The good the drinks and Apps, their pomegranate mojito was really good and really refreshing after an 8 mile bike ride. Â For app we had the mussel diablo which was really good. Â They also bring out fresh bread which was good as well. Â The service was really great.
The bad the prices for the quality of food you get. Â My mom ordered an Asian chicken wrap, which looked awful, the sauce was brown and thick, and was nothing like how the dish should be made, I did warn my mom not to order that dish as I am one to always eat what is local to that region which in this case is the lake fish. Â My wife ordered a pecan encrusted perch and this was average in my opinion for a $23 price tag. Â My son had the fish sticks, which I must say looked good for fish sticks, you could tell they used fresh trout and fried in house the fish sticks were in the shape of fish so even more fun for kids. Â Would definitely recommend the root beer float which comes on tap, really good.
We go to the Island several times a year, Yankee Rebel is pretty consistent. Â The food is good, the wait staff is friendly, the service can be slow at times, since a lot of large parties seem to gather here. Â We had our rehearsal dinner in 2008 here and they accommodated 24 people just fine. Â The prices on Mackinac Island are expensive no matter where you, but for the taste of the food at Yankee Rebel, I would rather spend my money here than at other places. Â My husband always enjoys the prime rib. Â I have tried several things and have enjoyed the bbq ribs, mussels and shrimp diablo over angel hair pasta, chicken pastry puff and the marsala bistro chicken.
Review Source:Like many other reviewers, I'll start by noting that this restaurant is in a tourist trap and on an island, which you already know if you're going to Mackinac Island. Â It's one block off the main tourist strip, nicely decorated in an Americana style, sort of New Englandish to go with the name. Â We were there for dinner after a long day exploring the island. Â Our server was Samatha, who was excellent, attentive, helpful. Â The food was also quite good, I had the bbq ribs, my wife had the pistachio crusted whitefish. Â We also had the mussels with Diablo sauce, which was only a little spicy, but quite flavorful. Â Lots of food, hot rolls, vegetables were crisp, not the usual soggy overboiled ones. Â Definitely would repeat if it weren't for the fact we don't get out here except once every 10 years or so.
Review Source:The boyfriend and I stopped here for a very late lunch after biking the perimeter of the Island. Our waitress was nice and more than happy to substitute prime rib for chicken in a caesar wrap. I'd been craving a decent chicken caesar wrap for a long time and this hit the spot. My boyfriend had a reuben, which he said was good. Their spinach artichoke dip is one of the best spin dips I've ever had. Yummy! Not exactly cheap but we got out of here for under $60, which is pretty decent for lunchtime. Nothing on Mackinac Island will be very cheap, it's just the way it goes there. I'm pretty sure the owner also owns Horn's Gaslight, also on the Island.
Review Source:We already knew its a tourist trap, being so close to the main street and it being on Mackinaw Island, but still should attempt to make the best food possible. Â If Yankee Rebel were to be rated on one dish, it would have received two stars, but it was able to tweak out another barely.
The Summer Walnut Salad has the greens, blue cheese, sliced pears, dried Michigan cherries, and spiced walnuts with an oil based dressing. All the elements were fresh and delicious until you combined the dressing. In fact, I'm so happy to ordered it on the side and I ended up eating the whole dish completely without dressing. It really didn't need it with the crunch, sweetness from the pear, cherries, and spiced walnuts with the tartness from the cheese. The dressing just taste of oil, that's it. Stay away from it or order another one.
Yankee would haves received two stars if I would have stopped there. Since I moved onto the Pot Roast Sandwich, they redeemed themselves with another star. It has nicely grilled bread with very tender and juicy beef. It has a layer of Dijon mustard to give it that extra tang and kick.
I ate here with my family, and I ordered the chicken pot pie, which was huge, but impeccable. Our waitress was very friendly, and they had gluten-free food for my mother. My sister got the whitefish, which she said was fabulous. This is a perfect lunch spot, delicious, and fair-priced. If you bring small children, there is a kids menu. This is a place I'll definitely come back to!
Review Source:We ate here while visiting a couple weeks ago. Â We glanced at the menu by the door, before you go in. Â My companions thought it was a little pricey, but we decided to go in anyway. Â It was not busy, and we were seated promptly. Â I had the summer salad with pear and walnuts. Â Others had Ruebens. Â The salad was good, with a vingerette dressing, but was a little high, $12 for a salad with no meat. Â The ruebens they said were good, came with chips I think, but nothing spectacular. Â We never saw our waitress after she dropped off the food. Â I bit down on a walnut shell, Ouch!....and waited for her to come back around to tell her, but she never came back. Â Odd too, because there were only two other tables with people. Â We just paid our bill and left.
