Cherie Inn
(616) 458-0588
Cherie Inn
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Private dining · Cherie Inn

Your party. Our whole dining room.

$100 room rental — linens and candles included. Private dinners, Wednesday through Sunday evenings.

Ask about your date or call (616) 458-0588

How it works

Three steps to your evening.

1

Hold your date

A $100 non-refundable deposit holds the room and your evening.

2

Pick your entrées

Choose one or two entrées for the table about a week ahead.

3

We cook, you host

Linens, candles and dinner are set. You just bring the people.

The dinner menu

Dinner entrées

Beef Tenderloin Medallions$29.95
8 oz New York Strip$29.95
Cherry-Pecan Stuffed Pork Tenderloin$27.95
Baked Herb Half-Chicken$24.95
Shrimp Scampi$26.95
Horseradish-Encrusted Salmon$27.95
Bacon-Wrapped Sea Scallops$27.95
Combination — pick two$30.95

Every dinner includes coffee, tea & soda, a dinner salad, fresh bread, steamed vegetables, and your choice of potato, rice or pasta. Appetizers $4.25–$5 per person · desserts $4.50–$5 per person.

Ask about your date

Tell us what you're planning.

Send the basics and Michael will confirm every detail with you by phone — the date, the entrées, and the little things that make a room feel like yours.

Michael confirms every detail by phone. We'll be in touch within a day or two.

Thanks — your request is in. Michael confirms every private-dinner detail by phone, so keep an eye on your inbox and phone.

The hundred years

A room that's kept its ceiling.

  • 1924

    Cherie Inn opens on the corner. Amway co-founder Jay Van Andel is born in the rooms upstairs.

  • The 1920s

    A thirteen-year-old Gerald Ford meets his biological father here.

  • 1940s

    The tin ceilings go in with Grand Rapids–made Stickley furniture — both still on the floor.

  • 1997

    Michael Kulczyk takes over the kitchen, and hasn't left it since.

  • 2024

    The hundredth birthday. WZZM 13 stopped by

The red front door at 969, etched 'Cherie Inn — A Grand Rapids Tradition Since 1924' with an Eiffel Tower.
The door at 969 Cherry St SE.
“We're famous for our eggs benedict. It's the best eggs benedict in the world — we take the time to make a true hollandaise, and that really is our secret.”Michael Kulczyk, proprietor
“Everybody wants the Cherie Inn to stick around. If you keep coming, we'll keep cooking.”Michael Kulczyk

Fresh flowers on every table, original tin ceilings, and the same corner of Cherry, Lake & Diamond it has held for a hundred years.

Dark wood tables and black ladder-back chairs with water carafes and fresh flowers. The hanging Cherie Inn sign — a pewter Eiffel Tower and rose script on whitewashed wood.