Eagle's Nest Clarklake — Restaurant in Columbia Township

This is an update to my original review, which is noted below, and was originally 5 across the board. The updated and most recent visit is noted here:

I visited in mid July, 2025 with my girlfriend. It was late afternoon, but it wasn't super busy. The patio did just open up a bit before we arrived, due to rain. We were quickly seated outside. We moved tables because the sunbrella didn't work at our table.

It took quite a while for anyone to come to the table for water or drink orders. Not just a small wait, but nearly long enough that I was considering going over to the beach bar instead, and I'm relatively patient.

Water arrives. A person that isn't our server (we hadn't met her yet), arrived, apologized for the wait, and took a drink order. One beer, one amaretto sour. Again, it took a significant amount of time for those to arrive. We also ordered calamari appetizer, and that arrived in a reasonable amount of time (the calamari was really good, we both really enjoyed that). When it was delivered, I ordered a vodka tonic at that point, and we ordered our meals. I ordered a grilled chicken wrap with no onion, and my girlfriend ordered a grilled chicken wrap with no tomato. Both with honey mustard on the side.

The vodka tonic never came out, and the same gentleman who wasn't our server walked over and asked about it, and I told him it was never sent. He brought it out after a bit, but then our food was right behind it. At that point, I was no longer interested in the drink, to be honest. I wanted to enjoy it before the meal.

Both of our wraps were wrong. Her wrap had fried chicken, and tomatoes (she doesn't eat them), and mine had fried chicken, and onion (red onion is my nemesis). We kinda laughed about this, that both were wrong. The server took it back immediately and it came out pretty quickly, but then mine had no tomato, and she was missing honey mustard (it took a while for that to come out). The same man who had been around (I suspect maybe a manager), brought out salt, pepper, ketchup, etc., which was never placed at our table due to the earlier rain). Regarding my wrap, I didn't ask for it to be remade again due to lack of tomato. We both agreed that the wraps were okay. We didn't expect anything mind blowing with a wrap, but they didn't have very much chicken in them. The fries were very hot, fresh, and good though.

Then the wait for our bill began. It took a while, and then after she delivered it, the same man who had kinda been hovering around came over and asked if we wanted any dessert. We declined. I admit, at that point, I was kinda frustrated with the experience. I didn't say anything, nor was I rude, but I'm guessing my body language was giving it away. When he returned with the receipts, he advised he took the calamari off the bill. I think he knew the service wasn't really up to par that evening, for our table. That was appreciated.

Overall, it wasn't a very great experience. I've been here a few times, and I do think this is not typical, and normally they are great. Because of that, I'm moving my original 5 of 5 down just to a 4 overall. Hopefully when we visit again, it's a much better experience.

Original Review Below ----------------------

Eagle's Nest has excellent food and really nice staff. The burgers are superb. Our waitress, Sadie, was very nice, and helpful. Sitting outside on the...

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