I would try another place next time we go.
We came here for dinner and I get that we're on an island and things are expensive. Â I am in no way cheap. Â I have more than one pair of $800 shoes... so that's not the issue. Â It's the fact that price needs to equal quality.
The food was in no way bad, but I can't even really remember what I had, which isn't a good sign. Â My father had the pot roast, which I tried and was very good. Â They also had an abundance of bread on the table. (Yay carbs!) Â I can remember now that I had a balsamic chicken pasta, which was just ok. Â Our waitress was nice. Â She was running around all over the restaurant though because it was extremely busy for a Wednesday night!
Don't bother getting dessert here. Â There are plenty of other ice cream/fudge options down the road.
We stopped in for lunch and everything we ordered was great; MI cherry salad, kids fish dish, PBJ (best looking PBJ I have ever seen), and a fish sandwich. Â The service was wonderful! Â Great wine list, cocktails were tasty. Â The atmosphere is cozy and the fireplace is perfect for a cool day/night. Â
We also stopped in for dinner, just as good, but a bit more pricy. Â The fish tastes fresh, the prime rib a generous size. Â
A safe bet for a good meal with good service.
The signature pot roast from this restaurant comes frozen in a bag. Scroll down to read my whole review.
So, I had the displeasure of dining here last summer, but I didn't get around to a review until now.
Our server was a scowling-faced woman who called herself "the manager." She was real proud of that fact. We saw our same waitress (the so-called manager) talk disrespectfully to some younger college girl that was working there. If you are a bitch, and you are a bitch to your employees-- you should not let customers see.
I think her name was Summer. Pretty name, awful woman.
My boyfriend gets the "pot pie." Basically, it was bland, tasteless crap with a piece of frozen puff pastry laid on top and baked. This is no better than a Swanson pot pie. Just gross.
The restaurant has a bacon theme. They don't advertise it, but I noticed that bacon appeared in every section of the menu. Okay. I get it. You like bacon.
Finding something without bacon is tough.
Summer suggested the pot roast. So that's what I ordered. It was...um...okay. I mean, it was just pot roast. Not anything I would normally order out. But I thought it was going to be amazing.
Nope. Just like a frozen meal...just like the pot pie.
There was a "Kobe" beef steak on the menu for $35. Since it is literally IMPOSSIBLE to buy Kobe beef for that much, I figure the owner's just lie and nobody on this island of candy and fudge knows enough to call them out on it.
This island is a vacuum of culinary talent.
There was no way we were going to order dessert. Service and food were both too poor.
BUT GET THIS: When we were leaving, we walked down the alley way behind the restaurant (taking a short cut back to our hotel).
When I walked past the back door of the restaurant, there were two boxes of Sysco Pot Roast, pre-cooked, in the bag.
There was a cook and a waitress out back smoking (always attractive)-- so I asked them if the pot roast came pre-cooked in a bag.
The waitress immediately turned on her heels and went inside the restaurant, ignoring me. (smart girl)
The cook said, "Yeah, we get it in a bag, but then we jazz it up."
This is the kind of crap food you can expect on Mackinac Island. Get real full before you take the boat over, or prepared to get real white-trashy, real quick.
We ate here in August and just getting around to writing the review. Â The food we had was good but, the service was not very good. Â It seemed to take forever just to put in our order and even longer when the food came out. Â The food was hot and good. Â Lots of comfort food but, no explanation as to why so slow. Â If someone would have given a polite excuse they would have gotten a higher rating.
Review Source:Thanks to other yelpers my husband and I popped into Yankee Rebel Tavern for dinner and happily we were not led astray. Â The food was fantastic, the service was top notch(sadly better than the two fancy dinners we had on the island) and the fireplace was warm and toasty on what was a chilly rainy day. Â I had the pot roast and it was de-lic-ious and huge. Â My husband had the pecan encrusted white fish and while not as massive of a portion, it was equally delicious. Â I was too stuffed for dessert, so I can't vouch for that but if they take the same care into that as they do dinner, you won't be on the wrong track.
