Many people visit this restaurant to taste nicely cooked salmon, beef stroganoff and philly steaks. This place is known for good beer. Great coffee will make your meal tastier and you'll certainly come back. Mylan's Waterfront Grille is famous for its great service and friendly staff, that is always ready to help you. In accordance with the visitors' opinions, prices are reasonable. There is a calm atmosphere and lovely decor at this place. Google users awarded the rating of 4.1 to this spot.
I just had my third meal at this hidden gem. The food is consistently fantastic. It's quiet, comfortable and the service is excellent. Pricing is appropriate and I can't recommend this restaurant enough. It is my new favorite in Whitehall. Well done.
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$20–30
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
French Dip
Went to dinner here last night. Great service. Everything clean. We all enjoyed our food. I had chicken parmesan. It was two meals for me but so good. The view is the best and especially nice for sunsets. You can choose to dine inside or on the patio.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$20–30
Recommended dishes
Perch
First visit was amazing. Great perch and onion rings. So good that we took our guests back for dinner the following Friday and it was terrible. All of us had problems with our food...except the burger. Our fish was terribly over cooked we requested replacements that again were sent out over cooked. Fish inside was dried up. It was my husband's 70th birthday celebration. We were embarrassed and disappointed. Management gave 10% discount on our bill. Im still disappointed and called today. Kylie said....sorry. And made no attempt to get us back as a customer.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$20–30
Food: 2
Service: 2
Atmosphere: 4
I can’t even give this a one star.
We arrived (a family of 9 - with 3 kids) at 4 pm and were completely ignored after ordering. We waited over an hour before we were told “our food is coming”. 30 minutes later still no food and 3 very hungry children.
When we inquired about the food (respectfully might I add), we were greeted with rude waitresses and really inappropriate faces when we asked about our food.
We then requested it be packed up to go because it was past the point of our kids waiting to eat - another 20 minutes and when we FINALLY received our order we were missing 3 meals…
We informed them we had to leave and so we did.
Service was TERRIBLE AND THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE WAS INAPPROPRIATE.
I would not recommend eating here simply on service alone.
Be better.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Other
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
We recently moved back to West MI after a couple years away and we were looking for a date night restaurant.
Mylan's was outstanding! we were able to sit out on the deck with a sunset view of White Lake.
Our waitress, Skye, was pleasant and attentive and was not at all bothered that we were still finishing our dinner after closing.
The menu was simple in layout and choices which is a bonus in my book since choosing good food from too many options is really hard!
My husband and I split the BBQ Bacon Jam and Chicken wrap with onion rings and the Walleye Sandwich with seasoned fries to get a taste of several items on our first visit.
The wrap had some heat to it. It was packed full but not sloppy or soggy. The coleslaw was crisp and delicious. We tried this even though it normally comes with fried chicken and they only had grilled. It was stellar with the grilled chicken. I think it would have been too crunchy with crispy chicken. So, if we reordered it we'd request grilled chicken again.
The Walleye sandwich was my favorite of the night. The bun was soft and fluffy with just a slight crisp. I'm not a food expert but it reminded me of a Ciabatta bun. The homemade tartar was delicious. Not too tart or tangy and did not overpower the bite. The fish was crisp on the outside and flaky on the inside. The lettuce and tomato seemed fresh garden picked with the quality and texture. Truly an excellent sandwich!
The fries were my preference over the onion rings. Some of the fries were a bit overseasoned. Otherwise, the seasoning was delicious. These fries certainly didn't need any additional dip though ranch cut the salty seasoning in some bites. Although battered, some of the onion rings were overdone, thin crisps that we did not eat.
The only downside was they were out of brussel sprouts and that's my favorite dish to try at every restaurant. On the plus side, it is a reason to return soon and I'm looking forward to another fantastic experience!
I'm sad I didn't get photos of the plates!
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$10–20
Food: 4
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Mylan’S Burger
A profound mound of onion rings arrive heaped with precision on a long, rectangular plate, a separate plate with a lone metal cup of ranch to the side. They are mostly coated in a surprisingly elaborate batter: thick, puffy, and chock full of the intricate and gnarled bits of darkened batter enhancing texture and flavor alike. Likewise the color swirls between dark and golden brown in a cacophony of shades.
The patchwork of batter and exposed onion is another indication that these are freshly made and hand battered, albeit lacking in precision and presentation. Though not immediately apparent, three of the eight onion rings (those resting at the bottom of the mound) are fused together like an unholy abomination, the batter locking them together like a vice, portents of dread for the near future.
