Playful and nicely themed, Great Wolf Lodge’s main restaurant, Camp Critter, feels like a rustic lumberjack camp, especially if you get a booth set up like a canvas tent with lanterns overhead. The restaurant serves several items that are easy to share among little ones with small appetites, such as four buffalo or beef sliders, “build your own” mini-barbecue beefs and a toddler-friendly sampler with fruits, veggies, dips and pretzels. Grown-up enticements include blackened Michigan whitefish with pineapple-cilantro butter and seared local venison steak with wild mushrooms. Dessert includes a yummy tabletop chocolate fondue.
Camp Critter
3575 N US Highway 31 S, Traverse City, 49684, MI
