World’s greatest — it says so right on the menu
Dining & Buffet
The Bar & Restaurant menu, 1950s — the boat in red and grey, dinner on the terrace, waiters mid-flight. The property’s own hand, in the property’s own ink.
From the captain’s own galley
Read the menu.
A quarter-pound char-broiled hamburger, 45¢. The half-pound Superburger, 85¢ — “the biggest and best sandwich anywhere.” Filet mignon, $3.50. Coffee — all you can drink — 15¢.
The 49¢ plate
Ham and eggs, forty-nine cents. The breakfast that turned a remote riverboat into the whole town’s kitchen table. Dealers ate here after shift; so did the people they dealt to.
The coffee shop
Counter stools, booths, milkshakes served with the steel can they’re mixed in, and coffee around the clock to keep the league bowlers rolling.
The buffet
Right there on the reader board — $5.95, seconds encouraged. And mind the busboy: fastest in the world, they say. Blink and your table’s clear.
The Plantation Room
White linen tablecloths and a complete Alaskan king crab dinner for ten dollars. Yes, complete. Yes, ten.
Crab legs after dark
All you can eat, late into the night — ninety-nine cents in the early days, $9.99 with barbecue ribs and honey biscuits on the side by 1987. Families drove in twice a month on this deal alone.
Save room
Strawberry shortcake from the main-level restaurant — ask anybody — and French toast people will still be talking about in fifty years.
New! Blue Marlin Mexican buffet — Fri–Sun only $5.95!
The marquee never learned to whisper.
Come hungry — it’s the house specialty.