This is a very unique dining experience about half an hour west of TC. It's an old mill that has been converted to a coffee shop and hotel. We were in the area to do some hiking, so this was the perfect place to stop and have a light breakfast. There was a huge line to order, but the process was fast and the food was brought to our table (outside on the amazing deck overlooking the river) quickly. The baked goods are thing to get here. They are displayed in cases where you order and it's hard to resist ordering one of everything. read more

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The inside was intriguing and spacious - no doubt about that. But for the price we paid for our food, portion sizes felt scant. I'd give the avocado toast a shrug and nothing more. Glad we stopped by but would probably opt for other coffee chops in the area! read more

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We had a wonderful dining experience at The Mill! The historic old mill made a fabulous backdrop, and the ambiance was beautiful. The food was full of unexpected bursts of flavor. We started with the sweet potato starter with heritage citrus and pistachio, which was delicious, then enjoyed the burgers with their mystical tots for supper. For dessert, we tried the chocolate cake with a subtle hint of passion fruit icing as well as the cheesecake--both were wonderful. The service was excellent, and the combination of the setting, food, and hospitality made for a truly memorable meal. Highly recommend! read more

We all got coffee and went to the patio to enjoy. The patio is right along a river running along the back of the establishment. The day was on and off rain so we caught the timing right. I got the vanilla iced latte and the taste was just right. Everyone seemed to enjoy the coffee and the nice little stop on our adventure. We will stop again when in the area. read more

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We come here anytime we are visiting Traverse City. It is about a 45-55 min drive away though. But, you can make a whole day in Glen Arbor after. This place has gotten very busy over the years. So plan to stand in line for a bit. Once you place your order the drinks and food comes out pretty quick! I like the style of this shop. It's very bright, clean, and rustic. You can even stay here! We only have come for breakfast and then later morning for sandwiches for the lake. The breakfast and sandwiches are always good. The show stopper are their pastries. They are all soo fresh and flaky croissant. Today I tried to Quiche. You can choose from gravy, bacon and jam, or veggie for the toppings. I went with veggies. Very good. So good everyone stole a bite haha. The outdoor seating is beautiful, and the indoor is very beautiful as well. read more

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It's a place to be scene. The coffee is decent but the pastry is awful. $7 for a kouign amann should mean you are getting a high quality product. Not the case here! Stale and old product should be donated and not sold to customers. Really disappointing. The service was incredibly slow. After waiting in a short line for 20 mins, we listened to the cashier have a long conversation with someone about popsicles. Then after that a long conversation on how the customer wanted their tea prepared. It was rude and inept to the huge line that was waiting. Someone else should have stepped in to help other customers. Finally getting to order, it was obvious there was a difference in how you were treated by the business if you were local. I understand that the tourism in Glen Arbor has become overwhelming to some businesses but it doesn't make me want to give you any of mine. The building is beautiful, the parking is terrible, the coffee is decent, the pastry is disappointing. I won't be back. read more

Tasty lunch that felt both cozy and slightly upscale. I got a Fisherman's Stew which was warming and hearty, but not heavy. Also beautifully presented. And split a couple of cookies with friends. Really enjoyed the ginger cardamom one! If hungry, I would recommend getting a couple items (like pick 2 between their soups, salads, and sandwiches). The portions were on the smaller end. read more

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First the 10 star item, the croissant. Wow. Amazing. Perfect. Tasty. De bon goût. Now the 2 star item, the dark chocolate cookie. The chocolate pieces are small and only an aftertaste. The cookie dough part had no flavor. The overpowering taste was the salt sprinkled on top. I do not recommend for anyone. read more

The seven of us arrived in two cars. The first group was about four people ahead of the second group in the line. The first group still hadn't gotten its food order after the second group had finished eating. Asked about the status of the first order and was told that the manager was assessing the situation. Asked 5-10 minutes later about the status and was told she didn't know anything more about our order. I asked her to ask the manager the status and the said she couldn't do that. Food was pretty good, but they clearly lost our order. Never apologized. Nothing. Net: Don't bother going. read more

The food is local, fresh, and thoughtful. It feeds the soul and nourishes the body. The service is warm, welcoming, and friendly. The atmosphere makes you feel like you're at home, it is calm, and it's like you are up north to your family cottage. read more

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During a heat wave: Hands down best ajo blanco soup and matcha lemonade of my life. FLAVORFUL! Got the (new to the menu) $14 cherry tomato salad.... amazing! Would get again and again. The Indian family next to us asked our advice and I exuberantly said to get the tomato salad as well, which has Indian spices in it, and they loved it and said how excellent it was too! Also great service should be mentioned. read more

