If you already live here, you know the summer isn't organized around a calendar. It's organized around a week. Wednesdays behave one way. Weekends behave another. The Fourth stretches into a full day that starts on the water and ends across the bay in Excelsior. And 2026 quietly added a lakefront grab-and-go layer that gives you a real reason to rebuild your Tuesday evening.
The thesis is simple. The anchors that hold a Wayzata summer together are still the Depot and the bay, not the new restaurants. But this year, three openings on and around Lake Street change how residents string an ordinary weekday together, and the smart move is to plan around that.
