Comments on: Going Stag

By: Dave Bunch

Dave Bunch — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:00:37 +0000

Our family had a summer/winter home on Duck Lake, in Watersmeet, Michigan and I spent every summer from there until I went and move to Florida in 1965. From 65 to late 90s every vaction trip to the “lake” I would always have dinner at least two or more times at the White Stag during my two week vacation. Never a bad meal (I always had the shrimp), always good service, priced right, and took home to Florida a “bakers dozen” of White Stag dressing hmmmmmmmmmmm. I have not been there since 1999, but will be retiring in June 2010 and will be RV’ing in my motorhome, and the White Stag is already on the list of stops!

By: Carolynn Campbell

Carolynn Campbell — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:39:42 +0000

We use to have land in Sugar Camp we camped on winter and summer. We found the White Stag on a four corners on one of our family trips. Went there to eat and what an experance. Absolutly FAB!
Have since sold the land, But our kids have past down to their kids the legend of “The White Stag”. Some have made the trip up from east central Iowa to glory in the legend with their familys. My husband and I keep hoping to make one more trip up to Sugar Camp and eat our hearts out before–well–you know! Here’s to a GREAT place to really enjoy good good food.

By: Bobby Sue Walker

Bobby Sue Walker — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:35:06 +0000

Our family vacationed at Burr Valley Lodge on Sugar Camp Lake from 1950 to 1962. I was 11 when we first came from Illinois. We connected with many families and ended up through the years, signing up for the same two weeks in July each year. The adults took one evening out of the vacation to dine at the White Stag. When I was 17, I was invited to join them. I remember that the wait staff memorized the order of each patron. In 1968, I reconnected with a wonderful young man from Wisconsin, whose family also came to Burr Valley each year. We were married in 1969, and have brought out family to dine at the White Stag at least once every year since then. Great food, and great memories, passed on from generation to generation.

By: Stag Pioneer

Stag Pioneer — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:40:11 +0000

This restaurant is fucking terrible. You must have been high when you ate here.
They rip you off anyway you can. They don’t even have ranch dressing! And you want Jagger?!
NO! No Jag or mojitos! I hate this place and all it stands for.

By: Paul Noel

Paul Noel — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:45:07 +0000

While the steaks are great and the chicken was good, you need to try the grilled haddock on your next visit to the White Stag. I have had haddock prepared many different ways at many different restaurants and have yet to find anything that comes close to the flavor of the fish at the White Stag. In fact, I will be dining there tomorrow evening to celebrate my wife’s birthday. Give it a try….you won’t regret it!

By: Empanada Boy

Empanada Boy — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:25:32 +0000

Tromping through the snow and cold and into the warm and friendly confines of the White Stag is the best. I’ve been doing just that since I was a boy, (a real boy, not an empanda boy). And the best thing about this particular trip was that it was super cold and there was enough snow to warrant boots (see picture of the snow-covered statue of the White Stag in the posting). While it was 45 degrees and raining in the end of December in Madison and at home in Chicago, I could still count on getting little good ol’ fasioned winter up in Northern Wisconsin. I loved it. And it made the steak taste even better.

By: Flava Flav

Flava Flav — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:08:08 +0000

I like the way EB thinks. How can you really turn down a filet mignon. Especially at that price! I miss you Mango Lassie! We made pasta from scratch the other night. I wish you could have been there!