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Cute little spot for coffee and breakfast. Sandwich was great. Get the spicy mayo! Coffee was amazing. Sat right next to a little stream and enjoyed the views! read more

I ordered the bahn mi for 14 dollars and the bread was good but no meat? I payed for a bun with marinated veggies on it also eggs Benedict was so bland there was no seasoning read more

Stopped in on a cloudy morning to check it out... Such a wonderful experience enjoying breakfast on the river! Great views and great food! read more

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Lackluster experience to say the least. Made a trip there this morning and ordered an "heirloom tomato" sandwich. I asked to make sure tomatoes were in top condition and was told, they were. When my sandwich came out (after quite a wait) it was the saddest display of 2 thinly sliced, underripe, flavorless tomatoes. The bread choice for the sandwich was also questionable, could use something crustier than a soft style hamburger bun. Disappointed but understood they are there more for vibes than flavor. The inside was very cute but the functionality was not there. read more

There is an amazing Café here with lovely seating. We actually dined at the restaurant for dinner. It was fresh, delicious and also pricey. We sat outdoors along the river and were fortunate to get a shady table. Indoors, the ambiance was sophisticated yet cozy. A really lovely place. read more

Good breakfast baked good and good espresso coffee drinks. Excellent atmosphere and service.

My coffee was excellent and the pastries were yummy. The biscuits and gravy was not good. Overall a good experience and would go back.

Went for supper tonight. Absolutely delightful. Staff was friendly and it was really cozy inside. The food was AMAZING!!! I had the burger and tots!!!!! Everything was made from scratch. My husband and my Mom shared the chicken and pork. They loved it. My son and my Dad had the burger. Everyone was happy. We also shared an order of milk bread and asparagus salad. Everyone was a fan!! We would definitely return. read more

Perfect ambiance and food, friendly and welcoming service. Our second time here and we will be back tomorrow!

Easily one of the prettiest and most historic coffee shops I've been to! I opted for their vanilla bean oat milk latte, which was absolutely wonderful. I went shortly after open, so selection of pastries was abundant as well as wait time being short and quick. The service was great, but the deck and dock as the sun rose over Crystal River, which the Mill sits on, was just a perfect peaceful pairing for my morning sip. Thank you, and I cannot wait to be back! read more

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Bread was good, everything else is so-so. Really wanted to love this place but left disappointed. Outside of the building is lovely and the Website prepares you for a relaxed, good-food experience. Walking through the front door is a bit of a shock after that build-up of expectations. The main dining room is very dark, not nicely furnished, and not inviting (reminded me of a beatnik coffee shop). The ordering area is much nicer, light-filled and airy. Staff was helpful. I had high hopes for the food but alas, it was not to be: spiced pumpkin soup was barely warm oily, and filled with big pieces of nuts (disconcerting since I thought they would be blended into the soup) while the grilled cheese ($14) was not grilled (just dried out a bit) bread with cheese and jam. I think it was close to $28 for those two small items, without the tip. The loaves of bread were good, $10 for the batard and $7 for a half baguette. Batards are the best deal in the place. We did not try the pastries, way too expensive and many of them looked pale and undercooked. E.g. a 3" diameter cinnamon roll was $7 (we go to patisseries regularly and pay about 60% that price for excellent quality). Overall: Glen Arbor prices but the food is not worth the calories or cost. Sad face. read more

This only gets two stars because of the beautiful setting. Terrible service, especially the barista. She was rude for no good reason. I will not return. read more

We loved the setting. The crystal river is beautiful and the historic building has been restored perfectly! I am so thrilled this old building has been saved! Now the food... it was delicious but it was super expensive. We ordered two sandwiches for a whooping $41.00. The sandwiches were delicious but a bit over our lunch budget. I would have loved a flavored iced tea or a soda of some type but the options were limited to coffee, wine, or a couple of juices. We opted for water. The sandwiches were premade meaning we could not remove any items. The bread was fresh baked and delicious. Overall it was a good stop but expensive. read more

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Food okay not great, super overpriced. Ordering at the counter and you have to bus your own table. Too many other great dining options in the area..., will definitely not return! read more

Absolutely best dinner experience! From the service to the incredible food and ambiance. Our table of 7 had the asparagus salad, cucumbers, scallops, duck meat balls, hash browns, sweet potato, a burger and a few orders of the teres major. For dessert we finished with the cheesecake, dark chocolate and the sourdough ice cream. Everything was nice and light with fresh ingredients. Each dish was made with thoughtful and cohesive flavors. I can't wait to come back. This will be a new staple in our annual trip to Glen Arbor. read more

