Restaurants we'd send our parents to, breweries we'd send our brother-in-law to. Filtered by quadrant where it matters — sun on the dock at six, dinner by seven.
Casual-elegant dining inside Oakwood Resort on Lake View Road — fresh seafood and steaks with both an indoor dining room and outdoor patio seating on the water. The resort's flagship restaurant and the closest thing the lake has to a destination table.
A boat-in restaurant and bar on the channel between Syracuse Lake and Wawasee, on Pickwick Drive — dock your own boat or drive in, either way you get open-air lake views. Open year-round.