Family restaurants across southeastern Wisconsin, most of them open before six in the morning. Different towns, different rooms, and the same idea in all five: cook it to order, serve enough of it, and charge a fair price.
Slinger · Elkhorn · Winneconne
Williams Bay · Palmyra
The restaurants
Each one has its own kitchen, its own menu and its own regulars. Pick the town nearest you.
Slinger
Home food on East Washington Street, open every day of the week from six in the morning. Eighteen kinds of omelet, and the portions people write reviews about.
Elkhorn
Breakfast and lunch on West Walworth Street, in a room with booths, stained glass and daily specials off the board.
Winneconne
On Main Street in a river village up north. Breakfast from six every day, plus a Friday fish fry and a broasted chicken night.
Williams Bay
The Arctic Circle Diner, in the igloo on Elkhorn Road. French batter cakes, homemade donuts every morning, and the only Friday evening service in the group.
Palmyra
Supper-club cooking on South 3rd Street — ribeye, walleye and the rest of the evening menu.
About the group
Lina's Group Wisconsin is a family business. Every restaurant in it keeps its own name, its own menu and its own cooks — what they share is who stands behind them.
Four of the five open at six in the morning. Breakfast is not an afterthought in any of these kitchens; in most of them it is the main event.
Soup made daily and never frozen. Donuts made in the building. Nothing sits under a lamp waiting for someone to want it.
These are the places people eat at every week, not once a year, and the prices on the menus are set with that in mind.