We had reservations but it still took two hours before they served our entrees. It took over 20 minutes before anyone came to our table after we were seated. Looking around the restaurant, it seemed like most people had been waiting a long time also. One person from another table even came over to ours to say that they had also been waiting two hours and they just were going to give up and leave. The waiter was very apologetic but he didn't offer to take anything off the bill, and he said that it would be better in a couple of weeks. The food was okay but not worth risking that kind of negative experience again. If you do try it, the sides are very big portions--easily split between 2-3 people. read more

Very friendly wait staff and owner! Thank you Brian our waiter! The prime rib was beyond belief!

After seeing some less than flattering reviews, we were a bit wary, but we already made reservations for New Year's Eve. Service was good and prompt. Only one person in our group complained that he didn't get his water refilled enough, but he drinks water like a tuna. My steak was cooked to perfection. Only complaint was that my wife's prime rib was a little fatty. Our party of six all agreed that we would come back again. read more

Extra training is needs for servers but I still feel that a 5 star should be given this is a new places it will take time to work out everything out keep up the good work read more

This place is very good! You can tell they are new to town, and everyone is excited to help you. I think they will be a great addition to Champaign. I wish more people would write positive reviews, because our experience was great! The double baked potatoes are great, one of the best things I have had- you must order one. They are as big as your head! The prime rib is delicious, and it came out perfect to my order(medium). The spinach salad was also really delicious. It has HUGE chunks of bacon on it, and my husband loved it! The bartenders are very well trained, and make a great drink. If you're thinking about coming in, I would totally recommend it! read more

Food is mediocre. If you take the price into consideration, I would say the food is highly disappointing.

Great spot for brunch! Bottomless mimosas would add a nice touch but also attract a lot of drunk students... so I understand why it's not available! read more

Excellent service! Excellent food! Prime Rib you can cut with a fork. Ambience is an understated elegance.

I've heard HW stinks and I've heard it's great. Since my wife and I are always looking for a new favorite place to eat we tried it. Started with a bus boy wiping the table off along with the seats and then using the same rag to wipe off a "clean" bread dish on the table. Water arrived not cold with no ice. "Music" was loud enough we had a hard time talking sitting next to each other. My wife's "crispy bacon" arrived more raw then cooked and swimming in grease and the fruit still had stems on all of the blue berries. My cheeseburger tasted ok but it too was so greasy it fell apart no matter how I tried to pick it up. It sat in a puddle of grease on the plate. No good recommendation here. We will not be back. read more

It was pretty great but the price is a little high and my stake was overlooked. However, it is pretty new and try to go! Look like a old American cousin. read more

The experience at this restaurant really makes you feel so special. The bartender hand makes every drink and is intuitive to customers tastes. Great interaction and customer service. The food...delish!!! The shrimp, wonderful. The lamb, so delicate and decadent. You have to come! read more

SERVICE IS EVERYTHING! I came here during happy hour. My bar tender "Will" was a true professional. The bar was packed yet he managed to refill everyone's water, refill my pint when I was almost done, etc. The runners were great as well, even explaining their gourmet butter options for my bread! I tend to be a bit "scruffy" while on travel. I like to wear jeans and a T-shirt with a hat and my blue suede Pumas. I guess I understand why I was ignored for several minutes in "Big Grove Tavern". I also understand why their bar is empty during happy hour. When you eat out, expect to be treated well otherwise it's not worth the price. Hamilton Walker's was my best dining experience all week. The crab cake and bisque was killer btw. read more

A++ I held an event in the private dining room this evening. The service was excellent all around- best I've had in hosting these events. Food was served promptly at the same time - delicious steaks, cooked to perfection, and outstanding desserts! I definitely recommend and we will be back! read more

I came to Urbana Champaign for a college visit and I stumble across this restaurant. This place is absolutely gorgeous and has a great costumer service. If I ever come back to Urbana again I'll definitely come back to this place. Ladies, this place has us covered. read more

