Super busy. Waitresses running around screaming that it's too busy and not enough help and other things that customers don't need to hear. We were embarrassed for them. 20 minute wait to begin with. We had the nicest waitress of the bunch. Ordered 3 salad bar (just salads and soup), 1 fish sandwich, 1 kid's chicken tender meal. Had to ask for the cole slaw that was supposed to come with the kid's meal. I had to go up to the bar to get silverware for our table. Overall, not a great atmosphere and quite pricey. Our Bill was $70. Food was sub par. Fries were like Ore Ida crinkle fries. My fish was a rectangle of fish. We won't be back. read more

This is my first review on Yelp and it's only because people need to know how terrible this place is and AVOID it. Incredibly rude staff who rush you, or just straight up leave when you're taking a moment to decide between two options. I asked the bartender which beer she suggests out of two and she just tells me she doesn't drink beer and can't help. The hostess skipped over our group to seat two others and when I complain she just seats us at the bar. Food is mediocre at best. Seriously not worth the bullsh*t you have to put up with here. read more

Don't go here it is nothing more than Gorden Food Service Food warmed up. The prices are rediculouis. Total tourist trap.

Haven't stopped in here for a few years. Now I remember why. Filthy. Floors are a mess. Bathrooms are a mess. Food is so-so. Servers are inattentive. I watched the hostess ask a gentleman sitting at the bar how everything was while walking away before she heard his reply. read more

Very, very BLAND. It was like they used chemicals to remove any taste from all their food. My date and I both said the same thing. I guess it's just a tourist-y type place and they're more focused on getting tourists in with their name and cartoon characters on the walls than the quality of food. read more

This place was so bad I didn't even get to sit down before getting upset and wanting to leave. As you walk in, there is a sign that reads "please wait to be seated" so I wait. The host looks at me and then continues to ignore me, I'm standing there and rereading the sign and I made sure it said "please wait to be seated" I look at him, he looks at me dumbfounded and lowers his eye brows and asks "can I help you?" I say yes, "may I have a place to sit and have something to eat?" He still looking dumbfounded at this point and takes me to a dirty booth. He sees that it's dirty and takes me to another dirty booth and another. Someone comes to clean it and I ask if they have been busy. He ignores me and I proceed to ask him if he speaks English( I was trying to be helpful by asking not condescending) he tells me he speaks very good English and is very rude at this point. I'm just trying to understand why he was rude from the get go and ignoring me, I'm just here to eat. So I ask for a manager... To my dismay...NO manager on duty... Wow what a shock read more

Our hotel recommended this along with 5 other places and so we tried it for lunch. The lunch was pretty good but the staff while friendly seemed very disorganized and overwhelmed leaving guest including ourselves frazzled. Everyone has a bad day so we didn't think much of it and decide to go back for breakfast chalking it up to a one-off scenario. We could not be more wrong. From the moment we walked in it was pure chaos. As we were waiting in line we were constantly in the way of the bathroom, the buffet line (across from each other) and from guest trying to escape through a tiny hallway. The waitresses were loudly communicating that they are trying to keep up but don't have time to clear tables to seat us. As the grows we all inch up and now the manager or owner tells us we are in the way and need to back out. We all back out but now back in the way of the restrooms and buffet. The buffet looks sparse to say the least with guest putting stuff on their plate and putting it back as you can clearly tell they don't want to consume it. Then you hear the waitress again stating they are trying to get to the tables and that they are only offering the buffet at this time. The line is now irritated and as a few guest walk pass all of that are still waiting even though there are tables politely suggest we go somewhere else. After another 10 minutes of waiting and all that we witnessed that is what we opted to do. The only reason I have a 2 star vs. a 1 star was because the food was pretty good at lunch the first day. read more

Had the buffet because the menu was hard to read. Very poor quality of food. They had fried perch that was not perch and several other canned items. Nasty! read more

Save your money and go to Hardee's. The food will be better and the wait will be shorter.

This place is a drive! Heard people talk about it while taking one of the cruises in town and also found a 10% discount at the visitors center, but it was not worth saving the money! I had a plain chicken sandwich and fries with salad bar, and it was like anything you could get from a small diner. Would have much rather paid for a nice Italian meal for $16 than that meal! Everyone around here recommends getting fish from a local restaurant -- my father had the white fish here and said it was NOT worth the money either. He had the fish dinner and we each had a drink (tea and coffee) and the total was $37 with the discount! Way too much for such a low quality meal! If you enjoy eating out for good food and try to make the meal worth while, do not go here!! read more

Overpriced for quality of food whitefish dinner deep fried, terrible tarter sauce, mediocre fries, salad bar limited. Not much home made.

