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The New Richmond House Restaurant & Lounge - Richmond, Wisconsin - Friday Night Fish Fry
This entry was posted on 1/1/2010 6:36 PM and is filed under Supper Clubs Wisconsin, Taverns Wisconsin, Friday Night Fish Fry.
Heide and I inaugurated our first Friday fish fry of 2010 by revisiting an old local favorite. I reviewed the previous Richmond House back in September of 2007. In the mean time, that version closed down - much to the long-time loyalists disappointment. Just this past March it reopened with new ownership and a new demeanor and a slightly new name - The New Richmond House Restaurant and Lounge.
It is in the same location on Highway 89 about eight miles south of Whitewater, Wisconsin and 10 miles north west of Delavan. It is just up from the tiny community of Richmond. It is the old familiar building on the outside. And, to old fans, the inside is mostly the same. But, it looks like things have been tightened up a bit in the old structure. On a cold four-degree night, January 1st, it was warm and cozy.
It has just a hint of a neo-Bistro-esque timbre now, but then current restaurant make-overs seem to lean toward that now common trend. But, I remember it as a more tavern-style restaurant back over the years. In fact as the crow flies, I grew up about 10 miles to the north west of the Richmond House.
Heide ordered the fried Blue Gill dinner with a side of potato pancakes. I tried both items. You can tell when couples are married. They reach over and pluck a fork-full of entrée from their spouse's plate. The Blue Gill was delightful. It was anything but fishy. The potato pancakes tasted homemade. She topped off her dinner with a root beer.
I ordered the all-you-can-eat beer-battered deep-fried Cod. Our thoughtful waitress brought out three large mouth-watering pieces. It is the old-time fried style I remember from church fish fries. I opted for the boiled parsley potatoes. They had the light reddish skins rolled in butter and parsley, I remember my grandmother making. I capped off my dinner with regular coffee.
The dinners came with marble rye bread, cole slaw in a tavern cup, and smooth tarter sauce. The two us got out of there after meals and tip for just over 35 Bucks.
The New Richmond House Restaurant and Lounge is cool with Cool Dadio. Of all the fish frys I have been to, this one ranks right up near the top. They advertise a Wednesday fried chicken and fried fish special. Sounds like a good trek to make on the teal and cream Harley as soon as the weather breaks in the spring.
Find The New Richmond House Restaurant and Lounge at N6496 State Hwy 89. It is a rural Delavan address with a (608) area code. Call (608) 883 - 2225 for more information.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
Staff Sergeant Todd Olson, 36, died December 27, 2004, at the 67th Combat Support Hospital in Tikrit, Iraq. He had sustained wounds a day earlier from a roadside bomb detonated in Samarra, Iraq. Olson's home was in Loyal, Wisconsin. Todd was killed two weeks after his Wisconsin National Guard unit arrived in Iraq. He died on patrol when hit by the bomb in Samarra, a town north of Baghdad. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned Olson had studied finance at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; he was married and the father of three teenage boys and a five-year-old girl; he was a member of the Loyal School Board; a loan officer at the M&I Bank in Loyal and Neillsville; a youth group leader at Trinity Lutheran Church in Loyal; and, a youth football coach. Staff Sergeant Olson joined the National Guard after he graduated from Loyal High School in 1986. He was attached to the Neillsville Unit Detachment 1, Charley Company, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment, Wisconsin Army National Guard. They had been activated for training in Mississippi in June of 2004 and arrived in Kuwait in November. The Journal Sentinel went on to say, Olson's unit was a part of the 278th Regimental Combat Team, a combination of soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard and Guard members from other states. The 278th made the news a few weeks before Todd's death when a soldier in the unit asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld why some American military members were forced to forage in Iraqi junk yards for armor to weld to and "up-armor" their Humvees. Staff Sergeant Olson was the 33rd Wisconsin military service person from Wisconsin to die in Iraq since spring 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
94,939 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,351 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,373 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
937 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
317 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
609 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,613 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,737 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
101 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
16 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
139 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
17 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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