Marketplace

It used to be you shopped Murray’s Discount Auto Parts on Stadium from east to west. Now it’s O’Reilly Auto Parts, and you shop it north to south. Murray’s changed the layout of its Ann Arbor store last...

Nizar El Awar came to Ann Arbor twenty-five years ago “to visit my brother, who graduated from U-M. I guess I’m still visiting,” he smiles. Shortly after he got here he opened a tiny toll-booth-sized sandwich...

Dexter’s population grew more than 40 percent in the past decade, but at least one village tradition shows no sign of fading: hanging out in the morning at the Dexter Bakery.Parents still stop at the long glass counter to...

Cheesecake is for sale again at 416 West Huron, the tiny shop in a wonderfully forgotten little warren of buildings under a railroad trestle. Originating as Sandy Ryder’s Say Cheese, it became Deda’s Bakery and...

Three new sushi restaurants opened in Ann Arbor earlier this year, and in mid-December they were joined by a fourth when Nick Ma opened Nagomi Sushi in Bagel Fragel’s old spot in the Plymouth View Center.Ma, thirty-seven,...

I have to confess that I don’t like beer. After years spent trying to cultivate an appreciation, I can only regard my aversion as a character flaw and a serious inconvenience on a sweltering summer day–or when dining...

“Ann Arbor is a very sophisticated town for coffee,” says Allen Leibowitz, co-managing partner of Zingerman’s Coffee Company. Heretofore only a wholesaler, ZCC opened for retail when it moved to Plaza Drive...

When it comes to pancakes, some people think globally, as in the International House of. Nick Panos thinks locally, as in Nick’s Original Pancake House, which was on schedule to open in the former Lohr Road Big Boy in...

Residents of Zaragon Place, the ten-story apartment building on East University near South University, now have an in-house resource: a double business called, with trendy punctuation, revive + replenish. Revive is a cafe and...

I’ve always been an east-west kind of guy. Among restaurants, that means I favor those that run along Washington and Liberty streets to those running north-south along Main. The West End Grill, a fourteen-year mainstay,...

You’d think the west side of Ann Arbor had seen all the possible ways to sell groceries–from small produce and ethnic markets to big grocery chains like Kroger, Busch’s, and Meijer to upscale health-conscious...