Michigan on Main

This place is inside the Bavarian Inn so parking is a pain. It’s along the side facing Main Street (directly across from Zehnders) above the shopping area. The bar area and dining room are very attractive and inviting, BUT… The food is just awful. I started with the B&G Grilled Cheese Sticks. It sounds like it’s basically just a grilled cheese cut into sticks, but I figured I must be missing something and ordered them because I love cheese and I love bread, so hey. Well, my bad… It really IS just a grilled cheese cut into sticks, but they grill it on top of some Parmesan, which takes on a nasty burnt flavor. Ick. Maybe the «Caprese» dip can save them. When I think «Caprese», I think Tomato, Mozzarella, and Basil. What I got was thinned out Thousand Island dressing. Bughhhh… Then my Michigan Ale Brat came. I had substituted the fries (from frozen) for the house made Michigan Potato Cheese Puffs and I started there. Gummy, bland, and dismal. I took a dip of the Ale Dip and it was basically a sweet, thin honey mustard. Meh. The brat itself was actually pretty good, but the bun was way too thick and a mouth desiccating level of dry. I cut about half the bun away and it was better, but still just didn’t add to the party in a positive way. The brat, like all the sandwiches, also comes with a «Michigan side». Michigan Potato salad was today’s and it was OK, but I’m not really a fan of potato salad so there’s that. Service was fair, but did take about 5 minutes to notice I was even there since its seat-​your-​self. $ 20 + a tip later, I wish I would have gone elsewhere.

Disappointed, very slow service. Wait staff inattentive. Cannot figure out that they have no chicken wings so we ordered something else 10 minutes later told they are out of that also. Feel like this is a restaurant aspiring to fail. Our waitress Bree could have been more timely. When the food finally came out an hour later it was at least good. But not worth the wait

Nice selection of craft beers. We had soup and the potato cheese puffs and they were both delicious. We just stopped in for a few beers and a quick bite to tide us over until dinner, and Michigan on Main did the trick for us :)

No wait, great drink list and good food. The seasonal salad and potato wedges were much better than expected.

Limited food menu but of a wide variety at a good price and portion size. Good vinegar based homemade slaw. Michigan beer variety is good and vast. Brother in law and I each had sampler fights to start off the evening. Nice outdoor patio if weather is nice. Located on SW corner of Bavarian Inn restaurant overlooking Main St.

This cute patio spot is perfect for lunch. The atmosphere is great. There are a lot of tables with umbrellas. The food is excellent. I had The Grand sandwich which came on a pretzel bun the was delish. A side of their cranberry salad came with it too, which I love! I would recommend this spot for anyone looking for a quite lunch spot away from the usual «Frankenmuth Chicken.»

After walking around the Bavarian Inn a little bit, we settled into the bar here. This part of the Inn has been re-​done (since we were last here) and is very, very nice.
ALL the food they serve here at MI on Main is grown and produced in MI — so the choices on their menu don’t include all the regular items found on the Inn’s main menu. That said, they will order you anything you want, they just have to get you the Bavarian Inn menu and put your order in somewhere else.
It seemed like a little extra hassle, so we just skipped to the drinks. I had a couple tulip glasses of Short’s Brewing Strawberry Shorts Cake and my wife had some kind of grape-​y drink, which was much to her liking. The beer was delicious, the service was beyond excellent, and the folks who joined us at the bar were wonderful, too.
Great experience, great service — we’ll definitely be back.

Food was great, service was ok. I ordered the «teaser «wedge salad, which was half a head of lettuce! HUGE! Also had the Caprese Salad which was wonderful. We split the Sparty Party appitizer which was also huge, and everything on it was great!
Definitely give this place a try!

We have been back a couple times now… They did freshin up the menu with a few things that are not fried… They were good but the service was still miserable… None of the staff knows anything and it has become more of an employee hang out rather then a place locals can enjoy… Last time we visited all the employees were sitting at the bar ordering «special» items that were not on the menu and using horrid language… The place has so much potential if someone would open up there eyes… Close the freezer lid… Freshin up the menu and not allow employees to spoil it for the paying customers… O ya… Hire some servers /​bartenders that care.

Three of us went here tonight. I had chicken and waffle. It was awesome! Wine price was a bit steep but all three dishes we ordered were great!

My wife and I wanted to try the new menu and were pleasantly surprised. My wife’s small salad was huge and tasty. I had a fantastic dumpling soup. We’ll be back to try some of the other unique sounding meals. Furthest thing from chain restaurant food. We like that. Nice new bar area too.

Just had lunch here was not impressed at all. They have ruined a perfectly good place. I will never step foot back in this place. We ordered a chicken cordon bleu. It was totally different then what it used to be. The wait staff tried to hard to be nice also. I don’t need a waiter or a manager every 5 mins. Also the chicken was burnt it looked like it was sitting on the stove for a couple hrs and the potato wedges were really crispy. Please change the resturant back to what it normally was.

I was not impressed with the new incarnation of Bavarian Inn’s upstairs restaurant. The good news? The twisty french fries and sweet/​sour slaw were both excellent and the service was good. The bad news? Everything else… the footlong brats were mealy and they came on excessively bready pretzel buns. The hamburger was okay, but also on a very bready, chewy pretzel bun with strange condiments – spring greens and grape tomatoes? Did they steal them from the salad bar??? The bufffalo chicken mac & cheese was interesting. We tried two desserts – the lemon pie (don’t bother) and the twin puffs, which were okay. And what did a burger, 2 brats, a chicken mac & cheese, tiny fish tacos, 1 beer, and one pop run us? $ 87, that’s what. We won’t be back.