Marketplace

Asked what distinguishes the Cultivation Station from any of the other hydroponic shops in town, assistant manager Kai Brodersen has an instant answer: “We felt we could offer something they don’t have. We have...

Lisa DeLong was working as executive pastry chef at the Gandy Dancer in Ann Arbor when a mutual friend of Glee and Steve Havens approached her about running Glee Cake & Pastry after Glee’s battle with cancer made it...

Maren and Jeff Jackson have finally found a home for Seva in the Westgate Shopping Center: their lease in the old VFW hall on Liberty was up in 2012, and they’ve been searching for a new spot since.The vegetarian...

Mindy and Rob D’Oria opened Bits and Pizzas on Dexter’s Main Street in June. It is something like the seventh pizza restaurant in village, depending on your definition.”I think we make a better pizza than any...

Foods of India/Kitchen of India, the little Indian grocery store on Broadway with the takeout window in back, is in transition, says “Gandhi,” as he wants to be called. The twenty-four-year-old U-M engineering grad...

Yankee Candle opened in Briarwood–it split the space facing the center court that used to be the Rogers & Hollands jewelry store with Lush, selling natural hand-made cosmetics. So it remains a corner devoted to female...

Chris and Dave Fichera founded Stucchi’s ice cream in 1986. They sold the company in 2003 but kept the pole barn on Jackson Road that had been their ice cream factory. A few months ago, they put up a retail-like sign there...

Black Pearl’s fish taco has won either Best of Show, Best Entree, or both at Taste of Ann Arbor three out of the last four years (downstairs neighbor Melange won in 2011). Co-owner Jan Z. Cohen (“there are at least...