Hamilton Walker's - Delicious - Seafood Near Me - Champaign, Illinois

Over priced and the food is generally just ok. The servies is fine, but the atmosphere makes you realize that this restaurant thinks really highly of itself. You can get better food cheaper. The only reason to go here is if you're wanting to show off that you're eating an upscale restaurant in the middle of downtown Champaign. read more

Service was horrible. Waited two hours for food and it wasn't cooked right. The manager was rude. I was with a party of 10. No one liked the food or service. If I could rate it a zero that's what it would be. I would never eat there again. read more

Yesterday, I took my Mom (Mother's Day) to Hamilton Walkers for a late lunch. I will give you a recipe for disaster which they are cooking up on a daily basis at Hamilton Walkers. How to mess up an old fashioned Champagne cocktail? Serve it with stale watered down champagne, oh and make the customer wait a really long time to get it. In fact make the customer wait a really long time to order, get their food, get their tables bussed, in fact just ignore them. Have your wait staff walk through the restaurant all the time doing nothing, carrying nothing, talking to each other, but frankly not working. Serve a house salad that had obviously been sitting near a warming table so it was limp and had a tomato in it that was at least a week old and tons of onion. Serve prime rib that was overheated and well done because it had been sitting under a heat lamp, scalloped potatoes the same, jumbo grilled shrimp that were tough because they had the same treatment and scallops that were barely cooked and cold parsnip whatever in the middle of the plate. Have the chef come out to hover, when you finally get your food asking if it is alright, just when you are about to take a bite, after you have been waiting for an hour to eat. He had gotten the message that we were a little miffed, so I guess he thought schmoozing with us was a better idea than just standing around in the restaurant instead of running the kitchen. Here is the sad part. I just came back from Santa Barbara, California, ate in the best restaurants in town, (SAME PRICES FOLKS) and got great service and food that was excellent. How can long this pretentious place can stay in business? As long as the folks in this town put up with it and keep coming back for the same awful service, same awful food. I am never coming back after two really bad experiences. Oh, yes, they did take 50% off my bill, but even that wasn't enough. The meal was supposed to be a treat for my parents. The only reason I booked it, everyone one else was full. read more

I normally never give bad reviews, but my experience during the opening month was one star at best. I ordered a steak Medium, but it came out completely charred and burned. Inside the color was only gray, and so much carbon char covering the outside, completely inedible even for someone who still enjoys a well done steak. I brought it to the server's attention, to which they replied "oh yeah the cooks are breaking in" and laughed it off and walked away. No offer to remake the order, which happens at every single restaurant i have been to. It was shrugged off and I had never experienced that. The rest of the sides were good, drinks were delicious and authentic to the 30's time period, and i did like the sharp employee uniforms. Of course going there in the first month of a new restaurant opening you have to expect growing pains, but the lack of accountability really shook me. I hope things have been sorted out since then read more

Way to expensive. I can get the same food at a lower cost in Champaign. The service was awful.

Great services from the time I walked in! A group of my closest buddies decided to eat here and I enjoyed every minute of it. Starting at the front of the restaurant, the bartenders were great at getting our drinks at a timely fashion as we waited to be seated. The atmosphere was great. Got seated and was able to order right away! My Rack of Lamb was outstanding as well as my Baked Potatoes. The appetizer I had that night was the Crab Cakes and it was outstanding. I will definitely continue to eat there. read more

My last experience at Hamilton Walkers was extremely enjoyable. I found the staff to be very helpful and on the ball. I had a steak cooked to perfection. The asparagus was perfect. I also had an old fashioned and found it was made perfectly. I have gone back several times since for old fashioned and steak tartar. This is the best steak tartar and probably my favorite dish they have. read more

