Keweenaw Mountain Lodge

Nice little place for lunch if you don't mind a little drive out of town.  The food is good and the atmosphere is very pleasant.  We also checked out the cabins as a possible place to stay sometime but, were disappointed to find out that they have no kitchen facilities so all you can do is sleep there.  Not a good choice.

Disgusting!!!
After enjoying a nice morning in the copper harbor area, we chose the lodge for lunch.  In a mostly-empty dining room, we were seated in an area that used to be the porch, but has since been closed in.  The main area of the dining room that we walked through was a comfortable temperature.  After sitting in the 'porch' area for a few minutes, we noticed it was humid and stuffy.  There were no fans or air conditioning vents in the 'porch' area.  After ordering and looking around, we noticed a few flies... and then more flies... and then more flies... it was gross.  We mentioned it to the waitress, and she said, "yeah, we have a bit of a fly problem".  She never offered for us to move, or spoke to a manager.  We should have left then, but we were hungry.  The more I thought about it and the fact that we were sitting about 15 feet from the kitchen entrance, I was getting grossed-out by the thought of how many flies must be in the kitchen.  Needless to say, by the time the food arrived, I was no longer hungry and left the food on the plate.  BTW, I also uploaded pictures of the flies.

After a morning of riding through the hills of Upper Peninsula, our group began to get hungry even after the delicious treats at Jampot and a visit up to Brockway Mountain. My dad, ever the planner, booked our group here for our lunch. Our servers were attentive from the start making sure that we had lots of water, iced tea, and soda. They promptly took our orders.

The Keweenaw Lodge is decorated in typical lodge with mooseheads and lush carpets. The main dining room reminded me of an old school Continental restaurant I worked at as a teenager with heavy wooden chairs and a warm ambiance.

For our lunch, we had three choices of entrees: burger, grilled chicken sandwich, and Cobb salad. Both my husband and I got the burger. It really the spot after riding in the crisp Michigan air for the morning. I saw the salad enjoyed by other riders. In the grand tradition of the UP, the salad was served in a gigantic bowl. It seemed like every salad served in the UP came in large bowls. Our group seemed pretty happy with the lunch, so it was a success!

I liked the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge for our lunch stop. The food was good and the sights were beautiful. I could see returning to the Lodge for a quiet vacation.