Moguls Grille & Taproom — Restaurant in Lutsen Township

Right off the bat as I entered the restaurant, it was kind of odd seeing no customers were in the restaurant. Remember this when entering any food place at a time when you normally eat. This wasn't good, but we didn't realize. We had to ask if they were open because from the looks of it, they still seemed closed. They said yes and they brought us to a table. One really interesting thing they had were the glass cups. They had a curve to them that would somehow block ice from getting close to your mouth when drinking water. It keeps the water cold while also keeping the ice from going into your mouth.

The ordering experience was in fact very nice, and the food came out somewhat shortly. I feel like what we ordered had a lot of shredded chicken on it. Too much in my honest opinion. I myself ordered a grilled cheese thinking I would get a grilled cheese, but instead I got a soggy grilled chicken sandwich with some cheese on it. My suggestion would be to reduce the amount of meat they put on the food if they know it normally doesn't come with meat.

One other thing is that the salmon salad we also ordered is not fresh and it didn't seem like they felt like hiding it, either. The fish and the entire plate smelled like formaldehyde. For those of you who don't know, it's a preservative that people use for HUMAN CORPSES. My suggestion for this would be to get a new source of fresh fish. I would assume it wouldn't be that hard to get one, knowing that the biggest lake in the world is right around the corner. Not a great place to go if you want a good looking and good tasting meal with family. I would suggest going down the street to...

Quite the string of fails at this restaurant. First problem: I order the wings, they put the order in and ten minutes later our server came back and said they were out of wings, I asked to switch to pizza, they were also out of pizza, so I begrudgingly switched to the poutine burger. Second problem: my girlfriend ordered the cheese burger with the veggie patty substitute, while waiting we hear the smoke detector going off and can smell a burnt smell and I overhear our waiter say “you’re not really going to serve that black bean burger (the veggie patty) are you?” Luckily from the way it sounded the answer was no but they had to restart it obviously. It finally comes out but turns out that they made it with a normal meat patty rather than the veggie patty, we flag down our server to tell him and he quickly understands the problem and seems to also start becoming upset with the cooks alongside us. The burger gets remade and finally comes out once again with the correct patty type except the cheese now looks like it was left out on the counter overnight with how solid and sweaty it looked, my girlfriend decided she just wanted to eat at that point and went with it. Did not have any new issues with it and paid the bill (no food discounts or anything done to makeup for our bad experience but I wasn’t going to fight for one right there). Fast forward to 1 am where I wake up to a stomach churning pain that forces me on to the toilet where I am right now writing this review thanks to my poutine burger that the thought of now makes me want to vomit.

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My husband and I both got the chicken dinner. The batter is very light and locked in the moisture. It was amazingly flavored! The mashed potatoes were mashed here on site and you could tell the flavor of real potatoes was there. Yummm! The green beans were whole with a slight crunch- to perfection! We had bruschetta as an appetizer on the special menu and it was also amazing! We literally said, “Yummm” every bite of our meal. I have high expectations, I am very picky, the service was GREAT, we can’t wait to come back!!!!

Edited to add: the next night we came back. We looked at other local places to eat and it was just soo good that we had to come back. We tried the chicken slider appetizers this time and “wow”! The flavor was perfection! I didn’t know what to expect, was honestly thinking it would be more like bar and it was more culinary style with amazing flavors!! My husband ordered cheese curds as those are his favorite and those were nothing special. Just regular bar curds.. those could be upgraded. The spicy ranch that came with the curds was great though. We had a different server this second night and she did take a bit to get us our check when we were done eating. It was overall good otherwise. The water girl kept filling drinks and the bus boy was like a hawk taking away finished plates. Cheers to their team effort!...