Slate - Traverse City

My sister and I visited Slate on June 22, 2023 and we had the most wonderful experience *and* server….Michael. He was very personal, professional and just so nice! Our food was exceptional. We are Southern girls “hey y’all!” from North Carolina and we received “Southern Hospitality” Traverse City style Food: 5/5

I recently visited this restaurant and was disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, the food and service was fine/medium, but for what we had it was well over priced. I’m afraid that this restaurant is charging “tourism” prices given the great location right on the main drag downtown. There are several other chef owned restaurants where you get exceptional food for the same price.

This is my second time ever coming here but I must say it's very eloquent and has a sophistication to it that I highly enjoy. Dignified in nature and is a hidden gem, as there isn't much publicity on this place. So that is another thing I enjoy. The waiters and waitresses are great as well. Also best of luck to my fellow farmer trying to get his way into the medical field.

Food was ok. Waiter did a good job. Loved the music played in the background and the piano guy! Drinks were pretty good.Food: 3/5

A group of us made reservations for my birthday. We were really excited to try Slate cause we’re foodies and haven’t been there yet. When we got there we were served water and we asked to order drinks because we were thirsty and wanted to settle in. Our server said no because he was busy and then he didn’t come back for 25 minutes. That would have been fine had he been communicative and friendly. When we got our drinks delivered to our table we asked to order because we were all hungry. He again said no because he had other tables to take care of. We contemplated leaving but figured if we went somewhere else we ran the risk of waiting even longer and some of us were on a time budget. The table next to us got an extra menu and we wanted to know what it was for, apparently you can also order from sorellina. Would have been nice to know! When we finally got to order, another 20 minutes after we had already waited for our drinks, we were asked multiple times, “do you want this out before dinner or with dinner” we all said bring things out as they’re ready cause we want to eat. We’d been there for an hour already. Some time later we finally got all but one order all at once. We were not impressed. The pasta from Slate had under cooked noodles and over cooked chicken, I got the filet and it was underwhelming (mashed, a few slivers of asparagus on top, with the filet sitting on top of that), the Alfredo from sorellina was amazing, the tuna was… scary, and the lamb was the best out of all the meat options we ordered. We also ordered three meals for takeout and those were acceptable to the recipient. They did take the tuna off the bill as well as the Alfredo because it came out way after everyone else’s. Still, we spent over $350. The only person who acknowledged we were there for a special occasion was the pianist. I’m very grateful to him. We won’t come here again though, service was worse than the food and the food wasn’t great.