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| Although I dont make it Up North near as much as Id like, when I do go, there are a few restaurant/bar establishments I absolutely must visit for a "shore lunch" when it comes time to take a break after a long day of casting. Most of these places are as much (or more) about the people/conversation/fish stories and Northwoods history/flavor as they are about the food or libation. Visiting places such as these can certainly add to the over all experience and joy of any trip I take. Just wondering what a few of your on-the-water favorites are and which Chain might have a good number of choices to choose from?
One of my personal favorites has to be stopping in at Bents Camp for a "Wisconsin Tower" - three tiers of fried walleye fingers, cheese curds and mushrooms coupled w a cold one, view of the lake and history of the place is hard to beat. |
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Location: North Fork, Flambeau River | I place I enjoy visting on my way back from the Turtle Flambeau Flowage is the Spring Creek Cruise Inn for one their steak sandwhiches & cheese curds.. outstanding. It does a body good after a long day of casting. |
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| Hillside Resort in Phelps on Lac Vieux Desert. Prime rib and giant bloody Mary Saturday night. Giant muskies all over the lodge walls. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Famous Dave's on Round Lake gets my business whenever I'm fishing those deep lakes over der.
A few tall beers and a rack o ribs with loaded baked potato.
Big W, I use the other landing on the TFF and hit the Round Up on the way home. Fried chicken.
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Location: Hudson, WI | Angler's Haven on Lac Courte Oreilles. Always packed, but their pizza is worth the wait. They have a pizza that should be illegal. It's a mustard-type sauce with beer braised/grilled brats sliced up on it. Grilled onions, a little kraut and a Wisconsin amount of cheese. Actually, every pizza there is great and I guess their burgers are top notch. That particular pizza is memorable though. |
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Location: West Chester, OH | 2nd for Hillside on LVD for Friday "all you can eat fish & chicken." The fish is good & the chicken is out-of-sight. Be prepared to wait for a table but the place has real character & a good view of "Big Windy." |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Pine Isle on the shores of Medicine Lake of the Three Lakes Chain is a nice place to get food and drink - nothing special, but friendly bar staff and decent food for a bar & grill.
Pine Harbor or the Jailhouse on Boom Lake/Wisconsin River in Rhinelander are decent establishments.
Sweetwater along the Eagle River between Yellow Birch and Watersmeet of the ER Chain, as well as Braywood on Catfish Lake on the ER chain are not too bad of choices either.
Fibbers on Big St. Germain and Black Bear Lodge on Little St. Germain are also good choices I frequent. |
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| x2 for Bent's Camp on the Cisco Chain. Bruce Becker took us there for lunch one afternoon and I think we ate there at least once every day. Great food, Cold beer, and great atmosphere!! |
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| Big Swedes on Lake Holcombe good place to watch the brewers or packers then finish on the evening bite. Be sure to eat a Big Swede Burger!!! 
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Location: Manitowish Waters WI | Pea Patch on the Manitowish Chain for a black and blue burger and a pea water |
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| I third Hillside on LVD. Sat nite's prime rib is to die for!! Mix that with a couple of Robbies dynamite old fashions and you'll have yourself a great evening! Like mentioned fish and chicken friday nites and he is open for lunch as well and has some killer black angus burgers and homemade pizzas!!! |
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| There’s sooo many places to choose from on the Big Chip. When fishing up on the northside I like to get a bloody mary from Treelend’s, it’s a meal in a glass! When fishing down on the darkside I like to stop in the Little Red Bar for an ice cold leinney. But at the end of the day, my favorite place is the Big Musky bar, it has great character and my trailer is just a short stumble away… |
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| Pea Patch Mani Waters. Steak Bomber! |
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| Very hard to go past R&R Bayview when on the Chip. Truck automatically stops at the Wanigon on the way by. Don't understand it, but the truck just stops so we get out. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Definitely love the Patch up in Mani. Have to go with a nice sloppy Cajun burger though.
Like the Lower Unit for on the water cocktails mid day with a super sub too. The dock cams are fun to mess with your buddies that are working too and can check their website out during the day when you're up nort and they are slaving away.  |
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Location: Tomahawk,Wis | The Happy Snapper on Lake Mohawksin
Awesome Burgers
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Location: SW MI | The Thirsty Whale in Minocqua. Right on the lake and you can't beat a blackened tuna steak sandwich. |
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Location: Altoona IA | Oh The WI Tower. Brings a tear to my eyes thinking about it. Not long now Bro. Also agree with the Pea Patch, Lower Unit, Highlander (or what ever it will be called this year), Thirsty Whale and Belle Isle (Minocqua). Goose we'll have to check out some of these other recommendations.
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Location: Manitowish Waters WI | 71mercman - 4/12/2012 7:10 AM
Oh The WI Tower. Brings a tear to my eyes thinking about it. Not long now Bro. Also agree with the Pea Patch, Lower Unit, Highlander (or what ever it will be called this year), Thirsty Whale and Belle Isle (Minocqua). Goose we'll have to check out some of these other recommendations.
