Your source for eating (and drinking!) locally in West Michigan
Someone pinch me, I think my dreams are coming true! For the past few years I’ve been a member of Trillium Haven Farm’s CSA program. At all of the cooking classes and events, I’ve always come away wishing for a restaurant that would offer that kind of food: pure, fresh, and delicious. And it’s coming!
In what has become a wildly-popular winter/spring tradition, West Michigan’s Salt of the Earth announces its third-annual monthly Michigan Wine & Beer Dinner Series at its downtown Fennville rustic American eatery, starting on January 11 and running through June 20.
When a certain restaurant chain opened in Grand Rapids, I had a hard time getting excited. Because it’s a chain. When others pointed this out, many responded, “so what if it’s a chain? Local workers still get jobs there, right? What difference does it make?”
Grove has been on my list of restaurants to try for a long time. So when Restaurant Week GR came along, it was moved to the top.
It’s that time of year for the Grand Rapids International Wine, Beer & Food Festival! November 17-19, you can sample wine and beer, great food, participate in seminars, and check out the various booths.
You wouldn’t expect fine dining amid apple trains and candlesticks, but Vander Mill Cider’s commitment to local food comes through loud and clear in a limited but gourmet quality menu.
One-Day Event Provides Learning Sessions and One-on-One Counseling With Leading Michigan Experts EAST LANSING, Mich. – For new entrepreneurs or established food companies thinking about creating and launching that next new food product or idea, the fourth annual Making It In Michigan conference can help bring that concept to fruition.
It’s that time of year again for Restaurant Week Grand Rapids! Restaurant Week is a great way to sample lots of restaurants that are on your “I’ve always wanted to try that” list. You’ll have 11 days–Thursday, November 3 through Sunday, November13, 2011, to try the special menus created just for this event.
Join Anthony Bourdain, chef, author of Medium Raw and host of The Travel’s Channel’s No Reservations and Eric Ripert, renowned chef of Le Bernardin, author, host of “Avec Eric” on PBS and regular guest on Bravo’s Top Chef as they share stories and muse on the place of food in our personal, community and global life.
Last Sunday, the husband and I wanted to go somewhere different for breakfast. “Have we been to Wolfgang’s?” I asked. I’d heard about it but couldn’t quite remember where it was. “Yes,” he said. “We haven’t been there in awhile. Let’s go! They have a lot of meat. It’s like the opposite of Gaia’s.”
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