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Willows Bar & Grill
716 Chicago Street Coldwater, MI 49036 (517) 279-8490 Website Menu I have I mentioned we’ve really got in to hiking? Like once or twice maybe? Yeah. We’ve really gotten in to hiking. Looking at...
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True North Ice Cream
403 S. Kalamazoo Avenue Marshall, MI 49068 (269) 781-7623 Website Menu J loves to get me out of the house to go hiking and one of the best ways to do that is for us to take a “destination” hike. That...
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Gull Lake Distilling Company
92 E. Michigan Avenue Galesburg, MI 49053 (269) 200-5329 Website Menu Five nights without kids. What are we going to do? Grandma and Papa like to take the kids for a week each summer. I grew up about...
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Juancho’s Traveling Tacos
Food Truck Kalamazoo, MI 49009 (269) 599-1559 Website Menu A few days without kids and what do we do? Go out for drinks and get tacos from a food truck. We dropped the kids off at my parents on Monday...
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Eli’s Doces
Food Truck Battle Creek, MI 49017 (269) 419-4977 Website Menu Let’s just keep this food truck thing going, huh? We had a great kid-free taco truck meal from Juancho’s Traveling Tacos while enjoying...
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On The Roll
Food Truck Battle Creek, MI 49014 (517) 490-9987 Website Menu I am just all about the food trucks lately. It’s hard not to get excited about food trucks on Friday in Kalamazoo. Lunchtime Live is still...
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Crushed By Giants Brewing Company
600 N. Michigan Avenue, 2nd Floor Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 544-0322 Website Menu Vacation time! Last year really threw us off. We have been doing zoo trips since the kids were born as our vacations....
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Chicago Brewhouse
33 E. Riverwalk Chicago, IL 60601 (312) 877-5766 Website Menu We were not going to be satisficed with just dinner and a couple of drinks when we had the whole night to ourselves in the City without...
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Snow Dragon Shavery (Navy Pier)
700 E. Grand Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 291-9046 Website Menu This weekend trip to Chicago we planned on playing tourist. It’s funny how when you grow up somewhere, you don’t always do all the...
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America’s Dog & Burgers (Navy Pier)
700 E. Grand Avenue #121 Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 840-4000 Website Menu Our be a tourist in Chicago vacation got started in the most touristy way possible. We picked the kids up from my parents near...
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Centennial Crafted Beer + Eatery
733 N. LaSalle Drive Chicago, IL 60654 (312) 284-5353 Website Menu Finding a place to eat in downtown Chicago on a Saturday night was harder than we expected. It seems most places are reservation...
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Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
5700 S. Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60637 (773) 684-1414 Website I’ve been blogging since we moved from Illinois to Michigan 14 years ago. First, it was Mid-Michigan Dining when we lived in Lansing...
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Garrett Popcorn Shops (Michigan and Ohio)
625 Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 (888) 476-7267 Website Menu Every trip to Chicago needs one thing to make it complete. Popcorn from Garrett Popcorn shop. Hell, I even fly through O’Hare if I get...
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Labriola Chicago
535 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 955-3100 Website Menu What to do about dinner in downtown Chicago? We learned the previous night that most places are running on reservation only so we...
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Stan’s Donuts & Coffee (Mag Mile)
535 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 929-2651 Website Menu We had a pretty great weekend getaway to Chicago. J and I both grew up near the City…her closer to it than me…but we both did a...
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Josie’s Southern Comfort Foods
720 Shoppers Lane Parchment, MI 49004 (269) 743-7117 Website Menu I’m so far behind getting to new restaurants in the Kalamazoo area. My list keeps growing and growing but this has been the summer of...
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Louie’s Corner Bar
7177 W. Q Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49009 (269) 743-7722 Website Menu The best burger in Kalamazoo debate will rage on until the end of time. Several (several) years ago, I took a page from the Food...
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Gary Z’s Sub Shop
254 E. Front Street Buchanan, MI 49107 (269) 695-0800 Website Menu It’s kind of amazing there are still places in Southwest Michigan I haven’t been yet, innit? I’ve been doing this blog for almost 12...
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Schultz’s Treat Street
3023 Oakland Drive Kalamazoo, MI 49008 (269) 743-7137 Website Menu You know what Kalamazoo doesn’t really have? Neighborhood ice cream shops. For a metro area the size of Kalamazoo/Portage, the number...
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Cairo’s Kitchen
155 W. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1D Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 525-2996 Website Menu You know me by now. I’m a burger, wings, pizza guy. I don’t venture outside of my comfort zone much….but I’m trying....
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