Went here for the first time for the restaurant week, tried the salmon, twin petites, house salad and triple chocolate cake for dessert. Left with happy taste buds and a borderline food coma. The interior is gorgeous, very 1940s chic. The service was kinda slow but they were extremely busy. Our server was good and knowledgeable. I actually contacted them on fb before going. They responded very quickly and Nathan the GM answered all my queries in more detail than I'd expected. They source their beef from Iowa Premium which is probably another reason why it tasted so good! Such hospitality combined with a great Champaign downtown location is enough to make me want to go back and try more off their menu soon! read more

I really wanted to love Hamilton Walker's. I had heard mixed reviews before I actually decided to go. It started off with a pretty terrible first impression upon being seated. Now, HW is supposed to be a pretty classy restaurant, so when the hostess handed us paper menus, I was a little disappointed. The dress code left quite a bit to be desired as people were there in t shirts and cargo shorts. I stuck with water since it was bottled and very refreshing (and probably actually costed way more than the soda, to be totally honest). The bread was wonderful, but the food took literally over an hour to come out. The Caesar salad may have been the best one I've ever had in my life. I got a burger, which was pretty good, but didn't really stand out compared to other burgers. My companions got the salmon and steak, which, again, were good, but not anything special. The chocolate cake we got for dessert tasted like it was bought at a local grocery store. We also got a cheesecake. The cheesecake itself was remarkable, perfect texture and flavor, but the presentation was awful. Maybe HW would have seemed a lot better if I didn't have high expectations. read more

I dined here with two friends for dinner on 2/19/2017. We ordered different main dishes and shared them, so I actually tasted three main dishes, a side soup, the pre-meal bread, and the after-meal dessert Baked Alaska. Some of the dishes are really good while some others are mediocre, given the rather high price in Chambana area. I ordered a medium-well rack of lamb. The meat were great, while the flavor could be made more impressive. My friend ordered a rib. It tasted perfect, while the amount of meat looked not enough for me if that were my only main dish. My another friend ordered a steak. Again the meat was good but the flavor was just so so. The side soup for that day was a mushroom soup, which was actually more like a mushroom mash and did not have an impressive flavor either. The pre-meal bread is OK, but the butter was so cold and thus solid that it was a little bit difficult to smear with it. The highlight of that meal was absolutely the dessert Baked Alaska. I liked it. Yelp actually has a picture of that (thanks to James). The service and atmosphere were great. I would like this place more (maybe 1 star up) if the price were reduced by 1/3 or so. read more

Went here for Valentine's Day and had the seared tilapia. Not bad! I've been here a hand full of times and for the most part, don't have many complaints. The food is pretty darn good and the service has been excellent! read more

Facility is nice enough as you would expect for a new building. Sat in the bar for a more casual experience. Server was friendly, but not terribly attentive. We each ordered a spinach salad and steak (filet medium/NY strip medium rare). Salad was good (dressing is very, very sweet). Steaks were a flop. Filet was prepared fine, but it NY strip had to be sent back twice (overdone first, underdone second). We each ate our dinners separately while they tried again and again. They did not offer anything more than an apology and charged us full price for what was a very subpar dining experience. We would not go back again. read more

We had an excellent dinner experience! From the moment we walked in, every staff member we encountered was friendly. Our wait staff was extremely friendly, competent and attentive. Our drinks were always filled, our food was served correctly and the waiter checked on us just enough to make sure our needs were being met without being too intrusive. Most importantly, the food was AMAZING! We tried several items including the goat cheese appetizer, filet mignon, shrimp, trout, mashed potatoes, asparagus and mac and cheese. Everything was hot and delicious. We were thrilled with our meal, but thankfully saved room for dessert. Dont miss the cheesecake or baked Alaska. In summary, the atmosphere is warm and inviting, the staff is well trained, the portions are huge, and the food is delicious. Hamilton Walkers rivals any steak house in Chicago. I can't wait to go back - next time I'm trying the brunch! read more

