Funistrada

Trattoria Funistrada was started in 2000 by owners Tom & Holly Reay, after they located the perfect property for an Italian Restaurant in Burdickville. The building Funistrada resides in has an almost 100 year history of food service, including the best remembered Glen Lake Inn — operating for over 20 years as a German restaurant. Some people might even remember “Alfono’s”, and one neighbor recalls an earlier time in the 30’s …” I used to listen to the men at the bar singing ‘You are My Sunshine’, when I was young, sleeping on the sleeping porch of my grandparent’s cottage.”

Contact information:
4566 W. MacFarlane Rd … (231) 334-3900 … www.trattoria-funistrada.com

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Please read this excerpt from Norm Wheeler’s story, “Funistrada means excellent Italian food ‘off the beaten path'” which ran in the Glen Arbor Sun in 2000:

“Some enchanting scent was riding the air current up to Echo Valley from Burdickville. It wasn’t the burnt smell of roasting coffee I sometimes nose when the north wind is strong over Glen Arbor. No, this was making me hungry. It was oregano! Someone had a pot full of bubbling tomato sauce simmering downwind, and I was determined to find the source of that heavenly smell. There was garlic in it too, and the promise of Chianti served in a wicker bottle by a woman like the one in “Il Postino.” So I quick-peddled down the green tunnel of Echo Valley Road to find a new Italian country restaurant just opening near Miller’s Resort. Tom and Holly Reay have hatched their dream, their own eatery at the former Glen Lake Inn in Burdickville.”