Business Information:
1276 E. Green Bay Street
Shawano, WI 54166
Phone: (715) 526-5680
Fax: (715) 524-5368
1276 E. Green Bay Street
Shawano, WI 54166
Phone: (715) 526-5680
Fax: (715) 524-5368
Anello's Torch Lite in Shawano is open seven days a week and offers fine Italian and American cuisine prepared by our own Chef Tom. We feature over 52 items on our menu and offer nightly specials, happy hour, catering, and a petting zoo.
There Are Two Places to Dine, Your Home & Ours--
Welcome to Ours!
Located in Shawano, Anello's Torch Lite restaurant and lounge is open seven days a week and offers fine Italian and American cuisine prepared by our own Chef Tom. We feature over 52 items on our menu including:
All our dinners include soup and salad bar! (except $5.95 dinner specials)
At Anello's we feature tasty Nightly Dinner Specials:
Click here to visit our website for our full dining and catering menus.
Stop by for our tremendous Happy Hour from 4 - 6 pm seven days a week where we serve great drink specials. We are the only restaurant in Wisconsin where the bartenders and wait staff wear sequined vests! Wednesday night is Happy Hour All Night Long (rail drinks only after 6 pm and domestic beers all night long).
Anello's Torch Lite land was bought on a homestead act from the government in 1887. It was on a road called the Military Wagon Trail, which is now highway 29-47-55-22 and Green Bay Street. The first building construction was in 1889, which was a Ford car garage. In 1897, it bacame one of the first restaurants, called The Continental. It has been reconstructed and added onto many times. During the Roaring 20s, it was a bar and restaurant, and the upstairs was a house of ill repute. It had the nickname of "Dinty Moore", after a very colorful cartoon character.
It was one of Al Capone and John Dillinger's favorite stops between Chicago and Hurley or Eagle River. Often a local lady by the name Evelyn Frechette and Dillinger would meet at Dinty Moore's (or The Continental). She was famously known in history as the "Lady In Red."
The name Continental became Club Continental, and stayed with the place until 1969 when it became the Bavarian Inn. The decor and the cuisine was then Bavarian and German American. In 1981, it became Anello's Torch Lite with Italian and American cuisine. Even now it is considered a very colorful place - one of a kind.
The wait staff and the bartenders wear sequin vests. The vests, uniforms and table decor of the place change 10 times a year in conjunction with the season and holidays. The restaurant is known for its excellent food - homemade soups, fresh baked breads, plus a 21 item salad bar, not to mention the best looking, best dressed, most sassy wait staff in Wisconsin....not to leave out the flashy dressed chef, Tom. Wow!
The staff of Anello's Torch Lite welcomes you to Shawano County, and we hope you enjoy your meal.
Rita Anello-Mondus, Owner
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For that next big event, try our catering service for any occasion. From receptions and anniversaries to business meetings and birthday parties, Anello's catering can handle your next party. See our website for the catering menu.
Before or after dinner, bring your family to visit our exotic animal zoo, right here on our grounds. Our free zoo features:
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