They continue the popular Rib Night every Friday, and Sunday brunch with cherry ice cream waffles, huevos rancheros, or biscuits with sausage gravy. Chris Roberts opens The Grand Café at Cherry Republic (Glen Arbor) with lunch specials, including cherry chicken salad, and dinner specials like cherry pulled pork BBQ. When the sun reaches the zenith, your eating choices abound. Dune Dogs (Glen Arbor) provides Chicago style hot dogs with the works accompanied by authentic blues music, and Deerings Market (Empire) has ready-to-go lunch specials including pizza, chicken, and sandwiches.

(I’ll get to All Day restaurants that have a breakfast menu later!) Riverfront (Glen Arbor) features deli lunches from 11-3, with Sue Nichol’s Cherry Chicken a favorite among several salads along with fine homemade soups on a menu that changes weekly. If you’re up early and hungry in Empire, stop by Gemma’s for homemade scones and cookies, as well as sandwiches fixed fresh every morning. Fresh pastries to get your day started can also be found at Laker Shakes (Burdickville) featuring Bay Bread scones, muffins, cinnamon rolls, sticky buns, and local fruits and vegetables.

John Arens says “the eggs go POOF!” They also have fresh baked goods to accompany your organic Guatemalan coffee. A new morning choice this summer is at the Leelanau Coffee Roasters (downtown Glen Arbor) with fresh breakfast sandwiches on bagels or muffins featuring sausage, Canadian bacon, and revolutionary “steamed” scrambled eggs. (All day lunch choices include a redolent Reuben!).

But to tantalize you to visit the villages, check out the avenues, and eat your way around the lakes, here’s a quick primer.Ī few eateries specialize in breakfast, including The Foothills (east side of Glen Lake) where Don Sielaff features his popular Eggs Benedict, great French toast & waffles, huevos rancheros, and the new hit, Cherry Pancakes. Most of the culinary choices at your disposal have ads in these pages where you can find opening hours and phone numbers. You are on vacation, so don’t cook! There are plenty of choices for dining out right here in this corner of Leelanau County, from breakfast to late-night munchies, from take out to slow food, from American to French to Italian, from quick and easy to refined and elegant.

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