Lynnea Harris spent three years playing professional volleyball overseas. “My job in Italy was to perform or I didn’t get paid,” she says. “I was drinking like one or two [protein] shakes a day. I was in the best shape of my entire life.”
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“This whole store is me,” beams Amanda Debek from a deep U-shaped booth upholstered in pink velvet and topped with a rich arrangement of artificial flowers at her new House of Chimney Cakes Café.
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What do a British telephone booth, pillar post box, park bench, and two signposts with Chinese and English flags behind the Hot Pot Chen restaurant have in common? Does the Chinese signage on the shipping container behind the objects hold a clue? And why is everything pink?
Read MoreTwenty-one-year-old culinary artist Leslie Tejada has come a long way from the Dominican Republic, where she spent her first ten years. Briarwood Mall was impressed enough with her cupcakes—and her Instagram presence—to lease her space for The Plates of Joyy, which opened September 20.
Read MoreA Chinese hot-pot restaurant that opened in May is already garnering dozens of five-star reviews online.
Read MoreWhen Candace Kovar’s search led to Washington, D.C.–based Toastique, “I got goosebumps. It was an intuitive gut feeling that this is the ride we’re supposed to be on.”
Read MoreThe new MilkShake Factory near Westgate seems like a straightforward store for sweets: shakes, sundaes, and sheets of chocolate, seven days a week. But there’s a lot going on behind the scenes, because the franchise owner also happens to be the fast-growing company’s president.
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What follows is an imaginary itinerary across the continents, all within greater Ann Arbor. Whether in search of the familiar favorites that constitute our own version of soul food, or an adventure into ever-widening horizons, it can be found here, and without the jet lag.
Read MoreA fast-casual Asian eatery offering stir-fries, poké, salads, and smoothies recently opened in the former Blaze Pizza storefront at Cranbrook Village.
Read MoreNamed to invoke one of Brazil’s most recognizable cultural elements, Samba Bowls brings a taste of the country’s rich food traditions to downtown Ann Arbor. Jamille and Lucas Chamon’s first culinary enterprise offers an array of tropical bowls and smoothies from a refreshed storefront on W. Washington St. that long held Vogel’s Lock & Safe.
Read MoreKorean-born pharmacometrician Sunny Chapel started two businesses last year, a clinical pharmacology consultancy called A2-Ai, and Banh Mi Street Food in the Courtyard Shops. The consulting business has taken off and already has seventy employees. That made it difficult for Chapel to devote enough attention to assuring the restaurant’s quality, so she put it on indefinite hiatus.
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Grocery prices have climbed 25 percent since the beginning of the pandemic, and farmers like Robertello aren’t immune.
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On July 3, hundreds of people thronged the intersection of S. Ashley and W. Liberty to watch a live segment from Good Morning America. But only one local business had a presence in GMA’s studio back in New York City.
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the latest owners of the longstanding Moon Winks Café have expanded into full-service dinner and drinks with Moon Winks Tavern. The new adjacent tavern features Cox and McCardell’s own handiwork, including a twelve-seat bar planed from live edge slabs of honey locust.
Read MoreAdding about eighteen of the company’s beers to the lengthy tap list will be the biggest change at the rechristened Arbor Brewing Company Session Room.
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Megan and Aaron Stevens have turned a shared bubble-tea passion into a mom-and-pop shop with their own recipes.
Read MoreThe core offering is a build-your-own egg sandwich starting at $3.75, with a runny yolk and a zippy mustard-based signature sauce.
Read MoreTheir new concept is inspired by the Korean street food-and-drink tents and carts called pochas.
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On a pleasant Tuesday night in late April, the dining room at Miss Kim filled up not once, but twice.
Read MoreBrothers Naz and Pulla Algehaim recently opened Goodlyfe Smoothie in Arbor Square Plaza at Carpenter and Ellsworth. It’s their fourth fast-casual eatery, following others in Belleville, Canton, and Clarkston.
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