We had a wonderful time last weekend throwing a surprise party for my sister. The food and service were outstanding. Thank you Steve and team! We'll definitely be back when we're in town! read more

Good food, try the mussels for sure. Friendly staff that work hard to make sure you're happy

This is our favorite restaurant to eat at. The food is so delicious & the service is wonderful. The ambiance is beautiful. We always have a great meal & a great time also. read more

This is disguising how could you make your employees wash dishes with cold water when the hot water turns off this is a health hazard and unsafe read more

Stopped in for the first time today to have dinner. I had the "Italian Festival" which was a mixture of Beef Ravioli, Cheese Ravioli, Italian Sausage, Gnocchi, Fettuccine, and a meatball. The food was all excellent with my favorites being the cheese ravioli and Italian sausage. The service was great and the food came out quickly. read more

Pepper steak is the bomb. Spinach linguine with spicy sauce is my favorite! Honestly you can't go wrong with anything on the menu. Best Italian food around. read more

The food was mediocre at best. We tried this place because of all the raving reviews, but I'm convinced everyone who loves the food hasn't had much Italian food. The sauce was kind of bland, the gnocchi wasn't authentic, and everything was just ok. read more

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I arrived on a Friday night with a big group for a special occasion. Our waitress was phenomenal! She laughed and joked with us, yet was extremely professional. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves because of her. The food was delicious. Great pasta and sauce, sausage, meatballs, etc. Even the dinner salad was really good. The food was great and the service was great. A wonderful experience! read more

We went here for takeout and really enjoyed the great food from there! The order was ready when we arrived.

It is hands down the very best place to enjoy an Italian meal , service and food is always outstanding

Best Italian food in the area. The Italian festival is phenomenal. Their sauce that is a mix of red sauce and Alfredo is my favorite. Not the cheapest place in town, but well worth the price, and the staff/owner is always great! read more

We like it. It's not fancy or trendy, it's a supper club! Waitresses are great. Their house salad is crisp, a nice mix of veges, good house dressing. But add the blue crumbles yum! All the Italian I've tried is good. Tasty sauces, meatballs and sausage. They offer a lighter adult portion which I really appreciate, as well as even smaller kids size. Noticed that the drink glasses and meatballs have shrunk this year, but that won't keep us away. The windows are lined with hummingbird feeders so you'll have a nice show in summer as a little bonus. read more

We recently dined at the El Capitan Supper Club. My husband and I both ordered their 8 oz tenderloin steak. We have NEVER had such a dry, tasteless steak! There wasn't one drop of juice from our steaks on either of our plates. It was disgusting! Our side dish was good, but I can't believe they served the steaks! I will never recommend anyone go there for steak. Our dinner was nearly $100! So disappointed read more

HOMEMADE HANDMADE ravs and gnocchi and fresh sauce made in the morning. My favorite place locally for Italian food! Try deep fried gnocchi with a side of Alfredo sauce. read more

Golfed at Timberstone and went to El Capitan for dinner and had the chicken parm special. Jamie our waitress was great and the food was awesome. Definitely on our list to visit again, highly recommended! read more

We make sure to hit El Capitan every time we visit the cabin on the Spread Eagle Chain of Lakes. Awesome supper club that serves wonderful Italian food. Little bit of a different set up than we were used to though: you don't seem to get sat until you have a drink at the bar, or until the server is ready. Fine with us, cause the Old Fashioneds were great. Place is pretty hopping in the summer time too; a reservation helps. The food though. Probably the best ravioli I have ever had. The gnocchi was fantastic too. The meatball that came with my meal was huge, but I gave it to my wife. She's more into eating the recently deceased than I am. If I remember right, the leftovers fed us for at least another meal. Well, me for part of another meal, my wife for at least three more. I heard the crab legs were sourced locally right from West Lake on the chain. read more