The Highland Club. It's been the Broken Oar for the last five years. The new owners name is Jeff and he is an avid Muskie fisherman. He is also a Rhinhart and his dad owns the taxidermy academy so he has some awesome mount in the bar of all species of wildlife. |
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Location: Altoona IA |
Oh yea, thats right. Great atmosphere and good people, just had seen that it has been for sale. |
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| The Landing on the Chip - great Bloodies. Also on the Chip R&R Bayview great breakfast! |
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| Can't believe three votes for the Pea Patch (actually not on the water) cuz I had a terrible night there last summer. Tried and tried to go to sleep but a woman kept yelling, "You're killing me, you're killing me." I tried to shut it out but I just couldn't. She was just screaming at the top of her lungs, "YOU'RE KILLING ME, YOU'RE KILLING ME!! My feeling is that if you pay good money for a motel room, you shouldn't have to spend that whole night being reminded of the the kind of lover that you aren't, never were and never will be!!! I guess the burgers were OK |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Definitely wouldn't stay at the PP Motel, but the foods good, drinks are cold, and we have had way too much fun there over the years not to make it a stop.
I do find myself at the Rustic a bit more as of late, just because it's closer to the cabin. They have decent food there too, and cold beer. |
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Location: Milwaukee, WI | Deerfoot burgers on the Chip are hard to beat. New ownership is a plus, too.
Breakfast at the R&R is fantastic, as was already mentioned. Hard to argue with a bloody mary with every order!
I also enjoy the Idle Hour and the Moose-Jaw on the Pike-Round chain when I am up there. |
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Location: Price County WI | Birch Island Resort on the Phillips Chain, Great Steaks, Great Burgers, Great Bartenders and Awesome Owners! |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Billy Bobs in Tomahawk WI near Lake Nokomis, yeah, it's not on the water but.... Awesome pizza and the waitress's are very easy on the eyes.. I will throw another vote out for the Happy Snapper on Mohawksin as well.. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | The artesian well just north of Outing Minnesota, now located by the fish hachery.
Used to stop there every time I went north when it was along the road. It was so popular that accidents occurred there at times so they re-routed it with pipe next to the hatchery so it was away from the road.
That was some really good water...Cold, and definitely thirst quenching!!
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| Hey Louis, i wanna hang with you on the chip! R&R for breakfast is unbeatable, and Deerfoots burgers are the best on the flowage. Overall Trelands is great too for drinks and food...
Steve. |
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| I have had several nights, that I barely remember, yet still tell stories about at the Black Oak in Vilas Cty! |
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| Sam Ubl - 4/10/2012 1:05 PM
Pine Isle on the shores of Medicine Lake of the Three Lakes Chain is a nice place to get food and drink - nothing special, but friendly bar staff and decent food for a bar & grill.
Pine Harbor or the Jailhouse on Boom Lake/Wisconsin River in Rhinelander are decent establishments.
Sweetwater along the Eagle River between Yellow Birch and Watersmeet of the ER Chain, as well as Braywood on Catfish Lake on the ER chain are not too bad of choices either.
isn't sweetwater's on duck lake of the E.R. chain? or did they relocate?
Fibbers on Big St. Germain and Black Bear Lodge on Little St. Germain are also good choices I frequent. |
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| i thought sweetwater's was on duck lake of the eagle river chain... did they relocate? |
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| OK it's not up North, but you can't fish there yet and some of us are fishing the Fox Chain right now. Best taste for me is the Sandbar on Lake Marie where I had an Italian Sausage with grilled sweet peppers and onions and fries that was just about heaven last Saturday. The best deal was the week prior when I had the lunch special that the Thirsty Turtle-grilled cheese sandwich and bowl of really good soup for only 5 bucks. Going back tomorrow and will repeat one of those. |
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Location: Milwaukee, WI | esox69 - 4/12/2012 8:34 PM
Hey Louis, i wanna hang with you on the chip! R&R for breakfast is unbeatable, and Deerfoots burgers are the best on the flowage. Overall Trelands is great too for drinks and food...
Steve.
I'll be staying at Treelands August 25 through September 3rd. If you're up there around then, send me pm and we'll have a beer. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | John's office at Smokey's on Pewaukee. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i'd have to say my all-time favorite is the Alpine on Oneida Lake in Rhinelander, WI.. nice people, great cheeseburger, an old dog mixed with locals and resorters alike. as close as you can come to the old northwoods vacation-spot as you can come.
second favorite with the same flavor is the Birchwood on Moen's ...
