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HotDoggers

Usually a restaurant named after a food that is not a burger isn’t the best place to get a burger. However, since this restaurant is mere blocks from my office, I’ve been there a handful of times, and have always ordered the restaurant’s namesake. Finally, I decided it was time to try something different. To…

Kelsey's Lakeside Grille Burger

Kelsey’s Lakeside Grille

Weekday Lunch: Your Key to Hacking Crowded Restaurants | With a location right on Lake Charlevoix, Kelsey’s offers up some great views in a casual atmosphere. Like most places in this town, they are crazy busy in the summer time, so I made sure to sneak in during the lunch hours on a weekday to…

Smoke on the Water Burger

Smoke on the Water

Smoke on the Water just crossed their two-year anniversary, and I should’ve been there before recently, but alas, it was not to be. Co-owner Ed Mann is a Charlevoix native and his wife Julie is from St. Paul, but both had a dream to open a restaurant when they retired in Charlevoix. They make everything…

Charlevoix Dairy Grille Burger

Charlevoix Dairy Grille

Summer is an exciting time in Charlevoix, as the tourists all come in, the shops reopen on a daily basis, and the Charlevoix Dairy Grille starts hopping with customers looking for burgers, fries, and ice cream from 11am-9pm every day. This is a classic summer establishment, and since they’re serving up burgers I owe it…

East Park Tavern Burger

East Park Tavern

A new job means new restaurants in the vicinity of my fancy downtown Charlevoix office, and new restaurants means only one thing to me – new burgers. It didn’t take long for me to check out a new spot on one of my first lunch breaks, since it was only about half a block away….