Washtenaw County Public Health's Environmental Health Division inspects all food service establishments in the county, including bars, restaurants, schools and seasonal vendors — about 1,110 facilities in total! Inspection results are now published monthly on AnnArbor.com. Why do we inspect? Inspections help to ensure that safe food is served to ...
Ann Arbor's reputation for hosting a vital nightlife scene is just part of a growing industry in Michigan: liquor. A look at statewide data for wholesale liquor sales to bars and restaurants that, in turn, sell it for consumption on their premises shows sales and revenue growth in 2011.
Bold predictions require adventurous statements. I'm not one for hyperbole, but Geronimo: The Bar at 327 Braun Court will be Ann Arbor's most popular bar in 2012. Book it. Student bars, brew pubs, cocktail bars, martini lounges — that's the landscape in Ann Arbor. On the surface of things, The ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com It's been a year today since the workplace smoking ban took effect in Michigan, but the debate about whether the ban stomps on personal freedoms or protects the public health hasn’t been decided. The Michigan Restaurant Association said this past week that some of its ...
One of two downtown Ann Arbor bars facing a recommendation for liquor license non-renewal has reached a compromise with city officials, while a decision hasn’t yet been reached for the second bar. Dream Niteclub is setting up a payment schedule for $4,841, according to information cited Thursday at a Liquor ...
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News that Old Town owner Chris Pawlicki planned to open a new bar-restaurant in the former Full Moon space on South Main Street generated a lot of enthusiasm last fall in Ann Arbor. Less excited about Pawlicki’s plans to open Stella’s on Main was the owner of another bar-restaurant of ...
Fights, assaults by staff and incidents of over-serving customers already prompted Ann Arbor officials to ask owners and management at The Fifth Quarter to stem the problems in the downtown nightclub earlier this year. But with calls for police service as of late October running at twice the number recorded ...
It’s hard to believe it has been six months since the smoke-free law took effect in Michigan. I’ve enjoyed being able to go out to my favorite bars and restaurants and not worry about the health effects of secondhand smoke. We waited a long time for this healthy change. Now, ...
Painters have been working at 314-316 S. Fourth Ave. all week, changing the exterior colors of the former Studio 4 bar. It’s clear something is happening at the former Studio 4. But what that is appears to be a secret no one involved wants to share. I stopped by the ...
Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com An Ann Arbor-based bar and restaurant group that grew around the University of Michigan campus now is turning toward downtown this week when it takes over operations of The Alley Bar. The partners behind BTB Burrito and Good Time Charley’s bought the business in late July, ...
One month after state law barred smoking in their establishments, tavern and restaurant owners around Ann Arbor are not reporting any dramatic downturn in their business. And the reaction among patrons -- while still going through an adjustment period - ranged from joy (usually nonsmokers) to resignation (usually smokers).
In the course of your beer drinking life you will be presented with bad beer: bad in the sense that your beer is faulty, presented to you with flavors not intended by the brewer. When presented with said beer, it is your duty to send it back from whence it ...
The statewide smoking ban may be heralding big changes for Michigan’s hospitality industry, but Ann Arbor bar and restaurant owners largely aren’t sweating the switch to smoke free.
Prospective buyers of the former T.C’s Speakeasy in downtown Ypsilanti are seeking a unique liquor license with which they will be able reopen the shuttered bar and grill. The license, called a redevelopment liquor license, most significantly differs from a standard liquor license in that it requires a potential restaurateur ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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