Barrel Back Restaurant - Petoskey

What a wonderful second story view of the harbor and lake, I got the nachos with smoked brisket. The food was fantastic! Perfect weather! Great staff, and drinks are plentiful.

The restaurant is really gone downhill in the last seven years. They're using cheap products like queso instead of the good cheese they used on their nachos. Skimping on the quality. And the quantity because now you get a half a slab of ribs in their minds, they say it's a full slab for $29 and it's fatty and tough soggy nachos dried out pizza and I talk to the manager, she could've given a ****.

3.5/5, so I'll round up to 4 stars. First off, the views here are fabulous. I'm in town for the weekend with some girlfriends, and we met the uncle of one of them here for drinks and dinner. We started off at the outdoor bar which has a different cocktail menu from the indoor restaurant, btw and I had a Painkiller, which was very good. We then went indoors but had a 20 munute wait, so we looked at the shop on the first floor for a bit. The pizza, pasta, and Cuban sandwich all looked good, and I ended up ordering the Cuban, with a side of parmesan Brussels sprouts. The Cuban was good but not what I pictured it also had jalapeños, which I didn't know (and I can't do spicy well). The Brussels were okay but I kinda wish I ordered the sweet potato fries instead. Two of the people in our group ordered pizzas, and those looked really good a BBQ chicken one and a gluten free margherita. The other ordered a brisket sandwich. I also had the strawberry basil cocktail but unfortunately it was more basil y than strawberry tasting. Up until then, this was a 4 star (not 3.5 star) review. However, we ordered dessert around 850pm and it didn't come out until 920pm (I know this because I had sent a text to someone around that time)... My friend's GF cookie with ice cream showed up then and also a super large piece of carrot cake (honestly, it looked delicious and I usually dislike carrot cake). However, we had ordered the brownie s'mores... So we had to wait another 5 10 minutes for it. If you're staying at a Boyne property you also get 10% off here if you show your wristband, our waitress put this on our initial check but then when we asked her to split the check, she had to redo it. Overall I'd come back here again since the views and food were great, but I'd get a pizza instead, and also hope the kitchen wasn't as slow.

Grab a quick drink from the bar overlooking the lake and the marina. They had a full bar, tons of specialty beverages/beers, and a lot of fun people just chatting about their day. It's a great spot, if there aren't clouds, to catch the sunset. We'll be back!

Amazing service. Our server went above and beyond beyond for our table. I really enjoyed the flatbread and bruschetta. Amazing views as well.