Pleasant staff and clean facilities. The house made Italian dressing was really good, dressed up a simple salad, and perfect with the homemade bread. Great homemade gnocchi and ravioli combo (they let me sub the fettuccine for the ravioli and still gave me a meatball and a sausage) . The meat raviloi reminded me of my grandma's. The Yelp mapping shows this in downtown Florence, but it is actually in between Iron Mountain and Florance. read more

Best cheese ravioli in the entire country. I go here once a year and dream about it all year long!!!! Do not miss the cheese ravs! read more

Service was very bad, waitress (Cindy) has been making very rude comments to the whole table the whole evening. Orders were messed up constantly. Very surprised that I left a tip. read more

I live in Kansas but every year my family vacations up north and THIS is the one place we have to visit. We end up eating here a few times during our week or two week long visit. The gnocci is incredible and their house salad dressing is delicious. This place is a staple for us and I only wish I could visit it more often. read more

I haven't been here since the current owners bought the club and I will not recommend this overpriced poor quality of food and service club to anyone. The club is decorated in heavy materials and fabrics attempting to resemble some distinction. While one would not think such high priced eateries would be in this small area, El Capitan caters to the quite wealthy homeowners. We were treating friends and wanted to take them to a nicer place for dinner. Its menu attempts to resemble an Italian faire however, it fails miserably. Our waitress was a cocky young girl who is in dire need of the level of training required to meet the ridiculous pricing on the menu. We ordered drinks and the liquor options were ironically on the cheap side so they are making a good buck off the bar tab. I was shocked to see Mozzarella sticks for $8.95 wow. Our dinners came with a salad which was some cheap lettuce and a few vegetables. Our server didn't bother to present us with the pepper grinder which I saw at other tables. She also got pissed when we wanted her to grate a bit more cheese on our salads. The dressings obviously came from a bottle and the one I had was more like a paste. It was an irony that the dressings came on the side in plastic cups. The description of the pasta dish I selected was chicken, spinach and tomatoes in a light broth sauce at $18.95 (wow for chicken and pasta the cheapest products around). What I was served was a a glop of pasta (it was all stuck together) slopped in the bowl with the sauce and ingredients tossed over it in lieu of mixed together. I couldn't even get the pasta apart. It was overly season with pepper and when I told the waitress all she said was sorry and walked away. She didn't even offer to take it back for a new one. I didn't make a fuss because we were treating our friends to dinner. One of our friends knew one of the other waitresses and I wish we would have been seated in her area after seeing how she treated her customers. Other dishes selected were a Shrimp Alfredo $18.95, which again the stuck together pasta was slopped in the dish with a paste like sauce on top with only a few shrimp over it. The Ravioli dish was tasteless. Frutti di Mare at $27.95 did have a good amount of seafood and crab leg pieces (not normally found in this dish) and is about $6.00 more than what you would normally pay. The waitress became less attentive and pissy after I told her about my meal. In the end with drinks the bill for four was $125.00. The pricing was outrageous for the portion size and quality of food that was served as well as the extremely poor service. I can find an overall better experience elsewhere. read more

My gf and I ate at the El Capitan last weekend (Italian entrees) and it was excellent as usual. I have never had better red sauce and their pasta is always homemade and perfectly cooked. The meatballs and sausage are excellent. I consider myself an expert, as I make my own pasta, red sauce(s) and Italian sausage. I've eaten here for over 35 years, and the food and service is always great. Beware of certain reviewers that are obsessed with price and don't care for Italian food... read more

What an outstanding experience in dining. Saw the lady that arrived at 5:00 AM to prepare the home made pasta. The owner visited our table and was very happy we were enjoying our meal. The gnocchi melted in my mouth. The rest of our party had the combo of homemade cheese and meat ravioli and raved about them. Portions were very large and we have enough for another meal. We highly recommend this restaurant. Another outstanding meal with so much food Outstanding service from Tina Owner and chef visited us and explained his Italian cooking region heritage Wish we could get food like this in Florida especially the sausage and meatballs read more