Review Source:I was expecting mediocre fare and was pleasantly surprised on two accounts. First, the prime rib was done well and they were quick to supplant creamed horseradish for real horseradish; and the walnut and blue cheese salad was quite good too but make sure that you request the dressing be applied judiciously. Second I sat at the bar and had a great chat with the bartender/manager and possibly owner who gave me wine advice as well as insights into the island and where to go and where to avoid. Most times I think resort/tourist towns are about throughput and volume but he took genuine pride in the culinary art of the place and went on about where they sourced produce etc. I was impressed and thank them for their hospitality.
Review Source:Mackinac Island operates in a timewarp that drops it back somewhere in the vicinity of 1884 when the tourism industry in the United States discovered that placing multiple versions of the same shop and selling knick-knacks for the home, children, and horse. Not much has changed since those early days when railway bigwigs and lumber barons chortled over their gin on the veranda of the Grand Hotel while their wives purchased metric tonnes of fudge and humorous blouses. Sometimes the common man found his way to the public houses, perhaps daydreaming about the time he too might be able to purchase a pound of flavoured fudge, capturing his piece of the Victorian-era American dream.
Memory of this time is preserved in the streets of the isle, and in the likes of the Yankee Rebel Tavern. Situated off the main drag somewhat, Yankee Rebel has a definite patriotic Americana vibe in the decor and amusing names on the menus but don't let that put you off. Serious food can be found here at a fairly reasonable cost, adjusted for the fact the island -- our nation's second national park and probably the first to be tossed out of the system -- is a tourist trap going on a century old. Better yet, the different selections are made with fresh ingredients of good quality.
My beau ended up going for the chicken pot pie while I favoured something else which was not the pot pie, using Yelp suggestions, and we were far from disappointed. We nearly came to a duel in our booth over the melting, buttery crust of the pot pie and then later for the rootbeer float. Truly they make a magnificent pair of bookends to a very pleasant meal; the pot pie was lightly balanced between flavours when I managed to swipe a forkful or two. My meal was good, I remember that much, but its identity was obliterated the instant I tucked into that pie. *sigh* It went very nicely with the chai I had, as the weather turned rather windy that afternoon and we were both a bit chilled despite it being in the 90s back home in Ferndale.
Yankee Rebel can become very busy but while we were there, the service was attentive and the crowds not too busy. We were checked in on quite frequently and my hot water refilled steadily enough, which is often hard to come by at any resort-like setting or vacation destination. I imagine when the place gets hopping at dinnertime, though, we all wish we were lumber barons above the cares of our common diners!
Previous reviewers hit it on the head. Dining in Mackinac is not very adventurous and menus are largely shades of the same idea. Yankee Rebel stood out for good quality food (I had the prime rib and my wife had the whitefish), interesting-enough variety, and being very family friendly (it IS good for kids). Â The server was your typical, mildly disinterested college kid but tolerable. Â Probably the best meal we had over 4 days on the island.
Review Source:My husband and I ate here for dinner with our two year old daughter. I liked the ambiance - casual, cozy and inviting, acoustic music playing softly in the background (although most songs were remakes of current tunes that really shouldn't be acoustic, so that was a little weird), more of a date place than one for kids, but we didn't necessarily feel out of place with a toddler either. Service was good, our waiter was attentive but not overly so. I had the Kobe beef medallions and scallops in an orange sauce - the beef was a tad overcooked and a little fatty, and the described "zesty" sauce was downright holy-red-pepper spicy! Thankfully I like some spice, but they really needed to provide a more accurate description. My husband had the "famous" pot roast, to which he felt was average but not anything special. Overall, the place wasn't too bad, but we felt it was overpriced (as are most places on the Island) for what we got.
Review Source:This is one of the best restaurants on Mackinac Island without question. They make American food with quality and without a lot of pretense. Their Pot roast is simple and relies on the freshness and quality of its ingredients to be such a wow. Â Their fat-free tomato basil dressing should be bottled and sold. Â I had the beef stew in a bread bowl, served with a wedge of cheddar cheese. Â I cut up the cheese and put it into the bowl and let it melt. It was simple and delicious.
They offer a great bar, and the ambience is traditional early American. The gift to be simple is the gift to be free. Â Works for the Amish. Works here too.
This is a nice little tavern. Comfortable dining, not crowded, which was surprising on a Sunday night. The place is clean and quaint. Our hostess told us we were not allowed to sit our 6 month old in a high chair at a booth, so I had to manage to feed him and eat my meal with him on my lap. Promptly thereafter, a different hostess seated another family with a baby at a booth next to us with a high chair. That was very frustrating to me. I don't think college students working on the island can comprehend or care how difficult a Mackinac trip can be with a baby in tow... oh well.
