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Squares, also open for less than a year, announced a temporary closing at the beginning of summer. By July, Bluestone Realty was posting a For Lease sign in the window on E. Liberty. “I feel bad for them. They lost half a...

Iorio’s Gelateria, on the first floor of the Maynard House apartment building, is owned by brother and sister Nick and Mary Lemmer, twenty and twenty-three, respectively. If you think that sounds young, they’ve...

In early August the last traces of Naser Derneika’s Gyro Palace at the Colonnade were being cleared away to make room for Ali Hijazi’s latest Zamaan Cafe. (Hijazi has closed a location on Packard, but still has his...

“I thought the menu was just wrong,” says Jim Leonardo.”In Europe, there is a rich tradition of wine pairing,” says Leonardo, the new chef at Vinology. On Main Street in Ann Arbor, however, it’s...

Back in the 1980s, Da Yoopers had a backwoods hit with “Second Week of Deer Camp,” a song about the beer-drinking proclivities of Upper Peninsula hunters. It turns out the song didn’t inspire the name of Hannah...

Avtomobile, a tiny new shop on East Liberty underneath the Bead Gallery, is hard to characterize, but it’s not hard to say. It’s pronounced–pronovnced?–“automobile.” Maris Turner, one-half of...

The marketing genius who invented the Blue Apple concept for the Mobil station and convenience store at Packard and Platt was the owner’s eighth-grade niece, Kavya. Owner Dave Davuluri says he wanted a name that would...

At the moment, the south end of Stone Plaza, at the corner of Ellsworth and Stone School Rd., is a little short on eateries, but the situation is soon to be rectified. The north end of the center is anchored by the large...

I don’t think any resident would say that Ann Arbor suffers from a dearth of restaurants, but how many really please on all levels? The number is small, but with the opening of Mani Osteria, it has grown. This is not to...

Several local flower shops have closed in the last few years, but Lily’s Garden is thriving. The three-woman partnership of Harriet Held, Genevieve Stoyak, and Amanda Steele has moved into the house next door to...

Big Boy was thinking big when the company opened @burger, their first foray into the “fast casual” gourmet burger business, in McKinley Towne Centre last summer. They didn’t even last a year–@burger...

“Ann Arbor eats corn and tomatoes,” says Hollis Smith, an amused smile playing on his face. “Greens don’t sell too much over here. They sell in Ypsi.” Was that a wink? Is Smith perhaps suggesting...

Hours after Borders Inc. made it official–the business is dead, the liquidators are coming–things seemed almost normal at the downtown Borders, “Store Number One.” A light crowd milled about the new...

White and bright, with counter service and a concise menu, Seoul Street appears to be a fast food restaurant. So what’s with the sign on the counter that says, “Chicken is made fresh every time so it will take a...