Restaurant Index

Michigan

Grand Rapids

Alt City Beverage Company

• Strawberry Sippin Smoothie: 👍👍

Atwater Brewery

• Dirty Blonde: 👍👍
• Red: 👍

JUJU bird

Lots of chicken.

• BBQ Wings: 👍👍
• Garlic Parmesan Wings: 👌
• French Fries: 👍
• Mac and Cheese: 👍

Love’s Hand Crafted Ice Cream

• Cashew Carmel Ice Cream: 👍👍
• Salted Carmel: 😐
• Peanut Butter Cookie Sandwich: 👍

Peppino’s

Pizza and other Italian bar/takeout.

• Cheesy Breadsticks: 👍
• Detroit Style Cheese Pizza: 👍
• Sweetwater 420 Pale Ale: 👍

Petoskey

Duffy’s Garage Grille

• BBQ Chicken Pizza: 👍👍

Traverse City

Little Fleet

As the name would suggest it’s a small fleet of food trucks. There’s also a bar with some local brews. Most of the food is too “hipster” for me. The pizza and BBQ trucks are decent though.

North Peak

I’ve probably been too critical of here in the past. They make a decent burger and the fries are good. Beer is mediocre.

Right Brain

They have a lot of beer. Some great, some eh, some quite weird. Don’t go in the evening if you don’t want to play trivia or other similar games.

Rocket Fizz

It’s not a restaurant, but it’s food related. This is a really neat candy and soda store. Lots of craft soda and candy you’re less likely to find at a grocery store. 4 sodas is 8$ and 24(?) is around 40$. Definitely recommend.

Thats’a Pizza

The benchmark that I compare most pizza places too. Everything I’ve had is good quality. Wings, cheese sticks, and hand tossed pizza: all good. Sometimes they’re light in the sauce department.

• Deep Dish Cheese Pizza: 👍, basically hand tossed with thicker crust.
• Hand Tossed Cheese Pizza: 👍👍
• Cheese Sticks: 👍👍
• BBQ Boneless Wings: 👍

Two Lads Winery

Really good riesling. Didn’t have anything else.

Wisconsin

Abrams

Timberlea Drive In

Soft serve ice cream in more flavors then normal.

• Cake batter and dreamsicle swirl: 👍, dreamsicle had more flavor than the cake batter.

Algoma

Ahnapee Brewery

• Little Soldier: 👍👍
• Cherry Mechanic: 👍👍
• Turmeric Blonde Bliss: 👍👍

Appleton

The Jerk Joint

Trinidadian cuisine. Hours are listed inconsistently online, and everywhere appears to be wrong compared to their door (close at 8, not 6). Get extra sauce!

• Rum Cake: 👍👍
• Jerk Yard Bird Caribbean Bowl: Really good sauce on the wings.
• Drunken Pig Caribbean Bowl: 👍

Cinder’s

Gives off the same vibe as an Applebee’s, but it’s a local place. The food is better quality, but not necessarily better tasting.

• Pretzel Logs w/ Cheese: 👍👍
• Chicken Bacon Melt (w/out Mayo): 👍

Sangria

Mexican food in a house.

• House Margarita: 👍
• Prickly Pear Margarita: 👍👍
• Chips & Bean Dip (has chorizo in it): 👍👍
• Taco Trio w/out Pico: 👍👍
• Mexican Rice: 👍
• Refried Beans: 👍

Tony Nguyen

Vietnamese food.

• Crispy Spring Rolls: 👍👍
• Latitude 17: 👍

Frio Mexican Treats

Home to the churro bar. Where you can get ice cream mixed with all kinds of stuff (plus a churro).

• Apple Pie: 👍👍

Good Company

Burgers, Mexican, Italian, and more. Good quality for good prices.

• Company Burger (2 patties, bacon, mushrooms, 4 cheeses): 👍
• French Fries: 👍
• Mozzarella Sticks: 👍
• Spicy Chicken Alfredo: 👍👍
• Bread Stick: 👍
• Chef Salad: 👍

Taco John’s

Its not bad, but not as good as Taco Bell. Their menu doesn’t have as many options that I enjoy. Potato Oles are fantastic. Perhaps worth going there for those alone.

Solea - Menasha Location

Solid authentic Mexican place. They give refried beans for the chips with is 👌.

2021-04-25

I had some sort of pork burrito, a margarita, and some chili con queso for chips. Burrito was meh, would probably get something else next time. Cheese and margarita were equivalent to other (Tex)Mexican places.

The Tenth Frame

Decent burger place. It would be most fun to eat there, so you could drink and bowl.

2021-04-03

• Burger with Bacon and Pepper Jack. More medium rare then medium.
• Fries and Cheese Curds. Both nice and salty.

