Boone Dock’s

This place has terrible reviews. My experience went from meh, to hey this is a good burger.
Service, very good, very nice helpful waitress.
Food: Potato soup was beef and potato, way to salty for me.
I ordered an up north burger, it was actually good. For some reason below reviews do not match the quality and caliber of food that is at this restaurant. It would be my believe that these little reviews come from other area restaurants. The food was actually very good. that is except for the soup.

Kid friendly and live entertainment. My up north burger was good but the Michigan salad was made pre order, served in a plastic dish and the dressing was served in packets. Wow.

Below average.
At first glance, it seemed like a cool looking place. My boyfriend and I were visiting Sleeping Bear Dunes, and we were looking for a quick lunch before the hike. I noticed it had a large outdoor patio and was in the mood for eating outside, so we headed to Boone Docks.
We were seated outside, and I almost fell to the ground because I was seated in a broken chair. It took a waitress about 10 minutes to come over to our table and take our drink orders.
After getting drinks, we ordered food. I ordered The Gobbler Burger– a turkey burger with honey mustard and guacamole.
To begin with, our food took too long to come out– the waitress came by our table twice to apologize but not once to refill our drinks. When I got my food, it didn’t look too special. I noticed the «guacamole» was just a large slice of avocado which normally I would prefer, but when I bit into my sandwich, the avocado was hard and clearly not fresh. I tried to cut it up to spread it more evenly over my burger, but I couldn’t even slice it with a butter knife. It’s avocado for heaven’s sake, it supposed to be soft. The burger was sub-​par– not great seasoning, not even a great taste.
I will say– the fries were very good. I liked how the key the ketchup, mustard, mayo, etc in the fridge and then brought it out with your meal.
The place is way too expensive for how bad the food is. I would have maybe paid 5 dollars for that burger– it was $ 13. It’s unreasonable to charge $ 13 for a burger that I could make better myself.
Overall– sub par service, sub par food. And way overpriced.

Lacking on the service side. Went there and got seated by the hostess outside as we sat there for 20 mins watching a storm roll in, I went back to the hostess stand to ask about a indoor table. She said no you have already been seated. I said we haven’t been served or seen our waitress in 20 mins so why would that make a difference. She said NO moving. So we moved across the street to a different restaurant. Later that night on the news we saw that the tree we were sitting under blew away in the storm. Glad we left.

Boone docks has pretty good food, not sure why so many bad reviews. We got there at peak lunch time and got a seat on the deck, which was already pretty packed. My wife and I both ordered burgers and they were both good. Cooked just right to what we ordered and we also got the fries instead of chips, which were really good! We will certainly go back next time we are in Gleb Arbor!

Really confused as to why this place only has 2.5 stars. We came in at opening (11a) and there were already a few people waiting for the doors to open. The food is really, really good and the service isn’t bad either. Portion sizes are very large and the prices are maybe a dollar more than something similar at Applebee’s or Chili’s, but it’s a tourist location so… You should probably expect that. I’m a college student and if I can afford Boon Dock’s, I promise YOU can afford it. Good experience– would definitely return. :)

Awesome atmosphere. Cute little cabin inside and perfect picnic area outside! Overlooks the Glen Arbor area which is also absolutely adorable. Great service and killer pulled pork sandwich!

Horrible. Service takes for ever. The burgers were frozen patties that were way over cooked and the michigan salad was absolutely disgusting… Big chunks of flavorless Iceberg lettuce in a salad that is ALWAYS mixed greens or spinach. I couldn’t even finish it, it was so boring. My husband had the Ruben and that was the only thing edible. You definitely go here for the cool outside seating and entertainment. Go to drink their overpriced beers, not to eat.

Has an great backwoods feel and décor. I had Jerk Chicken and wife the perch sandwich. Both really enjoyed and the kids liked their kids meals.

Great outdoor atmosphere. Oberon w orange, split the perch dinner and parmesan asparagus, and some awesome silver tequila. Realy good service. Bit pricy but good experience.

Came for the food which was poor as was the service. Burgers were all frozen patties that only resembled beef, buns were stale, mozzarella sticks were still partially frozen. Prices were absurd for the quality of food. Wouldn’t go back for a free meal.

Very busy in the summers –as it should be with the BEST outdoor seating environment in town. I’d stick with drinks unless you’re looking for an affordable bar food menu!

