Category Archives: Ethnic Restaurants

Island Festival – Kalamazoo, June 17 – 19, 2010

What makes Kalamazoo a cool city and great weekend destination? Events like the Island Festival! Escape from day-to-day routine and kick off summer with entertainment for all ages. From its humble beginnings, the Island Festival has grown to be the largest celebration of Caribbean Culture in Michigan. Also known as “A Taste of the Caribbean”, [...]

Absolute Michigan Giveaway: 2009 Epicurean Classic in St. Joseph

Tasting Tent II by farlane The 2009 Epicurean Classic takes place St. Joseph August 28 – 30, 2009. It’s one of the premier annual celebrations of culinary artisanship, drawing big name chefs from around the nation and world who lead classes & cooking presentations and mingle in a relaxed and unimaginably tasty setting. Add in [...]

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 [...]

2nd Annual Chef’s Challenge at Shanty Creek ~ April 24-26

Looking for a way to heat up your springtime in Northern Michigan? Look no further than the   Springtime Splendor Week at the 2nd Annual Chef’s Challenge at Shanty Creek. What could be more fun than a food fight? A little healthy competition in celebration of the greatest food and food talent that Michigan has [...]

Road Trip: Oktoberfest, Frankenmuth September 18-21

oktoberfest by 46137 In 1990, Frankenmuth, “Michigan’s Little Bavaria,” celebrated its first Oktoberfest. The Frankenmuth Oktoberfest celebrates German culture, heritage and love. Their goal is to incorporate as many of the sights, sounds, taste and traditions of the original Munich Oktoberfest as possible. They strive to retain as much of their Bavarian heritage as possible [...]

Traverse Epicurean Classic video

Scott Allman & Eric Villegas of the TV show Fork in the Road visited the Traverse Epicurean Classic in 2006 – you can visit in 2008 if you enter Absolute Michigan’s Epicurean Classic Giveaway! The winner will be announced on Friday so be sure to get your entry in now! (click to YouTube to see [...]

Dig Michigan: Traverse City

Traverse City is the largest city in Northwest Lower Michigan, and the first of Michigan’s regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas away, so if you have [...]

Bavarian Festival; Frankenmuth June 12 – 15

Frankenmuth by Tony Tanoury Wilkommen to Frankenmuth’s 50th Annual Bavarian Festival It’s not just an event… it’s a feeling of “Gemütlichkeit”, combined with the warmth and friendship of Michigan’s charming Bavarian Village. It all started in 1959 with a Grand Opening Celebration of the Bavarian style addition to Fischer’s Hotel on Main Street. Back then [...]

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 [...]

Michigan Restaurants: Saffron in Kalamazoo

Saffron in Kalamazoo features authentic Northwest frontier Indian Cuisine with items including Samosas, Tandoori-Sensational Chicken, Shrimp Karahi Masala, Lamb Jhalfrazi and a blistering Vegetable Vindaloo. Sides like clay-oven baked Tandoori Breads and Ralta complete your meal and they’ll prepare your meal to suit your palate: mild, medium or hot. They do catering and have a [...]