We have given the Peppermill several chances over the last couple of years due to lack of restaurants in Bad Axe other than fast food. The food is "meh" at best. Omelets containing raw vegetables, crumbling fried fish, under cooked hamburger, to name a few. Then there's the staff. We tried to avoid one waitress that always seemed frustrated and sweaty. Unfortunately she served us a few times. We were there recently during lunch and our waitress came to the table for something. I looked up and noticed she had snot hanging out of her nose. If you are sick stay home. Disgusting. We will not be back. I would give zero stars. read more

Food is really good and the waitstaff are super friendly! It has a nice atmosphere to eat in.

Food wasnt cooked. Old meat. And bad service, talked to the manager and rudely talked to us and really didnt care about his customer.

I ordered an omelette and my husband had a wrap. The food was good and our server and service was adequate. There is always a nice atmosphere whenever we eat there. read more

When you enter it looks like the decor is from the 80's, oak tables and chairs, stained class lamps. Thankfully, no dusty curtains. We ordered one soup and salad bar. My partner said it was good. I ordered broasted chicken, mashed potatoes and coleslaw. Chicken was excellent. Slaw had a strange taste. Potatoes seemed like instant. Service was good. The place seemed clean. Strange placement for the salad bar. read more

Service awesome! Selections awesome! Salad bar exemplary! Quick efficient effortless staff and chef! Country Kitchen Style Tables! Places to hang your coat, and umbrella! Stash your rubbers! Newspaper stand and local journalists faire! Serve yourself salad bar! Seating next to the windows always open with large group seating too! Big! Big! Dining Area and Clean Cut Appearance! Happy servers fry cook will to make changes to the food items served. read more

I was visiting up north with a friend, and she took me to the Peppermill, which is her favorite place to eat in Bad Ax. Great food and service. I was quite amazed that they gave a discount if you used cash. For sure I will return when I am back up in the thumb area. So that gave me a chance to spend some of my $2 bills. And yes, I did clean my plate up quite well. read more

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Food was tasty! Karen our server was very efficient. We enjoyed our shared Hachet Beef and Cheddar Melt! The fries were excellent. Thanks for a pleasant lunch. read more

Beware if you go here 8-10 minutes before the morning Special ends and you sit there till someone takes your order at 11:01 they won't adjust the breakfast special price. It's just the principle they can override the register system if they want to. They say oh the register is fixed at the new higher price. It's not about the money it's about customer service. Now the food. This time it was the bacon not well done, last time it was overcooked eggs and undercooked bacon when still asked for well done! They must think people should just accept what they cook. Then how rude she was at the register was uncalled for! I'd fire her ass if I was the owner! So rude. read more

Eat breakfast here and thank me later. The food is very good. Try the Biscuits because they are homemade and rival anything I have ever had before. The staff is super helpful and the service is lightning fast. read more

What an excellent dinning experience. Everyone works as a team. The owner gave us menus & drinks. Our waitress was very helpful, she guided us through the menu & explained the soup n salad bar. Which was fantastic by the way. Everything was fresh & homemade. The Manager even stepped out of the kitchen to cash us out at the end. We definitely will be back!!! read more

Over all it was good. Broasted Chicken was really good. Salad bar was as well the the staff is friendly.

Service was great, all the staff was kind and helpful. I got 2 eggs over easy, side of bacon, and plain waffles. I ended up getting severely sick after leaving this restaurant (to the point where I was in the hospital and I'm still recovering). I should have noticed that everyone else that I was having brunch with ordered scrambled eggs and I was the only one with a "lower egg temperature". Even the server told me that their sunny side up eggs are practically raw and "translucent", and suggested I didn't order that. I visited during Christmas time of 2022. read more

Food was fine, however, I ordered on line and they forgot my salad. They said they couldn't credit my card because it is a third party company they use for on line orders and would take my info so I could have a credit for the next time. So it's the next time now less than 2 weeks later and now have no info or recollection of the order so I'm just out 4 bucks. read more

A decent little local joint. Just average, I could do just as good at home. Good prices and great ladies to serve you.

Great burger cooked to perfection, also the baked potato soup was really good. Service was great and prices more than reasonable. Would definitely recommend read more

Always great food that is served hot. The service is very friendly and attentive. When ever I am up in the thumb, I make it a point to stop by for a good meal. read more

Have been coming here ever since are favorite place up here closed down. Once again all restaurants up here lack in everything. I ordered the skillet it was suppose to have grilled onions and green peppers...it didn't The eggs were suppose to be over easy, they were over hard, and the sausage that was cut up in dumped inside had to have been sitting around for a couple of days. The pancakes were rubbery. The bluberry pancakes had the bluberries just dumped on top. The server was good, they have one there that has no business working with the public, sit on the main floor and you won't have to encounter her. The sad thing is if you want something to eat you have to try to stomach this stuff some how. It's like some other yelper stated "if this place was anywhere else it would be closed" read more

