About the club
Built for a long dinner, not a quick stop.
Nightjar is a locally owned supper club on Sample Road in Montello. The room is small on purpose: booths along the wall, a bar you can see from the door, and enough space between tables that a conversation can stay at your own.
The evening usually starts at the bar. We pour a brandy old fashioned the way a lot of Wisconsin rooms still do, and the kitchen sends out a relish tray once you’re seated. After that, the menu stays close to the classics — steaks, a Friday fish fry, prime rib on Saturday — without trying to be anything else.
We took the name from the nightjars that call in the fields outside town after dusk. It felt right for a dining room that doesn’t really get going until the light goes down.
Finding the room
We’re a few minutes off Highway 23, on the way toward Buffalo Lake. If you’re coming in from the west, watch for the porch light on Sample Road; if you’re coming from the east, it’s just past the last turn before the lake road. When in doubt, call and we’ll talk you in.