Union Mac
Vermont sharp cheddar & mild Pinconning layered with penne rigate and a crunchy crust. Half orders and a gluten-free version too.
The whole story
Clarkston, Michigan · Since 1995
Michigan's most-macked mac & cheese, served in an 1840s church.
A restaurant built on the cornerstone of authentic American comfort — one cheese-strewn noodle at a time. Pull up a pew.
The tally on our wall
The Clarkston Union has served
dishes of mac & cheese right here since 1995
There is a scoreboard above the arch that ticks up every time a Union Mac leaves the kitchen. It rolled past a million and nobody thought to throw a party — we were busy making the next one.
Vermont sharp.
Mild Pinconning.
A crust you can hear.
Penne rigate layered with a blend of Vermont sharp cheddar and mild Pinconning — a Michigan cheese from a Michigan town — then baked until the top goes golden and crackly. It is the reason people drive here from three counties over.
★ Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives · Kid Rock's Detroit Tour, 2011
1995Opened in a saved church
1,000,000+Macs out the door
4.5★Google rating
#2of 92 Clarkston restaurants
on Tripadvisor
on Tripadvisor
What's good
Comfort food, mostly.
Some of it shows off.
Burgers and pot pie and meatloaf, sure. Also arepas, harissa chickpeas, a green goddess wedge and a cracker-crust pizza that changes with the market. Bread comes from Crust — a baking company in Fenton.
Cracker Crust Pizza
A rotating special that has carried everything from bourbon-soaked peaches to kalamata, pickled chili and feta.
See specials
Sunday Brunch
9am to 2pm. Benedicts, biscuits & gravy, the Mosh Pit, a sweet potato waffle — and a Bloody Mary station open the whole time.
Brunch menu
The Bar
Twenty-plus taps that lean hard on Michigan — Bell's, Short's, Old Nation, Right Brain — plus cocktails and Tin Can mules from Ferndale.
Beer & drinks
The building
A church that was destined to serve another way.
It went up in the 1840s and spent a century and a half as a Baptist church. In the 1970s the congregation modernized — and covered the stained glass. When Curt Catallo's parents bought the building to keep it from falling down, Ann Stevenson went looking for what had been hidden, and put it back.
Today you eat under those windows, in pews, beneath a disco ball. Nobody finds that strange after the first five minutes.
Word of mouth
People say nice things.
★★★★★
“The food was fantastic. All 3 dishes at our table were A+, some of the best we have had in a while.”
★★★★★
“We loved the atmosphere… old church pews and stained glass windows from it's previous life.”
★★★★★
“The food was excellent with huge portions. The server never once made a mistake.”
Private Dining
A room of your own with its own bar and plenty of seating — rehearsal dinners, showers, birthdays, wakes, sales meetings that go long.
Book the room
Catering & Cakes
Union Catering will bring the mac to you — and now makes custom cakes for whatever you're celebrating.
Catering & cakes
Gift Cards
Good at the Union and across the Union Joints family. It is a very hard gift to get wrong.
Buy a gift cardCome see us
54 South Main Street.
Free lot out back.
Downtown Clarkston, in the white church with the bell tower. Walk-ins welcome, reservations honoured, and the patio opens the second Michigan allows it.
| Monday – Saturday | 11am – 9pm |
|---|---|
| Sunday Brunch | 9am – 2pm |
| Sunday Dinner | 3pm – 9pm |