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Have never in my life had such rude service from staff. Never even ordered, staff was rude, tables where filthy. Won't be back. Would recommend you avoid this place at all costs. read more

Used to be a place I always liked to go...But you are not welcome here, If you ask for the owner Tom McCollum (who I know), ask or complain about their food being "too salty" that we couldn't eat it (3 dinners and 2 bowls of soup), then they demand you don't come back again (a very not nice, unhelpful, cold acting manager Carissa) who said they don't and never add salt to their food (then who did/does?) her response seemed to be it comes in that way, from where? I thought everything was homemade by them...they didn't even apologize, or care, or offer a solution or refund, except not to come back again and that no one else said this to be true...IS THEIR ANYONE ELSE WHO THINKS THEIR FOOD TO BE WAY SALTY?...What about high blood pressure?, etc. Carissa said that nobody is allowed to talk to the owner Tom...Wow! So now I'm the bad guy? I used to always talk to him...he would always recognize me (us) and want to talk...I used to be a fan, we have a lot in common. We had to go to another restaurant and buy something we all could eat...So everyone is not welcome here! Ther claims are not true. Small towns like this are supposed to be welcoming and friendly and want to be better, or otherwise what's the use of being there and staying open? read more

Used to be good but now the only thing they have going for them is their homemade chicken soup, and sometimes even that should have been tossed the night before. The servers, not all but some, genuinely do not care whether you get served or not. The food used to be quality but now it is poorly made and it shows. I try to avoid going here. read more

It's OK. That's about all I can say. The locals come to eat and sip on coffee and argue politics. They have a soup and salad bar all the time and it's OK. They offer breakfast all day which is nice to have the option. The wait staff is hit or miss but they re usually working pretty hard (2 for the whole place). There is nothing wrong with the place other than not much for flavors but nothing great to point out. read more

It was ok. The broccoli was very underdone and the chopped steak was just ok. It was not the best but it also wasn't to terrible.

Service was not as great as expected. Waited for our server for about 20-25 mins, just stood in the back room until they noticed us staring at them. Then waited at the counter for another 5-10 mins for them to check us out. Food was just okay, this place is a one and done deal for us ‍ read more

Nice and casual place. We arrived not certain they served breakfast. They do. The menu has numerous egg options including a dozen omelette varieties. There are also griddle options and pancakes. The lunch and dinner menus looked quite good with wraps, burgers, chicken and steak entrees, as well as "catches from the sea". If ever in Bad Axe, it's definitely worth checking out. Visited August 5, 2020 for breakfast. Dine-in is now available. read more

By far my favorite place to eat in Bad Axe! It's very clean and has a great vibe to it. It doesn't have a bar so you don't see many obnoxious hooligans there. It's a great family restaurant! Service is great. The waitresses are very friendly and on top of everything. The food is always more than I expect;taste wise. Don't even get me started on their famous chicken noodle soup! It's seriously to die for! Definitely earns five stars. read more

We drove around Bad Axe looking for a place to eat and found the Peppermill, it appeared to be the only sit-down restaurant in town. It was around 1PM, I ordered a hot meatloaf sandwich, and my wife ordered an omelette, since they have all day breakfast. My meatloaf came with mashed potatoes and stuffing. I could taste the dehydrated onions and celery in the stuffing, and it tasted like it came from an instant mix. The gravy was very salty, and also tasted like it was canned or instant. The meatloaf was kind of bland, but at least it was real meatloaf, unlike the stuffing. The mashed potatoes were real though, and were actually very good. Overall, my meal was the definition of mediocre. As for my wife, she works is a cook by trade, so she knows how things work in restaurants. She said the hashbrowns were good, but she took a few bites out of the omelette, and pushed her plate to the side. It was greasy and gross. It was filled with these nasty onions, that my wife said tasted like they had been sitting in artificial butter for 2 days. She couldn't eat it. I tried it too and almost spit it out. The omelette was pretty much inedible. The waitress came up to take our plates. This was the second bad restaurant experience in 3 days in the Thumb, so we didn't say anything about the omelette. The waitress didn't even ask why my wife didn't eat it, which I would think any good server would do. We paid and left, and began our long trip back to Ohio with my wife frustrated and still hungry. I post this negative review not to be a jerk or a food snob, but because 2 out of 3 restaurants we went to in the Thumb were very bad. This is a big tourist area, and these people are sitting on a potential gold mine. If they actually served fresh food with real ingredients, they would rake in the money. As it stands now, I'm bringing my own food next time I go to the Thumb. Also, it's interesting that Yelp chose to "filter" another negative review, because that review looked similar to our experience at this restuarant. read more

