Evil Czech Brewery and Public House – Mishawaka
3703 N. Main Street Mishawaka, IN 46545 (574) 855-3070 Website Menu For once, for some odd reason, I didn’t look for a place to eat on a road trip. I knew we were going to take a trip to the...
View ArticleSmoke~N~Buns
5118 W. D Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49009 (269) 383-4424 No Known Website Menu I love it when I find great places inside of gas stations. For several months, I have stopped at the Ridderman Oil and...
View ArticleDark Horse Brewing Company
511 S. Kalamazoo Avenue Marshall, MI 49068 (269) 781-9940 Website Menu Odd day off. Both J and I had this random Tuesday off. Both of us worked on Sunday. I asked for today off so I could keep my...
View ArticleEast Egg – Milwood
2814 Portage Road Kalamazoo, MI 49001 (269) 459-9009 Website Menu For more than a few years now, I’ve had a pretty awful schedule. I worked Friday and Saturday nights and had Sunday and Monday off....
View ArticleBlaze Pizza – Oshtemo
5015 W. Main Street Kalamazoo, MI 49009 (269) 254-8081 Website Menu Some people are just better than others when it comes to marketing….especially in today’s digital world where word of mouth is amped...
View ArticleKazoopy’s Pizza & Grinders
8441 W. Main Street Kalamazoo, MI 49009 (269) 375-0120 Website Menu Daddy’s making dinner. Hand me the phone! Ok, usually, I’m the one that cooks and I’m actually a pretty decent cook, but on Friday...
View ArticleBrewster’s Fine Foods & Spirits of Three Rivers
601 W. Hoffman Street Three Rivers, MI 49093 (269) 279-9800 Website Menu It’s been four years since I’ve had a Saturday off that I haven’t used a vacation day for. That always made it really hard for...
View ArticleShort’s Brewing Company
121 N. Bridge Street Bellaire, MI 49615 (231) 498-2300 Website Menu It’s time for a vacation. J and I both work in pretty high stress jobs and our schedules are all sorts of messed up. We’re not...
View ArticleGreat Wolf Lodge – Traverse City
3575 US Highway 31 Traverse City, MI 49684 (231) 941-3600 Website When I was growing up, my parents took my brother and I to a lot of water parks. I wasn’t always a fan. I always wanted to go to...
View ArticleNorth Peak Brewing Company
400 W. Front Street Traverse City, MI 49684 (231) 941-7325 Website Menu Our goal on this trip up north was to hit up as many breweries as we could. The breweries that serve food always have...
View ArticleMission Point Lighthouse
20500 Center Road Traverse City, MI 49686 (231) 223-7324 Website There was so much I wanted to do on our quick getaway to Traverse City, but L was going to be content just playing in the water park at...
View ArticleJolly Pumpkin Old Mission
13512 Peninsula Drive Traverse City, MI 49686 (231) 223-4333 Website Menu Our beer tour of Traverse City continued after we left Mission Point Lighthouse. It was around lunch time and J asked where...
View ArticleRight Brain Brewery
225 E. Sixteenth Street Traverse City, MI 49684 (231) 944-1239 Website Menu If it seems like we go to a lot of breweries, it’s because we do. We always look ahead of time and try to figure out if...
View ArticleCamp Critter Bar and Grille – Traverse City
3575 N. US Highway 31 South Traverse City, MI 49684 (231) 941-3600 Website Menu It seems like we always do it. We go hard for the first few days of vacation. We go out to nice meals. We seek out...
View ArticleSkydeck Chicago
233 S. Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 875-9447 Website Being a tourist in Chicago is always a little weird…but at the same time, I’ve missed out on some neat things just because I’ve always...
View ArticleLincoln Park Zoo
2001 N. Clark Street Chicago, IL 60614 (312) 742-2000 Website We really have an affinity for zoos. All three of us love spending a day at the zoo and we’ve done it several times already this summer....
View ArticlePark Place Cafe
2150 N. Cannon Drive Chicago, IL 60614 (312) 742-2000 Website Menu A couple of hours walking around the zoo is enough to work up an appetite. We had already been at Lincoln Park Zoo for a little over...
View ArticleFatso’s – Alsip
5043 W. 111th Street Alsip, IL 60803 (708) 424-2470 Website Menu Usually when it comes to gluttonous restaurants, I’m on top of things, but J found one that I must have glanced over. We were spending...
View ArticleWoody’s Bar & Grill
8765 Goldenrod Avenue Bitely, MI 49309 (231) 745-3754 No Known Website No Online Menu Usually I’m the guy that comes up with interesting places to eat while on trips with co-workers. Last night, it...
View ArticlePotter Park Zoo
1301 S. Pennsylvania Avenue Lansing, MI 48912 (517) 483-4222 Website More zoo’s. I think we’ve figured out that we have to been to 10 zoo’s in the last 18 months. I love. J loves it. L loves it....
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