Category Archives: Natural & Vegetarian Restaurants

Dig Michigan: Traverse City

August 7, 2008 – 11:32 am

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 [...]

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

February 26, 2008 – 8:51 pm

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 [...]

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Michigan Restaurants: The Fleetwood Diner in Ann Arbor, Lansing & Kentwood

February 5, 2008 – 9:21 am

Fleetwood Mohawk by aTanguay Food at the Fleetwood Diner is, as one might expect, no-frills, hot as blazes and delicately flavored with whatever else has been on the grill all day. This is a good thing. Come here for all manner of eggs, bacon, sausage, etc., burgers the way you want them, greasy fries, BLTs, [...]

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February is Dining Month on Absolute Michigan

February 1, 2008 – 9:16 am

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 [...]

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Michigan Restaurant profiles

January 10, 2008 – 7:29 am

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 [...]

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Culinary delights at the Traverse Epicurean Classic

August 28, 2007 – 8:02 am

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 [...]

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Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival

August 27, 2007 – 8:01 am

This photo of the Noguchi Fountain by Dave Hogg is one of a set of photos from the 2006 Detroit Jazzfest (slideshow). The Detroit International Jazz Festival is held every year on Labor Day weekend. With 6 stages, 100+ acts, it’s one of the premier free jazz festivals in the nation. They have a spectacular [...]

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Numbers show food & wine travel a winner for Michigan

April 23, 2007 – 9:02 am

Greeny Goodness by Sarah Steffens Sunday’s Saginaw News had a brief feature on culinary tourism that says a recent survey from the Travel Industry Association found Michigan ranked in the top 15 states for food and in the top 12 for wine-related travel. The survey found that 27 million travelers (17%) include culinary adventures in [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Kitchen Chick

April 17, 2007 – 9:23 am

Kitchen Chick will fill you in on just about anything you need to know about cooking: Chinese pickled vegetables, a Polish grocery store in Ann Arbor, even the explosion in Mexican and Central American restaurants in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area. The blog also features some very, very good recipes with photos guaranteed to make you [...]

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did! The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there. Share this:

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