Category Archives: Ethnic Restaurants

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 [...]

Michigan Restaurants: Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant in Ann Arbor and Ferndale

Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant in Ann Arbor (and Ferndale) offers a unique dining experience. Central to Ethiopian dining is eating from the same plate and sharing the same bread (called injera). The injera, a flat, tangy, crepe-like bread, made with self-rising wheat flour or teff and water. By pinching a bite-sized piece of injera, you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Five things you need to know for Tuesday, February 5, 2007

Welcome to a Super Fat Pazcki Tuesday edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. We’ve been meaning to share the video of Gov. Granholm’s 2008 State of the State speech, which probably ranks near the top in the “Getting People Who Don’t Want to Stand Up and Applaud to Stand Up and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Fall Color Tours: Mackinaw City – Charlevoix – Petoskey

outside east jordan, mi. by redmudball The photo to the right is of the St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church of East Jordan (link) and is part of Casey’s Fall in East Jordan set. While the color is still in full bloom in the Upper Peninsula, we better head south across the Mighty Mac and spend [...]

The Frankenmuth Oktoberfest: sanctioned by the Parliament and the City of Munich

oktoberfest by leigh wolf Every September, Frankenmuth celebrates their German culinary and musical heritage with the Frankenmuth Oktoberfest. In 1990, Frankenmuth, “Michigan’s Little Bavaria,” celebrated its first Oktoberfest. The Frankenmuth Oktoberfest celebrates German culture, heritage and love. Our goal is to incorporate as many of the sights, sounds, taste and traditions of the original Munich [...]

Culinary delights at the Traverse Epicurean Classic

I took this photo of Perry Harmon (who now makes a very tasty and tender biscotti for a living) at the Traverse Epicurean Classic last year (slideshow). The Epicurean Classic is an amazing annual celebration of food, wine, brewing and cooking that gets better every year. It was founded to benefit the Great Lakes Culinary [...]