Marketplace

Justin Herrick and Adam Lowenstein closed their BTB Burrito on Packard to “focus on what’s most central to our business–the campus area. We just couldn’t get enough volume going to sustain it,”...

Most restaurant-goers have that moment: the table, whether quaint wood or practical Formica, wobbles, and they (or if they’re dining upscale, the waiter) have to bend down to level things with a sugar packet or folded...

“I was selling ten burgers for every beef Wellington,” says Erik Kay. “I can take a hint.”Kay–that’s the name he uses, though his business card says K. and his legal name is...

“People want to know their food better these days,” Bill Taylor says.”About six months ago, a tipping point seemed to occur,” says Taylor, co-founder of local food distribution company Eat Local Eat...

Lisa McDonald expanded TeaHaus, her Fourth Avenue tea store, into the old Cake Nouveau space in September. The extra room, plus Cake Nouveau’s kitchen, has allowed her to bring the classic English tea service to Ann...

Andy Kwon is from a restaurant family. His parents owned several restaurants in Korea, including a traditional, high-priced sushi restaurant near Jeonju (Jeonju is the food destination city of South Korea that invented...

Julie’s Music, the tiny store selling sheet music for “piano, voice, and band instruments, but not string because Shar does string,” is closing October 15, says owner Julie King. She opened the store in 2006,...

When friends complained one evening about the end of the free fall “loose” leaf pick up from the streets of Ann Arbor, property manager Mike Calderone discovered his inner entrepreneur. He and his wife, Linda, who...