Join us at our celebration to mark the start of gelato season!  We’ll prime your palate diner-style with savory sliders & salty-fatty latke fingers, before opening the gelato floodgates!  We’ll indulge in gelato milkshakes, petite gelato sandwiches, miniature make-your-own-sundaes, and a chilly adult beverage or two.

Give us a call at (734)663-3400 or click here to reserve your seat!

Come learn how to stretch your own from-scratch, fresh mozzarella with the masters.  We will guide you through the steps to set up the curd from milk and teach you the technique we employ to stretch the curds into marvelous mozzarella of your very own!

Registration required.  Save $5 when you pre-pay!  This is the last class until September!

Freshly returned from a coffee-sourcing trip in Guatemala, join us as we feature Zingerman’s Coffee Company’s Steve Mangigian for a Sunday morning tasting of Central American coffee. With photos and videos of the folks that grow and process our coffee beans, we’ll learn (and taste) what goes into making this richly flavorful brew. We’ll cup coffees and have some pastries to round out a delicious Sunday morning. We’ll also send you home with a porcelain pour-over cone for brewing coffee by the cup and some Guatemalan coffee!

Give us a call at (734)663-3400 or click here to reserve a seat!

Join us as we sample coffees from Africa, Central and South Americas, and the Asian Pacific.  We will taste and evaluate these coffees using the techniques and tools employed by professional tasters.  This is an eye-opening tour of the world of coffee.

Prepare to enter the vineyard….

Based in Santa Cruz California, Bonny Doon Vineyard has a not so surprising history of idealism and innovation. Founded in the bucolic hamlet of Bonny Doon in 1983 by Randall Grahm, they are known for their strikingly original wines made from lesser-known grape varieties.

Bonny Doon Vineyard made its mark on the world of wine with pioneering work in the exploration of Rhone varieties, innovative production techniques and imaginative marketing. Since the adoption of biodynamic farming practices, the wines have evinced a more complex expression of varietal character, a more noticeable sense of organization, and a greater degree of life-force. Resistance is futile.

Bonny Doon is a long-time friend of Zingerman’s Roadhouse, we share common guiding principles, values and even a similar look and feel! Randall first came to the Roadhouse in 2004 to host one of the very first special dinners and since then we have continued to grow our relationship, featuring Bonny Doon wines on our wine menu for over 8 years. We are thrilled to have Randall back at the Roadhouse to share his passion for wine making, his innovative style and some of his favorite wines. For this dinner we’ll feature 5 different Bonny Doon wines, some wines never before served at the Roadhouse, paired with a menu from Chef Alex to highlight the different flavors and notes of the wine.

This won’t be your typical dinner, join us for an evening of fun and great wine!

Give us a call at (734)663-3663 or register online!

What do you get when you bring together two James Beard Award winning chefs, a hundred-plus bacon partying guests and a whole meal’s worth of smoky bacon beauty? You get the annual Camp Bacon Kickoff Ball at Zingerman’s Roadhouse!

Guest chef Frank Stitt, from Highlands Grill in Birmingham, Alabama will join fellow James Beard winner, Roadhouse chef and managing partner Alex Young, to prepare a special evening meal that will be bursting with bacon in every course!

$45/person, call 734.663.3663 or go to the Zingerman’s Roadhouse website to reserve a seat.

The dinner is a fundraiser for the Southern Foodways Alliance, our favorite food-oriented non-profit.

Chef Alex and guest chef Frank Stitt team up for a second night of bacon, this time pairing bacon with its good friend BBQ. Celebrating Frank’s home state of Alabama, the two chefs will prepare a buffet feast of classic Alabama BBQ. You can find almost any kind of BBQ in Alabama; it’s a state that draws culinary influences from around the state, the country and throughout history and foodways. This buffet feast will celebrate the best of Alabama BBQ and bacon. After all, everything is better with bacon!

Give us a call at (734)663-3663 or register online!

An all day event at Zingerman’s Roadhouse. This year’s guest presenters (tentative lineup) include:
Emile de Felice – owner of Caw Caw Creek Farms, South Carolina – the ins and outs of sustainable hog farming
Allan Benton – founder and owner, Benton’s Country Hams – the tradition of pork curing in the Appalachians
Audrey Petty – author and poet – bacon and African American foodways
Geoff Emberling – PhD archeologist and museum curator – hog raising in the Middle East before Mohammed
Ji Hye Kim – founder of San Street – a brief survey of bacon cooking and eating in Asia
Ari Weinzweig, co-founding partner of Zingerman’s and author of Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon – a look at bacon history in Hungary
Mindy Segal – chef and owner of the James Beard-nominated Hot Chocolate in Chicago – hands on how making bacon chocolate chip cookies

Proceeds from this event benefit Southern Foodways Alliance, which Corby Kummer called “this country’s most intellectually engaged (and probably most engaging) food society” in the Atlantic Monthly.

Spaces are limited. Tickets are $195/person and include breakfast, lunch and more bacon than you knew you could eat.

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Hosted at the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market. A four-hour street fair with an array of vendors selling, sampling and showcasing all things bacon—a great way to have lunch, sample new bacon wares, or just have some fun with bacon-based games for kids of all ages.

Donation to 4-H suggested to enter the street fair; vendors sell their fare directly to customers.