Leland’s New Breakfast Restaurant Is A Homecoming For Restauranteur Ryan Marek
By Craig Manning | April 10, 2026
Ryan Marek is finally coming home.
Though he’s a Suttons Bay native, the restauranteur traded the Leelanau Peninsula for Petoskey in 2019 when he opened his first culinary establishment, Bayside Restaurant. Seven years later, Marek is launching his fourth restaurant – and the first in his home county – with this weekend’s soft opening of Morning on Main. The breakfast-only restaurant is located inside the former Early Bird space in Leland.
Marek grew up in restaurants. He took his first job as a busser at the age of 14, cycled through multiple different kitchen jobs throughout the latter part of his teens, and was working in a general manager capacity …
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