Category Archives: Casual & Family Restaurants

Celebrate Valentine’s Day the Michigan Way

February 7, 2012 – 11:15 am

Here’s a whole ton of Valentine’s Day ideas. YOU probably have some other ideas – share them in the comments or right here or on our Facebook! Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius by Church of One Next Tuesday, February 14th is Valentine’s Day – a day for lovers, sweethearts, paramours [...]

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Michigan New Years Eve Happenings

December 20, 2011 – 9:45 am

We have assembled a list of some of the best New Year’s Eve events from across the state including a number from Detroit & Grand Rapids / Kalamazoo’s massive New Year’s Fest’s featuring fireworks, music and more! Did we get them all? Not likely!! Be sure to add the ones we missed to the comments [...]

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Taste of Kalamazoo Festival ~ July 21-23

July 10, 2011 – 9:24 pm

Every year, on the fourth weekend of July, thousands of hungry festival-goers flock to downtown Kalamazoo to enjoy the endless variety of foods prepared by Kalamazoo’s most popular eateries at the Taste of Kalamazoo Festival. More than 30 local restaurants and chefs will offer mouth-watering ethnic items, family favorites, exotic dishes, and local specialties. Enjoy [...]

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Leland Wine & Food Festival ~ Saturday, June 11

May 26, 2011 – 10:30 am

Leland Wine Festival by farlane The Leland Wine & Food Festival is Michigan’s oldest wine festival held on the second Saturday in June (June 11, 2011) from noon-6 PM. 2011 is the 26th annual of this fundraiser for the Leland Chamber of Commerce and there’s few things better than a day in the Leland Harbor [...]

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Bavarian Inn hosts “Purely Michigan” dinner

March 2, 2011 – 4:51 pm

photos & article by Samantha Tengelitsch The Bavarian Inn Restaurant in Frankenmuth celebrated all things Michigan with its annual “Purely Michigan” feast last Friday. The Inn’s own Chef Phil designed a five-course meal featuring Michigan-grown foods including cranberries from the Michigan Cranberry Company (Cheboygan), the Inn’s famous Red Currant Wine, a sweet blend of currants [...]

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Michigan Culinary Tourism

February 21, 2011 – 9:44 am

Mack-in-touch Apples by ( Jennifer ) A month ago, Absolute Michigan participated in the the Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations conference (read our live blog) where the Michigan Culinary Tourism initiative was launched. For the video below, we spoke with Melody Johnson of the International Culinary Tourism Association, keynote speaker Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman’s, Linda Jones [...]

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Live at the Michigan Culinary Tourism Conference

January 10, 2011 – 8:26 am

Click here for a video from the conference! All day today the Absolute Michigan team is at Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations, Michigan’s first conference on Culinary Tourism. The conference was a hot ticket, and nearly 200 tourism industry stakeholders are getting ready to learn about Michigan’s new initiative to increase tourism. You can learn all [...]

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Michigan Culinary Tourism taking off!

December 20, 2010 – 12:52 pm

Great Lakes Echo is a project of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University. The site uses Creative Commons reporting to to help the news community cover the environment of the Great Lakes watershed. Absolute Michigan supports the mission of Great Lakes Echo and will feature articles they produce. This article by [...]

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Michigan Business Photo Winner: Vintage Michigan by Stacy Niedzwiecki

June 17, 2010 – 6:41 pm

Our panel evaluated submissions based on subject matter and photographic technique and has selected Vintage Michigan by Stacy Niedzwiecki as the winner in our Michigan Business Photo Contest. The Legendary Dog ‘n Suds Drive-In located in Montague Michigan. It has been the sole surviving Dog ‘n Suds Drive-In for the state of Michigan, and opened [...]

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April 19, 2010: Michigan Wine & Food Showcase at Shiraz Gardens

April 12, 2010 – 9:04 am

riesling, sunset, and walled lake by artsy_T The new Michigan Culinary Tourism Alliance (details) is sponsoring the first-ever Michigan Wine & Food Showcase on Monday, April 19, 2010 at Shiraz Gardens in Bingham Farms. Two of Michigan’s Master Sommeliers, Madeline Triffon and Claudia Tyagi, are closely involved with this project and are excited to celebrate [...]

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