Flat Top Grill opens 1st Michigan restaurant in Ann Arbor on Washtenaw

Posted on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 : 5:03 p.m.

A Chicago-based restaurant chain expanded into Michigan on Monday with the opening of Flat Top Grill on Washtenaw Avenue in the Huron Village Shopping Center.

The custom stir-fry restaurant opened for lunch, nearly three months after corporate officials at Flat Out Crazy Co. confirmed they'd signed a lease to convert the former fitness equipment store into their 15th restaurant.

The company - which operates in three other states and also runs the Stir Crazy chain - started in suburban Chicago in 1995.

The restaurant joins Qdoba in an outlot building at the shopping center, located at the corner of Huron Parkway, about a half-mile west of the US-23 interchange.

Initial estimates pegged the opening at the end of October. Company officials were unavailable to answer questions about the timing delay or staffing at the new store.