Hungry after hiking, we were looking forward to relaxing and filling our stomachs. We should have used our head instead of our stomachs to guide us. First it was dark and dirty but we were seated quickly and got our food promptly. That ended the good part of our visit. My husband pulled off an awful looking tomato from his burger, refusing to eat it which is saying a lot as he loves tomatoes. My son had chicken tenders which he had to dump a bunch of ketchup on in order to eat them. My burger was also boring, needing ketchup to get it down. The waitress returned once with a very quick how are things only to quickly turn around and disappear- no refills, no help. The table next to us also grumbled about the food and lack of service. The bathroom was also dirty, looked as if it hadn't been cleaned in days. Bottom line is the negative reviews are true. Please, find another place to eat. Overpriced, bland food, surprised we didn't get sick. read more

Never again. Drive an hour out of our way to eat lunch here because we heard they had good food. The lunch "special" my husband had was a frozen preformed burger, rusty lettuce from the salad bar and slimy, cold clam chowder with undercooked potatoes. I ordered the gyro, which had 3 small slices of gyro "meat" with a few skinny onion slices and overripe tomatoes and a weird cucumber sauce/paste and a side of undercooked frozen Oreida French fries. Met a family as we were leaving and they asked how the food was. My husband told them to just walk away or they would be disappointed. Unless the back of the house management improves, we will never be back. read more

This is a get what you pay for kinda place. The food is average at best, but also super cheap, so what do ya expect. Get the salad bar, don't get the pulled pork sandwich read more

HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE FOOD!! If I could give it a "0" I would. We had the seafood buffet, everything was overcooked and tasteless. Worst seafood that I've ever had. I wouldn't feed this stuff to a dog. DON'T GO TO THIS PLACE. read more

Gross! Wow just ordered a hamburger and I asked for mayo. They brought me what I thought was mayo but instead it was miracle whip....which I cannot stand! I put it on my burger and discovered their mistake when I took a bite! Ewwwwww! Omg! I asked the waitress to explain this screw up and she said nothing is labeled in the back so they never know.....what? Really? What if people are allergic to something? Be safe ! Stay away from this place! read more

Where do I begin? We visited here after the Pictured Rocks tour and just before the Garden Bay winery tasting. Upon entering, nobody greeted us and there was no sign directing us. After looking around for about 30 seconds, a waitress said "Just have a seat, Hun." I'm not sure which of us was Hun (Hon?) but we found a table quickly since the restaurant was only 1/2 full, on a Saturday, at lunch, during the height of tourist season. Clue #1. A sweet older ditzy waitress eventually greeted us and took our drink order, returning later with two cans of beer, one clean glass, and one dirty glass. For some reason all the beer is in cans. Yuck! After waiting forever to place our food order, I pointed out the dirty glass and asked for a new one. Ditzy said, "you don't want somebody's lipstick on your glass?" It was actually smudged like if had just been passed through a sink of dirty water with dirty hands. Both glasses came wet, by the way. And she had merely washed the same glass and brought it back wet. I ordered the BLT with accompanying salad bar ($5 upcharge.) After chatting with my sister for about ten minutes, Ditzy chastised me for not yet going up to the salad bar, saying that "men always need women to do everything for them." ... ... ... I got my salad of greens from a bag, with good tomatoes and cukes, and cheese from a bag. I also got some side salads. The cole slaw SMELLED AND TASTED RANCID. It was so bad that I had to immediately spit it into my napkin. Ditzy returned to take our salad dishes, saying she'd bring me a new napkin. Shortly thereafter our food arrived. I still didn't have a napkin. I reminded ditzy to get me one. She was annoyed and said she'd get right on it. After 10 minutes and another reminder, I observed Ditzy clearing off another table, setting it up, and talking to the two new customers about the specials before they even sat down. I got my own napkin from another table. When I turned around from that table I almost bumped into another waitress who was delivering food. She was practically running. After sitting down, Ditzy finally brought me my napkin. The BLT that I ordered was decent. My sister's hamburger was adequate. However, both of us had ordered French fries which appeared to be uncooked. They were in fact cooked but not browned - almost like freezer French fries that you cook in the microwave... Disgusting! Don't. Go. Here! read more

I am sure this place only stays open for the tourists who don't know better. The menu seems pricey, the service was awful, and the wait was long and they weren't very busy at all. We stopped in for breakfast before heading home half the dinning area was closed. We seemed to wait for everything; menus, drinks, food, the bill. at one point I asked the waitress if our meal would be much longer and she rudely told us that once she gives it to the cook she has no idea how long it will take. One of my daughters ordered the ham and eggs and the ham slice was still partially frozen. I had to get up and walk to the kitchen to find someone to complain to. The took her piece of ham and put it back on the grill and brought it out several minutes later. So we had to wait while she finished her breakfast. I had to go to the bar to get a refill on my drink. We visit Munising annually and all I can say is we will never visit Dogpatch again. read more

The food wasn't worth the price. The only thing that was good was the soup. The tarter sauce tasted old.

