Jackson County Restaurant Week 2026 is Nov. 9-15: Chef’s Choice menus at local spots, and a punch card for prizes

JACKSON — Jackson County Restaurant Week is back Nov. 9-15, and the idea is simple: eat local, collect stamps, win gift cards.

Experience Jackson, the county’s official tourism bureau, runs the week. Each participating restaurant writes its own “Chef’s Choice” menu for the week, and diners can visit any mix of them.

WILX reported that 40 restaurants signed up. The bureau’s Restaurant Week page listed 37 on Thursday, after noting that Burnt Honey had to drop out while it looks for a new location.

Buy an entree from a Chef’s Choice menu at a participating restaurant between Nov. 9 and Nov. 15, and pick up a punch card there. Each Restaurant Week meal earns one stamp, one per card, per meal, per person.

Once a card has stamps from three or more different restaurants, leave it at any participating restaurant to be entered in the final drawing. Prizes include bundles of restaurant gift cards and more from Experience Jackson. The bureau also asks diners to share food photos with #TasteOfJackson.

By The Mitten Daily’s count of the bureau’s list, 30 of the 37 restaurants are in the city of Jackson. The rest are spread around the county: two in Grass Lake, two in Brooklyn, two in Parma, and one each in Springport and Pleasant Lake.

The list runs from downtown standbys to small-town pubs. In Jackson it includes Virginia Coney Island on East Michigan Avenue, Schlenker’s, Ironbark Brewing Co., Ogma Brewing Co., Oak + Iron, Klavon’s Pizzeria & Pub, The Five Forks Bakery and City Crepes. Outside the city are Asher Creek Creamery & Deli and Sawds Village Inn in Grass Lake, Ferg’s Parma Pub and GG’s Cafe in Parma, PB&J’s BBQ and the Clarklake Golf Course in Brooklyn, the Hotel Tavern in Springport and the Pleasant Lake Pub.

The bureau marks dishes that are vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free with a leaf on its page. Nine of the listings carried at least one of those notes on Thursday.

Hours vary widely, and several places are closed one or two days a week. The bureau tells diners to check with each restaurant about hours, menu items and prices, since the restaurants write their own menus. The full list, with addresses and hours, is on the Experience Jackson website.

Sources:
Experience Jackson, “Jackson County Restaurant Week, Nov. 9-15, 2026” (how it works, punch card, prizes, participating restaurants, addresses and hours, Burnt Honey note), https://www.experiencejackson.com/things-to-do/food/jackson-county-restaurant-week/
WILX, “Jackson County Restaurant Week returns with 40 participating eateries,” Oct. 29, 2026, https://www.wilx.com/2026/10/29/jackson-county-restaurant-week-returns-with-40-participating-eateries/
Photo: Phillip L. Hofmeister, “Downtown Jackson, MI.jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0, cropped, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Jackson,_MI.jpg

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