The Side Door Saloon

Show me some love Petoskey!  This looks like the scariest place when you drive by - but when the MP and BIL said this is where we were going to have our evening cocktails, I was surprisingly excited!

When you walk in the place does a great business!  It looked more like a drinky place to me (being somewhat of a sports place), but apparently its just as big of a eating place!!  Smells delicious and the servers are hustling and bustling!  We sat at the bar because we were only drinking, but everyone looked like they were enjoying themselves!  The woman next to me was eating the nightly special, spaghetti and meatballs!!  Yo.  Those balls be huge! I almost stuck my face in her plate.  They also have these cute little shelves for your plates (if you sit at the bar) since the bar is slanted.  Neat-O.  The menu looked delicious and the place is decorated like a hunting lodge....!!  Also have huge screen TVs and a lounge in the back if you want to just...lounge.

The bartender was so friendly!  The men ordered bourbon shots and I ordered a tequila shot.....being in Michigan, you can imagine my surprise when he asked if I wanted it chilled!! (The proper way to take a tequila shot).  A++ Sir!!

We certainly enjoyed ourselves and were sad we couldn't make it back before we left Michigan to try the food.  That's ok, we'll see this place next summer!!!   On spaghetti and meatball night, fo sho.

We'll stop in to the SDS a couple of times every summer and usually find the food decent and the service swell.  Over the past few years SDS has done a great job of adding to the solid Burger menu.  The white fish and salmon were very good and the price is fair.  Our only complaint was a "weird" server who seemed to run between angry and overly attentive.  It was truly off-putting.   On another note the beer list is void of the many great beers that Michigan produces.  (bummer).

Wow, so glad we listened to fellow yelpers and tried this place.  The service was very friendly both times that we have been here.  I tried the cajun burged the first time and liked it so much I had to get it again.  Unfortunately my burger wasn't cooked to the perfect medium it was the first time.  It was more like well-done.  Still tasty, don't get me wrong.  I liked that they had a Petoskey Brewing Co beer on tap but it didn't seem like they had that many more besides that.