Category Archives: Dining Guides

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 Fine Dining Restaurants

awesome view by St. Laurent Photography
We're checking out Michigan's restaurants for the whole month of February 2008. This week we took a look at four of the many great fine dining establishments in Michigan:

Five Lakes Grill in Milford
Dusty's Wine Bar in Okemos
Tapawingo in Ellsworth
The Whitney in Detroit

There are many more that we didn't include. [...]

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 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 [...]

February is Dining Month on Absolute Michigan

Crab Rangoon by Shawn Botruff
(chef who made this at the Bluebird)
For the month of February, we'll be focusing on dining in Michigan. Starting Monday, we'll be offering daily profiles of restaurants. We'll begin with diners and dives, check out some casual and family restaurants, dress up for fine dining and sample some of the great [...]

Michigan Restaurant profiles

Frank's Restaurant by meanmustard1982
In February we'll be focusing on Michigan dining and cooking all month.
Every day, we'll profile a Michigan restaurant and we're hoping that you'll recommend some of your favorites in the comments below or by email.
From diner to four star restaurant and Detroit to Menominee, we want to offer up a palate-pleasing buffet [...]

Numbers show food & wine travel a winner for Michigan

Greeny Goodness by Sarah Steffens
Sunday's Saginaw News had a brief feature on culinary tourism that says a recent survey from the Travel Industry Association found Michigan ranked in the top 15 states for food and in the top 12 for wine-related travel. The survey found that 27 million travelers (17%) include culinary adventures in their [...]

Culinary tour of Grand Traverse County's Old Mission

Check out Absolute Michigan keyword "Old Mission" for more web sites and articles about Old Mission.

A Vintage Year? by oddzen
Lake Magazine has a nice feature by Emily Bingham on Northern Michigan's Old Mission Peninsula that focuses on the culinary attractions of this orchard and vineyard filled peninsula that divides the East and West Grand Traverse [...]

Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

Hey there, we thought it might be nice to have a place where folks could say "hello" and tell everyone a little bit about their Michigan business, nonprofit, community organization, or other web site or blog (sorry, only Michigan, and please keep the posts brief). Feel free to add a comment below and definitely include [...]

Metro Times "Best of Detroit 2006"

Detroit, MI by One Foot Over The Moon
For the 20th straight year the Metro Times presents the "Best of Detroit". Take a look through the results and get down to D-Town. I think most people from outside the metro area would be pleasantly surprised at what Detroit has to offer. It is truly a world [...]