Prime Table Restaurant — Restaurant in Bertrand Township

I have a lot of mixed feelings about my experience here.  I'm not a local and visited with a friend from the area. I can see it is a local favorite.  If you haven't been here before, this will be a helpful review.

My parents loved family owned places like this, I've dined in many similarly styled places in  small and medium sized towns.  I have some nostalgia and respect for the places that are hanging in there yet today,  beyond the restaurant chains, with costs rising and keeping their buildings maintained etc.

Yet,  this is a place that despite its local success,  I wouldn't come back to.  The female staff is forced to wear skirts.   The uniform seems comical with cheap satin bow ties and tuxedo shirts in a mom and pop restaurant. The food was just fine,  but not spectacular and rather over priced.  I love gyros but $13 to $16 is a bit much.  You're paying about 16 to 20 a person for diner quality food.

I  was sat facing a Catholic shrine. It's a privately owned place,  so do as you please,  but again I personally find this very off putting and unwelcoming to general public.

My server was dry, contrite and robot like. He was a young man who obviously didn't like working there.  No facial expression and entirely bored.  When asked about the soup of the day he rattled off very quickly and mumbly. I asked again and he said it exactly the same way. On the board I see it was Tomato Marina Rosa or something similar,  like I'm supposed to know what that is.

The food came out in decent time.  The service was attentive but impatient and rude. At the end they dont bring a bill, but shove a card machine in front of you, basically asking you to leave. Here is your total.  Do you want to tip me? All run at the table.

I've used Toast to check out of places before, but always with a paper receipt at my leisure with a QR code or option to pay the old fashioned way. Bizarre to demand payment at certain time they choose and having to tell the waiter what I want to tip.

Overall this place left me unimpressed despite the owner/son standing in a funny chef's jacket staring at the room all evening. This isn't a 5 star steak house.  He certainly didn't prepare my canned green beans that came as a surprise with my entree.

I left feeling like I was in a Seinfeld episode.  Would expect something more like this in...

We were at Notre Dame last weekend and saw that we were very close to the Michigan state line, so we decided that we had to go into Michigan. Right as we crossed the state line, I said we should just eat dinner here in Michigan, and I said I wish we could find a nice little family restaurant, So one of us googled family restaurant and Prime Table came up and it just happened to be right down from where we were. We couldn't believe our luck, and then when we walked in we were just amazed at how beautiful, warm, cozy and welcoming and friendly and beautifully decorated. And the lovely lady who welcomed us was such a sweetheart, she was the owner. She sat us at a table and we started looking at the menu. Everything sounded so good and we were so happy to find so many yummy choices we couldn't decide what to order, and the prices were so reasonable. All of the servers were walking by and talking to our little one-year-old and they were all so warm and friendly. We decided to order the chicken parmesan and the roast beef french dip sandwich and got some macaroni and cheese for the baby. The food was extremely delicious! After we finished eating, all of the waitresses came and circled around our table singing happy birthday and brought a little chocolate cake with a candle and a little scoop of chocolate ice cream for the baby because she had just turned one year old the prior week. That was so sweet of them to do that. All in all it was such a special evening and we were so lucky to find that little place, it just completed our weekend perfectly. I just wish we could go there again. Next time we go to Notre Dame we will definitely go eat there again. We're from Florida so it might be a little while, but I highly, highly recommend that restaurant. It was just perfect, everything about it. I just can't say enough nice things about it. It was so lovely...

Pay diner prices, but experience truly upscale service with genuinely phenomenal food

My wife and I stopped in at Prime Table at "Prime Time" (okay, I won't make the joke again, promise) on a Saturday in the morning and it was a full house.

We are greeted immediately and sat quickly where coffee was offered within seconds and was a welcomed surprise compared to other restaurants who do not value their hospitality like Prime Table does.

Speaking of service, our server, Jessica, was flawless. Attentive and present only exactly when needed. It doesn't stop with Jessica though. We were tended to hand and foot by no less than 3 servers/assistents. Coffee was never below half and our food was out fast.

When I say I've never had biscuits and gravy like this since I've been in the south. I mean it.

The attention to detail, quality of ingredients, and perfect meeting of specifications (got my homefries well-done and eggs over-medium) matters.

When I'm paying less than I would at a fast-food restaurant and getting this kind service and food, it's very difficult to deviate...