Mitchell Street Pub

BEWARE tourists!!! This place is for regulars only!! As in people who live in Petoskey or close by!

It's so unfortunate as this place as the ability to be completely awesome!!  MP and BIL had been twice before in the week before taking me one night.  Translation 3x in ONE WEEK!!

We arrived a little after 11pm and walked right up to the bar.  The bartender ignored us.  I tried to flag him down, again we were ignored.  When he finally came over he said we could grab a table and the waitress would be by shortly.  Great, we don't want a waitress.  We want to hang out at the bar.  So we asked if we could order drinks and he (yet again) told us to sit at a table and wait for a waitress.  We asked  (yet again) if we could just order drinks from him, as we didn't want to sit.  A woman sitting at the bar perks up and says "HE SAID SIT AT A TABLE AND A WAITRESS WILL SEE YOU!" Oh.  Nuh-huh girlfriend.  So I turned to her and said "We HEARD him the first time." Then MP said "I guess we're not welcome here".  The woman looked over with just a blank face, tried to recover herself.  I guess she didn't think we would talk back!?!  Then (if you can believe it) MP tried again to order a drink and the bartender told us that there were people sitting in the bar seats we were currently standing BEHIND!  Then walked away to clean dishes.  Ugh.  Enough.  Clearly they didn't want our business.  You'd think after seeing MP and BIL that they would have recognized that we were returning customers! Nope.

So, here we are.  In this awesome bar.  Vintage popcorn machine in the back and shelled peanuts to be eaten!  Ridiculously amazing decor, TV's everywhere....just standing in the back watching the rest of the NBA Finals Game 7.  We decided to stay -  out of principal, but we didn't order a drink.

MP and BIL said it was such a shame, as they had a great time the other two times they were there.  But I wasn't with them then, so my review is on my experience.

I did eat some popcorn and the actual waitress was very nice, she even came over to us standing at the bar and asked if she could get us some drinks.  For that, this gets 2 stars instead of one.  When she saw our stank faces, she went over the bartender and yelled at him.  Guess what he did...nothing.

We ended up going next door to Leo's....spent the next two hours there and almost $75!  

Your loss Mitchell.  See you never.

Great beer on tap, good food, friendly service, cool atmosphere.  Perfect!  My husband and I split a burger and the walleye dinner.  The burger had such great flavor and was cooked to a perfect medium.  The walleye was delicious but my husband complained that it wasn't cleaned properly.  He kept picking scales off as he ate.  I didn't notice, but I was a few beers in at that point.  My favorite was the onion rings.  They were perfectly crunchy but not overdone where the onion is mushy.  I highly recommend them.

Being city dwellers, we neglected to realize everything in Petoskey closed at 9 pm, and when we ventured out for dinner, the only place open was Mitchell Street. However, this didn't turn out to be a bad thing.

The restaurant has a casual pub atmosphere complete with jukebox and peanut shells strewn on the floor. All sorts of vintage paraphernalia adorned the walls, which we found fun to look at (giant moose head above the bar anyone?). Our server was pleasant and the food was good. There was a wide variety of beers available as well.

Fun experience, good food and bring coins to pay for the parking meters.