{"id":327,"date":"2007-07-13T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogsmonroe.com\/food\/?p=327"},"modified":"2018-05-07T12:07:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T17:07:34","slug":"review-sorta-turkey-roost-kawkawlin-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/micuisine.com\/lunapiercook\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Review (sorta): Turkey Roost, Kawkawlin, Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.micuisine.com\/images\/lunapiercook\/turkeyroost\/turkey_roost_july_2007_lg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micuisine.com\/images\/lunapiercook\/turkeyroost\/turkey_roost_july_2007_550px.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkey? A full-blown turkey dinner, with stuffing <em>and<\/em> potatoes, and cranberries &#8230; in July?? You bet your boondockers! Turkey anytime, and this particular plate is one I&#8217;ve been enjoying off-and-on my whole life! No, not &#8230; the <em>same plate<\/em> of turkey and stuff &#8230; my whole life &#8230; that would be &#8230; no, that&#8217;s not right &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Up in Kawkawlin north of Bay City, on M-13 (east of I-75 between Beaver and Linwood Roads) is a great old place called the Turkey Roost. Located on the east side of the road, it&#8217;s painted pink so you can find it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micuisine.com\/images\/lunapiercook\/070807\/turkeyroost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They actually used to keep turkeys in a pen by the road, but the practice had to be stopped for various reasons. (There&#8217;s an old\u00a0picture of this pen on the wall inside the restaurant.)<\/p>\n<p>The Turkey Roost is one of Michigan&#8217;s older food destinations, and remain a destination\u00a0today. Long before I-75 bypassed the town of Kawkawlin, folks making the drive through town would stop in for a hot, satisfying meal. Today, the restaurant is a destination all its own, and remains popular as a place for kids to take grandparents who used to go there when they were young.<\/p>\n<p>The dish at the top, the meal I ate for lunch this past Friday afternoon, is only the half-plate turkey dinner. Yes, the full plate is almost twice as big! What&#8217;s interesting about these turkey dinners is the speed involved. Rarely will it take more than five minutes between the time you order the turkey dinners, and when they&#8217;re delivered, piping hot. The turkey is moist and tender, the stuffing it covers is hot and satisfying, and those biscuits are better than most.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkey Roost does have a full menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Their breakfasts are like Grandma used to make, very filling, and very delicious.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re headed north at all at any time, the Turkey Roost is close enough to I-75 that it isn&#8217;t enough out of the way to ignore. We get there as often as we can, and really, that&#8217;s definitely not often enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey? A full-blown turkey dinner, with stuffing and potatoes, and cranberries &#8230; in July?? You bet your boondockers! Turkey anytime, and this particular plate is one I&#8217;ve been enjoying off-and-on my whole life! No, not &#8230; the same plate of turkey and stuff &#8230; my whole life &#8230; that would be &#8230; no, that&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,47,121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-trips","category-food-destinations","category-restaurant-chit-chat","category-reviews-restaurants"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review (sorta): Turkey Roost, Kawkawlin, Michigan - Luna Pier Cook<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/micuisine.com\/lunapiercook\/?p=327\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Review (sorta): Turkey Roost, Kawkawlin, Michigan - Luna Pier Cook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Turkey? 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