Cousin's Subs

Solid sub place. Better then Subway, and about equal to Jimmy Johns. It's a sub place, so I'm never crazy about them. They're fine.

Gingerootz

Decent Asian food. I tried some Sesame Chicken. Had better, but I've also had worse.

Vande Walle’s Candies

Similar to Kilwins or Seroogy’s. Chocolate, candy, and some ice cream.

• Peanut Butter Fudge: 👍, but it's really rich. Can't eat a lot of it.
• Some cupcake: 😐
• White Chocolate Popcorn: 👍

Pizza

Butch's Pizza

Pretty good, but nothing extraordinary.

Christianos Brick Oven Pizza

Solid thin crust pizza.

• Cheese Pizza: 👍👍
• Cheese Bread: 👍

Glass Nickel Pizza Co

Solid pizza joint with some interesting specialty pizza. Of note: it's a WI chain.

Muncheez Pizzeria

Best pizza in Appleton.

• Cheese Pizza: 👌

Pagoni's Pizza

Sicilian pizza and more.

• Mozzarella Cheese Sicilian Pizza: 👍👍
• Fresh Breadsticks w/ marinara: 👍

Bakeries

Simple Simon

Good doughnuts and cupcakes. No maple bars 😞.

Doughnuts

• Glazed doughnut with lemon center: It’s nothing special, but good.
• Glazed doughnut with strawberry cream filling: Very good.
• Jelly filled doughnut: par for the course.

Cupcakes

• Strawberry cheesecake: above average.
• Strawberry Lime: 👍👍

Breweries

Fox River Brewing Company

• Fox Light: 😐
• Bavarian Pretzels: 👍
• 920 Cucumber Kolsch: 👎 (from Bare Bones BC)
• Marble Eye Scottish Ale: 👍
• Beer Cheese Steakburger: 👍👍
• Fries: 👍

Lion’s Tail Brewing CO.

• Charger W/ Clementine: I want to like it, but it’s not great.
• Kula Wheat: 👌

Appleton Beer Factory

• Juicy McJuice Face NEIPA: 👍
• Millhand Hefeweizen: 👍👍
• Yelling Guy Session IPA: 😐

McFleshman’s

• Oktoberfest: 👍👍
• Pirate’s Cove Helles Lager: 👍👍
• Scally-Pumpkin Pumpkin Ale: 👍

Old Bavarian Brau Haus

Holy damn this place is fantastic. Truly authentic German food. Owned by a German family.

• Brats: 👍👍
• German Fries: 👍
• Schnitzel: 👍👍
• Croquettes: 😐
• Kraut: 😐
• Goulash: 👍
• Pretzel: 👍👍
• Bread sticks: 👍
• Hefe Weizen: 👍👍

Stone Arch

Beer, soda, nice burgers, and other good food.

• Blue Raspberry Soda: 👌

Beer

• Ankle Biter (colab w/ 3 Dachshunds brewing): 👍👍
• Honey Wheat: 👍👍
• Scottish Ale: 👍
• 1st Snow Ale (Winter Lager): 👍

Door County

Not Licked Yet

Frozen custard and sandwiches.

• Editable Cookie Dough Sunday: 👍👍

Green Bay

Gallagher’s Pizza

• Cheese Pizza: 👍👍

Heartland Pizza

Pizza with some fairly high quality ingredients. Tastes pretty darn good.

• Cheese pizza: 👍👍

Hill Top Cafe

Closest I’ve found to Cookout up here.

• Chicken Strips: 👌
• Fries: 👌
• Waffle Fries: 👍
• Cheese Curds: 👌

Luigi’s Italian Bistro

• Deep Dish Cheese Pizza: 👍👍
• Fettuccini Alfredo w/ Chicken: 👍👍
• Cheese Bread: 👍👍
• Breadsticks: 👍

Rendezvous

Nice and moist broasted chicken. Fries and potato wedges were good too.

The Village Grille

• Breakfast Potatoes: 👍
• Hash Browns: 👍👍
• Bacon: 👍
• Sausage: 👍👍
• Waffle: 👌
• Banana French Toast: 👍👍, more banana!
• French Toast Sticks: 👍
• Cream Puff Pastry: 😐

Thumb Knuckle Brewery

Its not bad. They have decent beer, I don’t know if it’s worth the drive. Really foamy my second time there.

Zambaldi

• Bike To The Wheat: 👍, a lot darker color than you’d expect.
• Strawberry Lemon Hard Seltzer: 👍👍
• Maple Brown: 👍, maple smell is really strong.
• Arnie Brau: 👍
• Strawberry Soda: 👍👍

Manitowoc

Petskull Brewing

• Wicked Wango (Creamsicle Pale Ale): 👍
• Jake’s Malt Lemonade: 👍

Sabbatical Brewing Co.