Steve the owner is always on top of things! Friendly staff, phenomenal food, get the spicy garlic sauce (up charge on most but soooo worth it). Steaks aw to die for! Gnocchi Parm with spicy garlic is my fav!! read more

Fantastic Italian food in area where the competition is strong. I've actually worked here before and I know that owner is personally in the kitchen ensuring that the food quality is nothing less than the best. All of the pasta and sauce is hand made daily. Staff is great also read more

I really enjoy the pasta at El Cap. The cheese or meat ravioli are very good. Drink options are adequate but I would stay away from steaks or prime rib. I ordered the Prime rib special one Thursday night. I asked for medium and it came out in a blood bath. Im not a guy who shys away from a rare steak but this was absurd. I sent it back to be cooked a little more and as you'd expect it was boot leather when it returned. If you want to eat pasta El Cap is a good place to check out. read more

Our go to place when my wife and I want a great dinner. It all started when we had our rehearsal dinner here for our wedding and make a point to go every year for our anniversary. Service is always great and the food is even more phenomenal. Whether it's a steak or one of their excellent homemade Italian dishes you can't go wrong at the El Cap! read more

Excellent food and service. I am shocked at the review stating poor food quality. This is definitely not the case here. I had the 8oz tenderloin and king crab. The tenderloin was cooked a perfect medium rare, and had great flavor. For $33 it also came with bread, a side salad, and I picked homemade gnocchi. My boyfriend had the tournedoe steak which was fab, and he picked a side salad, and fettuccine alfredo. The sauce was divine and made from scratch. They make their.pasta from scratch which is awesome. We split some ravioli as an app. We did half meat, and half cheese. The cheese was my favorite. Our bill with with two entrees, and app, and 4 drinks was $86. That was a TON of food!!!! The owner came over to our table to ask how everything was...I always think that is a nice touch. Our server was friendly and on top of it even though the place was packed bc of the holiday weekend. read more

My food was awful and it's incredibly overpriced. My order was one of the cheapest things, meat and cheese ravs with a meatball and sausage, salad, bread. Items range from $17 to $35 or so. The "deluxe salad" was fine, hard to mess up lettuce. Got my plate, looked great. Tasted the sauce. It was either ketchup or a can of condensed tomato soup. Tried one of each rav. They were very undercooked and the meat wasn't very good. Tried the meatball. It was sickening. Same gross meat in the consistency of playdough. Moved to the sausage. Also made of the bad meat but was at least in an edible form. By now I wasn't eating this at all. Told my waitress it was bad and I was done with it. She stood there in disbelief. I had to explain how I found every bit of it to be bad. Finally she took it away and bugged me the rest of the night about buying something else. Later a manager or someone stopped by and asked if I was the one who didn't like the ravs. I told him ya, they were bad. He said that was the first time he'd ever heard that and walked away. I'll never be back. read more

We have been enjoying the food at the El Capitan for at least 30 years while vacationing in the Iron Mountain area. Just ate there Sunday night and it's still wonderful. The Tornadoes of Beef Rossini is our meal of choice. Add delicious shrimp cocktail and a drink from the bar and you're living large. read more

We ate here on 7/6/2014 we had a 6:30 reservation - for 6 people - when we arriveed we had 7 people - wheich really put them out - so we could not be seated for another 1/2 hour - unfortunatly there was not a bartender so it was hart to get a coctail while we waited - when we were seated and ordered - the mussels we ordered for the apptizer were awsome - they were out of meat balls /sasage - any meat ravioli - but the chicken was good - our only choice read more

not really that great. I think the chef and staff need to take a trip to Rome and study how Italian food should be prepared.

Didn't even get seated at this place, we had a group of 10 and were turned down at the door and a woman told us they would not be able to serve us for over an hour and were running out of food so we should not even stay. I've never heard of turning people away. Very strange and won't give them another chance. read more