High Tide Pub is Sailing Right Along

Muskego’s High Tide – the area’s newest pub-like restaurant -- sure knows how to make an entrance.

Opening for business on New Year’s Eve, the former Williams Supper Club enjoyed a weekend to remember and never looked back.

Owned by the husband-and-wife teams of Mike and Jody Dilworth and Bob and Sandy Hoormann, High Tide opted against a more low-key opening night.

“We were going to open a couple of weeks later,” Jody Dilworth said, “But we liked the publicity, so we made the decision to open on New Year’s Eve so people would remember.”

People remembered all right.

After ringing in the new year at the Janesville Rd. establishment, people returned the next day to watch the University of Wisconsin play TCU in the Rose Bowl.

“We were open New Year’s Eve and it was packed,” Dilworth said. “New Year’s Day it was jam-packed, too. I did not even realize that anybody would have known that we were open. It was the weirdest thing.”

Now approaching its two-month anniversary, High Tide has regular customers who can’t get enough of the water-themed restaurant and its soothing blue lighting.

“It’s going well,” Dilworth said. “People like the food. People like the atmosphere.”

The one-page menu features daily specials like chicken wings, sloppy joes and pizza, filets and shrimps kabobs. There is an all-you-can-eat fish fry every Friday.

The half-pound black angus hamburgers, however, have quickly become a customer favorite.

“The burgers are phenomenal,” Dilworth said. “I won’t eat a hamburger anywhere else now.”

Other menu standouts include the Italian sausage, shredded pork and Philly cheese steak sandwiches and the egg plant parmesan appetizer – one of 10 appetizers on the menu.

“We bread our own chicken tenders,” Dilworth noted.

Hand-cut filets (10 and six ounces), broiled or pan-fried shrimp and Sicilian steak or chicken on pasta are among the heartier dinner fare, which includes choice of potato, soup or salad and a bread basket.

“I’d match our filets with anyone’s,” said Dilworth, whose husband Mike previously owned the Rafters steakhouse in Oak Creek.

High Tide plans to open for lunch on April 1.

With live music every other Tuesday, High Tide also has Martini Mondays, free pool on Thursdays and other specials for NASCAR fans on Sundays.

Currently remodeling the 500-person party room and installing a deck for outdoor dining is next on the agenda.

“It’s an ongoing project,” Dilworth said.