Pop-Ups in Exile
For the previous five winters, Cultivate, the Ypsilanti coffeehouse and tap room, set up a tent...
Read MoreFeb 15, 2022 | Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
For the previous five winters, Cultivate, the Ypsilanti coffeehouse and tap room, set up a tent...
Read MoreFeb 15, 2022 | Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Thirty years ago, Craig and Donna Common opened the Common Grill in Chelsea, bringing sophisticated casual dining to a town more used to pubs and diners. At the time, Common thought the restaurant might draw patrons from a...
Read MoreSep 17, 2021 | Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Not to overstate the obvious, but, like most, I’ve missed eating out this last year and a...
Read MoreMay 8, 2021 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
After recently deciding to increase my recycling efforts at home, I wondered what I could do to reduce food waste. A family member reminded me that they’d seen a Flash Food cooler at a local Meijer. That led me to the...
Read MoreMay 2, 2021 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
On a mid-April afternoon a sudden downpour pelted the big white open-air tent behind Cultivate...
Read MoreApr 20, 2021 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Ann Arbor has always been a town where you could find delicious baked goods, from the elegant...
Read MoreMar 2, 2021 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Though dining rooms opened at reduced capacity in February, for reasons of age, preexisting...
Read MoreFeb 2, 2021 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
A New Orleans vacation was the inspiration for Juicy Oistre.Douglas Botsford and Sean Morin have...
Read MoreFeb 1, 2021 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
With winter here and a ban on indoor dining still in effect at press time, a handful of intrepid...
Read MoreJan 17, 2021 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Bohmey Beauty, selling nontoxic and “ethically-made” hair, skin, makeup and home items, has opened on the second floor of the Kerrytown Shops. It is the second location for owner Angeline Pratt, whose first shop is...
Read MoreJan 12, 2021 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Krishna Nakka and Kiran Rampa first met as undergraduates in India studying computer science then went their separate ways, winding up in places like Singapore, Sydney, Silicon Valley, and New York City.When Nakka met his wife,...
Read MoreDec 19, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Autumn glowed glorious in Michigan. Despite the pandemic, despite the volatile election, despite...
Read MoreOct 19, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Just after noon on a Saturday, Sherry Stephens of Ann Arbor tried the door at MD Bagel Fragel at 3500 Washtenaw Ave. It was locked, even though the store’s regular hours are 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.A sign on the door read,...
Read MoreOct 10, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
I bet you could use some fun, most any fun. How about batons of fresh fruit sprinkled with lime...
Read MoreJul 21, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Afternoon Delight founder Tom Hackett is retiring. Hackett, who opened the popular cafe in 1978, remains an owner, but business partner Joanne Williams has taken over day-to-day operations.A large part of Afternoon...
Read MoreJul 15, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
These reviews are based on visits before Michigan’s pandemic shutdown. Originally scheduled...
Read MoreJul 15, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Walk into Nicks Original House of Pancakes, and you will see a cross-section of Ann Arbor. There...
Read MoreJun 3, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
For some of us, it might have been much harder to get through Michigan’s stay-at-home order...
Read MoreMay 1, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
All five Main Street Ventures restaurants–Palio, The Chop House, Real Seafood Co, Gratzi, and Carson’s have combined forces to offer a “greatest hits menu” viewable only at carsonsamericanbistro.com and...
Read MoreApr 4, 2020 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |
Note: this is an updated version of an article from the April 2020 Ann Arbor Observer that includes a partial list of local restaurants offering takeout and/or delivery during Michigan’s Covid-19 shutdown. That list is now...
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