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Friday, January 1st, 2010
 Present day Maple City gets its name from the heavy stand of Maple Trees that densely covered the area up until the late 1800s. Maple City was originally called Peg Town and founded by J.T. Sturtevant and his son in 1866. Sturtevant started a wooden peg factory, which supplied the pegs to various shoe manufacturers. The business flourished until 1880 when it caught fire and burned down. Peg Town was renamed Maple when the first U.S. Post office was established in the town and later renamed to Maple City. In the heart of downtown, Pegtown Station boasts homemade pizza, subs and salads — its salads and pizza are considered among the best in northern Michigan, according to the Northern Express’ “Readers Choice Awards”.
Contact information:
8654 South Maple City Road, Maple City … (231) 228-6692 … www.PegtownStation.net
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Here’s a map of Pegtown Station’s location with respect to Glen Arbor:
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Read this excerpt from Josephine Arrowood’s story “Find Leelanau’s heart in Maple City”, which ran in the Glen Arbor Sun in August 2006:
Pegtown Station restaurant — named after the historic role the town once played in manufacturing lumber products — embraces the old-time atmosphere of the former “Cash Variety Store” with red plaster walls, wainscoting, and well-patinated hardwood flooring. Feast on a farmer’s omelet, complete with sourdough or whole wheat toast made from scratch, while enjoying the Foothills blend of the Leelanau Coffee Roasting Company, and watch the train whiz by overhead on tracks that circle the dining room’s perimeter. Pegtown’s lunch and dinner menus are worth a return visit, with a wide variety of hot and cold sub sandwiches on homemade buns, dinner baskets, and specialty pizzas, including such exotica as the “Philly Cheese Steak” pizza with roast beef, mozzarella, onions, and peppers, or “The Greek,” laden with garlic-infused oil, onions, feta, fresh spinach leaves, tomatoes, black olives, mozzarella and artichoke hearts on handmade dough. Pegtown Station is open year-round with extensive hours, and closed on Mondays.
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Click here for Pegtown Station’s menu
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
 Award-winning Chef John Piombo prepares a menu featuring fresh, local ingredients from scratch at Nonna’s Italian Ristorante. The food here is billed as simple, unpretentious and good. Piombo recently accepted a challenge from MyNorth.com (the website of Traverse Magazine, to compete in a local foods showdown and prepared Goat Cheese and Kale Spelt Ravioli with Roasted Rabbit Aspargus and Cream. In accordance with the rules of the showdown, 90 percent of the ingredients for this dish were from Northern Michigan and another 5 percent from the state, making it a 95 percent made-in-Michigan dish.
Contact information:
Wood Ridge Road … (231) 334-5150 … www.thehomesteadresort.com/dining_nonna.php
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Here’s a map of Nonna’s location at The Homestead:
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Please read this excerpt from Norm Wheeler’s story, “The Culinary Yes! Of Nonna’s” which ran in the Glen Arbor Sun in July 2011:
It’s a quiet evening in The Village at The Homestead. Months of heavy equipment excavations and re-shaping around the parking area at the base of the ski hill are nearly complete, and four days of constant rain have settled the dust and painted the hillsides the lush green of a cool, wet June. But inside the elegant eatery called Nonna’s, it’s warm and welcoming. Mimi and I are meeting dear friends Bronwyn and Joe to share an intimate evening and to celebrate the men’s June birthdays by indulging in the offerings of Chef John M. Piombo. With wife Sarah and daughters Alessia and Giovanna, Chef Piombo is back in the cool north after a brief hiatus in Miami. By his smile you can see he’s pleased with the return. And soon so are we.
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Click here for Nonna’s dinner menu
Tags: Glen Arbor, Glen Arbor Michigan, Nonna's, The Homestead
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
 This cozy, family style pub in the village at The Homestead offers pizzas, paninis and salads in a warm setting with live entertainment along with multiple flat screen TV’s to view the big game. Within a short walk through the resort’s pedestrian village, guests will find two small hotels, Fiddler’s Pond and Little Belle, Nonna’s Italian restaurant, Beppi’s sports bar and pizzeria (formerly known as Whiskers) and Cavanaugh’s deli and general store.
Contact information:
Wood Ridge Road … (231) 334-5300 … www.thehomesteadresort.com/dining_beppi.php
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Here’s a map of Beppi’s location at The Homestead:
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Read this review from Destination Michigan:
“Once completed, these renovations will help position our four-season resort as a premier location for destination weddings, as well as group outings, family gatherings and romantic getaways,” says Jamie Jewell-VanDuzen, Senior Sales Manager at The Homestead. “These new upgrades follow on the heels of recent projects both at Nonna’s restaurant and Beppi’s (formerly Whiskers).”
