Family celebrating Birthday dinner at Aster. Conveniently located downtown Midland, MI…read more Made reservation for four and we were seated immediately by the host upon arrival. Clean tables, cloth napkins, nice silverware, subtle lighting, intimate atmosphere. Friendly waiter service consistently checking on our table regularly filling waters and clearing plates replacing with new clean plates and silverware between courses. The staff and kitchen did a superb job of spacing out the courses so the drinks and appetizers came out with good timing. Finished appetizers, plates cleared from first course; the entrees arrived promptly. From my observation the staff works well together to provide a very nice dining experience for their customers from start to finish. Ordered starters: small portion appetizers. Asparagus. diced asparagus with diced morel mushroom morsels. Very good. Shrimp Toast. Harder to share as an appetizer, one piece of toast with shrimp pate. I did not try, group seemed to enjoy. Entrees: Burger Filling burger when you order "make it a double", the double is actually three beef patties. Comes with waffle cut fries. Yummy cheddar cheese sauce. I liked the brioche bun because it is soft enough to hold the burger and absorb the cheese sauce without being too messy. Smoked Whitefish Hushpuppies. Basically scrambled egg lighly battered and fried. No flavor or hint of smoked Whitefish fish. "Cocktail sauce" was just ketchup I suspect. Light and fluffy, not dense like traditional hushpuppies. One order comes with five hushpuppies for 10 dollars, the "Smoked Whitefish Hushpuppies" starter is not worth two dollars per piece. Pajun (Korean savory pancake). I really liked this dish last time I dined at Aster. This time the Pajun was burnt on the top and undercooked on the bottom. Love the soy dipping sauce. I will ask for more soy dipping sauce next time. The clever combinations of ingredients -considering local sourcing and seasonal items is- admirable. Plenty of variety for any taste. Drinks ordered: Birthday "Beer and shot": Bartender selected glass of beer, and bartender selected shot glass of hard liquor. Offer "Temperance Pilsner" (non-alcoholic). The unfortunate quality of the burnt Pajun, Hushpuppies with no flavor, but the service is excellent so I will give 5 star. I will be back to Aster to enjoy the next seasonal menu items they offer.

We came in for an early dinner while we were passing through town. What a gem for Midland! We had…read moregreat service and had the pleasure of learning a little bit about the restaurant and the team! The owner and chef is in the kitchen every day and they are a mighty team of about 6 operating every level of service! Food was great, drinks were unique and very good! If we are ever back in the area, we would absolutely visit again!

The meat dinners are good portion sizes and worth the money…read more 4/5 Meats: smoked sausage & pulled chicken were our favorite. I also had the ribs and they were tender and juicy but not much flavor without adding sauce. 3/5 Sides: due to not having a ton of flavor, the slaw and Yams were the best, the Greens weren't anything special, needed more seasoning and the mac was bland. Not super impressed with the cornbread either, very cakey. 5/5 Sauces: personally, loved them all. 10/10 service: Veronica was our server and she was fantastic. Restaurant was out of wings, but she was extremely communicative and friendly, offered other suggestions, so kind and knowledgeable about sauces and the whole menu. She was great! The location itself needs a bit of love, no sign outside - just a white board. It looks like they're still remodeling - but it was clean (bonus!), good music was playing, and the decor on the walls was a nice touch. Service really saved this review from being 3/5 and took this up to a 5 star review.

I got take out. Ultimate BBQ sandwich, Loaded BBQ fries with pulled pork, 1/2 lb of rib tips,…read moresmoked meat salad. when you open the takeout boxes the smoke was strong and delicious. BBQ was on point, my wife said it was a bit dry, but that was without sauce. Any place that has rib tips is worth a look and Big O's did not disappoint. I can't believe Midland, MI (my home town) has good BBQ that is worth the trip home.

Don't let the "bar" status fool you from stopping here. We normally come here for breakfast but…read morecome hungry! The portions are huge (hubs and I usually split something and it's plenty) and the service had always been very friendly. Yes it's a bar but in the morning, although busy, it's a nice atmosphere. Stop by for a great food experience, friendly service and a Midland landmark (in my opinion!).

Use to have great burgers but now it's no better than a fast food joint. Cold cheese on a lukewarm…read morepatty. Bun is a dried out disk. Going to 702 from now oni​

Had a great experience there. Went Saturday night for the first time, it was pretty busy. Staff was…read moreamazing, I have owned restaurants for 34 years and was impressed how well they all worked together. I had the salmon salad and my wife had the chicken avocado melt, both were excellent.

