*Update: Buttermint permanently closed in 2024. The same folks that brought us Storyhill BKC have another offering we're adding to our Restaurant Guide, Buttermint. They describe it as "new interpretations of Continental cuisine" and it feels at home in it's 1960's inspiration both in atmosphere and in menu. The food and cocktails are classics all [...]
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Craft Breweries – Marquette, Michigan
This past summer we decided to take the drive up to Marquette, Michigan to tour the craft breweries. Marquette is really a hidden gem on the edge of Lake Superior with a population of 20,000 and home to Northern Michigan University which adds about another 10,000 students to the city. With a hilly terrain and [...]
Culinary Journeys – Madrid, Spain
Still Life with Game, Vegetables, and Fruit, SÁNCHEZ COTÁN, JUAN, 1602Copyright ©Museo Nacional del Prado This is the fourth of an ongoing series of posts on culinary journeys outside of the Great Lakes region, and the lessons they help reveal about our attempts to define our regional cuisine. Today, we go to Madrid, Spain. One [...]
Culinary Journeys – Seoul, South Korea
If you are following along on our culinary journey through South Korea, part 1 on Jeoju is here and part 2 on Mihwangsa Temple is here. This post is filled with far more visual imagery than our traditional posts, which is appropriate for our subject. Onward we go to the dizzying, dazzling, dream of Seoul, [...]
Culinary Journeys – Jeonju, South Korea
A multi-part series exploring definitions of culture and cuisine, for inspiration from the new and respect for the old.
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