haven't been to either in a few years ... need to get back to both of em again someday soon! |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | Some of the best times of my life have been spent at Lakeview Inn on Pelican Lake. The Gerrits operate a fine establishment. The burgers are great and you can enjoy a few Rhinelander Shorties while gazing at some of Mr. Worrall's Pelican Lake monsters on the walls or the cutie, Miss Beth, behind the bar! |
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| Louis,
If I can make it, you're on! |
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Location: Rhinelander | Birchwood on the Moens Chain, just a good and friendly place. Probably the best regular old cheeseburger around. |
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Location: Iowa | For me it is pretty hard to beat "The Landing" or "Bayview" on Lake Vermilion. Gone to Crown-town and James-town on more than one occasion at both places...Their walleye sandwich is pretty amazing as well! |
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| The Birchwood on Third Lake in the Moen Chain has really good pizza as well as the burgers that were mentioned. Lots of good WI cheese. They also have Spotted Cow on tap and beer specials most days. As a bonus, I can walk there from my cottage |
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| I vote for the Watering Hole on Hwy 51 right before Minocqua.....best Fajita & Margaritas in the northwoods!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| x4 for Bents Camp on the Cisco CHain. Great burgers, pizza and cold Leinies. |
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| swollenprostate - 4/27/2012 3:53 PM
everytime up we stop into Musky Shores on Squirrel Lake
wow, really???
I have to agree on the hayward thing, Deerfoot, treelands and R&R for breakfast. One of my favorites !!! and we used to include Hermans Landing for the onion rings. |
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| Great thread---
Grew up 3 houses south of Musky Shores on Squirrel Lake in the 70s-80s--
then it was called Laurel & Hardies----legendary all you can eat perch fish fry--and the old school country band called the Drifters---Great memories with my mom and dad.
Now we have a cabin on Lake Vermilion (West End)---and "The Landing" is our new favorite---took my wife there the first time we were up cabin shopping---and the cabin we liked was right down the road---had a good feeling about it right away!
-Big Perc is dead on---the Walleye sandwich is amazing---Also Friday night Fish Fry---with all you can eat and salad bar-- best deal anywhere near---not to mention great view-atmosphere---always great service---real nice people from the resorts-island cabins, and road access cabins--little bridge leading to it---boat landing right next store---docks for boats/sea planes, outdoor bar/tent, bonfire area etc....
During the busy summer on a hot/humid Friday/Saturday night---feels like the old days at the resort growing up as a kid in Northern Wisconsin.
The only thing that compares for me is the old glory days at Bosakies in Minocqua when it was in its prime during the 70s -80s--also legendary Friday night fish fry.
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | R&R for breakfast on the Chip
Louie's Landing Burger for Lunch on Moose Lake
Cricket's about 15 miles outside of Minoqua on Hwy 70, has always been a nice place to eat over the years. |
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| We have a cabin ff Great Bass Lk Rd. wish Buckskin lk had a watering hole on it....If were talkin bard off the lake my fav. is BlackBear...love the inside of that place and favorite drink is the Vanilla Bear (Vanilla McGillincutty and Root Beer) and their pizza is flame |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | a couple changes at the ole Black "sniff" Bear these days ... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I like the Hideout. The barkeep is a sweetie and sometimes, when it's late, allows me to |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Here is another vote for The Hillside resort on LVD.
The character of this ancient log cabin is a good as the food!
It matches the old Holiday Bar on North Twin, before it burned down. The new place is very nice, especially if you hadn't ever seen the old place, but its not the same.
For me, "Up North" character matters as much as quality food.
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| swollenprostate - 5/1/2012 5:32 PM
We have a cabin ff Great Bass Lk Rd. wish Buckskin lk had a watering hole on it....If were talkin bard off the lake my fav. is BlackBear...love the inside of that place and favorite drink is the Vanilla Bear (Vanilla McGillincutty and Root Beer) and their pizza is flame
now that i agree with.. Dane is no longer the owner. I lived on Squirrel lake for a number of years. Never really cared for MS, but the other places are great. I really miss that area. |
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | Anglers Haven on Lac Courte Orielles bar none. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | My step dad makes the best SoCo Old fashions and my pier is never crowded. I pick up take-n-bakes from Mark Gostisha's and I'm golden |
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Location: North Fork, Flambeau River | Well with date night coming up with my wife, this has been a good topic. It sounds like we'll be traveling to Angler's Haven this weekend. |
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Location: Hopefully on the water | Another vote for Hillside on LVD. Ice cold Killians on tap. Burgers have always been good.
Reel Living on Lost land in October. Watched a couple of Badger games a little longer than maybe we should have in October.
Bents Camp on the Cisco Chain.. too much character there.
Blue Goose up on Mille Lacs. Some crazy stuff there. Heck we even saw Elvis there one night.
Pelican lake is Gerrit lakeview. Lot's of laughs there.My stomach hurts after listening/laughing at/with Norm.
But the Best overall ON the water is in the boat for a pull on the blackberry. That is because it means we just caught a musky:) |
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Location: north metro, MN | x3 for the Landing on Lake Vermilion. Love that place, great food and great people, love the feeling you get walking a joint like that.. usually there are a couple people in there that smell like muskies which of coarse is always a good thing. |
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Location: North Fork, Flambeau River | Took a drive to check out Angler's Haven on the Chip. Flowage...wow! the pizza is amazing, and if you enjoy a cold leinies, you can't beat it. |
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