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    Lake Life Traditions

    4.1 (16 reviews)

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    Caesar salad with chicken

    The food was good, my salad was fresh. Waiter very friendly guy with good manners. We definitely will come back to this restaurant

    Cod dinner ! Yum.

    Todd really knows what he's doing. If you don't know Todd Saylor, once you meet him you will quickly find out he's a perfectionist. He is the new owner of Lake Life Traditions on Lake James. Great food (fish dinner) wings and pizza and more food to be added soon. Plus they have their own lager ! You can't go wrong with spending some quality time eating here and building those lake traditions ! Also, when you are finished stop over to his donut shop and grab a snack or a box to go. If you are lucky you will run into the father of Todd, Tom Saylor, famed Hudson High coach who won 76 consecutive games - who started it all !!

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    Nice little place on the water. Service was great! Accommodated our children and food was great! Would recommend

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    Great place with good food. View of the lake. Burger was delicious as was the fish. I liked the homemade chips.

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    Todd and team are doing a great job!! we went last weekend - food was great and service was friendly:)

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    Worst service and atmosphere ever. I've never liked how noisy BWW is but this location decided to…read morelayer loud music on top of it all. We arrived and were seated at 6 pm, waitress didn't take our order until after 6:30, and we didn't get our food until 8:15. About 8 pm I asked the manager what was going on and she was rude. Said our order had only been in for 1 hour 9 minutes and with to go orders this was to be expected. No sorry. She acted like we were being rude. We got our food and immediately needed to leave (we had already told our waitress this) and asked for to go containers and getting them and the check took another 1/2 hour. The waitress felt like she needed to open the to go bags for us and literally stood there and waited for our child to finish her wings before she went to get the check. The waitress was so proud she got us a 10% comp. The 2 hours we lost was worth much more than $4. I mean not even free beverages.....will never return to this chain anywhere. This happened Friday April 10 2026.

    Kids and grandkids were up for the weekend, we spent the day on the lake and then decided to go for…read morea late dinner. Upon arrival we noticed there was not a big crowd, so we figured we would not have a long wait and decided to sit in the bar area. Took forever to be waited on. Waitress/bartender did not come back and ask if we wanted any more drinks and it took an hour and 45 minutes to get our food. When we did get the food, some of it was overcooked. Not a good experience at all.

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    The service and food was amazing. Our server, Bella tonight was beyond great. And the food was…read moreamazing. The ambiance and music was also great. Happy happy happy

    We order 99% of the time from this location (our only Hut) & have never had an issue with the…read morequality of their food or service in the last 4 years. That ended today. We stopped in for a late lunch & usually order a thin crust pizza. Today, hubby & I decided to try "Melts" with 2 raspberry teas. Bad decision. When our melts came, both looked EXTREMELY burnt. Both tasted extremely burnt. My Buffalo Chicken melt was not only way overcooked, but it lacked the main ingredient...chicken. I picked through one half like a monkey grooming his mate in hopes I would find one solid piece of chicken amongst the sparingly scattered onions under alfredo sauce & cheese. Nope. I figured if there was enough buffalo sauce it would maybe mask the crispy dumpster fire burnt crust. Wrong again. I couldn't even eat this mess after attempting to. Hubby ate half of his and was done as well. Our server FINALLY stops at our table (our drinks were dry), asks how we are doing. I explain to her that "this is overcooked" to which she replied, "they're thin crust. Next time tell them to take them out sooner." WTF? Wait. YOU'RE the one with the recipe & cook time! She took my basket & never offered to refill our teas. Just walked away. No I'm sorry we'll remake it, no offer to get me anything else, and definitely not offering to refill my glass now with melted ice. One tea, no refill. She brought us our check & left. I gathered my phone & walked to the counter to pay our bill. Our server began to cash us out, I was waiting to swipe my card, then all of a sudden she says, "I'll be right back" & walks away to the greeter's stand behind us. I look at my husband, he looks at me. What the hell just happened!? Another employee comes over, asks if we've been helped. I tell him our server started & walked away. She comes back over to the register & asks him if he will discount us. He does. Well that's fine & all but it doesn't fix being a decent server. We are tippers. We will tip you 25% or more even if the food sucks. You failed us. We will still order our thin crust Veggie Lovers & stuffed crust Meat Lovers. The ONE star is for this experience only.

