The decor in the east dining room is beer steins and cuckoo clocks. The food is much the same, year after year. The newer west room is a subdued biergarten and smoking section, with a more private room for parties towards the back. Mongolian Barbeque - or Genghis Khan meets the Old Country Buffet. You, the customer, assemble the ingredients of your meal.
Dinner is easy during the week, but reservations only on weekends.
Prices are steep by Ann Arbor standards, but very reasonable for dining. Robby's started out as one of those 1980's tres dark restaurants where spotlights illuminated your plate but all else was blackness. Now ambient light reveals colorful new banners swaged across the ceiling. The effect makes the main dining room seem more welcoming, not so highbrow as it used to be. The clientele is broader than before-there are more blue jeans and more dolled up young folks out on expensive dates.