Food & Drink in Ephraim

16 places, each with a quick take from us — kept current as hours and seasons change.

• Anatolia Cuisine DC

  Grilled kebabs are the heart of the menu at this Turkish and Mediterranean kitchen: order the catfish kebab, the house fusion that gives Anatolia its Door County accent. Owner Mukhtar Aghazada, an Azerbaijan native, first came to the peninsula in 2017 as a J-1 exchange student, worked in Fish Creek restaurants, and returned to open his own place in the former Czarnuszka space on Ephraim's Water Street.

• Bad Moravian

  The name teases Ephraim's pious Moravian founders, in a village that stayed dry until 2016 and still pours beer and wine but no hard liquor. So this is a bar built around Detroit-style pizza, served in an art-cluttered room of vintage furniture and long communal tables. Hours move week to week and get announced only on Instagram (@badmoravian): walk in, no takeout, no call-ahead.

• Chef's Hat Cafe

  Get to this small Ephraim cafe in the morning, when the scones are fresh out and the patio has Eagle Harbor and Peninsula State Park in front of it. The apple cinnamon is the one to get. Hours are irregular, so don't count on dinner without checking first.

• Eagle Bakery

  Artisan croissants and laminated pastries, baked fresh and sold from the lobby of the Wilder Inn (the former Village Green Lodge) in Ephraim. It's a small seasonal operation with limited quantities and short, shifting hours, so check their Instagram before you go, and go early.

• Ephraim Coffee Lab

  Coffee is roasted right on site under the shop's own Isely Coffee Roasters label, and the espresso comes off a hand-operated manual lever machine. Single-origin pour-overs, nitro cold brew, and Rishi teas fill out the rest of the board.

• Good Eggs

  $ · Seasonal.

  Breakfast built around the omelet wrap: eggs, potatoes, and cheese folded into a giant tortilla and made to order (the Basic runs about six dollars, the loaded Deluxe about ten). Order at the window, then eat at one of the surfboard tables overlooking Eagle Harbor.

• Klaud's Kitchen

  Order Klaud's Chicken Salad, made straight from the recipe book the place is named for. This Ephraim eatery and bakery works from scratch (homemade biscuits and gravy, its own noodles in the chicken soup) and pours coffee roasted by Boom Coffee, with breakfast served all day.

• La Sirena

  Fewer than 30 seats near Eagle Harbor in Ephraim, run by Carlos Salgado, whose Costa Mesa restaurant Taco María held a Michelin star before he relocated to his wife's home county. Dinner is a four-course prix fixe built on tortillas pressed from heirloom corn; order the Lake Michigan whitefish, served as Ensenada-style pescadillas on blue corn.

• Leroy's Water Street Coffee

  Order the Leroy's Blend, Central American beans from Mexico and Guatemala that get roasted separately to land on chocolate and nuts. This Ephraim log-cabin coffeehouse has poured since 1993 and runs seasonally from May through October, with pastries from the Pink Bakery in Egg Harbor.

• Old Post Office Restaurant

  $$ · Seasonal — typically May through October.

  The fish boil with the view: the boilover happens with Eagle Harbor glowing behind it. Breakfast is the sleeper hit.

• Pearl Wine Cottage

  A small, intimate wine bar that Monique and Lars Topelmann opened in a renovated early-1900s Ephraim cottage, run first come, first served, with a patio and no rush to leave. The list leans on small producers from Europe, South America, and beyond, all organic, biodynamic, or sustainably grown, set against a petit food menu of charcuterie and snacks. Order the focaccia.

• Prince of Pierogi Restaurant

  Order the pierogi. Chef Krzysztof Krol first came from Poland to Door County in 2012 and makes them from his mom's and grandma's recipes, in fillings that run from cheese and potato to Door County cherry.

• Sip

  $$

  An all-day coffee and wine bar in north Ephraim, open 7am to 8pm daily, with a potato waffle bar, a rotating wine and beer list, and an attached home-decor shop worth a browse while you wait on a table.

• Summer Kitchen Restaurant

  The soup bar is the reason to come: five made-from-scratch soups with bread baked that morning. It anchors a flower-ringed garden restaurant in north Ephraim that's served honest home cooking, cherry pancakes included, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner across decades. Open seasonally, roughly April through October.

• Sunset Harbor Grill

  $$

  A second-floor dining room inside Ephraim Shores Resort with a straight-on view of Eagle Harbor: cherry-stuffed French toast and cherry pancakes for breakfast, fresh whitefish and steak later in the day.

• Wilson's Restaurant & Ice Cream Parlor

  $ · Seasonal — typically closed late October through spring.

  A sundae here at sunset over Eagle Harbor is the most Door County moment there is. Plan an evening around it.