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Click here for Beppi’s menu
Tags: Beppis, Glen Arbor, Glen Arbor Michigan, The Homestead
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
 Come relax in Cherry Republic’s cozy café and enjoy free wireless Internet. Order a refreshing drink, hot food, ice cream and a variety of homemade baked goods. This summer they’ll have six flavors of Draft Soda Pop. In the Bakery everything is prepared from scratch. Cherry Melt Brownies, Cherry Cream Cheese Coffeecake and Wonderbars (chocolate, peanut butter, cherry, and marshmallow crisp on a cherry stick) are only a few of the tantalizing things available. Come in, try the famous Boomchunka and bang the drum to put the “boom” in your cookie. Cherry Republic is always dreaming up ways to use their favorite fruit (the cherry).
Contact information:
6026 Lake St … 1-800-206-6949 … www.cherryrepublic.com
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Here’s a map of of Cherry Republic’s location in Glen Arbor:
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Please read this excerpt from Forest Mullins’ story, “Greening Cherry Republic” which ran in the Glen Arbor Sun in November 2008:
“We are not just selling cherries anymore; we are trying to make a better world,” says Cherry Republic President Bob Sutherland, who has taken a cue from one of the country’s prominent environmental philanthropists and made an effort to “green up” his popular Glen Arbor business that sells all things cherry — from ice cream, to salsa, to clothing. True to form, Cherry Republic installed dual flush toilets and a solar-thermal system this past May.”
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
 Enjoy family dining inside or outside in a cozy, rustic “Up North” atmosphere with friendly service. Boondocks offers a wide variety of steaks, seafoods, salads and sandwiches. Daily specials, Live entertainment, and a Sleeping Bear Sweet Shop with ice cream and treats in the summer. Hang out on the deck in the summertime and hear live music every night a week, including Cabin Fever, the Boone Doggies and New Third Coast.
Contact information:
5858 Manitou Blvd S … (231) 334-6444 … no website
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Here’s a map of of Boondocks’ location in Glen Arbor:
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Please read this excerpt from Norm Wheeler’s story, “Let’s Go Eat … Where??” which ran in the Glen Arbor Sun in June 2009:
“Boondocks (Glen Arbor) has daily food and drink specials and features their porcupine chicken, ring-tailed Reuben, and perch sandwiches, as well as BBQ ribs, a 20 oz. T-bone steak, parmesan crusted walleye, salads that can have chicken or whitefish added, interesting appetizers, and burgers cooked to order. There is also live music seven nights a week with New Third Coast, Cabin Fever, the Boondoggies, or Chris Skellenger & the Good Boy Band.”
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Click here for Boondocks’ dinner menu:
Tags: Boondocks, Glen Arbor, Glen Arbor Michigan
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
 Blend an artist’s vision, a chef’s craft, and an entrepreneur’s spirit. Season with family collaboration and community support. The result is Cedar’s long-awaited family restaurant which, when paired with a gold medal-winning winery, lingers deliciously on the palate. The Cedar Rustic Inn and Longview Winery tasting room, on the site of the former Eddie G’s restaurant in Cedar, opened in 2006 after years of planning by artist and restaurant owner Linda Ackley-Eaker, her son Aaron Ackley, and her husband Alan Eaker — the owner of Longview Winery.
Contact information:
8699 S Good Harbor Trail, Cedar … (231) 228-2282 … www.longviewwinery.com
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Here’s a map of how to get to Cedar Rustic Inn and Longview Winery from Glen Arbor:
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Read this excerpt from Pat Stinson’s story “Cedar’s newest restaurant offers fresh, local dining”, which ran in the Glen Arbor Sun in July 2006:
 “You’ve seen omelets that look like the side of a mountain?” Aaron asks. “They’re cooked eggs wrapped around raw, cold ingredients. That’s not an omelet.” If you sauté your veggies first, like the French do, then add the eggs, Aarons says the eggs will soufflé and develop the flavor of the veggies and meats. “I don’t cook by recipe but by method. Everything cooked by sound method turns out right.” … The “less more often” principle Aaron learned while at the Culinary Institute of America is applied to homemade menu items, such as dressings, coleslaw and soups. Cooking smaller amounts of food as needed produces less waste, Aaron explains, and makes it easier to control the cost and quality of the food. To ensure freshness and to adhere to the family’s philosophy of buying local products, Aaron shops at the Cedar City Market for organic foods, Pleva’s for fresh meats and Buntings Market for smoked menu items, like sausages.
