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Green Acres Restaurant - Sauk City, Wisconsin
This entry was posted on 7/30/2010 1:37 AM and is filed under Supper Clubs Wisconsin, Friday Night Fish Fry.
While spending the weekend up in the Sauk City area for the Muscular Dystrophy Benefit motorcycle ride, we finally popped into Green Acres Restaurant. Attending the annual event off and on for years, we have passed by Green Acres on numerous occasions. This was our second week in a row for diverting from a more tavern fish theme as this well-seasoned establishment is for all practical purposes, a first class supper club.
This is a good consummate Wisconsin supper club construct. There is a summoning bar area of course, for people to meet before they eat. This affair has an upstairs and downstairs. Also, the place is well lighted and apparently has been smoke free for a while - that lends it to being a bit out of the smokey, dark supper club stereotype. It has neo-furnishings, yet it clings to the old-school supper club timbre. There is good wood paneling all around. The eating areas are spacious.
Heide deferred to a Vodka Lemonade and I got a big glass of cold Miller Lite.
They have a thoughtful salad bar on both levels. Salad bars are becoming a thing of the past. We took them up on their offering and it cost only three extra dollars apiece with our meals; but, it was worth it. Every thing was fresh. I don't usually prattle about dressings but the French was very good, like maybe it was homemade. A dandy loaf of wheat bread came on a bread board with our dinners.
I ordered the three-piece deep fried beer-battered Haddock. The waitress brought me a fourth piece after I was finished. That should put to rest some concerns some of my distinguished colleagues have had about me slacking off on the fish quantities. I had no problem downing all the pieces along with the tasty tarter sauce.
Heide opted for the boiled Haddock with butter sauce on the side. Her butter came in a raised dish with a little candle underneath. I tried a bit of her fish and it went down pretty good.
We both got baked potatoes. Two lemon slices came with each dinner. Somebody took attention to detail with the cole slaw and I took an ample share.
With our drinks, meals, salad bar, and tip we got out of there for around 40 Bucks. Green Acres Restaurant is cool with Cool Dadio. Call (608) 643 - 2305 for more information; or, visit their Web site at www.greenacresrestaurant.com .
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
Army Staff Sergeant Patrick L. Lybert, 28, of Ladysmith, WI, died in Gowardesh, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. His unit encountered enemy forces using small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades during combat operations. Staff Sergeant Lybert was assigned to the 1st Platoon, C Troop, 3rd Squadron, 71st Calvary, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), out of Fort Drum, New York. Lybert entered the United States Army in August of 2002. He had also served a tour in Iraq from 2003 to 2004. Lybert was deployed to Afghanistan in February of 2006. According to a posting on blogspot.com honoring Staff Sergeant Lybert, awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Development Course, Overseas Service Ribbon, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Expert Infantryman Badge, Parachute Badge, and posthumously in February 2007 he was awarded the Silver Star. The blogspot posting went on to mention Patrick has a Special Needs Brother who has Asperger Syndrome (Autism). And, the posting goes on to say Patrick's goal was to return to his home area in Wisconsin after retiring from the military and become caretaker and Guardian for his Special Needs Brother's future. He also had plans to marry his fiance. According to a posting by the Ladysmith News, there is a remote outpost in the Hindu Kush mountains of northeast Afghanistan (near the Pakistan border), named for Lybert - Camp Lybert - is referred to as the Edelweiss of Afghanistan because of its rugged mountain beauty. It is atop a 6,500 foot high mountain. Wisconsin 2005 - 2006 Assembly Joint Resolution 109 noted Patrick graduated from Ladysmith High School in 1996, and also graduated from Western Technical College in La Crosse with a degree in criminal justice before enlisting in the Army. He also excelled in athletics, especially wrestling; other sports included baseball, cross country, and football. He was awarded the Outstanding Senior Boy Athlete Award from the Ladysmith Jaycees. Staff Sergeant Lybert enjoyed scouting and earned an Eagle Scout rating. At the time of his death, Staff Sergeant Lybert was survived by his mother and stepfather, Cheryl and Terry Nussberger; his father and stepmother, David and Janet Lybert; his fiancé, Carola Hubbard; his brothers, Stacy Lybert and Noah Nussberger; his grandparents, Robert and Helen Patrick, Frances Kettering; and, his stepgrandfather, George Kettering. Army Staff Sergeant Patrick Lybert was the seventh Wisconsin military service person to be killed in Afghanistan since October of 2001.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
97,110 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,566 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,413 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1206 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
318 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
760 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,888 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
7,011 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
102 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
19 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
142 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
21 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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