The best thing about Boone Docks — is the outside entertainment, and the outside bar area Love the bands, love the atmosphere. Its always packed. For me — the service has always been good — never had an issue there. The food is mediocre. Most of it’s pre packaged, frozen. BUT — we always end up going when we are in Glen Arbor — most of the time, we get an appetizer and sit at the bar and have no complaints. As for the prices? I don’t think they are any different than anywhere else in Glen Arbor. If you are looking for «cheap» in Glen Arbor, (well any where Up North for that matter), good luck. Overall — we haven’t experienced anything that would keep us from coming back.

This place has taken a nose dive in recent years — its to the point where you almost think they are trying to alienate people. The service was very good though — super nice waiter and pretty prompt attention. We have been going here for years and vowed to never go back — food is pricey and poor quality.

Stopped at Boone Dock’s for lunch with the family. The food was above average, service was a little slow, needed to ask for extra items such as napkins and ketchup. Food was hot when it came out, and portion size was good. I wasn’t able to finish all of my meal.

The live music was country music and drove me crazy, and the water served tasted like it was sitting in a rusty steel pipe for years, can’t stand well water. Prices were on the higher side for a simplistic menu. Not a place I’d hit up again unless there was no other choice.

Horrible food and service. Burrito tasted horrible. Cheap seasoning. Waitress didn’t check on us after serving so by the time she finally came back my husband was done eating. Asparagus appetizer was pretty good. Service seriously lacking.

Wood Cutter’s Burrito
The giant flour tortilla wet burrito is filled with seasoned ground sirloin, refried beans and onion. Topped with shredded lettuce, sweet pepper, black olive, melted co-​jack cheese and their zesty wood cutters sauce. $ 15.95
Not quite as big $ 10.95
Yes, this was as good as it looks. And yes, it will fill you up. Now many might feel you can’t get get Mexican in the North woods. And, those many are correct; however, the guys at the Boonedocks have been able to answer the need for Mexican food, or at least with their one offering of the Wood Cutter’s Burrito!
This is definitely a cool joint to be, especially during the warmer summer months. Their restaurant/​bar a full corner of a block and their beer garden is just as big. If you’re looking for a place to let loose, watch the game, hear a live band or just be seen, this is the joint!

So this is definitely a place I should have looked up on Unilocal before stopping. Unfortunately with a carload of 8 hungry people and not knowing of any other places we just went in & hoped for the best.
The best is not what we got. 1^st off they said it would be like 45 min to sit us all together so we split up into 2 tables of 4 each. They put us with 1 table between us and those people left about 10 min later. To me that made it seem like they weren’t interested in even attempting to seat us together.
The prices didn’t jive with the basic menu — I can get a better, cheaper burger at Five Guys all day long. The waffle fry app was just ok — smaller than any other I have had for the same price.
My sister and the 3 kids with her finished their food before my table of 4 even received our food — she ended up finishing & paying for our food when she paid for hers. Apparently that meant out server was done with us. I didn’t know she had paid and was waiting & waiting for the server. Nobody asked if we needed refills or to go containers after the bill was paid.
Sub par food, Sub par service. If back in the area they won’t get my business again,

This is the #1 primo piece of realty in all of Glen Arbor. The patio is huge and wonderful with a really nice girl’s clothes store, ice cream and candy shops, etc. It’s darn cute and it’s great for live music. The only downside to this piece of property is that there happens to be a TERRIBLE restaurant sitting on it.
The place is always packed, so expect to wait. The servers are always super busy, so don’t expect friendly service. I don’t know what goes on in the kitchen, but don’t expect anything good to come out of there either. Basically, it’s bar food and they don’t care to make it anything better than that.
It doesn’t really bother me, but my dad always complains about how when they serve you outside, everything is in crappy little baskets with plastic silverware that comes wrapped in plastic and even the dressing comes in plastic packets. This is fine, expected even, given the quality of the food. However, the prices don’t reflect the quality at all. Frozen food, prepackaged everything, they just don’t care. This place gets so much business because the deck is so great. The owners must be rollin’ in dough because they turn customers all day and all night without spending an extra dime on making the food decent. At least Art’s is cheap and you know what you’re getting.
Overall, this place is a huge bummer. I wish somebody who actually cares would buy out the current owners and actually do something special with this place.