Where’s Your Favorite Place To Eat or Drink in Northern Michigan?
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(Above) Mackinac Island – Outdoor Dining – Click on photos to enlarge.
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Do you have a favorite place to eat or drink in Northern Michigan?
Let us know some of the places in Northern Lower Michigan where you’ve eaten a great meal or enjoyed a cup of coffee or a beer or wine or cocktail. Is it a great item on the menu that brings you back? Or the setting or atmosphere? Or something else? Faint praise won’t do. Let everybody know everything about what a great place this is…
Best Up North Fan Favorite: Horn’s Gaslight Bar & Restaurant … Let us know your favorite…
Grand Hotel is situated on the southwestern bluff of Mackinac Island overlooking the Straits of Mackinac and – in the distance – the Mackinac Bridge. From the front porch – the world’s largest at 660 feet – guests can look down at the well-kept gardens and relax and enjoy the ambiance of “somewhere in time”. It is no wonder that hollywood has chosen to come here more than once. Indeed, like a classic movie, Grand Hotel is larger that life. The Victorian elegance has been kept intact. Each room at Grand Hotel has been tastefully decorated by New York designer Carleton Varney with its own special character and style. Breakfast and dinner daily are included in the Grand Hotel room rate, and are served in the Main Dining Room. Visit their website and familiarize yourself with the elegance and the history of this magnificent hotel. A stay on Mackinac Island at Grand Hotel is a unique experience and guests inevitably depart to the mainland with memories that last a lifetime.
Located on the waterfront at the western edge of town, the Hotel Iroquois is convenient to all the main-street attractions of Mackinac Island, yet far enough away to offer guests a bit of privacy from the downtown bustle. Stunning views of the Straits of Mackinac and the Mackinac Bridge are the hallmark of a stay at the Hotel Iroquois. Guests in the Tower Suite have a total of fourteen windows to gaze at the Straits and the Bridge. The other waterfront suites and rooms offer their own compelling views of the waters around Mackinac Island. You can sit on the balcony of one of the Gardenside rooms and enjoy the flowers and the charm of the street life on the island. The Hotel Iroquois has forty-six suites and guest rooms that are appointed with all the fine details and touches to make your stay relaxing and comfortable. All accommodations have queen or king beds, private bath, wireless internet service, color cable television with VCR or DVD players and telephone.
Mission Point Resort on Mackinac Island transcends time. The moment you step off the ferry, there’s an instant sense of nostalgia – where no cars or worries are allowed. Just as you notice the glistening waters steadfast to the horizon, you’re warmly greeted by staff who welcome all to experience the tranquility of Mackinac Island.
A stay at the Chippewa Hotel puts you right in the middle of all the charms of Mackinac Island. Choose a main street room and wake up to the clip-clop of the horse carriages passing along the street below. Stay in a Harbor View waterfront room or suite and enjoy the views of the harbor and the Straits of Mackinac from your balcony. Treat yourself to the Club Level Corner Suite or the Harbor View Corner Suite and you have views of the harbor, marina and Fort Mackinac from your room. You can completely immerse yourself in the life of Mackinac Island when you stay at the Chippewa.
With thirty-nine uniquely appointed suites, the Lilac Tree Suites and Spa reflects the French, English and American heritage of Mackinac Island. Each spacious suite has a living room and a separate sleeping room. No two suites are alike.
Step back in time with an overnight stay on beautiful and historic Mackinac Island. 
Summer House Suites
Immerse yourself in the historic charm that has made Mackinac Island famous when you stay at the Harbour View Inn – a hotel with a fascinating history of its own.
The Carriage House and Guest house buildings are located behind Chateau LaFramboise and separated by a secluded, beautifully landscaped courtyard.Both decorated in a cottage theme.
Since 1852, guests at the historic Island House Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan have enjoyed the escape to a simpler time. After acquiring the resort in 1969, the Callewaert family has continued to add contemporary conveniences while preserving the allure of its historic ambiance, serving to maintain Mackinac Island’s oldest operating hotel, a Historic Hotels of America member, State of Michigan landmark, and the only hotel located within the boundaries of the pristine Mackinac Island State Park.
A small lovely boutique country inn, the Metivier Inn offers 22 charming guest rooms for your stay on Mackinac Island, each including air conditioning and private baths. The rooms are uniquely and tastefully decorated in a blend of English and French country style. Most of our rooms are ideal for couples or solo travelers, as they contain one queen bed ‹ either a four-poster bed, a canopy bed or a wicker bed. We also offer two rooms each with a king bed, one room with two queen beds and suite with access to side wicker porch. Guests are welcome to use our cozy living room with its quaint wood-burning stove as well as the spacious comfortable wicker-furnished front porch. Gourmet continental breakfast buffets are included in the room rates.
Most of our rooms are ideal for couples or solo travelers, as they contain one queen bed — either a four-poster bed, a canopy bed or a wicker bed. We also offer two rooms each with a king bed, one room with two queen beds and suite with access to side wicker porch. Guests are welcome to use our cozy living room with its quaint wood-burning stove as well as the spacious comfortable wicker-furnished front porch. Gourmet continental breakfast buffets are included in the room rates.
Make yourself at home at Hart’s bed and breakfast on beautiful Mackinac Island. This special island has been a unique summer resort for over one hundred years. With the absence of motorized vehicles one may walk, bicycle, or ride a horse-drawn carriage around the island ‘s six square miles of peaceful beauty.
Every batch of our authentic Mackinac Island fudge begins the old fashioned way, with lots of fresh cream and butter.
A lot of people will mention the wide white porch while others will tell you first about the swimming pool in the center of the hotel that is enclosed within a four-story atrium. We like that this hotel is directly across from the ferry docks, and in the midst of the bustling activity of Main Street, so that when one does enjoy the view from the porch they can feel a part of it all. The Lake View Hotel captures much of the past with its Victorian-style atmosphere and nineteenth-century vernacular resort architecture, including a modified hipped roof accenting an open, wood-columned porch and a raised basement. Lake View features Goodfellow’s Italian Chop House and Goodfellow’s Wings and Things.