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    Arrived on a Friday a little after 11am. Decided to go through the drive-threw. I ordered the 2…read morepiece chicken with mashed potatoes & gravy, a biscuit and a soft drink. I was never asked original or extra crispy for the chicken. I pulled foraward. I paid and waited 2-3 minutes maybe, if that. I was given my order and was on my way. The chicken was good. No complaints other than I wasn't asked original or xtra crispy. I was given original. Mashed potatoes & gravy were good. The biscuit was hot and tasted fresh. I was not given any napkins. Fried chicken is greasy. They should know this. Lucky I had some in the car. Price was just under $10.

    Offering me $15 and a free chicken nuggets meal is not enough for me to want to return after that…read morekind of frustration. What I would truly like to see is your crew being properly retrained. When that happens, I'll be glad to stop by again and let you know if things have improved. I come from a generation that understands hard work and what it means to stand on the other side of a fast-food counter. That's why this experience was so disappointing. My order was supposed to be ready at 5:00 p.m. so I could be home before my husband returned from work. I arrived at 5:02 with my daughter, expecting to simply pick up my food and leave. Instead, I walked in and saw my order sitting on the back counter, already paid for and getting cold. Despite trying multiple times to get someone's attention, no one acknowledged us. Meanwhile, car after car was being served through the drive-thru, while we continued to be ignored. Something needs to change in your restaurants if you expect KFC to succeed with today's customers. I have already stopped going to the Bryan KFC, and after this visit, I feel it may be my last time coming to yours as well. I don't know how you plan to regain what has been lost, but it's clear that genuine customer service and connection with people are badly missing. Until that changes, no coupon or free meal will fix the problem

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    2.9(97 reviews)
    0.0 mi
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    Thanks to the dishwasher we were welcomed and provided with glasses of ice water long before our…read moreserver appeared and our drink orders were taken. Kudos to him for observing and responding to the fact that we were seated and not yet greeted by our server. And yet, his attention to the situation is a check in the plus column for a decent restaurant that was unfortunately, seriously under staffed when we stopped by for dinner recently. It seems that the owner or manager was essentially handing ALL of the front of the house duties, as well as tending the bar -- greeting, seating, waiting on the table, making and serving drinks, running food, and handing payment at the end of the night. A child, apparently the owner/manager's daughter occasionally bussed some tables and strutted around wielding a fly swatter (though fortunately I didn't see any flies--but there was outdoor seating). I could only see one person in the kitchen (there could have been another but I'm not sure). All in all it meant everything was S-L-O-W. That said, we were the perfect group for the situation--a bunch of Boomer college friends fully engaged in conversation and reminiscing about the good old days -- which compensated -- to some degree -- the time we waited for service. Well, eventually things got rolling. Our drink order was taken along with an appetizer for the table. The drinks arrived after a reasonable amount of time. I ordered the house version of an old fashioned made with a bourbon distilled at a local/regional distillery. Tasty -- my only nitpick -- such drinks should be served with a LARGE chunk of ice, not a scoop of cubes from the ice machine. The appetizer for the table was the house crab dip -- an excellent choice for sharing and the flavor was spot on. For my entree I chose the lamb "lollipops." The three or four lamb chops were perfectly cooked, juicy, tender and unctuous -- really unctuous since the fat cap was not trimmed -- but as a great food critic once said, "meat without fat is dead protein -- so in short, the meat was bursting with flavor. The asparagus were nicely roasted. The sauce was rich and garlicky (thanks to confit cloves of garlic). It complemented the gaminess of the lamb perfectly, but the amount of sauce a bit more than necessary for a truly balanced composed dish. I still enjoyed it immensely and would order it again. (By the way, I was able to sample my wife's tuna. The 3/16 of an inch sear on the tuna was perfect and the rare interior was exactly how tuna should be cooked.) The owner/manager was appropriately apologetic about the pace of service and I will say that she, and the kitchen, did their best under the circumstances. As I mentioned, we were a good group because our goal was time together, not precisely timed service. I would hope another couple of employees could rectify the slow service and build their clientele because the food is quite good, the location is excellent and I loved the decor, especially the vintage outboard motors including one or two designed by the great industrial designer Brooks Stevens from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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