Albert’s Family Dining

This place used to be Big Boy but they dropped the name and is better. The staff is very friendly. Their walleye is the best! They give you really large pieces with the meal. Worth a visit Tuesday or Thursday for the all you can eat walleye. They cook it just right as well!

Great service and both my honey and I had the Walleye dinner and it was the best I've had in years. I'm a Canadian walleye girl and well this as close to catching it and eating it for shore lunch. Oh and they have the best pie and carrot cake.

A bunch of good reviews and a few bad ones...so I figured I try the place for myself. Well, here's my take. If you are a yuppie-foodie who travels the globe in search of exotic fare, you're probably not going to think this place is anything special. If you want food that tastes like mom made it (meaning good home made food, but no exotic flavors/ingredients/spices) then you'll probably love it. I tried everything on the salad bar and it was fine. Mom doesn't throw away the pasta salad 5 minutes after it's out, and neither do they. There are the hypochondriacs who think anything out for 5 minutes will kill 'em and apparently they like to rate things on Google (and annoy the heck out of me when they head up our church buffet lines too), but for those who know better, and I do, I am fine with not throwing stuff out constantly. I had no ill effects or upset stomach with any of my party of 4, and again we ate everything on the salad/soup bar. The vegetables and toppings were actually all pretty fresh and it looked like they went hard-core and cut them up themselves (instead of opening a bag of "egg stuff", they used cut whole eggs, instead of bacon bits, they fried up...wait for it...bacon, etc). The soups were all hearty and definitely NOT out of a GFS can like some other Coney's around. Our waitress was fairly emotionless (it's possible she was a benign robot), but she was very efficient, the other waitresses seemed fine too (maybe just a rough day for her, you know they are people too...at least probably). Oh, and I don't drink much alcohol, but AmberBoch pints for $1 every day 2-8 PM? That's cheaper than Meier for goodness sake! As for price, if you are a light eater, I can see why you would say the salad and soup bar is pricey, but I am a runner, and I certainly got my $8.99 worth! Whoever said the ham sandwiches on the bar are not good must have a live-in-chef, because they seemed perfectly reasonable to me. Overall, this place will go on standard light rotation for me and the family. Good place to take "mid-western pallets". If you have that liberal, activist, vegan, young socialist party heading, yoga-instructing friend from college visiting from San Fran,...this probably ain't the place to take 'em.