Marketplace

If you range hungrily down Washtenaw east of US-23, watch for the small blue sign of the howling wolf just past Golfside. Turn in and you will enter a small, minimally designed, eight-table dining room with a kind of goofy-folky...

Hilary Lowe and her fiance and business partner Mike Gustafson hope their new bookstore, Literati, will be open by spring. They have signed a lease for 2,600 square feet (basement and first floor) of 124 E. Washington, next to...

Hibachi Grill (“and Supreme Buffet,” as its website grandly added) opened last summer and closed at the end of the year. An Asian business owner who didn’t want to be named (“I could be sued!”)...

Blimpy Burger–Krazy Jim’s Blimpy Burger, until Rich Magner bought the business from Jim Shafer in 1992–will still be occupying its current location through August. Magner says the building was sold out from...

For romance, we choose the bar. Perched side-by-side, we can chat with our neighbors or bartenders, or turn toward each other in an intimate proximity that’s hard to duplicate across a table. Too, sharing a...

Four restaurants-in-progress finished tinkering and threw open their doors within days of each other at the turn of the year. You might say they’re the culinary embodiment of north, south, east, and west. That’s a...

Every month in this space, it’s a challenge to work in last month’s Fake Ad, the winner’s name from the ad the month before, its page number, and, most important, a compliment to ourselves.So this month,...

The city of Ypsilanti has been trying to redevelop thirty-eight empty acres on Michigan Ave. since 1999. The challenge is that although the city owes millions of dollars on the land, it’s been unable to close a deal for...