Cute setting but not worth it. Was looking forward to salad bar but disappointed. Soup was only good part of it. Husband enjoyed his gyro though. Daughter ate some offher lunch and was hungry half hour later. Wait staff was ok but busy. Munising is in need of some better restaurants. read more

We loved this place - fish buffet with shrimp -my kids ate a couple lbs of the peel and eat shrimp and my hubby ate a couple lbs of the 4 kinds of fish... Service was slow and they make you pay your bill at the gift store (not fun with 4 little kids with you) but good food! read more

The atmosphere was unpleasant it looked and felt dirty. The menu way over priced and the food was borderline mediocre. Don't waste your time and money. read more

A lot of advertisements around town so we stopped in for dinner. The decor is fun but the food was average. We had burgers and fries. Small portions compared to other restaurants but okay. Our server may have been having an average day as she wasn't all that friendly. read more

My husband and I both had a burger salad bar and soup special. The soup was loaded baked potato and was great, the salad was just that, a salad. The burger tasted great and wasn't over cooked and definitely wasn't a frozen patty. Service was quick and friendly. My husband is a camel when it comes to drinks and his glass never emptied. As a first time visitor the prices were decent and the food was great. read more

The food here was embarrassingly bad. We got the seafood/salad bar once we heard there was perch included. Unfortunately, the perch was overcooked and tasteless, as was the whitefish. There was also a seafood pasta that was so thick it was basically inedible. The hush puppies were cold and the green beans were gray and from a can. The "salad bar" was pitiful--chunks of wilting iceberg lettuce, some bacon bits, some brown-edged broccoli, among very few other choices. About the only thing I enjoyed was the nice IPA I had from Stevens Point brewery. Reading the stupid cartoon-covered menu, I felt sorry for people who speak English as a second language trying to decipher it. And the Li'l Abner cutouts are just annoying, full of backwoods stereotypes from 75 years ago. I wonder if the restaurant even has permission to use these images and the Dogpatch name from the original comic strip. Two stars only because the service was friendly. I felt sorry for the long line of customers waiting as we left. One of them actually asked me if it was worth the wait. Nope! read more

All in all the food was pretty good. This is just an odd place from the decor to the menu. The salad bar was fresh although not unique. The food came very quickly and the fried chicken dinner was one of the best I ever had. Get over it and try it! read more

Had an impromptu lunch here when traveling through town. The decor is a little odd. The food was ok and the service/speed was mediocre at best. read more

We were rained out of our campsite and dogpatch was the perfect escape. The service was great and the food was delicious! The waitress even offered us a free bacon cheeseburger! read more

Should be called Dog Turd. Wish I had checked Yelp before going there. Went in the "front door" off the front of the building on the street side, met by 2 doors - no signs, very confusing. We went in the door that had diners at tables and stood there feeling like idiots for a minute and left. We literally could not find a decent sit down restaurant in this town and local shop owners couldn't even recommend one! Went back to the Dog Turd when we noticed all of the cars in the back of the building and a customer entrance sign and figured if Holiday Inn recommended it then it must be good. Went in the back door and had to walk down a 50 ft long narrow ramp that we dubbed "The tunnel of terror". Customers leaving had to wait for us to clear the ramp and a guy coming out of the men's room had to stand in the doorway (located conveniently on the "tunnel of terror") for everyone to go by before he could get out of the bathroom. The décor is outdated and just makes you feel gross, loud 50's music playing. My iced tea came with a slice of brown lemon on the rim of the glass. Could not figure out what most of the menu items were due to the hillbilly slang descriptions. I said that I was trying to decide between pizza and a sandwich and the waitress said very emphatically - "order the sandwich". The rest room is an absolute joke, you're facing the person in the other stall and the stalls are so small you are practically touching feet, AWKWARD! The food was okay at best but everything about this place made me never want to return!! If it weren't for tourists duped into going there I'm sure they would be out of business. read more

Food was not very good. I had the great smoky, my husband had a corned beef sandwich. Beer was cold do that was good. Would not go back.

