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Thanksgiving 2016
Once again, old Thanksgiving post are driving traffic to the blog, so I should probably go ahead and try to put something together for this year. These are the places that advertise as being open on...
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Schlotzsky’s – Downtown Battle Creek
14 W. Michigan Avenue Battle Creek, MI 49017 (269) 963-2526 Website Menu I love the Battle Creek Christmas Parade. It’s at night. They do it down Michigan Avenue which is a really tight street...
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The Pantry On Tap
7634 S. Westnedge Avenue Portage, MI 49002 (269) 978-6641 Website Our baby is 1! B was born on Black Friday last year which made his birthday the Sunday after Thanksgiving this year. We were very...
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Hot Chicken Kitchen – Nashville Style (Lansing)
128 S. Washington Square Lansing, MI 48933 (517) 208-5176 Website Menu I know I’ve mentioned many times in the past how much I love going to Lansing for work. It’s out of my normal work area which...
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Kazoopy’s Pizza (Westwood)
1908 W. Main Steet Kalamazoo, MI 49006 (269) 775-1100 Website Menu I took the family down to St. Louis this summer and I learned something. I like St. Louis pizza. While I was at a baseball game...
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Big Apple Bagels (Westnedge)
3811 S. Westnedge Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49008 (269) 775-1555 Website Menu I typically get up for school days at the last minute possible to get everybody out of the house. I’ve always been that way....
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Ray Ray’s Italian Beef & Sausage
1715 Miller Road Kalamazoo, MI 49001 (269) 381-6138 Website Menu Finding a good Italian beef outside of Chicago is hard. A lot of places claim to be “Chicago style” but very few are actually true to...
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Casey’s Bar & Grill
136 N. Whittaker Street New Buffalo, MI 49117 (269) 469-6400 Website Menu J and I have been in Michigan for almost nine years now. That’s still crazy to us. It seems like we just left Peoria, IL...
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Villa Nova Pizzeria (New Buffalo)
184 E. Buffalo Street New Buffalo, MI 49117 (269) 469-0200 Website Menu My parents go overboard for Christmas. They always have. In years we didn’t have a lot of money, my mom would buy things...
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Wing Heaven (Kalamazoo Ave)
1559 Kalamazoo Avenue SE Grand Rapids, MI 49507 (616) 288-5224 Website Menu Passing up a Wing Heaven is not something I do often. It seems like the places never stay open in the same location under...
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Publican Tavern (O’Hare International Airport)
10000 W. O’Hare Avenue Terminal 3 Gate K1 Chicago, IL 60666 (773) 686-6180 Menu I know I travel a lot for work, but this is a new one. Flying. It’s not too hard to figure out what I was doing, but I...
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Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse (Inwood Road)
2202 Inwood Road Dallas, TX 75235 (214) 357-7120 Website Menu So…what’s the first thing I do when I get to Texas? Yup. BBQ. My flight got in to DFW a few minutes ahead of schedule, so I was in town...
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Lockhart Smokehouse (Dallas)
4000 W. Davis Street Dallas, TX 75208 (214) 944-5521 Website Menu Day two in Dallas started how day one ended. More BBQ! I started the morning bright and early with a trip out to Grapevine for my...
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Deep Ellum Brewing Company
2828 St. Louis Street Dallas, TX 75226 (214) 888-3322 Website Menu I could have eaten BBQ on my entire trip to Dallas, but come on, you know I’m going to find at least one brewery, right? When I got...
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Waffle House (Ross Avenue, Dallas)
5111 Ross Avenue Dallas, TX 75206 (214) 824-2539 Website MenuT I normally work a night shift, but while traveling, anything is possible. A co-worker and I had to get up at 3 AM to complete a task...
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Humperdinks Restaurant & Brewpub (Arlington)
700 Six Flags Drive Arlington, TX 75001 (817) 640-8553 Website Menu I beat my colleagues to North Texas by a couple of days so I got to explore a little bit when it came time for meals. By the time...
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Whataburger (19th Street, Grand Prairie)
1404 NW 19th Street Grand Prairie, TX 75050 (972) 641-7684 Website Menu Ok, ok. I know many of you are tired of my Texas trip, but I can tell you this is my last entry from Texas. I have one more...
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Skybridge Restaurant & Bar
5600 Mannheim Road Terminal 2 Gate F15 Chicago, IL 60666 (773) 601-8445 No Known Website Menu Finally. After eight long, but fun, days it was time to head home. We worked until almost Midnight on...
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Jersey Giant Subs (Jolly Road)
2546 E. Jolly Road Lansing, MI 48910 (517) 394-3590 Website Menu Hey, I’m back in Michigan. I’m still not in Southwest Michigan with this blog, but at least I’m back in the right state. That’s a...
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Santorini Island Grill (Kalamazoo)
1903 W. Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49008 (269) 387-0442 Website Menu. So…yup. I’m one of those guys that likes to work on my off days. Well, I don’t really like working, but I freelance every so...
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