The Dining Room at Clearbrook was voted "Best Place To Impress Out-of-Town Guests" and "Best Wine list" along the entire lakeshore by the readers of LAKE Magazine, July 2005.  And ... The Grill Room was the #1 choice as "Best Family Dining".  Clearbrook Golf Club again won as the most popular golf club on this Lake Michigan shoreline as "Best Country Club" and "Best Golf Course".  See www.lakemagazine.com.  Thank-you to the readers of LAKE, and to our wonderful guests! 

The Dining Room was also a nominee for "Restaurant Of The Year" in FINE DINING for 2004 by Grand Rapids Magazine, according to their January, 2005 issue.  Although the final award stayed in Grand Rapids, Clearbrook was honored to be included in the magazine's selection of the top sixteen fine dining restaurants in West Michigan.  And its only selection in any catagory from the Saugatuck/Douglas area!  "Thanks" to GR Mag!

Often billed as "the best seasonal restaurant in West Michigan", the restaurant at Clearbrook re-opened completely remodeled in 2005. Quote co-owners Jim & Candy Jeltema, "Our service standards and methods show vast improvement, and our hours have expanded to a much longer season.

"No other seasonal site we know of in the region combines the expertise of an experienced staff with our club-like, refined dining atmosphere, and excellent views over our incredible gardens where we grow some of our own products. Every table has a great view. Guests in The Dining Room at Clearbrook experience a return to gracious dining, and that's unique to our casual lakeshore area.  With our wine dinners and talented cooking, we've never had this much fun with food and wine."  And that's why Clearbrook is renowned.

Now in its twenty-fourth year of fine dining, The Dining Room at Clearbrook is traditional yet current and upscale. The innovative fare features menus that are created new every month, offering the best and freshest from local West Michigan farms, entirely house-made into "contemporary classic cuisine" by Executive Chef Jeff Kudrna.  Its eclectic infleuences from the American Southwest, Asia, and French/Continental classics are tastefully noticible.  Especially known for hand-cut steaks, The Dining Room offers its "melt-in-your-mouth" Griddled Canadian Walleye, American Lamb Chops or NZ Rack of Lamb, and a host of specialties such as Breast of Duck or Ahi Tuna that make each evening's menu unique, always including an "all vegetable" selection that is unrivaled. Also present each year is the popular "Green Plate Special" priced from $20.

And new in 2004 was something very old.  Originally from the formal dining room of a West Michigan lumber baron, Clearbrook obtained a rare treasure.  Parties of four to six may now request seating at the Berkey and Gay Suite, a handcarved dining set including China and Buffet, inlayed with eleven different walnut varieties, crafted in Grand Rapids in 1906.  You'll be seated and served like royalty!

The Dining Room serves Wed-Sunday nights in Summer from 5:30 'til 9:30, and Weekends Only (Friday and Saturday evenings 5:30 to 9:00) the rest of the year.  It is normally closed following Valentine's Day until mid-April.  The Easter Bruncheon and Mother's Day Buffet accept bookings generally three weeks ahead, seating from 10:30 until 3 pm. 

And yes, appropriate attire is required, with Jeans, Tee's, Sweats, Sneakers, and Tanks discouraged.