Great food. Great service! Great recipes! Great ambiance!…read more Last week was our first time dining at Village Baker. The food was DELICIOUS! We started with the Shrimp and Scallop Croquettes. Loved them! I ordered a cup of the Feijoada soup. It was very flavorful. However, it was too spicy for me. My entrée was the Turkey & Bacon Bruschetta. It was delicious. It appeared that everything is homemade at this lovely restaurant! (The bread, muffins, pizzas, soups, and desserts! Ya gotta love that!) If you're ever in Spring Lake, MI, stop in for a meal! You won't be disappointed!

After a great day boating we were driving home and hungry. Our friends suggested Village Baker…read more We've never been here so we were happy to try a new place. We arrived mid-late afternoon and the restaurant was not busy but by the time our food arrived, Village Baker was pretty busy. The menu is huge but the blackened grouper sandwich was what my wife and I both chose. I was surprised how good it was because every February almost my entire diet is fresh grouper or mahi mahi. The dish here was definitely a worthy contender. Our friends ordered a Rueben and the Baker's Wife Pizza. Everything look so good. Since there were many items I'd like to try, we definitely need to come back. Service-Excellent. On our way our, we stopped at the attached bakery. Lots of really great looking baked items including scones, lemon bars, macaroons, tarts, cinnamon rolls, etc. So glad we discovered Village Baker.

Delicious but be there at a lucky time, or your faves might have to wait til they're able to…read moreaccommodate baking a fresh batch; especially my absolute favourite cannolis (originally from the mid-Atlantic seaboard...they are Italian-standard in all aspects, not a bank-breaker at all (they're 2.50 a pop and that's at minimum a non-meaty, yet fatty, whipped to perfection in pastry glory, freakin' 550-700 calories (as a short little guy weighing 155 lb that can be a half days' meal or more if busy/ end of month lol- so gimme a break phony Italians- go to MickeeDees and spend two fifty on some mystery meat if that be your preference or TorontoTims eight day faux American Apple Fritz 'al dente con brio' (break ya teeth off so strong it's a rock) if ya have dental insurance in America ha - go to the corner store, like you'd see in old Baltimore or The Main Line of Philly (a little chit chat - stir up some questions of what the server likes - they're busy as heck, remember, so the bustle and normal well oiled ha business "unaesthetic ambience" is actually very well kept for staff issues (this is the display case part of the store we're reviewing after all) and reminds me of places on the Jersey Shore on the off-season- locals' tell ya by foot where to go for starting a nice day! And the neighborhood is urban commercial/industrial 2 if I'm right, ya know, not yuppie stuff - so very organic small maritime city with many layers of history: Franco-Ottowah, Mid-Atlantic swarthy Irish/Mediterranean/Balkan, Great Migration Success Story, and your unique Netherlandy people too. All hungry and at the mercy of the big orders of the day! That's a good small business for you. Four stars to make it clear you can park in the gravel "employee" lot if you're poor at streetwise parking. Easy fix and it's a 5-er! Evan Kearney (ÓCaernaigh)

The service at the Grand Haven store is appalling. I recently ordered what I believed was a regular…read morecake with buttercream frosting, which is what I have always received in the past. Normally I get a sheet cake, but they didn't have any, so they told me they were giving me a 7 inch round When I picked it up, it was in a sealed box, so I didn't discover until I got home that the cake had a hard chocolate coating rather than just the plain buttercream frosting I had expected. When I called the store simply to understand what had happened, the woman I spoke with was argumentative and dismissive. She repeatedly told me that that cake "always comes that way" and that I "should have known." I explained that I had never received it that way before and had every reason to believe I was ordering the same traditional cake with buttercream frosting that I had purchased previously since that's what I had asked for in my phone conversation to order the cake. What was most disappointing was the complete lack of courtesy. I wasn't asking for a refund or anything for free--I simply wanted to understand why I had received something different from what I thought I had ordered. A simple, "I'm sorry there was a misunderstanding," would have been more than sufficient. Instead, what should have been a very simple conversation became unnecessarily unpleasant. The cake was disappointing, but the customer service was far worse.