Just what we were looking for…read more.. Very good burgers & my wife said the onion rings were great. I had fries and they were very good too. We sat at the bar and had great service. Food was delivered very quickly after ordering (not just for us, but we noticed the guys next to us too). Very clean and nicely lit place. We will happily come back!

New to Midland. We enjoy trying out new restaurants/bars in the surrounding area. This place was…read morerecommended to us by a friend so we thought we'd give it a try. Staff is not friendly, food is average and overpriced. Tried to pay the bill and apparently they only accept cash so the waitress just pointed to the ATM machine. Thanks, there are plenty of other options, we will spend our money other places. I never leave reviews but I am so tired of paying for food/service that is subpar and just accepting it.

Do you ever wonder how there's some people you meet in life that you've never spoken to before and…read morethe first time they say something to you it's out of pure hatred despite never interacting with you before? That's the overall feeling of this place. There's only so many places I've been to where I've felt threatened by stares and could tell that nobody wanted me there just for existing. The owner who I can only assume I haven't seen sober yet has been very rude and off putting each time I went to that bar, at this point since you clearly hate your career why not sell the place and take that money to some other investment? Maybe if you have a kink for feeling uncomfortable and unwanted I'd see the appeal of this place and honestly if it was just this owners attitude I wouldn't even make this review. But it's not, the beers for some reason are $6 if not more for a bottle and there's only few select cities I've been to where I've paid that or more, so people clearly don't come here for cheap beer. I don't mean to disrespect the cook here either but considering how expensive that food is and having half of the menu be Mexican food is beyond me when it's not good either. At this point I truly feel sorry for the workers that have to stick it out at this place. So lastly we come to the fact that the bar only takes cash. I don't know any bar in the entire United States that only accepts cash, I have a feeling if you told the IRS to stop by the 702 would be no more. Last time I was there I decided not to drink alcohol and the owner looked visibly pissed, I got 2 pitchers of Diet Coke, soda, and I was charged $30 in cash for it. So clearly that's not normal and the owner hates me even though I haven't done a damn thing to anyone there. Truly this place fucking sucks and I wouldn't know why anyone on god's green earth would ever want to stop by

Went on a Friday night when they had $7 wraps, very good deal. The place was decently packed. Our…read moreservice was good, our waitress was quick with drinks and orders. I got the bacon chicken ranch wrap and it was really tasty and filling and the fries were crisp and tasty. My friend got the buffalo chicken wrap and like it a lot. After we ate, we ended up playing darts for a while, but they have many games and TVs including a golf sim, air hockey, pool table, darts. All around a great place to eat and hang out. Will definitely come back to eat and hang out

Em was amazing and answered all my questions (I'm a pain lol)…read more The ranch is homemade. If you like dill this ranch is for you. I got chicken bacon ranch and they forgot the tomato but other than that it was ok. Just didn't care for the ranch because of all the dill. Fries are really yummy! Also got the pretzels and beer cheese but forgot to take picture. Beer cheese was yummy. The pickle fries were also good and would definitely get them again. Burger looked really good!! Bar is super big. Has a pool and like game side and then like the normal bar side. Would definitely come here again.

One of my favorite fast food chains. Attention to detail- great burgers, cheese curds, ice cream,…read more fish sandwiches, shrimp and so on. Actually I have never been disappointed at any location. The Midland location is always good!

So disappointed, culvers no longer has mac and cheese. Little ones love mac and cheese, we had to…read moreleave and go somewhere else with our granddaughter.

Went here a half hour ago, very friendly! Got the big Buford with no cheese combo. When I pulled…read morethe fries out, I was surprised how seasoned they were! The burger was great! And the fries are awesome! Very good food, and nice and fast! Will come back when I'm around!

Service was awful. Pulled into the pickup lane, as my coworker was finishing putting his card into…read morepay, the lady screams into the speaker "pull up, this is a delivery lane only". I said " okay, he was finishing up placing his order" and so I pull up to the window. Then the lady says "since there's no orders in yet, you need to pull around into a parking spot and wait" yet no one was behind us and she told us she has zero pickup orders at the moment. So she got mad all because we were apparently running the timer for the drive thru window? Like we can't just wait here for 10 seconds while the order sends? When we're going to just do a lap for no reason to end up in the same place waiting a couple minutes for the order to be made. I just hope that wasn't a manager for the restaurants sake. Awful customer service.