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.

Food is always delicious. BUT my favorite thing is the wings. At 5:45pm on a Wednesday, they're out…read moreof wings, and sausage. It's never consistent and that's frustrating!

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!).

No server. We sat down and waited 6 minutes for a server. There were 6 servers from what we could…read moresee. We did look around and see a lot of people waiting on food. Maybe the cook left? Servers then disappeared off the floor. It was crazy but we left. Worst experience ever. It's not normally this way.

This place isn't half bad, really. We came here because it was within walking distance of the H…read morehotel and we were absolutely starving. I looked, and according to it's website, it just opened up here not long ago. The place isn't huge, but has plenty of two top tables and I think a few four tops as well. There's bar seating as well, and the place is sparsely decorated but in a good way. It can get noisy in here since there isn't a lot of stuff to absorb the sound, FYI. The menu covers most gammets of food, from burgers, to salads and some sandwiches as well. They even have a peanut butter burger? I don't know about that, but it did sound interesting. Anyway, our server was good and our food came out wonderful. The fries here are great, and we both commented on how good they were. My burger was excellent and my coworker loved her sandwich. There's also TV's over the bar that they had different shows on. One had sports, the other had news. I did notice a nice alcohol list, but we didn't order anything to drink. Overall a great experience. Wonderfully priced, good food nice hang out spot.

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!

Love the atmosphere and fun relaxing place great food good music / all ages and ethnic groups are…read morewelcome

Clearly and without a doubt, the best burger in town! The cheeseburger takes it to another level…read more The service is great. What be said about the ambiance but that it is a friendly bar with friendly waitstaff!

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.

Best restaurant in Midland would go back any day of the week, good food, good service and great…read morehospitality. I highly recommend their sourdough melt, its even better when you add bacon on it.

Good burgers, good service…read more - - - - - - - - August, 2026 Visit We went on a road trip, from Missouri to Michigan, for a family event and before starting the drive home we needed sustenance... Culver's was right there for us. Our daughter and I favor mushroom Swiss burgers; she's gluten-free and prefers no bun (the gf buns crumble), and I got mine with a bun; shared fries... and a shake... a chocolate chocolate shake - so nice and chocolatey!! And then... we were driving home. Thanks, Culver's!

This bar is elite! They have fantastic prices (50¢ draft beer on Wednesday from 9-10pm). The food…read moreis delicious! I recommend the crunch burger. Also their cheese curds are insane. Our server was on top of things and was quick to pour us another round. Vibes are great! People are great! 10/10

Food is sub par. Service is slow and bartenders/servers are on their phones most of the time…read more Waited 20 minutes for her to come back and ask if we wanted to order food/refill drinks that had been empty for 10 minutes. Also when we were there a rowdy drunk group had bartenders doing push-ups behind the bar instead of taking care of other customers.

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.