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    Great Lakes Grill

    4.0 (62 reviews)
    ModerateBars, American
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    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Dining room half empty
    Richard T.

    TLDR: Worst meal in memory. Food borne illness followed. Up until today, if you had asked me what the worst restaurant meal that I have ever had, I would have described a horrible meal that I was served at an Italian "Garden" restaurant chain in New Mexico. But that has changed today at the Great Lakes Grill in Cheboygan, Michigan. Traveling to Mackinac for a short family outing, we decided to find a place for dinner off the tourist circuit. We selected to eat at the Great Lakes Grill after reading reviews on Google. As of today, many recent reviews were 4 and 5 stars. We are completely baffled at how anybody could have rated this establishment anything better than a 1 or 2. So after walking in, we waited almost 10 minutes to be greeted by a hostess. She said there is a wait for tables and asked if we wouldn't mind waiting in our car. Okay, we can do that. It was strange because half the restaurant was empty. Ten more minutes passed as we waited in our car and two giant tour busses pulled in. That was not a good sign. But after another 10 minutes, nobody got off the buses. Now having arrived 30 minutes earlier, we went back into the restaurant to see how much longer it would take to get a table. No idea, we were told. As we waited, at least 12 other prospective diners came in and left. After another 10 minutes, we were guided to a table with no lighting. We sat there in the shadows for 15 minutes with no wait staff to take our drink orders. We finally flagged down a waitress who told us that she would find out who our server was. Mind you, there were five or six wait staff running back and forth in the dining room serving maybe 7-8 tables. The same waitress decided after all that she was going to serve us and took our orders. The only positive part was that she hustled and brought the inedible food while it was hot. The menu contained real basic stuff, nothing inspiring. We shared an appetizer of "crab stuffed" mushrooms. They were served in an piping hot Escargot dish. Each of the six mushrooms were stuffed high with some kind of bread stuffing and melted cheese. Crab was nowhere to be found. The main courses were: 1)House Special Parmesan encrusted White Fish. It was inedible. The consistency was like pulverized fish meal. It came with mashers and a side salad. The salad had obviously been prepared earlier and refrigerated because the lettuce was wilted. There was about 1 tablespoon of salad dressing on the side. The potatoes were mashed with skins and had no seasoning. 2) Plain Cheeseburger, medium burned. It was so dried out that it was also inedible. Fries were hot but the insides had a mashed potato consistency 3) Liver and onions. The liver was also overcooked and hard to swallow. It had not been properly prepared and had tons of rubbery gristle. It was unseasoned. There was a pile of greasy onions that took up most of the plate. Two strips of cold undercooked bacon were placed on top of the liver for decoration. None of us came close to finishing our food. They asked if we wanted a to-go box. But it was all so horrible, we wouldn't even feed it to our dog. We paid the $70 plus tip (Please Pay In Cash, they insisted) and left. As we left, the restaurant's hostess had run out of the door in front of us. She stood on the edge of US23 highway to flag down a wayward bus to join the others that had pulled in earlier. Quite frankly, she should have waved them off! Within 30 minutes of leaving, two of us were ill. It was probably the crab stuffed mushroom concoction that we had shared. If the kitchen hygiene is as bad as the cooking, it might explain how we became ill. I hate to berate a family operation, but this place needs a new kitchen staff and probably needs a visit from the county's public health team. Worst restaurant meal in my memory.

    Chicken Nachos
    Paul T.

    Best nacho's ever! Service was very attentive and the price was reasonable. Check it out when you are in Cheboygan!

    Family dinner time with our funny guy
    Dan D.

    A nice small favorite restaurant that has a local flare and customers that frequent this fine restaurant. A wide assortment of options from fish, fried shrimp and fish, steak and hamburgers. The fried chicken was cooked just right, the burger was tasty and the chicken alfredo didn't disappoint. I had the cod, very good and hit the spot. The service was amazing, we felt special and we enjoyed our time and can't wait to go back

    French onion soup
    Leiby D.

    This place has a friendly staff and food is good sometimes and not so good others. We have been here a couple of times on our trips up to Cheboygan. We have only ever been in during off season, so I assume the inconsistencies were due to that. French onion soup great one time, then not the next. Ribs good first time then old and greasy the next. We came on fish fry night and waited forever for dinner and then it came and the fish and chips was undercooked and really oily like they had fried it in oil that wasnt hot enough. I really want this place to be the amazing up north spot it could be, so I am going to keep on trying it!!!

    We loved the food here! The service was amazing, and the place is so so cute! We will definitely be coming back :)

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    Great spot. Get the special of the day. But definitely try the onion rings! They are incredible!!! Nice staff and good service as well.

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    Fish was delicious. Service was great and the restaurant was clean and nicely furnished.

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    The Parmesan Encrusted White Fish is sooo good. Carrie is the best server that ever existed. That is all.

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    Sorry they took their open-faced roast beef sandwich off the menu. It was my favorite.

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    Always good food and lovely people running the place! Try the Parmesan crusted whitefish with sautéed vegetable medley! Excellent!

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    The servers are friendly, food is good, the mushrooms and onion rings are hand dipped. I really enjoy the chicken chimichanga.

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