Great to eat, no meat, and handmade on the island of Evia Looking for a lovely confection that’s well suited to the summer heat? I’m happy to report we have a fantastic new arrival from Greece that will fill the bill beautifully! Made to do well in the very hot Aegean climate, dried fig […]

An early evening belief in the beauty of bivalves If you’re up for a bit of an ocean-based boost, between 2 and 6 pm, Monday through Friday, here you go. At Mail Order and the Deli, our annual Summer Sale will conclude at the end of this month. The Roadhouse though has a different, year-round […]

Angel food cake to celebrate summer berry season A Bakehouse favorite from many years ago, it’s named after managing partner Amy Emberling’s son Jake, who’s all grown up now, and still loves this cake. It’s soft, fluffy, sweet, and light—“pillowy,” the people at the Bakehouse like to say—heavenly angel food cake made with lots of […]

Truffles, wine, hazelnuts, cheese, chocolate, and more! Looking for a life-changing adventure? Something that will provide you with marvelous memories of great food and great people that you will carry with you for the rest of your life? Curious about crafting your culinary and cultural wisdom? Consider this, then: while students are settling into their […]

Nearly 500 years of tradition makes for a great tasting coffee If you come to the Coffee Company regularly, you might well have seen a strange sort of contraption sitting off to the right of the pastry case. If you don’t know it, it seems a bit like something one might expect to find ensconced […]

Fried pies are the perfect pastry to take on the road! Once upon a time, about 15 years ago, we started selling pimento cheese. Back then, only a handful of folks in Ann Arbor seemed to have heard of it. Anyone who grew up in the South was excited to see it on the Roadhouse […]