Ontonagon Restaurants

SYL's CAFE
(906) 884-2522
The prototypical small-town café and bakery, Syl's offers a wide-ranging menu with something for everyone. Daily specials feature things like ham and scalloped potatoes, lasagna, cabbage rolls, and Swiss steak. Pasties ($4.79 for regular) are staples. Now homemade pizza is a big seller at lunch and dinner. The full-service bakery is known for big, tasty cinnamon and pecan rolls, cinnamon toast (bags of this crunchy, dry toast are great for camping), and nisu (Finnish cardamom bread). Syl's founder, the late Syl Laitala, was also a celebrated rug weaver. No credit cards.

HARBOR TOWN CAFE
(906) 884-6525
Harbor Town is often mentioned as a favorite local eatery. It's the local pizzeria, with pizza any time, but it also offers breakfast, hamburgers, salads, broasted chicken ($6.50 as a three-piece dinner, also by the bucket), e.g. 16 pieces $18.22, 20 pieces $20.34), and Jilbert's ice cream. Cartoon characters decorate the outdoor eating area in front. Not no-smoking, but there are no ashtrays, and the breakfast crowd here doesn't smoke. Credit cards accepted.

ROXEY'S
(906) 884-6109
This smokey, ungentrified bar serves good food. An idea of what it's about is its signature Roxey Burger (2 one-third-pound Black Angus patties, raw onions —or you could get sautéed onions — and American cheese, with chips, for $6). There are salads, too, and many chicken and other sandwiches.

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