Dinner and a movie: the classic night out. But what to do with the remains of that Knight’s cowboy steak if you want to walk across the street and see a movie at the Michigan Theater? For reasons ranging from sanitary to...
Read MoreFor 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...
Read MoreHarissa 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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Greater Ann Arbor has happily emerged from decades of near-drought on the barbecue front. The latest of a half-dozen recent arrivals, Ohio-based Old Carolina Barbecue Company, splashed into town in spring with mobile stands (at...
Read MoreWhen 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...
Read MoreElsewhere in the former Borders space, Sheila Li hopes to open her Sweetwaters franchise in time for the Art Fair. Li’s husband, Roy Xu, owns the environmental company GreenBright, says Sweetwaters co-owner Lisa Bee, so...
Read MoreIt’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...
Read MoreChange 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...
Read MoreAs this year’s brutal winter morphed into a challenging, cold, wet spring, the diminutive restaurants parked in the courtyard behind Downtown Home & Garden had a difficult start to the season. And for 2014, the annual...
Read MoreBurgerFi, on the storied corner of South Forest and South University, is the newest entry in Ann Arbor’s growing segment of upscale burger joints using ingredients that have at least some story behind them, if not a...
Read MoreWith its “Tuesday Trios”–three courses for $30–Terry B’s offers fine dining at a bargain basement price. The dishes for this promotion usually come straight off the Dexter destination’s...
Read MoreIt’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...
Read MoreIt’s not easy to pigeonhole the newest establishment on the corner where Grizzly Peak has built a brewpub fantasyland. On Ashley just off Washington, a hinged little shingle of folksy old world metalwork reads “Old...
Read MoreThe only restaurant besides Zingerman’s to get its own number in Huffington Post’s “Nine Reasons to Eat in Ann Arbor” was Vellum, a collaboration between John Roumanis (Mediterrano and Carlyle Grill) and...
Read MoreThe 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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