowoc Gun Club, Trout Unlimited, Wisconsin Deer Hunters, Water Fowlers, Manitowoc County Fish Game and the NRA.

Club Bil-Mar also hosts the Lakeshore All Sports Hall of Fame and the Manitowoc County Conservationists. Club Bil-Mar is also available for special parties such as birthdays, anniversaries, wedding receptions and reunions. The establishment opened in 1964. Current owners Dennis and Linda Hebert have been running the V- -V 1 Weekend photos by Sue PlschkeHm Manitowoc's Tom and Letha Dernlan (at the left-center table) often come to Club Bil-Mar for the Friday night fish fry and the Sunday buffet. Chicken tenders are $7.95, and children's portions are $4.50.

A four-piece breasted chicken is $8.50, and deep-fried bluegills are $9.95. Club Bil-Mar serves a large Sunday buffet for $10.25 that includes baked chicken, breasted chicken, sirloin tips (which is a specialty), ham, Swedish meatballs, wieners, deep-fried fish, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy and vegetables. There is also a full salad bar, in addition to desserts. In their words The Heberts said that people come to Club Bil-Mar for the size of the facility for banquets and parties. They serve "good food" and enjoy the "different type of people they get to meet." restaurant since 1998.

Linda has worked at Club Bil-Mar since 1 986 as a cook. On the menu Friday dinners include soup and salad bar, and choice of potato (French fries, cold potato salad or savory herb whole potatoes). All soups, salads and desserts are homemade, including the Kneecaps. Deep-fried fresh lake perch is: One butterfly for $6.95, two for $9.95 and three for $12.95. Deep-fried Alaskan white fish is $6.95, baked haddock in lemon butter sauce is $9, deep-fried walleye pike is $9.50, boiled peel-and-eat shrimp is $9.75, deep-fried jumbo shrimp is $9.50, deep-fried popcorn shrimp is $8 and a child's portion is $4.

WIMIIIHIIMWIIIIIIII 1 -p I 1 V-' 11." II Paul Pankratz helps his son Alex, 6, of Green Bay at the salad bar at Club Bil-Mar. weekend 8 I herald times reporter thursday, march 15, 2007.