Restaurant Reviews

Aventura

Open for business under the giant TAPAS sign on Washington St. only since November, Aventura has already established its ambition and potential to provide an outstanding night out. Eating here is a social adventure, with...

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Healthy Foodies

In less than a year since Juicy Kitchen Cafe opened in the small strip mall at Maple and Miller, a variety of regulars have made it their own. Skyline High students and M-14 commuters dash in at sunrise for coffee, banana bread...

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Mixology

My husband likes his martini–gin, of course–very dry, vermouth barely tainting the juniper. I like vermouth just fine, and prefer a more generous splash with my gin. Our friend fancies vodka–horrors!–over...

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Currying Flavor

“We’ll bring lunch with us,” I had told my mom. Always happy to eat a meal she doesn’t have to cook herself, she didn’t ask what my husband and I were planning to pick up. Her dismay, though, when...

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Heavenly and Earthy

Imagine strolling through the Farmers Market on a hot day while cooling off with little spoonfuls of ice cream flavored with brown butter, sage, berries, lavender, basil, rhubarb, chamomile, or lemon balm. Grange Kitchen pastry...

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Pop-up Dinners

“Pop-up dinner.” For me, the name suggested a tantalizing meal, conjured out of the air with sleight-of-hand wizardry by a chef wannabe in an inspired setting. My husband’s mind, though, leapt immediately to...

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Barbecue Quest

Growing up in the Midwest, I was never enamored with the local barbecue–typically baked or boiled ribs slathered with ketchup-like, overly sweet sauce, then quickly finished on an open grill. Later, on visits to the Texas...

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Road Food Reviewed

My husband and I love almost everything about a road trip–driving away from everyday life towards new landscapes, small towns, and regional cultures. We love everything, that is, but road food, especially across the vast...

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Pho House

It’s hard to take seriously a new restaurant that opens–and continues to operate a couple of months later–still sporting its predecessor’s signs. Inside, too, the new Pho House on Washtenaw reveals a...

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Batter Up on Liberty

Liberty from Main to Fifth Ave. already offers cherry treats, chocolates, handmade ice cream cones, cupcakes, and fruity-plump muffins. In the early weeks of 2013, with the opening of What Crepe? and the Wafel Shop, it added two...

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