Buddy’s Pizza
On the face of it, there’s not much reason to get excited about a Detroit-area pizza chain...
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The Yearly Miracle
Last summer a friend who had a yard for the first time in her adult life wrote me a note....
Read MoreAyse’s Café
When she moved to Ann Arbor from Turkey in 1976, Ayse Uras and her husband, Mehmet, focused on getting him through a U-M mechanical engineering degree and raising their two children. While living in family housing on North...
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Lucky’s Market
Nearly every day, Lucky’s Market hosts what could be the happiest happy hour in town. Bubba, Luis, Thomas, and Jose are just some of the regulars who were happy to explain the nightly drill. To a first-timer, it feels like...
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Winter Harvests
Every year, my brother’s neighbor plants a substantial garden–mostly rows of...
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One Bowl Asian Cuisine
After a couple acquaintances commented enthusiastically about One Bowl Asian Cuisine, it seemed...
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Everest Sherpa Restaurant
Walking across the barren expanse of parking lot at the northern end of Oak Valley Centre into...
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Persian Immersion
You can learn a lot about food from various cultures in the Ann Arbor-Ypsi-Detroit continuum. For...
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Detroit Street Filling Station
On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, I took my home-for-the-holidays son and his vegetarian...
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First Bite
I had my eye on First Bite from the time it took over the space on S. Main that had been the...
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Bagel Rescue
After reading that Bruegger’s was throwing out unsold bagels at closing time (Up Front, August), a resident of Lurie Terrace “came to us and said ‘You’ve got to get hold of Bruegger’s!,'” says...
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Vedge Café
Vedge Cafe celebrates its first birthday next month. Located on N. Main St.–a menu graphic...
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Jefferson Market
Imagine that, whenever you were feeling a bit peckish, you could drop in to your neighbor’s...
Read MoreWalloon Farewell
For sixty-odd years my husband’s parents vacationed on Walloon Lake near Boyne City, and they owned a cottage there for forty. But a year ago they both died, and there isn’t sufficient will or desire among their five...
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Ollie Food + Spirits
In the six years it was open, I might have been in Cafe Ollie once. With front windows too high to...
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