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Click here for Cedar Rustic Inn’s menu
Tags: Cedar Rustic Inn
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Contact information:
7097 South Dunn’s Farm Road, Maple City … (231) 334-7499 … www.foothillsofglenlake.com
The Foothills is year-round motel and cafe on the east side of Big Glen Lake with eight clean and comfortable rooms. The Foothills Cafe, voted best breakfast in Leelanau County, serves breakfast and lunch from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. daily. Nestled in a quiet country setting only minutes from Glen Arbor and the Sleeping Bear Dunes, and public beaches on Lake Michigan and Big Glen Lake are just minutes away. Come visit this family-owned gem for old fashioned service and smiles.
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Here’s a map with directions between Glen Arbor and The Foothills:
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Please read this excerpt from Nadine Gilmer’s story, “Foothills Café: old traditions, new owners”, which ran in the Glen Arbor Sun in September 2010.
Last July a trio from downstate and Ohio — Paul Staber, Shari Bernstein, and Shirley Cheney — acquired The Foothills from previous owner Don Sielaff after they happened upon the café in whimsical fashion. The three were on vacation in Leelanau County and stopped to enjoy a hearty breakfast. Cheney ordered the pancakes, which, as fate would have it, tasted exactly like the pancakes her father used to make her. Sitting in the baby blue booths, among the Vanagon statues, Manitou Music Festival posters, and retro-red chairs, Cheney looked around, and said, “This feels like home.”
Needless to say, the three were charmed enough to stay. They were already thinking about buying a bed and breakfast, but they had planned to wait until this year so that Bernstein’s son could graduate high school. Instead, when Cheney’s husband passed away, and they saw the Foothills, everything fell into place. She already felt a special connection to the area — not to mention the pancakes. “Don made them like my dad,” she says, then points her thumb at Staber in the kitchen. “Now he does them just like my dad.”
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Click here for The Foothills menu
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Tags: The Foothills
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
 Northern Michigan burger aficionados weren’t surprised at all when Joe’s Friendly Tavern in Empire (Frank Lerchen is actually the owner, but old names die hard in these parts) won TV 7&4′s award for the best burger around. Lerchen told the local television station: “The burgers are the best, absolutely — no questions asked. … I have people who come from all over the country, even out of this country for years and years (and years and years … he goes on) and they always come back and say that we have the best dang’ burgers.”
Friendly Tavern … Front St. in Empire … (231) 326-5506 … www.empiretaverns.com/joesopen.html
Please click here for the Friendly’s breakfast menu
And here for its Lunch & Dinner menu
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
 Long known for its Mexican-style fare — including fajitas, enchiladas, burritos, nachos and tostadas, and for its fabulously decadent desserts such as Earthquake Cake, Sombrero Sundae and Apple Cinnamon Delight — Sugarfoot Saloon formed a beer-making partnership with homebrewer Brian Bartos and began tapping his talents earlier this year.
Contact information:
4997 S. Good Harbor Trail, Cedar … (231) 228-6166 … www.sugarfootsaloon.com
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Please read this excerpt from Pat Stinson’s story, “Something’s brewing at Sugarfoot Saloon” which ran in the Glen Arbor Sun in May 2011:
You might want to try the flavorful hangar steak, added to the saloon’s American-style dinner selections, which have grown in popularity. The menu includes stand-outs like broasted chicken, beer-battered shrimp, perch, whitefish almondine, a chicken pot pie praised by Leelanau.com and prime rib. Locally grown vegetables, like the season’s asparagus, are served as they’re available with the entrees.
To some who see the food and drink changes as a signal that the laid-back atmosphere of the old ’Foots is changing, fear not. Decorative chili peppers and festive strings of lights still adorn the bar. The game room still amuses the young and young at heart.
Tags: Cedar Michigan, Sugarfoot Saloon
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Present day Maple City gets its name from the heavy stand of Maple Trees that densely covered the area up until the late 1800s. Maple City was originally called Peg Town and founded by J.T. Sturtevant and his son in 1866. Sturtevant started a wooden peg factory, which supplied the pegs to various shoe manufacturers. The business flourished until 1880 when it caught fire and burned down. Peg Town was renamed Maple when the first U.S. Post office was established in the town and later renamed to Maple City. In the heart of downtown, Pegtown Station boasts homemade pizza, subs and salads — its salads and pizza are considered among the best in northern Michigan, according to the Northern Express’ “Readers Choice Awards”.
