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Cavoni’s Pizza & Grinders (Battle Creek)
5424 Beckley Road, Suite D Battle Creek, MI 49015 (269) 979-1673 Website Menu Friday night is pizza night. You know that. I’ve written that many, many times. Friday nights in the fall are overtime...
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Tortilleria y Restaurante La Guadalupana
1627 Division Avenue South Grand Rapids, MI 49507 (616) 805-3105 Website Menu Working a holiday is never fun but we have to do it a couple of times a year. I picked Labor Day as my holiday to work....
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Panderia y Antojitos Guatemaltecos
2500 Nazareth Road Kalamazoo, MI 49048 (269) 270-6128 Website Menu I ended up on the east side of town a couple of weeks ago just kind of driving aimlessly. I don’t get out to the Gull Road side of...
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The Wing Hut (Portage)
6650 S. Westnedge Avenue Portage, MI 49002 (269) 532-5058 Website Menu Life is crazy right now. Both kids are still doing figure skating and they’ve each added another sport. B is playing soccer. L is...
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Two Fellas Grill (Gull Road)
5585 Gull Road #106 Kalamazoo, MI 49048 (269) 743-7533 Website Menu I’ve mentioned it a lot recently but I work a lot of Friday nights in the fall. It always amazes me how hard it is to find something...
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Chicago Beef Joint
822 Ottawa Avenue NW Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (616) 420-7724 Website Menu You know if you open a place called “Chicago Beef Joint” that I’m going to make it my mission to get there, right? I’ve written...
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Tienda Y Taqueria Del Ray
105 Sheldon Street Dowagiac, MI 49047 (269) 782-0008 Website Menu You know how I have to stop at every taco place I pass…..right? I was in Dowagiac a couple of days last week. The first day we didn’t...
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Glenview Community Ice Center
1851 Landwehr Road Glenview, IL 60026 (847) 724-2800 Website Road trip time. We spent last weekend in Chicago for the US Figure Skating National Solo Dance Finals. L had been working towards this all...
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Paradise Pup
Des Plaines, IL 60018 (847) 699-8590 Website Menu I told J when we started making plans for US Figure Skating’s National Solo Dance Finals that I had a list of restaurants in the area I wanted to go...
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Pequod’s Pizza (Morton Grove)
8520 Fernald Avenue Morton Grove, IL 60053 (847) 470-9161 Website Menu You all watch The Bear, right? If not, you should. The show is about a chef dealing with family trauma coming back to Chicago and...
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Joe Donut (Glenview Community Ice Center)
1851 Landwehr Road Glenview, IL 60026 (847) Website Menu There are a lot of early mornings on figure skating competition days. L usually has a practice before 8:00 and depending on how far the drive...
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Chuck Lager’s American Tavern (Glenview)
2601 Navy Boulevard Glenview, IL 60026 (224) 435-0131 Website Menu I played a lot of sports growing up. Mostly baseball and then basketball for my school. My parents rarely missed a game. My dad would...
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Gene & Jude’s
2720 N. River Road River Grove, IL 60171 (708) 452-7634 Website Menu One of my co-workers grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago near O’Hare. We travel together occasionally for big jobs and...
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Kong Dog (Glenview)
1749 Milwaukee Avenue Glenview, IL 60025 (847) 813-6333 Website Menu Our last day in Chicago for the US Figure Skating National Solo Dance finals was an early one. Not because L was competing but...
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North Branch Pizza & Burger Company (Glenview Community Ice Center)
1851 Landwehr Road Glenview, IL 60026 () Website Menu This is the last post from our trip to Chicago. Back to Southwest Michigan restaurants very soon. We spent a lot of time at the Glenview Community...
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Charley Biggs Chicken n’ Sauce (Kalamazoo)
1405 Portage Street Kalamazoo, MI 49001 (917) 328-8658 Website Menu It’s just me finding more gas station chicken places. I’ve seen this one coming for months. I stop at the gas station that it’s...
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Middle Eastern Appetite
2625 W. Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49006 (269) 216-3530 Website Menu Friday night is usually pizza night but sometimes, my schedule doesn’t work out. B is playing AYSO soccer again this fall. We...
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Roxie’s Breakfast & Lunch (Vicksburg)
343 W. Prairie Street Vicksburg, MI 49097 (269) 475-8037 Website Menu J and I have been married for 14 years. Our anniversary was last Tuesday. Anniversary’s have kind of taken a back seat to life....
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Mackenzies Bakery
103 E. Prairie Street Vicksburg, MI 49097 (269) 475-5015 Website Menu I knew we weren’t going to be able to do much for our anniversary so I took a day off from work and met J for lunch in Vicksburg...
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Jimmy’s Pizza & Ribs
14500 State Road 23 #4 Granger, IN 46530 (574) 271-4971 Website Menu Remember a few weeks ago when I blogged about a pizza place in Edwardsburg and I said I didn’t go to Edwardsburg very often. I was...
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