The legend of the livers ...

In the 1940's Victor Greunke made local culinary history by daring to place on the menu of Greunke's Inn a favorite of the local fisherman: whitefish livers!

He served them batter-dipped and lightly fried on a bed of lettuce with lemon wedges, home-made tarter sauce, and golden toast points. People here remember this large robust man strolling his restaurant shouldering platters of the livers offering them to the uninitiated, and, it is said, winning converts right and left.

Whitefish livers are in high demand in Bayfield. Greunke's is famous for their lightly fried delicious whitefish livers. People that love them say they dream of them. Others say they can't get enough. True "whitefish liver lovers" will travel many miles for a taste. It's not uncommon to receive a call from as far away as Chicago requesting a table and reserving Whitefish Liver Dinners for 4.

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