18 Essential Traverse City Restaurants #DetroitFood

Trattoria Stella in Traverse City, late 2023. The beloved restaurant celebrated 20 years of service this year. | Courtney Kent Photography

Newer restaurants and a handful of long-standing favorites make for an exciting dining scene in Traverse City

When most people venture to northern Michigan, they are going for the towering white pines, miles and miles of protected sandy shoreline, and the crackling fireside sunsets. If Traverse City is within reach, they should also take a moment for the food. In recent years, the restaurant scene in this town at the foot of Lake Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay has quietly planted the roots of an exciting regional food scene.

From a young chef who’s turning heads in an old firehouse and a husband and wife duo that left Michelin-starred kitchens in Chicago to come North, to an organic wine shop that doubles as a restaurant on weekends, here are the places that will make visitors rethink what to eat Up North.

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