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Simply the best espresso in town! While the line may be long, the cortados and lattes are fantastic. read more

Went for Supper and it was fantastic. Cozy, chic, sophisticated. The food and the service were pure poetry. As a local, it's so refreshing to get innovative, fresh, ethically sourced food that is absolutely delectable. One of the best restaurants in the region hands down. Glad to see what they've created from a place that has been abandoned my entire life living here. In addition to Supper. I highly recommend going during the day for a beverage / snack at the cafe upstairs. A great place to work on your computer or read or be with friends. read more

We stopped for lunch on a snowy Tuesday, and were greeted warmly in the cafe. The owners have preserved much of the old mill, including original beams, walls, and flooring. The person behind the counter explained the lunch setup, and answered all our newby questions patiently. The lunch menu offers some old favorites as well as novel selections. I had the Gruyère, collards, and mushroom sandwich, served hot. There is wine by the glass on offer, as well as beer. I had a rioja which was a good pairing for the sandwich. Speaking of which, the sandwich was super yummy and enormous. I'm a big eater and I couldn't finish it. When we come back in the summer we'll be back to The Mill for dinner. read more

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They let us wait in line for 20 minutes without bothering to let us know they were out of pretty much everything. Maybe a sign would be useful. Otherwise, very pretty. read more

The beautiful atmosphere, the delicious sandwich and the considerate people who work there.

Great food and food! Super cute place, definitely check it out. Can get very busy, but worth it.

Our party of four were very excited to eat at the Mill in Glen Arbor, having heard good reviews of its Cafe and its dinner menu. However, on the evening of July 28th, we were in for a rude surprise. Our server was very nice but service was slow even though our reservation had to be one of the later if not last ones of the evening. The starters and "in betweens" that we ordered were interesting-sounding but came out uneven in execution. The starter of strawberry salad enticed us with spicy greens, a preserved corn vinaigrette and radish. Sad to say it was not a promising beginning: the strawberry pieces and radish slices were few and far in between, the spicy greens were anything but, and the vinaigrette added nothing to make the dish "sing". The charred beans were both undercooked (tough) and scorched, and although the crispy lardons might have saved the day, they too were rather burnt. The hakurei turnips (which I love) were offered with a wild ramp sauce and spruce tip honey, which would have been great if the turnips had (like the beans) been cooked enough to be able to absorb some of the flavor from the sauce. The mains were likewise uneven and that is putting it kindly. The golden tilefish - in half a century of eating out all over the world I have seldom seen this item on restaurant menus - came out dry. Actually, the piece on my plate felt barely warm to the touch, which suggested to me that the dish had been sitting around (and continuing to cook) long before it actually got delivered to our table. When I pointed this out to our server he seemed to understand and whisked it away immediately. Silly me, I thought I would get a fresh piece cooked up pronto - it doesn't take long to cook a small filet of fish (barely four ounces in weight) that is not thick, or dense in texture like swordfish. But no, I suspect the whole plate had simply been put in a warming tray or the microwave! For me, and one other person in our party who had also chosen the tilefish, our main was a really disappointing experience. Another diner ordered the pan roasted half chicken with sauce piperade. This beloved sauce was unremarkable, the skin of the chicken was barely crisp from roasting, yet the meat under it was dry, overly cooked. And, as if the chef's imagination had run dry, why were cherry tomatoes served as the vegetable when the sauce itself is tomato-based? The fourth diner ordered the Mill Cheesburger. Listed in a class by itself on the menu, this burger was fine, but what did stand out were the accompanying "tots" - nicely crisped tots that had deeply satisfying creamy insides served in separate dish. Now THIS would be something worth ordering by itself! Despite the above experiences, we were unwilling to give up when a wait person came to inquire if we would like dessert. We decided to share one sourdough ice cream with miso caramel. We inquired as to how such a flavor of ice cream was achieved and were obliged with an intriguing description of the lengthy and rather convoluted process it entails. Suffice it to say that the ice cream we tasted had no hint of tanginess - and no, no pieces of sourdough in it. It was, however, good vanilla-flavored ice cream. Mercifully we had the forethought to order the miso caramel sauce on the side. Everyone made a face when he/she sampled a small spoonful of it. I will end by saying that while creativity in cooking, as in most everything else in life, is to be encouraged, I wonder if there are some reasonably seasoned tasters to rein in the chef at the Mill when needed? And, equally important, some people in the kitchen who can be relied upon to produce a perfectly cooked piece of protein, be it fish or fowl, time after time? This is an establishment whose arrival on the food scene in Northern Michigan should be greeted with fanfare and fans. Not with reviews like mine. I wish the Mill and its personnel all the best and hope they can right the ship - soon. read more

