Category Archives: Dining Guides

Celebrate Valentine's Day the Michigan Way

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius by Church of One
The day for lovers, sweethearts, paramours and chocoholics is drawing near. Like it, love it, or hate it, Valentine's Day has become an annual tradition. Such a tradition, that according to the Greeting Card Association, over one billion valentines will be given [...]

Michigan Rated #1 in Social Media Tourism Promotion

Travel Michigan has announced that it has earned the top-ranking amongst the 50 official US tourism office Web sites in the use of social media. In a recent study, How Social is Your State DMO (national break down pdf), How Social is Your State DMO (Michigan by city break down pdf) conducted by Gammet Interactive, [...]

Be A Tourist In Your Own Town – Lansing, May 30th

We wanted to draw attention to this annual event in Lansing as it is something every city in Michigan should consider emulating. It is just too easy to grow into the mind set that where you reside there is absolutely nothing to do or that you have already seen it, done it, surfed it. [...]

M is for Monday … and Midwest, MCS, Michigan Agriculture and MORELS!

Morels ! by cedarkayak
The latest issue of Midwest Living feature on the Best Midwest Food Towns served up a platefull of restaurants in our region that might entice the culinary tourist. Their editors selected Traverse City as the #2 town and Ann Arbor #3. Also featured were a collection of recipes from Traverse City including [...]

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 [...]