Spent a few nights at the Lilley Mansion with a friend, where we learned that Grand Finale is also…read morenow serving dinner. Wowza. The dining area is lovely-framed art work, elegant tabletop lighting and enough space between tables so neighboring conversations stay where they belong-at that table. Superb service from a young lady who attends U of M. Enjoyed a glass of beautiful cava before tucking into Duck Confit. It was served with roasted small golden potatoes and salad topped with picked onions. For dessert, we split their delicious carrot cake. It's evident that all food is scratch made. Cake had crushed pineapple and no nuts (important for those who are sensitive). Hope to return when we are back in the Saugatauk area later this summer.

We had an amazing experience for dinner on Saturday night. There were 6 of us. We ordered the…read moremushrooms and bacon blue cheese stuffed dates for appetizers - delicious! For the main dishes, we ordered jumbo crab cakes, beef brisket bourguignon, chicken piccata and ricotta gnocchi. Absolutely fabulous - all of them! For dessert, we had macarons! A perfect light sweet treat! All in all, it was an excellent evening! Highly recommend!

I really can't say enough good things about Consider It Done and Desserts by Design!…read more After meeting with many caterers in Grand Haven for my wedding in 2010, I finally came here and was so happy to work with someone who was helpful, wasn't pressuring me to up the budget, and was just a general pleasure to work with. The food at the wedding was delicious, and my wedding cake was absolutely gorgeous and tasted amazing. I also had a groom's cake made with the Cubs symbol that was perfect and also delicious! I've also tried some of the other cupcakes in the shop and they have all been delicious!

Was great but it is long closed. Ellen will still do some in house catering if she's available and…read moreyou ask nicely!

Best grocery anywhere near Muskegon or Grand Haven…read more So many unique gourmet selections Great staff even on a Sunday

Cashier area: unsupervised. Courtesy counter: unmanned most…read moreof the time Can return: seems to always be full or out of order Deli counter: nice workers, no prices displayed Fresh baked breads: expensive Meat: Good selection, but extremely pricey The canned good selection is hit and miss, they seem to have a huge selection of some items. Example would be like pasta sauce, probably 12 different brands priced between $2 -$10 a jar. (who pays ten bucks for sauce?) Frozen potatoes, just two brands, usually out of one of them. Best food item from deli: fried chicken

It simply doesn't get better than a cinnamon roll from Great Harvest…read more Incredible and a special treat. Cookies are good, breads are better, cinnamon rolls are the absolute best. Triggers all the best of memory lane.

Have always loved Great Harvest Bread. Been coming every summer for the last 15 years. This weekend…read morei went in to get my favorite cinnamon bread. As soon as I got it, I went and sat at a table and I could tell the bread was not fresh. It was very hard. I immediately went back up and asked if the bread was made today? And she said, "no, She gave me day old bread." Which I did pay full price for. I asked if I could have a fresh loaf because the one they had given me was very hard. She said, "no, if I want fresh I have to ask for fresh." I couldn't believe I was told that., Then I talked to the manager. He said the same thing, "you have to ask if you want fresh bread" I honestly couldn't believe they told a customer that. Will I be back? "Yes", but very disappointed in the reply. And now I know to always ask for fresh bread to me that was very bad business.

This is a good location, but it could be better....a lot better…read more Some of the pros: -Great deli service. -Fresh deli salads. -A lot of the other locations have switched to prepackaged salads, like Walmart, not this one, at least not yet. -Good meat dept. Very friendly and accommodating, if you need something sliced. -Self checkout moves rather quickly. Cons: -Out of many items. -Prices are now more expensive than Walmart on all but sale items. -Too many sale items require quantity purchase to get the sale price.

They have a better selection of food than Walmart but not tools or sporting goods…read more It's always packed with people in a hurry.