Like everything in Copper Harbor, over priced, over hyped, and not that good. Â I'm pretty sure most of the businesses here survive only because they are in proximity to the boat dock. Â
I ordered the Lake Trout and my friend ordered the Whitefish and we exchanged half of our food. Â Got them grilled. Â They were decent but worth about $12 instead of $20. Â At $12 I'd give it 4 stars, at $20...maybe 2.5. Â Sides were unimpressive. Â
This place serves crackers instead of bread...I know that in some places in the country that's the thing but I've never liked it and think of it as cheap. Â The cheese spread was decent, but very small.
My other friend got the pizza, and while big, it wasn't that great either. Â All three of us got desserts and pretty much felt that they were overpriced and under made. Â My hot fudge brownie seemed like it came from a plastic wrapper out of a box from Walmart with a scoop of cheap ice cream on it. Â
We had no cell service here on three different carriers so one of the reasons we chose this place was due to the fact they offer wifi...let me tell you, it is SLOW, like dial up modem slow. Â Don't plan on doing much more than email or any type of text work, took forever to upload 2 3mb photos!
As someone on here said, I'd give it a negative star if I could. This was the only time in my life that I left a restaurant without ever getting my meal. After waiting for an hour, mind you. And we ordered chicken fingers, of all things. No hostess, ridiculously rude waiters, pandemonium all around. Absolutely the worst eatery I'd ever been to.
Review Source:A surprisingly decent choice for dining in Copper Harbor. I mean, this is the north end of the country, folks. Go north from here, and you're under water until you hit Nanook land.
The atmosphere is very touristry, but also reflects the "end of the country" syndrome, as if we're in Alaska... there's a "it's done this way, because that's all we got here" type style to it. Don't expect too much, and you'll be pleasantly surprised. if this place was in Grand Rapids or Traverse City... it'd be a bit lower rated.
The food is good. The service is good. We started with a smoked whiteifsh pate, which was not bad, but smelled kind of like my cats would have an orgy in it.
I had a whitefish sandwich that was relatively fresh with fries (frozen) and a very tasty baked potato soup. They know what they're doing up there with the food, ya know.
The food portions here are huge! We ate here last week while we were out sight seeing. The steak and spaghetti dinners were tasty. Â The steak was huge, almost the size of the dinner plate. It was well worth the price! Â The spaghetti sauce could have used a little more seasoning but the homemade garlic bread was delicious! Â Service was a little slow but it was very busy in there! The price isnt too bad considering it is tourist season.
Review Source:The Mariner is an institution on the Copper Harbor dining scene, and I've been there many times over the years. Most recently, in August 2011, I was impressed with the Smoked Lake Trout Pizza (featuring sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, and alfredo sauce in addition to the eponymous ingredient) and the Great Lakes Chowder (a cream chowder, including local perch and whitefish on my visit). Both were delicious, though the pizza could've used a bit more spinach (and it was a bit salty, but it had a lot of smoked fish).
There was a limited choice of beers on tap, but two were from the nearby Keweenaw Brewing Company.
On previous visits I've also enjoyed their whitefish and walleye sandwiches.
Definitely worth a stop if you're up for some very good gastro-pub food or even if you just want a burger or pizza and beer.
This is a nice place to eat in Copper Harbor. I went here twice, once for a drink at the bar, the other for lunch.
With only 4 beers on tap, the choices are limited, but good choices. They had the blond and Amber local brew (I can't spell it so I won't try) (Keweenaw - I looked it up) a Smithwicks and LaBatt's Blue. If you don't like the taps, they have plenty of bottled beer. Also ask for it in a frosted schooner. Those looked good on a hot day.
Lunch time - We had a very large group of 11 of us with small kids and they handled it very good. I ordered the nachos grande, because that's what I like. The nachos were grande. A plate piled high with chips, real cheese and plenty of toppings. The only thing I didn't like about and why I took off a star for, was that it came with beef and I like to have a choice of meat with my nachos.
The kids fish and fries were good too. Â I'd recommend those as they were a large portion of food for a kid. Â Definitely enough to fill them up and then some. Â
I was surprised when one of the little kids broke a glass on the floor that no one came running, but it was pretty loud in there and busy. Once they were made aware of it they cleaned it up pretty fast. We learned our lesson too not to put the 2 youngest together ;)
Rating is relative - and as far as the Keweenaw Peninsula, Mariner North is about as good as it gets (thus the 5 stars). They have creative ingredients (cucumber wasabi dressing, for example, showing more originality than any other restaurant in town), a large menu, and fair prices.
My sister, a California transplant, was thrilled to see a Schooner on the drinks menu, something she hasn't seen since Long Beach.
Curious: what makes others label this place as too expensive? Everything up here is more expensive as it is carted in from farther away - Mariner North was completely reasonable, at least from Minneapolis standards. Every other place in town costs just as much for poorer quality. The kids menu at Mariner North was very well priced and largely portioned - always a good test of a restaurant's true colors.
The only reason this place gets one star is that they don't go negative.
We've been there twice now--the first time was just touristy pricy (for the Keewenaw) and mediocre. Â The last visit was an abysmal waste of calories.
Things close early in the area, and we *did* walk in within 1/2 hour of closing. Â Nevertheless, if they didn't want to serve us, they should have just asked us to leave. Â We languished for a long time, finally asking someone to come over. Â When we did get some attention, we were told what wasn't available, and ordered. Â At least the beer was decent.
The whitefish sandwich was depressing, given this is one of the highlights of Lake Superior (we could only get sandwiches, since the kitchen declined to do any other lakefish.) Â Fries were greasy, service grudging, and to cap everything off, one of our party became ill the next day. Â It could have been something other than the food, but not likely.
All in all, go down the road to Harbor Haus and get a really great experience and meal.
We stopped here afer hiking in the Estivant Pines on Friday. Â Little did we know that our options for finding dinner past 8 p.m. would be so limited in Copper Harbor. Â
The sign at the door said "seat yourself" and there was barely an empty space in the restaurant. Â We found a table in a back room, and it took a long time for anyone to acknowledge us or bring menus. Â When we questioned a server walking by, we received a curt "someone will be with you". Â I guess you don't have to have great service when you're the only game in town on a Friday night.
The reason they get three stars is that when we did get service, the beer was cold and came quickly. Â And the two paninis we ordered were delicious and reasonably priced.
Jim & Colette
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