Silver Swan

Delicious homemade food. Always fresh and consistent. The specials are great. I have never had anything here that wasn’t delicious, and I go here quite often as it’s right by my house. Awesome place to go if you don’t feel like cooking and don’t want to eat junk. They also have some cute gift items. Only weird thing is the hours– closed on weekends.

YUM! We tried this place for the first time last night, and were so impressed! The service is great, the staff was so friendly. And the food was amazing — everything we tried we absolutely loved! The gyro and the hot turkey were wonderful, but my favorite was the dessert… LOVED the cream puff and baklava, highly recommend both of them. We will be back many times!

Amazing food and wonderful service. The food is fresh and delicious. They have unusual hours– closed on Sundays-​When I asked why– they responded family ! I love how they always put family first! I am happy that they share the generational recipes with us because they are obviously prepared with love and are absolutely divine ! This place is the best kept local secret !

Homemade meals that are delicious, and homemade desserts too. Stroll the gift shop for great ideas.

Silver Swan catered a beach lunch I had last week for 60 people. Petra and the Silver Swan staff did a wonderful job. They delivered 60 sandwich lunch bags from Traverse City to lake Michigan on time, and when people started eating, I can’t tell you how many people said to me «these sandwiches are amazing, where did you get these, how did you find this place». People especially loved the pasta salad.
Thank you Petra for making my event a success by keeping my beach crew well fed and happy!

What a great place! The family that runs it are very friendly and sweet. I always feel very welcome there and try to make it there every time I visit TC. Their salads are outstanding and I especially like the schnitzel and rouladen.

I love Silver Swan! they offer some middle eastern goodies like dolmas, hummus and baba ghanoush, which you can get separated nicely with pita bread to go, or have altogether in a wrap. I’ve had both, depends on my mood. They also have some German food, which is rare to find up in this area, as well as lebkuchen cookies around the Christmas holidays. I am not a big fan of ham, but they have a pineapple and ham sandwich, grilled, that is to die for. The dessert case has homemade lemon bars, cream puffs, rice pudding and other homemade yummies. The décor is unique, with small gifts, cards and European treats for sale as well. My husband had them cater my 40^th birthday party a few years ago and the food was excellent then as well.

A hidden-​gem of a restaurant, that I’d been driving past for years, before we decided to check it out this week for lunch. Creative comfort foods, and great service by a family that really cares about its customers. And the line, almost out the door on a November Tuesday, proves that this is a place worth trying.

This place is pretty cute. It’s like an eclectic gift shop plus eatery. The food isn’t fancy but priced accordingly. You can tell the local retirees adore this place.

I stop here for food at least once a week: everything is always good – fresh and creative. My most favorite, I must admit, is the moussaka, which isn’t always on the menu – but when it is, I order some to have in the charming restaurant and another serving to take home. Great service, too!

My sweet Grandma has been RAVING about the Reuben sandwiches for as long as I can remember… so when I moved back to our stomping grounds on M22 I offered to pick one up for us to share. She is so cute, and can only eat a fourths at a time. «It lasts me 3 meals, and the girls there always know what I want!»
She was right. They’re AMAZING. I have no idea where my love of Reubens emerged (perhaps Tony Baloney’s in SF
), but the love is as strong as ever once tasting my first Silver Swan Reuben.
It’s family owned, and the staff is wonderful. The Windows crew used to get Silver Swan lunch when we were still open down the street, and I think I used to get one of the wraps. Nevertheless, I love this spot. Arlene says hello!

I had dinner here tonight and it was very tasty. Mmm, falafel. Not a highly spiced falafel, but the hummus was delicious so that more than made up for it. This place also has a very nice pastry & dessert case, tried the lemon bar & wanted to try the pistachio baklava. My dad liked the chicken something or other and my mom loved the schnitzel (she’s a schnitzel snob too). Reasonably priced and good food, cannot complain about that. The waitress told us that they are pretty busy at lunch (near to a lot of businesses in Grelickville & super-​close to T.C.), but dinners can vary. I might say visit at dinner, but then maybe there might not be as much variety in the dessert case, god forbid.
*They sell gifts too, plenty of swan iconography (go figure).

This is an often overlooked place, set on the side of M22 a little past Tom’s grocery store. It’s mostly a lunch place, but they do catering as well.
They have the best reuben in town (also the messiest). A great vegetarian menu and also a daily special of more homemade-​type meals like meatloaf or stroganoff. The tomato bisque soup is really good as well. Everything is made from scratch. Oh, and usually I’m too full, but the desserts are rockin– like a giant cream puff the size of a softball.
I used to come here all the time for work and I loved it. It’s not set in the best location and I think it shares its parking lot with a carpet store or something. But the food is worth it and its cute inside, with some really cool artwork (weird joker clowns). I always forget about this place in town since it doesn’t feel like a destination, but when you think about going to Scott’s for the view, you should think twice and head to the Silver Swan for the food.