You can’t go wrong dining at Field’s at the Wilderness. This family-owned, fine-dining restaurant is top-notch, from its beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired architecture to its delectable cuisine (one owner is a chef) and impeccable service. Steaks are the specialty, although Field’s serves up great seafood, chicken, chops, ribs and veal. Even the specialty salads (try the Wilderness) and desserts are well-prepared. Kids are more than...

The House of Embers is what the Dells is all about — home-grown businesses by families that stick around. Wally and Barb Obois opened the restaurant in 1959, along with Don Grieves. It quickly became known for its hickory-smoked, baby-back pork ribs, braised in a secret sauce Wally concocted (gotta love secret sauces). Today the business is run by two of the couple’s kids,...

The Del-Bar is one of the Dells’ long-time fine-dining restaurants. When it opened in 1938, it was a small roadhouse specializing in char-broiled steaks. The restaurant got its name from its location in between Wisconsin Dells and Baraboo. The Prairie-style restaurant is now more than five times the size of the original structure. But it still contains its original dining...

Kaminski’s Chop House is a wonderful choice for a special night out. Tucked into an upper floor of Chula Vista Resort and overlooking the scenic Wisconsin River, the fine-dining restaurant is patterned after the famous Manny’s Steakhouse in Minneapolis. The restaurant features corn-fed, dry-aged, center-cut beef: everything from filets and New York strips to porterhouses and rib-eyes. They also serve fresh...

Drink in the views at Ishnala, which sits on the edge of Mirror Lake ensconced in pines. In fact, a few live Norway pines are actually growing through the restaurant and out the roof. The popular Wisconsin supper club was opened by the nine Hoffman Brothers in 1953. Look for the stone fireplace, log walls and staircase they incorporated into...