Stopped for breakfast and everything was amazing!! Between the four of us we tried strawberry pancakes, eggs, bacon, biscuits & gravy and a waffle...everything was delicious!! Wish is was closer to home because we would become regulars. read more

There was a funky smell when I walked in and my gut reaction was to try another place. There were plenty of people eating there so I decided to give it a try anyway. Sometimes the small 'family style' restaurants have surprisingly good food. I ordered meatloaf that came with a soup & salad bar and the soup sounded good. I got chicken noodle soup and couldn't get past bite one, did not taste like chicken noodle soup at all. The salad bar would have been ok but the lettuce was not fresh and had tons of brown spots. Basically, the only thing I ate were the mashed potatoes that came with the meatloaf, I had a few bites of the way overly spiced meatloaf but would not order again. Well I wouldn't go back again so I don't really need to ponder on what items I would order. read more

it was fine. not the best but not the worst. i got the ranch wrap and the tortilla was weird but the inside was good. the ketchup was not good at all, it tasted fermented and not right read more

Service was nice, but the menu food was not as maybe most would like to consistently expect.

The Peppermill Restaurant. Yet another reason to skip bad axe when you are hungry. Stopped in with my family on a lazy Sunday afternoon and waited from the time we ordered 50mins to get severed. The food was not worth the 50 min wait. In fact my burger wasn't worth a 2 minute wait. Terrible food. Worst service read more

Was driving thru looked on Yelp for a restaurant in the area. When we pulled in the parking lot a police car was leaving knew it must be good. Very nice and attentive waitress comfortable chairs. Had the salad and soup bar nice and fresh. Cinnamon french toast was delicious. If we are ever are in the area again this will be on the list to stop. read more

What a great find, clean and friendly. Real homemade soup, good salad bar, chicken parmesan was bery good.

Today we went to the Peppermill for breakfast with our three kids under the age of 5. Our server was a lady named Sue. She was phenomenal. She was very friendly and courteous. But here is how she impressed us, she brought all the kids food first. That allowed us to cut and get the kids food ready. Then when we were almost done cutting up food and putting it in front of our kids she brought our food and then offered to help our son put some syrup on his pancakes. That allowed us to get a hot meal too. Now she did this even though the place was packed and she seemed super busy. What a champion! I even caught the manager to tell him that Sue's service was superb. I wish every server in other restaurants would know this trick. A family who eats with small children should always get kids food first. Now to the food. The farmers omelette was very good and the home made wheat bread was good. The kids all liked their Mickey Mouse Pancakes. I tried some of the kids pancakes and they were very good. My wife had a patty melt which she thought was decent. The place is very clean and family friendly. The men's bathroom has a changing table in it. Sounds silly but a lot of restaurants forget that sometimes dads have to change baby diapers as well. In summary, great service, good food and family friendly. It is no wonder why they were packed today! I also listened to the waitresses talk, they seem to work very well as a team. I heard and saw them working together to help give that quality service. We will definitely go back. read more

Come hungry - you won't care that the food is... just passable. Breakfast is reasonably safe as are the hamburgers. Prepared Salads are usually ok. Just ok. The salad bar is scary. Not sure why - I just get bad vibes - it might be the presentation- it just does not look appealing. I love salad but not this one. Oh - turn down the darn radio. For heavens sake - you can't hear yourself think let alone enjoy a meal and conversation. Mark that ramp better - you must trip 50 patrons a week... read more

Don't. Just don't. If everything thawed and cut open from a bag of Gordon Food Service products is your jam, you'll love it here. You might also love if here if your taste buds have been singed off in some freak accident and aren't able to tell how bad this food is. They aren't shy about disguising where their food comes from, GFS labels on everything. Their main means of cooking is with a microwave. So do yourself a favor and go to the IGA or the Walmart and pick yourself a Tombstone pizza and save yourself $20.00 and the grief of waiting for a sub-par meal. It's true that edible restaurant food is hard to find in the thumb but this place is truly awful. read more

Very good food and service. I had the Reuben sandwich & chicken noodle soup and hubby had chili & New York wrap, all tasted very delicious!

Busy 4th of July weekend. not enough help scheduled. I felt bad for the servers..they just kept smiling. Ordered breakfast. Looked good..but the sausage patties were burned on one side. The side that was down. Had an interesting conversation with the Manager who happened to be in the kitchen cooking. Nothing he could do about burned food coming out of the kitchen. No apology..no concern. He would take my breakfast off the bill. The owner of this restaurant should be very concerned that this Manager is so lackadaisical about its patrons. It had been awhile since I had eaten here..it will be longer before I come back. read more

It's a reasonable 2.2 mile walk from the BAX airport if you're feeling adventurous. Clean, organized and pleasant. Service was fast and friendly. Irish omelette was good. Cantor of coffee left at table for self refills. I would come here again. read more