Hamilton Walker's is outstanding. We had Sunday brunch. My husband described the O'Brien potatoes and eggs as "perfection". He is very picky - I've never heard him say that about any restaurant meal. My prime rib au jus sandwich was absolutely delicious - the meat, baguette, and horseradish cream sauce were all excellent. They also had a great personal touch - the executive chef and manager both visited our table to make sure everything was just right, and the waitress was very personable and helpful. We will eat here every time we come back to Champaign in the future. read more

My boyfriend and I came here for dinner tonight! We had a great experience. His crab cakes and my scallops were perfectly seared. The atmosphere, the service, and the food were amazing! We see many meals and memories to be had here. Thank you to our server, Thaddeus for such a fun dinner service! When you go, ask for him! read more

The food was pretty good, but sadly overpriced, and it was surprising to see our fish and steaks come out on empty plates; sides had to be ordered separately and were too large and too expensive. The service was fine, the chairs and table comfortable -- but the noise was intolerable. Our party of four left with ears ringing and heads throbbing -- headaches -- from sitting in such a din and straining to hear and speak to each other. We may go back, but only if we can see that the place is empty. read more

I was very impressed with my experience at Hamilton Walker's. I arrived 10 minutes prior to my reservation time yet was immediately seated (the restaurant was approx. 90 per cent full). The wait staff were both very professional and friendly. Bread was brought out quickly (the rye was my favorite) and was followed a reasonable time later by my appetizer which was baked goat cheese in a red pepper sauce with three toasted baugette slices. The sauce had a bite to it that complimented the goat cheese very well. The Caeser Salad was next and was very good as well. They give you the option of anchovies, which was a nice touch. After a short wait, my 16oz Prime Rib w/au jus and creamy horseradish was served. The Prime Rib was cooked just right and flavorful even without the au jus. I skipped desert (too full) but saw a giant slice of chocolate cake at another table that looked delicious. All in all it was a very pleasurable experience. I would definitely recommend it for date nights or other special occasions. read more

This place missed the mark from the beginning. I'm giving a generous two stars due to the GM's response to our horrible experience. It all started when I made a reservation via their website for 7:30 and received an email confirming all was good. Perfect. About 20 minutes later, HW called me to say that there was a glitch in their system and 7:30 was not available. We switched the reservation via phone. An hour or so later, I got an email from HW with a subject line of "Oh No! No Spot For You" that essentially said "sorry, we can't fit you in. Please try again." WTF. I called back and was reassured that our reservation was fine and not to worry. When we arrived, we had to wait for 20 minutes past our already rescheduled reservation time. We were then seated and greeted briefly by our waitress who took about ten minutes to return to take our drink order. Soup and salad was all fine. However, I needed another glass of wine as our waitress avoided eye contact for about 20 minutes while taking care of what appeared to be her only other table. Not good. After the silent treatment, another waiter asked us if we were waiting for something and said he'd tell our waitress I needed another glass of wine and cleared our bread plates. What a guy. Must've been the annoyed look on our faces. Shortly after, our waitress offered to bring me another glass of wine and then asked how everything was and started to clear my silverware as if we were all done. Wait a minute, we haven't even gotten our food yet. She apologized and said she got us confused with another table. At this point, we've been at this place for over an hour with no entree. Is this real life? How do you, our waitress, not even know if we've eaten yet? I suppose maybe she was confused by the fact that we had now been there an hour and a half so we probably should have gotten our entrees. When our food finally came out, my fiancée's prime rib came out dry and way over done without the side of au jou. This was the last straw. At this point, we've been there for over two hours. Not paying high end prices for a stressful, low-end experience. The light at the end of this tunnel was the GM, Nathan Escue. He patiently listened to our complaints and comped our bill. I honesty felt bad for him because I know we were not the only bill he comped that night due to terrible service/ food. If we try this place again, it will be because of him. read more

Amazing food, great drinks, wonderful atmosphere! Very classy place. Great restaurant for date night!

Went to HM recently and had the porterhouse steak and it was excellent. Waitstaff was excellent. Great scotch collection.

