Category Archives: Fine Dining Restaurants

Michigan morels and the Boyne City Mushroom Festival

morel mushroom by Latitude 45
The 2008 Boyne City National Morel Mushroom Festival takes place May 15-18, 2008. This year is the 48th annual, and the 4 day celebration of the morel mushroom includes a morel seminar and guided mushroom hunt on Friday and of course the Boyne Valley Lions National Mushroom Hunt on on Saturday [...]

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 Restaurants: The Whitney in Detroit

Billed as "An American Restaurant in an American Palace", The Whitney is located on Woodward Avenue in an 1894 mansion constructed of rare South Dakota Jasper for lumber baron David Whitney, Jr.:
The 21,000 square foot home has 52 rooms, 10 bathrooms, 218 windows, 20 fireplaces, a secret vault in the original dining room and [...]

Michigan Restaurants: Dusty's Wine Bar in Okemos

Dusty's Wine Bar in Okemos is nationally recognized for its Contemporary American cuisine with a "New World" flair and features an award winning wine list served in a relaxed "Wine Bar"-Bistro atmosphere. The restaurant trade magazine Santé named Dusty's Cellar one of a half-dozen best bistros in the country.
Their broad menu ranges from Tapas [...]

Michigan Restaurants: Tapawingo in Ellsworth

Sun sets on Tapawingo by RohdeBarb
Dine, v: to eat a good dinner in good company, and eat it slow. In dining, as distinguished from mere feeding, the palate and stomach never ask the hand, 'What are you giving us?'
Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary 1911
So begins a sample menu from Tapawingo in Ellsworth that [...]

Michigan Restaurants: Five Lakes Grill in Milford

For more than a decade, Five Lakes Grill has ranked as one of the nation's most respected restaurants, drawing food enthusiasts not only from the metro Detroit area but from throughout the state and across the country.
Chef Brian Polcyn (who developed his skills at two of Michigan's most prestigious restaurants, the Golden Mushroom and the [...]

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 February Event Calendar

Our Michigan February Event Calendar seems to demonstrate that the more the weather tries to keepDownload free cingular ringtone, cingular wireless, download free cingular music ringtone! About Me Name: cingular sprint ringtones View my complete profile. us bottled up, the more innovative ways [...]

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 [...]