Mylan’s clearly takes pride in the “house-made beer batter” for these onion rings, and it shows. Whatever beer they’ve chosen manifests in a subtle sweetness and a much more explicit caramelization, most prominent in the promontory bits on the periphery. These are crunchy and shockingly flavorful, almost like little bits of onion-flavored caramel corn, a taste much better than it perhaps sounds.
The onions can’t quite match the flavor of the batter, but they come closest when they are more thickly cut, though most of the plate is made up of thin slices. There’s a slight undercurrent of onion taste beneath the batter, but the batter tends to overpower it. The onions are juicy, but not too juicy; greasy, but only just.
The accompanying ranch is good, but nothing special, mostly serving to cut a bit of the batter’s sweetness and give a bit of moisture to the crunchier portions.
While the taste of the batter makes these onion rings soar to the very heights of what an onion ring can be, the complete failure in the execution of the batter makes them plummet as abruptly as a stalled jet, whirling in a panic towards the ground after a critical equipment failure.
At first, the caramelized batter remains fascinating, endlessly folding in on itself in more and more hidden depths and increasingly fractal layers. The onions are a little undercooked and mostly on the thin side, but the artful batter comes close to making up for it.
That is, they would, if it wasn’t for the tangled monstrosity that lurks at the bottom of the plate. The sweet, sticky batter managed to fuse into itself, some crude, abstract sculpture one might find in a middling and heavily-subsidized modern art museum that mostly functions as elaborate money-laundering.
Shedding is rampant as the hard chunks fly away with impunity, making an increasingly unappetizing pile on the plate. I attempt to surgically separate the three onion rings with my silverware, but the result is more akin to gruesome butchery, the sort that would definitely get me sued for medical malpractice from the patient’s next of kin.
At $7.95 for approximately 8 onion rings, these are about standard at premium pricing. If the entire plate was like the first few onion rings, they would have been a steal. Unfortunately, the abomination skulking in wait brings it down more than a few pegs, making me lose my appetite entirely.
These are clearly the result of a restaurant trying desperately to rise above the mediocre standards of a tourist-centric lake town, counting on a good recipe and a flashy presentation to bring it to the finish line. Unfortunately, the complete failure at execution makes these more of a disappointment, particularly at the massive gap between demonstrated potential and disappointing reality.
Family and I had an amazing dinner there. We all got the fish and fries. It was cooked to perfection and very delicious...my wife and mother in law couldn't even finish it all so took doggy bags home. We sat at the bar and our bartender Courtney was awesome as well. She was very attentive to our needs. We will 100 percent be going back for dinner again very soon!
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$10–20
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Seafood
Was not impressed with dinner. Kids burgers were undercooked our steaks were overcooked. Waitress was not able to identify the salad on the appetizer. They come out and informed us that they were out of mashed potatoes and then when we gave them our sides. One plate arrives with mashed potato and the other came with sides different than we ordered. When I brought that to her attention she asked if it would be fine. We agreed but really? Burger and steak could use some seasoning, bayou pasta tasted a bit fishy, the shrimp you add on to sirloin was definitely not sauteed butter.
Side salads were amazing. The deep fried locally grown asparagus was the star of the whole night would definitely eat that again. Onion rings are definitely breaded on site like the good old days.
The watermelon margarita was amazing.
So with the amount of money we spent my verdict is I would definitely not go back and eat a meal but I would go back get some watermelon margaritas and some deep fried asparagus sit outside and take in the great view.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$20–30
Food: 1
Service: 3
Atmosphere: 4
We had a great meal with amazing views! They had a special Carmel bacon fried fish with apple sauce. It wasn't bad all the tables around me loved it. I thought the flavors came together in a very surprising way and I enjoyed it but personally prefer my fish the old fashion way. They said they sell out of it regularly and I believe that. My husband got the risotto and flank steak.
We were on a road trip up the coast checking out the lake and wave action. Ended up in whitehall for lunch and not being from the area we didnt know where to eat. Checked out Google maps for restaurants near me and this place popped up. The pix on their web page sold me, I wasn't ready for greasy every day grub.
This place rocks! Honey had a burger and I had the perch sandwich. Each one are on the short list for best around so far. The onion rings should be illegal they're so good. Fast friendly service. Great decor, wish they were closer to GR so we could go more often. Congrats to the staff and owner , you e got a winner.
