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Mendon Quick Stop
633 W. Main Street Mendon, MI 49072 (269) 496-8200 No Known Website Menu Working up north, it’s not very often my job takes me south of Kalamazoo. This past Saturday was one of those rare exceptions....
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Meat – Southern B.B.Q. and Carnivore Cuisine
1224 Turner Street Lansing, MI 48906 (517) 580-4400 Website Menu It’s milestone time. This post is #1000 on SW Michigan Dining. Ididn’t want #1000 to be just any post. I wanted it to be something...
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Gonzo’s BiggDogg Brewing
140 S. Westnedge Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 382-2739 Website Menu Beer! Kalamazoo has all of a sudden become a booming craft brew market. Sure, we’ve been known for craft beer for quite a...
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Maestro’s Pizza
6070 S. 12th Street Portage, MI 49024 (269) 372-2222 Website Menu Continuing our tradition of being lazy on Monday nights, neither of us could come up with anything for dinner. I went with my go-to...
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Cranker’s Brewery
213 S. State Street Big Rapids, MI 49307 (231) 796-1919 Website Menu One of the cool things about my job is that I get to travel a lot which means I get to eat in a lot of different places. One of...
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Arcadia Ales
103 W. Michigan Avenue Battle Creek, MI 49017 (269) 963-9520 Website Menu It has been way too long. Way to long. J and I haven’t been to Arcadia Ales since January of 2010. There is no way it...
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Rupert’s Brew House
773 W. Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 337-9911 Website Sample Beer Menu J and I had planned hosting our families for Thanksgiving. J’s mom was able to make it up on Tuesday before the snow...
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Nina’s Taqueria – Battle Creek
248 Capital Avenue SW Battle Creek, MI 49037 (269) 969-9448 Website Menu I have one co-worker who must really hate working with me. No, not because I’m a jerk…but because whenever he and I work...
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Monical’s Pizza of Kankakee
1155 W. Court Street Kankakee, IL 60901 (815) 928-8043 Website Menu Burning off vacation. Working weekends, I tend to hang on to my vacation day in case something comes up where I need to take a...
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Children’s Museum in Oak Lawn
5100 Museum Drive Oak Lawn, IL 60453 (708) 423-6709 Website Indoor activities…becoming more and more of a necessity. L loves watching Elmo, but we really want to do more with her than just sing the...
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Stella’s Lounge
53 Commerce Avenue SW Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (616) 742-4444 Website Menu Crap. One of my Co-Workers knows about the blog and is actively trying to get me to as many new places as possible. Don’t get...
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The Lunch Pail
1061 S. Main Street Fremont, MI 49412 (231) 924-9100 Website Menu Before last week, I had never been to Fremont, MI. I really didn’t even know how to get there without putting an address in to my...
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Grand Traverse Pie Company – Portage
5303 S. Westnedge Avenue Portage, MI 49002 (269) 903-4991 Website Menu I always like seeing new places move in to existing buildings. And, yes, I do like seeing new chains come to Kalamazoo. I’m a...
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema – Kalamazoo
180 Portage Street Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 532-7990 Website Menu It’s been so long since J and I have been to a movie theater. The last time we saw a movie was Thanksgiving Day two years ago when J...
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Hogzilla BBQ Express
911 E. Cork Street Kalamazoo, MI 49001 (269) 364-6777 Website Menu You can never have too much BBQ in town. Last month, a Battle Creek mainstay opened up a carry-out shop in an old Little Caesars in...
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Mancino’s Pizza & Grinders – Hastings
814 W. State Street Hastings, MI 49058 (269) 945-9900 Website Menu For a while, it seemed like I was blogging about a different Mancino’s every few weeks. I was working with a co-worker who really...
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Centre Street Tap House
3251 Centre Street Portage, MI 49024 (269) 492-3500 Website Menu It usually doesn’t take us long to find our way to new beer focused restaurants when they open in the Kalamazoo area, but I’m a little...
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Tacos El Cunado – Bridge Street
1024 Bridge Street NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (616) 475-8000 Website Menu It’s been a while since the co-worker I always get tacos with brought the idea up. This past Wednesday was the first time in...
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Potbelly Sandwich Shop – Grandville
3076 44th Street SW J4 Grandville, MI 49418 (616) 389-1550 Website Menu Whenever a little taste of home pops up in Michigan, I get all nostalgic. I’m not even sure how I came across it, but recently,...
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Halo Burger – Lansing
310 N. Clippert Street, Ste. 1 Lansing, MI 48912 (517) 203-5263 Website Menu No matter where you live, there’s always going to be some little regional chain that you’re going to grow up with and...
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