Category Archives: Fine Dining Restaurants

February Michigan Event Calendar

Star Dream by Conlawprof
Our Michigan February Event Calendar seems to demonstrate that the more the weather tries to keep us bottled up, the more innovative ways Michiganians will find to tell the weather what they think about that!! Of course, there's still many, many more and we invite you to fill us in on other [...]

Michigan New Years Eve Happenings

We have assembled a list of some of the best New Year's Eve events from across the state. Did we get them all? Not likely!! Be sure to add the ones we missed to the comments and safely enjoy ringing in 2009!

Grand Rapids International Wine & Food Festival

00-19 by Emery Co Photo
The 2008 International Wine & Food Festival takes place November 21-23 in the Steelcase Ballroom at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids.
2008 is the inaugural year, and the event will pair Grand Rapids' finest restaurants with vintners from throughout Michigan and the world for an amazing culinary celebration. In addition to over [...]

Setting the table Thursday: take a bite out of Michigan this fall!

Allegan Sunset 2 by raddad!
Autumn is when Mother Nature packs the boards with a feast for the eyes. AAA Michigan says that the best viewing conditions are being reported in the Southwest and Southeast Lower Peninsula with fair to good fall color conditions are reported in Holland, Jackson, Milford, St. Joseph, Tipton, with color development [...]

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: Kalamazoo Region

Situated approximately half way between Detroit and Chicago and home to Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo is the second 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]