Hermann’s European Café and Inn Spotlight: Cadillac, Michigan

Cadillac sits between two lakes in the heart of Wexford County, a northern Michigan city that serves as a hub for outdoor recreation in the Manistee National Forest and the surrounding lake country. Hermann’s European Café and Inn has been adding a distinct European flavor to that setting for decades.

Located on N Mitchell St in downtown Cadillac, Hermann’s brings a European cooking sensibility to Northern Michigan that stands apart from the typical regional restaurant offerings. The Austrian and continental European influences in the kitchen show up in the preparation and the ingredients, with dishes that reflect genuine tradition rather than generic imitation of it.

The inn upstairs gives travelers a place to stay in the downtown core, making Hermann’s a one-stop experience for visitors who want to eat well and wake up in walking distance of Cadillac’s shops and lakefront. The combination of restaurant and inn in a historic downtown building is the kind of thing that adds texture to a small city and gives people a reason to linger.

Cadillac is a year-round destination: snowmobiling and skiing in winter, boating and fishing on Lakes Cadillac and Mitchell in summer, and the fall color routes through the national forest in October. Hermann’s provides a consistent, quality dining option across all of those seasons that reflects the European heritage of a proprietor who built something worth keeping in a city that benefits from having it.

Michigan Small Business Spotlight is proud to feature Hermann’s European Café and Inn as one of Northern Michigan’s most distinctive and character-rich small businesses.