Category Archives: Fine Dining Restaurants

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]