Category Archives: Casual & Family Restaurants

Michigan morels and the Boyne City Mushroom Festival

morel mushroom by Latitude 45
The 2008 Boyne City National Morel Mushroom Festival takes place May 15-18, 2008. This year is the 48th annual, and the 4 day celebration of the morel mushroom includes a morel seminar and guided mushroom hunt on Friday and of course the Boyne Valley Lions National Mushroom Hunt on on Saturday [...]

Michigan Ethnic Restaurants

A view of Greektown, a District of Detroit by DetroitDerek
We profiled four great Michigan ethnic restaurants this week:

Legs Inn of Cross Village
Travelers Club International Restaurant & Tuba Museum of Okemos
Saffron in Kalamazoo
Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant in Ann Arbor and Ferndale

How many did we miss? Probably close to a bazillion - help us (and them) out [...]

Michigan Restaurants: Travelers Club International Restaurant & Tuba Museum of Okemos

200608 by zTransmissions
The Travelers Club International Restaurant and Tuba Museum of Okemos is unique for its "traveling" menu, born of the tastes of Jennifer Brooke Byrom and William White who loved to cook feasts of ethnic food - but didn't like to cook the same thing too often!
The menu at "the Tuba" represents authentic [...]

Michigan Restaurants: Legs Inn of Cross Village

legs inn by 46137
The Legs Inn is a "monument to nature" built on a high bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. The fantasy-like atmosphere of this medieval looking stone, timber and driftwood landmark was created by Polish immigrant, Stanley Smolak who fell in love with Northern Michigan and its people and decided to settle in Cross Village [...]

Michigan Casual & Family Restaurants

Greektown by One Foot Over The Moon
In February of 2008 we're profiling Michigan's restaurants. This week we picked four of Michigan's notable casual & family restaurant:

Clara's of Battle Creek & Lansing
Harbor Haus in Copper Harbor
Zehnder's of Frankenmuth
The Bluebird of Leland

There's a whole ton more great places across the state that we didn't include. That's where [...]

Michigan Restaurants: The Bluebird of Leland

The Bluebird by The Leland Report
Since 1927 when boat builder Martin Telgard and his wife Leone opened the Bluebird as a small sandwich and soda shop, the Bluebird in Leland has been the gathering place for locals and tourists alike. From the casual bar & tavern to the more elegant, scenic dining room on [...]

Michigan Restaurants: Zehnder's of Frankenmuth

Sign says it all. by ezz eddie
Zehnder's of Frankenmuth is the second largest independent restaurant in the United States and America's largest family restaurant. With ten dining rooms that seat more than 1500 guests, Zehnder's serves about a million diners a year. Their history page has a cool old photo and explains that just a [...]

Michigan Restaurants: Harbor Haus in Copper Harbor

Good service, outstanding and imaginative food, and a fabulous view of the harbor from all tables make the Harbor Haus in Copper Harbor one of Michigan's most memorable restaurants - "in a class by itself," as one fan says.
Owner-chef Ron Waara is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and started out as a [...]

Michigan Restaurants: Clara's of Battle Creek & Lansing

Depot Restaurant - Clara's by j image
Clara's on the River sits on the waterfront in Battle Creek and occupies the historic Michigan Central Railroad Depot (1888), whose weathered Lake Superior red sandstone and clock tower look much as they did in their heyday. Clara's Lansing station is at the Michigan Central Railroad Depot which is [...]

Michigan Diners & Hometown Favorites

Sit 'er down... by IntangibleArts
The first stops on our month-long tour of Michigan restaurants were diners, breakfast joints and hometown favorites. We picked four of Michigan's most notable:

Rosie's Diner in Rockford, Michigan
The Fleetwood Diner in Ann Arbor, Lansing & Kentwood
Yesterdog in Grand Rapids
Golden Harvest in Lansing

Was that all of them? Not remotely! We want YOU [...]