If we hadn’t gone looking for Toad in the Hole, we might not have noticed it — in fact, we rode our bikes right past it the first time. Inside it was as if we’d stepped onto a train car, small as it was. Six different conversations were underway, and we could hear them all, with only three booths on one wall and eight stools facing the sizzling flat grill on the other. Over the strains of Shania Twain, Amy Winehouse, Led Zeppelin and Simon & Garfunkel, our artfully tattooed waitress ran down the bread choices.

The "John McGivern's Main Streets" has been airing on PBS for four years. John McGivern, the host of the show, said the 11th episode of the fifth season will highlight good things in the city of Eagle River. McGivern is visiting many sites in Eagle River, such as the Toad in the Hole restaurant.

Here are three reasons why it's so hard to find a seat at Toad in the Hole, an Eagle River breakfast and lunch joint. One: It's tiny. There's room for a maximum of 20 diners at one time. "It's like a food truck, but with a super tiny dining room," Toad in the Hole chef Ashlee Millin told WJFW-TV 12, the NBC affiliate in Rhinelander.

Toad in the Hole is doing things Jacobs says you wouldn’t expect to find at a diner in Wisconsin’s Northwoods—though maybe you should, considering its pedigree.

In celebration of 25 Years of ERRP, join us in reflecting on the incredible businesses and people we've supported. Did you know that in 2022 Toad in the Hole received an award from Wisconsin Main Street for Best Interior Renovation over $50,000? Don't miss out on this gem – a tiny diner in our little town serving up BIG flavors!

If you would’ve told mother and daughter duo Beth and Ashlee Millen they’d be owning a business together—let alone working together, they would’ve laughed.Sure, they spend doing fun activities together.“We garden together, we have chickens, we do so many things together, we ice fish, we snowshoe," said Beth Millen.But to say they should own a business together?