Rapid River
| JACK'S
RESTAURANT (906) 474-9927 This consummate small-town diner - offers very good home cooking, grandma style, and good value, too. The ever-changing array of "Jack's classics" ($6.50 to $10) may be meat loaf, chicken pot pie, roast pork or beef, or hamburger hot dish. Classics come with choice of potato, vegetable, and homemade roll. Breads, pies ($2.39/slice), dinner rolls, and sweet rolls are made here from scratch. They're also sold retail, with a day-ahead order for pies, dinner rolls, and breads. Berries for desserts and pancakes are purchased locally when possible. Sunday dinner features baked turkey or ham. Friday fish fry ($8-$12) most always features fresh whitefish, lake trout, and perch (all fried) from nearby Bay de Noc Fisheries in Fairport. Salmon and cod come grilled or baked. Jack and Vivian Miller founded Jack's in 1943. (Her mother was a lumber camp cook.) Now their grandsons, Jeff and John, own and run it. Soups can be outstanding — the "boiled dinner" soup (corned beef, cabbage, potato, carrot, onion) is terrific. Burgers are formed fresh. Smoking is allowed at the counter and front room. The non-smoking knotty-pine dining room has charming murals of local scenes from the 1940s, by John Heath of Au Train. No plastic. U.P. checks OK. ATM is just across the street. Bring cash if you're
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