On our vacation ,we stopped over night in Munising. Found our way to the Dogpatch for a drink and lunch. Got great service and the girl behind the bar was very nice, so we came back for dinner that evening!! The girl who waited on us in the evening was MOLLY!! she took good care of us. She went out of her way to be nice!! It was a fun night thanks to her. We had a nice chat about after dinner drinks!!...It was fun!!!...Thanks again Molly!!...Great job DOGPATCH!! read more

Exhausted and hungry, we went in thinking that it would be an easy, simple dinner. We do. It recommend it, however. Whitefish was good, but also pricey. Salad bar was truly awful. Menu confusing to read -too much play on the hillbilly theme. Chicken sandwich got bad reviews from teenager who eats just about anything and everything. Liked the casual feel to the place, and our server was very friendly. read more

I agree with these posters.. This place is jus tcoasting on it's name now, teh locals never eat here, except for bowling banquets or emergencies. They are not living up to what the place USED to be, so now it is only used by tourists. I hav eaten there many times in the past, but now my friends in Munising tell me that they have moved onward to better places. We go to The Navigator, which is a bar/restaurant on the main drag,, nautical decor, a block from the Marina. Delicious deep fried pickles, soups, sandwiches, mixed drinks, service is fast, freindly, the place is immaculate. Great sandwiches, never gotten a bad meal there,, been there five times all different times and days. Another place is Foggys, right on M28 in Christmas, five minutes west of town.. The Buckhorn, another great place, is about a twenty minute drive south of Munising, on lake, has motel rooms too,, best fish fry ever on Friday nights, fair salad bar, great steaks and a big bar ,, where the locals go... I guarantee a grea tmeal here, fast and freindly service, family freindly, but great meeting place at the bar area too! Check it out online. read more

Ate here 1 time while on vacation.....WOW... i expected a LOT more. Fish was flavor free and heavy on the batter. Companion got the "Gulf shrimp dinner" at about 17 or 18 dollars. Fine price and all but when it came to the table i had a nice laugh. The shrimp are the same thing I buy from Gordon food service store.....50 dollars later and we both where sad at a less than stellar dining experience. When in the area got to Manistique and hit up 3 seasons cafe. Cheaper price and better food as far as i can tell. read more

My family went here on a 4th of July camping trip this year. The service was fine; the staff wasn't outrightly rude to us, but they certainly weren't helpful. As for the food, one got a reuben (fine), one got chicken (very average), one got a hot beef sandwich (which she liked), two of us got the $20 fish dinner buffet, and one of us got food poisoning (me). The only part of the night as bad as the resulting camping/food poisoning experience was having to tell people I got food poisoning from the seafood buffet of a Lil' Abner-themed restaurant. read more

I would have more to say about this restaurant if we'd actually eaten there, but after perusing the SUPER expensive menu (for crap food), and taking a look at the depressing excuse for a salad bar, we walked out. To add the salad bar to your meal was $5.99. Yes, SIX dollars for a salad bar that had little more than white iceberg lettuce and a few disgusting looking toppings.I DON'T THINK VEGETABLES EXIST IN THE UP. I came home after spending two days in the UP wanting nothing more than fresh fruit and vegetables because I hadn't seen such a think in two full days. Stay away from Dogpatch...between the ridiculously dated "Lil Abner" decor and hillbilly writing, and overpriced bad food, you'd be a fool to stay and spend a dime there. read more

Staff wasn't friendly :( Food was average Nothing special But great company made the meal

Stopped there 10-11-13. Probably won't go there again. The place was not too full, but the service was slow and agonizing. The waitress came to our table with a sour look, but at a nearby table with a bunch of guys eating, she was pretty smiley. Probably figured she would get a better tip with the guys. Food was not too bad. Portions were good sized and the price wasn't terrible. The service is what makes the place not so much fun. It's too bad that this town doesn't have a good place to eat. We ended up doing most of our meals at Hardees. read more

DO NOT GO HERE. Upon first glance, we were confused. The theme was confused and the staff was disorganized and uninterested. The menu was annoying and confusing. There were little cartoons all over it and the language was hard to understand. By the time we got our food, we were already annoyed. The food was not worth the price, we paid over $80 for a few sandwiches. You are better off going to the grocery store and making your own food. The only good thing about the restaurant was that they had coke products. Munising is a great town, but Dog Patch is definitely not one of it's shining stars. read more

Great place! Fast friendly service. We ate breakfast there and will go back to try dinner.