We went to Hamilton Walkers the past Saturday night, it was the first time my wife had been there I have been there several times. We had a wonderful meal, atmosphere was inviting and staff professional and engaging. We are already planning a date to return. There was a medical emergency while we were there. They closed the doors between rooms to give privacy to both rooms. The servers and management went around to each table (in our room) to assure diners everything was OK. read more

Celebrated a birthday here this afternoon on an OpenTable reservation for four. The service was top notch. Our waiter was amazing, took great care of us, made suggestions, and answered all of our questions. The house manager welcomed us and thanked us for coming. The chef came out and introduced himself and asked us what brought us there. We told him we were celebrating a birthday. They provided a free 1/2 sized Baked Alaska dessert with a candle for that. Very nice. The art deco ambiance and decorations of this place are great. The music was awesome. I don't know what everyone's issue is with that. This place is clearly unique in that regard and serves as no reason to rip a restaurant to shreds on yelp over. We appreciated the uniqueness and honestly didn't even want to leave after the meal. Go to TGI Friday's if you want "normal." We ordered two prime ribs, two fillets, giant baked potato, green beans, mushrooms, and mac and cheese. The house salad that came with the entrees were delicious. The dressings were all homemade and delicious. I had the warm bacon dressing and it was great. It had a slight sweetness to it. I got a little bit of maple syrup from it. The soup was prime rib and cabbage. I did not have it but the birthday boy did and commented it might've been the best soup he has ever had. The sides are huge and meant to share with at least two. So that alone justifies the price and need to purchase ala carte. We ordered way too much food but will know better now for next time. The prime rib was absolutely mouth watering. The two fillets came out over cooked. We reluctantly sent them back. The waiter, the head chef, and the house manager came to our table and apologized profusely. The head chef promised to personally make new steaks. The new steaks were quickly brought out, were cooked perfectly, and were delicious. They took the high road and made it right. Thank you. The mushrooms tasted great and had a red wine marinated flavor. The mac and cheese was RICH and tasty. The green beans with garlic were perfectly flavored. The potato was HUGE. The quality of the beef was impeccable. The unusually high price you are paying for a steak here is the result of HW sourcing the best possible quality of beef and it's obvious when you take a bite. You get what you pay for. We ordered a second 1/2 portion of the Baked Alaska dessert to share and two cups of coffee. The coffee was delicious. The Baked Alaska when spot on and phenomenal. This place has a Natura water filtration system. They bring the water out in a labeled carafe type jug and fill your water glasses. It tastes great and is served at just the perfect temperature. I want one for my house now. We had a great overall experience here and can't wait to try the blue plate lunch specials. read more

Very good meal and fantastic waitstaff. Glad we gave this restaurant a second chance. Their opening few months was not very good but the redeemed themselves tonite. Had lobster bisque which was good, ceaser salads were just ok. Ribeye and scallops were fantastic. The staff surprised us with a baked Alaskan for dessert. Great night read more

My fave restaurant in the Chambana area by far! Always high quality food, fantastic service and just a great ambiance! It's a classy joint! Big city style right here in Champaign! read more

After eating here 6-7 times, the brunch menu is the best. The hamburger was tasteless, the ribs mediocre, the bar manager off-putting, and a vegetarian appetizer that smelled like fish. That said, I like the environs for late night cocktails! read more

We were really excited to try this place but it was definitely a disappointment. There was a hair in my salad - it happens so I kept it to myself and didn't complain. They cooked several steaks wrong, and half of the other food was over cooked/ hard. They did recook the steaks, which took a while, so half of our table had to wait to eat. Nothing was offered to remedy the situation. We were celebrating a birthday, so the waitress offered to comp a dessert for us. The bill is done electronically, so I got an emailed receipt which I looked over the next day - they had charged me for the dessert. Our drinks were good & there is a nice atmosphere but this place needs a lot of work before I would go back. read more