2011 November

When Kevin Lo opened his small Asian Legend restaurant on William St. near Cottage Inn in 2007, he was in a quiet backwater. Now he’s in a construction zone, but when Zaragon West, the new private student dorm going up a...

Long before there were Asian restaurants all over Ann Arbor (including more than a dozen Japanese), Miki held court downtown. With soft lighting and screenlike partitions making the large space feel intimate, it was a popular...

When House of Sofas began its liquidation sale last winter, owner Matt Murphy, son of original owners Bob and Juanita Murphy, hinted he had something up his sleeve. That something was Cozy Home Solutions, his new furniture store...

Taqueria La Fiesta closed temporarily last winter after the cook, Memo Cardenas, got sidelined with a knee injury. His nephew, George Roman, a waiter at the time, says a temporary shutdown turned out to be a good thing....

Whew. I may have overdosed on sausages. And I love sausages–their spicy, salty meatiness, their crackling skin, the spurt of hot juices when you bite into a fresh link, the taste of wood fire in a smoked one. I vote for...

When she opened Poshh exactly ten years ago, Wendy Batiste-Johnson says she was the only “contemporary boutique” on the campus end of Liberty. The way she tells it, opening Poshh was almost a form of social work...

When Dick Scheer closed Village Corner on South University last November to make way for a high-rise apartment building, he put his 5,000 bottles of wine in storage and announced that Village Corner was in hibernation. Eleven...