Restaurant Review: ** (good, reliable) Broadway Cafe & Jumbo Steak Hoagie 1139 Broadway St., Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Hours: Mon-Fri: 11am – 6pm, Sat: 11am – 2:30pm Ph: 734-769-8900 Run by a Korean opera-singing coach and his wife, the Broadway Cafe in Ann Arbor serves up two kinds of food: Korean and cheesesteaks. The right side of [...]
By Elaine Hayes Restaurant Review: + (no stars, poor to satisfactory) Teriyaki Time — New Ann Arbor Japanese/Korean Restaurant 314 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Hours: Mon-Sat: 10am – 9pm, Sun: 12am – 8pm Ph:734-929-2272 I was strolling through the Kerrytown Farmer’s Market and noticed a little eatery along Detroit Street that goes by the [...]
Yelp. Yelpers. Yelping. If you’ve not visited the online food community Yelp.com, you’re missing out on some of the most frank, honest and spot on restaurant reviews around. The Ann Arbor Yelp.com community is full of reviewers whose writing is as good, if not better, than that of local restaurant reviewers who get paid to [...]
April 1-10 is Restaurant Week in Detroit. The irony of beginning any Restaurant Week on April Fools Day is, in many ways, perfect. Restaurant Weeks are imagined fantasies by both restauranteurs and diners. The restauranteur imagines money coming in during what would be a slow time of year. Diners imagine (or are led to imagine) [...]
Ann Arbor Restaurant Week is baaaaaaaack and runs from January 16-21. I last wrote about the first annual Restaurant Week in Ann Arbor on January 15, 2010. The title of that entry, “The Politics of Food: Ann Arbor Restaurant Week Hype? Caveat Emptor, Epicurians,” could be the title of this entry, as well. The hype [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, January 17-22 is Ann Arbor Restaurant Week, an event put on by the Main Street Area Association. It’s the second Ann Arbor Restaurant Week, and 26 joints are participating, according to Lisa Allmendinger’s piece in the A2Journal. The participating venues will offer “a $12.00 lunch and some restaurants are offering [...]
