Restaurant Reviews Archives - Page 3 of 10

Dalat

May 8, 2019 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Ordering the most familiar items on a menu is a quick way to take stock of a new...

Avocado Toast and Buddha Bowls

Apr 15, 2019 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Avocado toast–my first reaction was to roll my eyes. Brought to us from Australia via L.A....

Jim Brady’s

Apr 8, 2019 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Expectations were high for Jim Brady’s, which finally opened in late 2018 after the new...

Aamani’s

Mar 8, 2019 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

It’s on the west side of Ann Arbor, but Aamani’s Smokehouse & Pizzeria has an Up...

Srodek’s at the Farmers Market

Feb 15, 2019 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

My family may declare loudly “no Christmas or birthday presents!” but we can’t seem to stop gifting each other with food–jars of homemade salsa or jelly, fresh-baked cookies snowy with powdered sugar,...

Frank Fejeran’s Winding Path

Feb 12, 2019 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Imagine making dinner for a hundred and fifty or more every night, after putting out maybe fifty or sixty lunches. Each day is peppered with awkward hitches, some ongoing, some new. Today maybe the prep isn’t quite...

The Blue Nile

Feb 8, 2019 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

The Blue Nile, on the busy corner of Fifth Ave. and Washington, may be the restaurant I’ve...

Kosmo’s Bop Shop

Jan 12, 2019 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

If ever a restaurant communicated both fresh attitude and local history in just a three-word name, Kosmo’s Bop Shop is it. “Bop” celebrates the bibimbap that owner Don “Kosmo” Kwon developed at...

La Taqueria

Jan 8, 2019 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

When we were kids in the 1960s and 70s, Mom occasionally made dinner by opening cans of La Choy...

Cooking with Scraps

Dec 17, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Did you know you can eat banana peels? Me neither. They’re one of many foods I formerly thought of as compost that I’m now learning to love thanks to Cooking with Scraps, the new cookbook by Zingerman’s...

Doing Chinese at Christmas

Dec 16, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Ann Arbor’s restaurant scene gets unnervingly quiet on Christmas, when most restauranteurs and their employees take the day off. That makes it the biggest day of the year for Chinese restaurants.Evergreen Restaurant in...

An Abundance of Baked Goods

Dec 12, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

In a perfect world, we’d always have homemade cookies from an old family recipe on hand for guests and gifts during the holidays. In reality, we usually dash out into a snow-globe world to buy the next best thing....

Chef’s Dinners

Dec 8, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

My family stopped exchanging Christmas gifts, except for the tykes, some years ago. But many of us...

Wishful Thinking

Nov 20, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Table talk is sometimes wishful thinking.”Being able to hear your date is important to most people and particularly important to me,” says Gregory Scott. His hearing aid, like all hearing aids, amplifies sound...

Ashley’s

Nov 8, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

When Ashley’s Restaurant and Pub on State celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary in...

Mezes Greek Grill

Oct 20, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

With the motto “Authentic Greek food prepared and served by authentic Greeks,” it’s no surprise that the guys behind the counter at Mezes Greek Grill on North University have outgoing energy. They also have an...

Vedge Cafe Goes Vegan

Oct 20, 2018 | Dine, Marketplace, Restaurant Reviews |

Vedge Cafe, the vegetarian deli-style cafe that opened last year on N. Main, is going full vegan. Owner (and vegan) Amanda Ratke says they opened as vegetarian mainly to attract more business and hopefully to start converting...