Allgauer's on the Riverfront

We went in on Christmas Eve. The food was good, the service was good and the restaurant ambiance was very nice. The holiday menu was very reasonably priced considering what other higher end restaurants are charging. I would recommend.

Ok - there was a time (in the days of the spinning salad) when this was a legit 4* resteraunt. Yes these days are past but there are still some good meals to be had from the old girl.

The ambiance is dated for sure however if you are a Hilton Diamond member and travel this meal comes with a $15 discount so the value is solid.

The menu is respectable and if you want bar food (ask for the dinner menu at the bar) the pizza and burgers are covered by the discount. For $26 ($11 after discount!) I would definitely order this again.

The allgauers salad is a pear, cranberry, walnut vinaigrette with a tart sweet and sour to it- very good!

The chicken breast was cooked moist and the spinach/artichoke spread was a fine compliment. The orzo was cooked perfectly and a great compliment. The veggies needed some seasoning but properly crispy and adequate.
It's a 3 star meal (above average) that gets a 4th star for value after discount and convenience attached to the hotel.

We have been going to the Easter Brunch and the Mother's Day brunch for almost 25 years and this past Easter brunch was GARBAGE! The food was subpar, but they charged us almost $470.00 for 4 people with 1/3 the variety of what they used to serve. The general manager said they are barely hanging on and the cost barely covers the food and servers. He knew it was crap and still tried to give me a bunch of excuses. We will NOT be going there for Mother's Day brunch and neither should you!!!

My cousin and I ate here on Sunday, December 18, 2022. We liked the variety of buffet entrée selections and desserts. We love seafood and I was quite attracted to the fresh lox with capers on a toasted bagel. I sampled some of the shrimp cocktails, and fresh oysters on the half shell and loved the attentive staff service. Although some of the food was dry, most of the food was fresh and tasty. I was so impressed that I made reservations for my husband and me for Christmas brunch.

On Christmas day, after visiting our daughter in the ICU unit at the hospital, we looked forward to an uplifting brunch. I gave it raving reviews due to my experience the week prior. The buffet spread has expanded its selections. I was looking forward to the lox sandwich, but that option was eliminated. The oysters did not taste too fresh, nor was the shrimp cocktail. I had a small sample of everything they offered, even the desserts. Unfortunately, all the dishes were bland, dry, and tasteless. Even the desserts were dry. It was as if everything was prepared the day before and was served on Christmas day. No, we did not complain. The servers did an excellent job. It is not their fault. However, we drove almost an hour to get here and for the money we spent, we were quite disappointed. I looked like a fool raving about this place. We will never come here ever again.

I made reservations at open table for a Saturday 6/8/2023 at 5:30pm for two. When we arrived there was a sign seat yourself. There was only three other occupied tables in the entire restaurant so finding a seat was not a problem. The waiter gave us the bar menu. When I asked if there was a dinner menu we were informed that the restaurant was not attracting many people so the offering was limited but the chef offered to make us what ever we wanted off the dinner menu. We had crab cakes, salmon and creme brulee which was good.
The restaurant needs to be updated. It is old, tired and the windows that overlook the river were dirty. Not a great ambience. Sorry to say we will not be returning. It just isn't what it use to be and it use to be top notch.

In elementary school, everybody's favorite day in the cafeteria was french toast stick day. You could pile on a mountain of syrup that would make your dentist cringe, and no one would say anything. Allgauer's Bread Pudding transports you back into a simpler time, a toastier time.
Upon just entering the room, the sweet smell of syrup and cinnamon filled the air. It looked wonderful too. It was coated in a sticky syrup that sent me right back to the cafeteria. I thought the dense, gooey, spongy texture would be unappealing, but I discovered that I actually enjoyed it. The taste was exactly like that of french toast, but with a lot of syrup. I can only imagine how it would taste warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
After experiencing the bread pudding, I want to try a brunch at Allgauer's. If this was only a small taste of what to expect, I can't wait to taste more.

Nothing that special for a Sunday breakfast buffet or ordering a la carte off of the menu. Seat yourself - we had to determine. Wow, first impressions. Anyway, the made to order omelette wasn't made as I had ordered. This restaurant is just another hotel one. The Hilton in this case. I'm not sure about this "bistro on the river" concept. We were seated inside a drab dining room area. Is their another restaurant near this one I had asked myself? It had used to be different many years ago. There was one person on their wait staff taking care of probably a dozen tables or so. She was stressed. You could tell. It was ok, NOT great. Don't get psyched up for anything special & you won't get disappointed.

My husband and I went to their New Year's Day champagne brunches for many consecutive years. Of course COVID interrupted this. To my recollection, they didn't do it for NY 2023. This year I saw on their website that there would be a brunch on Christmas but it didn't mention anything about Jan. 1. I asked about it on the "Contact Us" area of the website. After almost a week went by with no response, I called the restaurant and left a voice message. I got no response to that either. After a couple days, I thought maybe someone with the hotel could answer my question. We really would prefer their brunch to booking somewhere else; just needed an answer as to if they were doing it. I called at around noon on Dec. 8 and was connected to the Sales Dept and I explained the lack of response I was experiencing. The woman told me her name - I will leave her anonymous on this review. She apologized and said she would get back to me before the end of the day. By about 5:30 pm I had gotten no call back. Finally, sometime in the early evening I got a call from an individual - not the person I had spoken with - He said "I understand you have a question about New Year's Eve." I said that no, I was asking about the Jan. 1 brunch. He sort of hemmed and hawed and then said that "we are focusing on Christmas right now...." without giving me a yes or no. I said, "so I should keep checking?" and he said yes. Now, come on. It doesn't take a restaurant genius to know that if a restaurant is going to put together the supplies and staffing for a holiday that is just 3 weeks away.... they surely would have to have started planning - and certainly would have already decided that it is being done! Awful, awful customer service!

I stayed at the Hilton just to have a weekend get away and didn't want to go out to eat so I decided to go down the the restaurant, can I just say delicious! I got the red wine braised pot roast which was so good and filling, I also had shrimp bisque which was really good as well. I will have to for there for dinner one evening.

Ate here while staying at Hilton Northbrook. Dinner was very good - had the salmon BLT with a side salad and a Negroni. Breakfast was also good - they offer a buffet, but I had the 2X2 (2 each eggs/pancakes/bacon/sausage, with a serving of hash browns). Very good hotel restaurant... I'd definitely recommend.