This is one of the best coffee shops I have ever been too. The coffee and pastries were absolutely delicious. We are from out of town and went 3x in 1.5 days. It's a beautiful place and we loved the aesthetic. Service was amazing too. Highly recommend! read more

We had a wonderful lunch here. I had the apple and celery salad. It was delicious just not enough dressing so make sure to ask for some more if it seems too light. And I had a Matcha latte and I had the carrots. And two of the pastries, the pine nut cookie and the cannelle pastry everything was fabulous. Eat outside and you can see the beautiful stream behind the building. What a great place. read more

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Supper at The Mill is a cool place, although many elements picked up from other places definitely made me ponder. Three things off the bat; the name 'Supper' and the 'smallish plates' are riffs on what modernbird has been doing extremely well since their opening nearly 2 years ago. Supper has a milk bread that is delicious, with a side of herby butter just like modernbird. We absolutely love modernbird, and this made us want to reserve there again. We tried multiple smallish plates at Supper, we liked the green asparagus, the cucumber dish was different, but tasty, our guests enjoyed the shima-aji and tartar, but didn't rave about either. We ordered the short rib and eagerly awaited this large dish with turnips. The presentation in the oven to table cassoulet dish was just what we had hoped- homey, yet upscale. We dug into this anticipated menu item, clocking in at $120, and the short rib was tough. Some of the turnips were undercooked, some were perfect. Both items left us disappointed. Short rib is a beast if you don't plan enough time. We wondered if the chef was out of their league. I'm sure he's great. But the simplest meals are often elusive. Growing up in a big family in Michigan, we ate short rib and many other cuts of meat regularly. They take time to cook to make them tender. That's why they are served as Sunday supper: time. They don't need fancy seasoning, properly salted and peppered goes a long way. Short rib is really all about the slow cooking for hours. And it should be fork tender. Supper is in the bottom level of the newly renovated Mill in Glen Arbor. The building is stunning overall, the renovation is spectacular. Any of us familiar with Glen Arbor for decades have watched this building sit idle, hoping for someone to rescue it. Turner Booth did just that. A restaurant and cafe make this place amazing. How lucky are we to be able to enjoy the beauty and the ambience; part Hudson River Valley, part Simon Pearce on the Brandywine(now closed). It's worth a visit just to take in the restoration and renovation. We looked around when we dined at Supper, there were many tables of 2 people and they looked confused. They were watching to see what our table of 6 was ordering and how we were reacting. We talked about the large plates and the lack of options for a table of 2. We personally will only go back in a group; the menu is simply not serviceable for 2 people. The menu online doesn't reflect the menu in house, either. So be prepared. We had 3 large plate options when we went, yet the menu online indicated 5 large plate options. Supper will find its' own identity, I'm sure of it. Right now, it seems to be sampling from other restaurants that are doing things really, really well. We'll come back when they evolve a bit more, understand that not every diner has to fit their perceived and preferred demographic. read more

Waited 45 minutes for sandwiches (for four people on a Sunday) and when asked why was told "it happens". They obviously forgot the order and made no effort to amend or apologize. The food was average and the place was pretty but if I were the owner I would want to know the staff seemed to care less about service. read more

What should have been a 5-star review was marred by an inexcusable error in serving gristle for the beef course. For a $140 plus $50 wine paring tasting menu, a full 20% was inedible. This was not an instance of a bit of fat, rather it was hard, un-cuttable indigestible gristle that should have been trimmed in the kitchen by even an amateur chef. What were they thinking? It was both surprising and disappointing as every other serving presented was excellent, visually appealing and a lovely experience. I don't know if it was inattention or arrogance, but a tenderloin from Kroger would have been a better choice of meat than the hoof and tendon we were served. Still gave the server a nice tip because she wasn't responsible for the debacle in the kitchen. read more

This place has a great aesthetic and location and the food is good if not great. Our soup was lukewarm and the global offerings lacked the expected seasoning. For the price, I hoped for better. The customer service left a lot to be desired. It was the end of the season, so they were probably tired of tourists--they certainly made us feel that way. read more

Probably my favorite eatery in glen arbor. Great food and coffee. In the summer they cook the food right around the corner from the patio so you can smell everything as it's cooking. The location is so unique and peaceful right on a small river/canal. Make sure to go earlier in the day to avoid the crowd and long waits for your food. read more

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