The Family Diner

Good food! But if you have tattoos or piercings I wouldn’t recommend you going here. They treat you like a piece of s***.

We went here once. It was acceptable food, but I wouldn’t say it was a standout. I don’t really understand all the great ratings, except that none of the restaurants in Gladwin seem to be very good. Maybe it’s good to the locals, I wasn’t very impressed. Neither was my husband, my mom and my brother in law.
On the bright side, the tables weren’t sticky! :)

Literally the worst service I’ve ever had. We walked in & a waitress told us to sit wherever we’d like. We picked a nearby booth & the waitress seemed FURIOUS to have to serve us. She was rude to us from the minute we sat down. She didn’t speak a word to us after she took our order — this is not even an exaggeration. She didn’t ask us how our meal was or if we’d like dessert. She laid the check down on the table & walked away. She didn’t thank us or tell us to have a good day after we paid. She did, however, talk loudly around us about how she was leaving at 2 & couldn’t wait to get out (it was coming close to 2). The other waitresses talked loudly about how much their car payments were & how much more they needed to earn to make the payment. The food was pretty good, but the service was so horrible we’ll never go back.

A favorite breakfast spot of ours. Nothing fancy; just good food at a reasonable price, with fast and professional service. I also appreciate their ability to cook eggs to order (not always a reliable assumption these days, especially for those of us who like ours over easy or sunny-​side up) and their honoring of special requests — dry toast, soft bacon, extra-​crispy potatoes, etc. The only thing I find less than great is the TV; I know televisions have become a ubiquitous fixture of most restaurants these days, but to me they’re annoying and unnecessary.
Update: We tried dinner here for the first time, on a whim… again, there’s nothing sophisticated on the menu, but boy, was it good! It was a Friday night, so seafood was spotlighted; I ordered broiled walleye while my partner ordered beer-​battered shrimp. My walleye was so buttery-​good, and my two pieces were so large, that I resigned myself to the fact that it probably wasn’t as healthy as I thought it would be – but I still ate every crumb. My partner’s shrimp was remarkably good as well; usually beer-​battered food all tastes the same to me, but this coating had some sort of pleasantly onion-​y/​herb-​y seasoning in it, and you could also really taste the hoppy flavor of the beer.
Dinners here come with a soup and salad bar. This evening the featured soups included a very good clam chowder; while the base to me suggested that it had started out in a can it had obviously been amended with big chunks of redskin potatoes and bacon, and it was a lot better than the usual cafeteria-​quality chowder. The salad bar is pretty modest as far as fresh veg — no fancy baby greens, and some other standards like mushrooms were missing — but the restaurant offers several prepared salads, and a couple of surprises like pickled chicken gizzards. (I tend to enjoy organ meats and didn’t shirk from sampling a gizzard; I found it kind of «meh,» too cold and without enough seasoning in the pickling liquid — I’d have jazzed them up with some bay leaf and peppercorns and such).
The restaurant was packed, which was good to see in this area in these economic times. Service was very prompt and courteous.

Good comfort food. Appears to be a local favorite. Wildlife wall hangings.