Even when you're enjoying a leisurely vacation in a place like Traverse City, a Lake Michigan resort community with a nationwide reputation for restaurants serving high-quality, farm-to-table fare. [...] if you're sunbathing on the Grand Traverse Bay waterfront, shopping in downtown's many boutiques or taking in a film at the glamorous State Theatre, chances are you'll have no appetite to navigate the traffic for another assembly-line lunch. Or udon noodles with carrot, onion, green beans, bok choy, crushed peanuts and fresh herbs? Among recent selections was a risotto dish with short rib, snap peas, spinach and goat cheese. If a snack is enough, choose from among fresh chicharrones (pork rinds) with chili lime sauce; chicken confit salad with arugula, blueberries, apple chips, goat cheese and rhubarb vinaigrette; or deliciously tangy flash fried street beets with wasabi mayo. For dessert, try one of the restaurant's chocolate chip cookies made with burned butter and sea salt.