Plan Your Lunch at Top of the Hill

The student-run Top of the Hill restaurant offers a range of cuisine styles from around the world. As part of their learning curriculum, students of the Culinary program offer unique and delicious food for students, staff, and community members during the Spring Term of each year. Experience new and creative tastes as student chefs create themed menus for delicious lunch buffets.

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Student chef in a kitchen mixing cherries in a bowl, smiling, wearing a white uniform and hat.

Top of Hill Spring 2026 Schedule

Top of the Hill is open Tuesdays and Thursdays for reservations between 11:00 am to 12:15 pm. Reservations are required, so please call 715-365-4466 to secure your reservation. Visa, MasterCard, or Discover Accepted

January 

Thursday 1/22 Grab and Go Deli Open 10:30 am-12:30 pm 

Tuesday 1/27 Closed – High School Open House Event 

Thursday 1/29 Closed – High School Open House Event 

February 

Tuesday 2/3 The Great New Zealand Buffet by Student Chef Seda Raspotnik 

Thursday 2/5 Hawaiian Islands Fusion Buffet by Student Chef Katelyn Shrock 

Tuesday 2/10 Chinese Cuisine Buffet by Student Chef Sara Sommers 

Thursday 2/12 Closed - American Culinary Federation Student Club Trip 

Tuesday 2/17 Japanese Izakaya Buffet by Student Chef Jayson Dowdle 

Thursday 2/19 Grab and Go Deli Open 10:30 am-12:30 pm 

Tuesday 2/24 Benvenuti in Italia! Buffet by Student Chef RJ Behrens 

Thursday 2/26 A Trip to England Buffet by Student Chef Jessi Karlen 

Making Reservations

 We will start taking reservations at 9:00 am on Tuesday, January 20th. 

Reservations for the Top of the Hill Buffet can be made by calling 715-365-4466 between 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Students will take reservations at this number to enhance their learning opportunities. They will answer the phone as often as possible during this class and apologize if they are unable to answer your call. We expect to fill up very quickly this year due to the limited number of service dates, and apologize in advance if we are unable to accommodate your reservation request. 

Since we will fill up quickly and would like as many of our community members as possible to enjoy the cuisine from the Top of the Hill, we kindly ask that each person limit their reservations to one visit. If there are still openings available as of January 27th, we welcome you to make additional reservations or request to be placed on our waiting list. 

Lunch Buffets will feature themed cuisine during the first seven weeks of service. The “Themed Cuisine Buffets” will offer International and National Cuisines that the students plan and prepare, using fresh ingredients and various foods to fit the cuisine. These are very popular with Top of the Hill customers, so be sure to make your reservations immediately! Buffets are $15.00 + tax per person. Please find the service schedule for our Lunch Buffets on the next page. 

Thursday, January 22 and Thursday, February 19 services will be from our Grab and Go Deli. Reservations are not required for this service date, but customers will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis. Service will not be offered on Tuesday, January 27, or Thursday, January 29, to accommodate a High School Open House Event. 

Reservations for Lunch Buffets are required and will be taken for times between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm in 15-minute increments. We kindly request that you arrive on time for your reservation to prevent a bottleneck in the dining room. 

If classes at Nicolet College are canceled due to inclement weather, all Top of the Hill services for that day will also be canceled, and there will be no make-up service date. 

We will begin taking reservations in early March for our À la Carte Services once the schedule is published. À la Carte Services will begin in mid-March. Please watch for À la Carte Service updates as more details become available. 

Thank you for supporting our students! Without customers like you, it would be hard for the students to learn within our hands-on laboratory classes at “The Top of the Hill.”