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Roger Monk’s

Dec 19, 2014 | , , |

For endurance, not many area restaurants can beat the Dixboro spot currently known as Roger Monk’s. Opened in 1928 as the Country Cupboard, when Plymouth Rd. was a major thoroughfare, it served family-style meals to...

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Miya

Nov 25, 2014 | , , |

Spend enough time around the U-M’s Central Campus, and you start to have a sense of where to go for lunch based upon specific cravings, bouts of weather, dining companions (or lack thereof), and how much time you have. The...

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El Harissa

Oct 25, 2014 | , , |

Harissa is a dried chili paste originating in Tunisia but used throughout North Africa as a table condiment and a flavor component in stews and salads and rubbed on meats and vegetables. As with most recipes of this type,...

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Mezzevino

Oct 15, 2014 | , , |

What’s not to like about the best of Mediterranean-inspired food? You can almost taste the sunshine ripening the olives and lemons as you picture a landscape of white columns by an azure sea. Though the...

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Paesano

Sep 28, 2014 | , , |

“Arborland was a ghost town,” recalls Mike Roddy. Thirty years ago, when he and wife, Bridget Roddy (nee Sperrazza), went looking for restaurant locations, the shopping center anchoring the Washtenaw strip was...

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Damas

Sep 14, 2014 | , , |

In January 2011, my husband and I flew to Lebanon to begin his sabbatical in the Middle East–specifically the Levant, or what used to be known as Greater Syria. The day we arrived the coalition government collapsed....

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Triple Delight

Aug 14, 2014 | , , |

When faced with a restaurant that facilitates hands-on cooking and saucing at the table, some folks will grumble about paying good money to eat out then having to do the work themselves. But serious preparation and craft are...

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Knight’s Downtown

Jul 5, 2014 | , , |

It’s hard to assess the offshoot of a popular local institution without comparisons. So here’s the short version: the new Knight’s Downtown Steakhouse is better-looking than its Dexter Ave. parent, but the menu...

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Seva at Westgate

Jun 21, 2014 | , , |

Change is not always about better or worse–and sometimes it’s not even that different. Take Seva, the vegetarian restaurant that had been downtown on Liberty since, like, the hippie days (1973). For many, it was...

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Bigalora

May 9, 2014 | , , |

Bigalora, the third link in a small chain of restaurants begun by Luciano DelSignore in Southfield, opened last autumn in the new Arbor Hills Crossing shopping center. Its location, in the back of the complex, offers a forested...

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A Taste of Soul

Apr 22, 2014 | , , |

It’s easy to miss A Taste of Soul by Biggie’s. A cement block building on Ypsilanti’s Spring Street near Huron, it looks more like a TV repair shop than a restaurant, but actually it’s a takeout place...

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Zola Bistro Reviewed

Mar 9, 2014 | , , |

The reasons I choose a particular restaurant can change with time—even from day to day—but often I find a favorite dish or table or server that thrills and comforts and brings me back over and over to the same seat. When...

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