Glasses seem small. Only have bottled water (boo), but it’s free?

• Opa Pils (German Pilsner): 👍
• Gloria (Belgian Wit): 👍👍
• Roundabout Red (Irish Red): 👍

Local Places To Try

• Curious Pig in Crystal Falls
• Niemuths: Meat market in Appleton.

Chain Restaurants

Arby’s

• Roast Beef Sandwich: 👍👍
• Curly Fries: 👍👍
• Crinkle Cut Fries: 👍
• Boneless Buffalo Wings: 👍👍

Bojangles

Southern style fried chicken and biscuits. Has breakfast all day.

4pc Supremes Tenders Combo

• Chicken Tenders: 👍
• Southern Shock Mountain Dew: 👌
• Fries: 👍👍
• Biscuit: 👍👍

Other

• Mac and Cheese: 😐
• Cajun Chicken Filet Biscuit: 👍👍
• Bo-Tato Rounds: 😐
• Bo Berry Biscuit: 👌

Church's Chicken

Southern style fried chicken.

• Chicken Strips: 👍👍
• Fries: 👍
• Baked Mac and Cheese: 👌

Cook Out

Quick and cheap Southern style food.

Chicken Strip Tray

• Chicken Strips: 👍👍
• Bacon Wrap: 👍👍
• Fries: 👍👍

Milkshakes

• Banana Pudding: 👍👍
• Peanut Butter: 👍
• Strawberry: 👍

Other

• Cajun Fries: 👍
• Reg BBQ Sandwich: 👍
• Hush Puppies: 👍

Culvers

Chicken Strips

👍👍

French Fries

👍

Cheese Curds

👍

Frozen Custard

👌

Dunkin Donuts

Portions seem small for the price. ”I believe most of their food is frozen and then heated up.”

• Jelly Donut: 😐
• Sausage Bagel: 😐

Five Guys

• Regular Fries: 👌🧂
• Cajun Fries: 👌🌶
• Little Bacon Burger w/ Mushrooms: 👍

Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers

• Chili Cheese Fries: 👌
• Double Jalapeno Pepper Jack Steakburger: 👍
• Signature Turtle Sundae: 👍👍

McDonald's

• Chicken Nuggets: 👍
• French Fries: 👍
• Sausage Biscuit: 👍
• Sausage Egg Biscuit: 👍
• Hash-brown: 😐

Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers

The name is apt, they really only have chicken fingers as a main dish.

The Box Combo

• Chicken Fingers: 👍👍
• Crinkle-Cut Fries: 👍🧂
• Texas Toast: 👍👍
• Coleslaw: 👍

Taco Bell

Tacos

• Soft taco: 👍👍
• Crunchy taco: 👍
• Cheesy Gordita Crunch: 👍👍
• Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco: 👍

Quesadillas

• Chicken Quesadilla: 👍👍
• Steak Quesadilla: 👍

Value Menu

• Beefy Potato Flatbread Taco: 👍
• Beef Burrito: 👍👍
• Chicken Chipotle Melt: 👍

Sides & Sweets

• Chips and Nacho Cheese: 👍
• Cinnabon Delights: 👍👍
• Cinnamon Twists: 😐

Limited Time

Items that are only available for a limited time.

• Chicken Sandwich Taco: 👍
• Nacho Fries: 👍👍
• Rolled Chicken Tacos: 👌

RIP

• Shredded Chicken Burrito: 👌
• Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco: 👍👍
• Mini Crunchwraps: 👌
• Frito Burrito: 👍 (normally), 👍👍 (well made, rare)
• Shredded Chicken Quesadilla: 👌

Waffle House

All-Star Special

Get over easy/medium eggs. Goes better with the toast than scrambled.

• Waffle: 👍👍
• Sausage patty: 👍
• Scrambled Eggs: 👍👍
• Toast: 👍
• Grits: 👍

Other

• Hash-browns: 👍👍

Wahlburger

The price vs quality vs portion size ratio isn’t there. Nothing tasted bad, but nothing was good enough to make you want to go back and try more.

• Cheese Curds: 👍
• Smoked Bacon Mac'N'Cheese: 😐
• BBQ Bacon: 😐
• Fluffanutta Milkshake: 👍

Zaxby's

Southern style fried chicken. Also has Buffalo Wings.

Chicken Finger Plate

• Chicken Fingerz: 👍👍
• Fries: 👍👍
• Toast: 👍
• Coleslaw: 👍
• Zax sauce: 👍👍

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