The mussels diablo were pretty good, and might have been better had we not already been spoiled by the delicious mussels at our local seafood restaurant in Ann Arbor. Some of the mussels were really tough and dry. For the price, and in light of the favorable reviews of this dish, I was disappointed. The bread they served with it wasn't that great, either.
The walleye dinner saved this meal for us. My boyfriend and I ordered it to share, since we had an appetizer and weren't super hungry. They charge $4 to split the dish but basically bring out two plates that are still gorgeously presented (walleye fillet perched atop whipped mashed potatoes, slathered with delicious sauce), and I'd never guess it was a shared portion. It was a huge amount of food! They also have a very decent, much more affordable, kids menu. A very nice place to take your family for a pleasant dinner.
Decided to eat lunch here because of the last review. Â My husband is a vegetarian but also eats seafood. Â He wished he had ordered the veggie wrap instead of the fish, which was fried with the skin on it. Â I had the Ruben sandwich which they made into aTurkey Ruben for me. Â It was delicious and huge. Â I also had one of Michigan's Short's beer. Â Our waitress was fun and friendly. Â Lunch with tip came to $23 for the 2 of us.
Review Source:Stopped in here for lunch on a recent vacation. I checked Yelp to see where to go and this place got pretty good reviews. Decent food, good service, cozy spot. I had the whitefish sandwich which was really pretty good. My girlfriend's dad did the burger and was satisfied. In a tourist-trap of a place, I'd say this spot is worth a try.
Review Source:I have to give 5 stars because they have the best bartender on the island. Â My husband and I were on a brewery/tavern tour of Michigan (3rd most breweries in the states) and the bartender knew her beers. Â We were drinking Michigan brews and she had several recommendations and other great breweries to try. Â We went to every bar/tavern on the island and both agree that they have the best and largest variety of not just the same apps. that you get everywhere. Â Although we pretty much had liquids at most the taverns we looked at the menu at all the places to see if they had any apps that we MUST try. Â I would recommend the Sesame encrusted tuna and the white fish bites for apps. here.
Review Source:This is a 3 star place. It has a nice, varied menu for group dining. We had lunch. Â
The good: whitefish sandwich- great taste with good aioli on top. Bells beer on tap a plus! Veggie wrap was also pretty good.
Bad: summer salad. Came with one canned pear (it is summer, can't get pears fresh????) overly sugared walnuts and just clumps of frise with lettuce from a bag. I could have made a better salad at home.
Overall, service was meh. Â It wasn't very busy, but our waitress was not really interested in us. Â When we were leaving, there was quite a few groups waiting for tables, yet the restaurant was half empty.
My Dad loves their pot roast - had it twice in two days. Â I had the prime rib melt. Â The prime rib was very good, but it was a hunk of meat on a piece of bread. Â I was imagining thinner slices. Â I couldn't eat it all in one sitting. Â My husband had the burger. Â He said it was very good. Â We also split the summer salad. Â It was good but not spectacular. Â Chunks of blue cheese, candied nuts, dried cherries with field greens and a light dressing.
If you like your beef, try this place.
My wife and I stopped in on a Tuesday afternoon for lunch and were pleasantly greeted and shown to a table. The menu was extensive and easily accessible for even the pickiest of eaters (My wife). The wine and beer listing was what you would expect from an establishment with "tavern" in the name.
I had a half turkey sandwich and potato soup. The sandwich was great and the potato soup was definitely home made. I would recommend this place to anyone. Â We definitely will be back when we return to the Island.
This place has everything you would want in a vacation restaurant.  This is the place we always go to on our first night in town, our most "casual" meal.  I have never been disappointed.  The mussels diablo is killer, spicy as hell!  The other time we went on a Monday night and they were having sushi night.  Paired up with a bottle of regional sparkling wine it was quite the memorable meal.  Service is great; the bartender remembered us from the previous year.  Not a huge deal but  nice touch.
Review Source:Came in for lunch - had the Summer salad (walnuts, cherries, pear). Gigantic salad. Ask for it undressed because they drowned it. The pears were a joke, but otherwise ok.
Husband had open-faced prime rib sandwich. Fantastic (why the 4 star).
Decent service, decent beer (the ever present Bell's Oberon). Worth walking off main street up the hill.
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