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I’ve been volunteering this summer at Food Gatherers’ Community Kitchen. Just chopping vegetables, making salads, that kind of thing. It’s been interesting, though I’d like to be more involved in organizing how the rescued ingredients are to be assembled together. There are a lot of freedom with salad-making, but more would be good also. Anyway, I like what I do there.
I like to eat. As my time in New Haven winds down, I thought I would make a conversion chart for people who like to eat, have lived in either Ann Arbor or New Haven, and are going to the other “city”. Thus, I present you a very opinionated rough conversion chart between food establishments in Ann Arbor and food establishments in New Haven.
Ann Arbor = New Haven
Cheap Eats
BTB = Tijuana Taco Company Burrito Carts
other burrito places = other burrito carts
Jerusalem Garden = Mamoun’s
Silvio’s = Romeo & Cesare
Cottage Inn = Yorkside Pizza
NYPD = Est Est Est
Noodles & Co = Ivy Noodle (DON’T GO!!!)
Fancy Eats
Zola = Zinc, Heirloom, Union League Cafe
Pacific Rim = Miya’s, Bentara
Bella Ciao ~= Ibiza (different nationalities)
Cafe Habana = Soul de Cuba
restaurants on Main St. = Hot Tomato’s (DON’T GO!!!)
Fat Eats
Fleetwood Diner = The Pantry
Asian
Shalimar, Madras Masala = Thali
Raja Rani, Mahek= Tandoor, Indian Palace, Royal India
Earthen Jar = Thali Too
Middle Kingdom = (no comparison)
TK Wu, Great Lakes = Great Wall
Lucky Kitchen, China Gate = China King, Hunan Cafe
Yamato = (no comparison)
Miki’s = Miso
other indistinguishable sushi places = other indistinguishable sushi places
Marnee Thai, Saigon Garden = Thai Taste, Thai Pan Asian, Bangkok Gardens
No Thai = York Street Noodle House
Coffee
Comet, Zingerman’s = Atticus
Ambrosia = Blue State
Espresso Royale = Koffee, Publick Cup
Starbucks = Starbucks
Drinks
Arbor Brewing Company, Grizzly Peak = Bar
Ashley’s = Prime 16
Red Hawk Grill = Anchor
Melange, Black Pearl, Vinology = Barcelona, Bespoke
La Dolce Vita = The Owl Shop
Conor O’Neill’s = The Playwright
8 Ball ~= Rudy’s (well, nothing really compares to 8 Ball)
Scorekeepers = Toad’s
Ice Cream
Stucchi’s = Ashley’s
Overrated Local Landmarks
Zingerman’s (qua sandwiches) = Pepe’s, Sally’s
Blimpy Burger = Louis’s Lunch
Suggestions, comments, and hate-mails are all welcome. I might update this from time to time.
After a recent experience, I feel a strong need to echo opinions expressed on yelp.com on Cafe Felix: Really awful service, mediocre food, very overpriced. If you are interested in a faux-Parisian experience with martinis that are not really martinis, go there. If you are not interested in being treated terribly by the owner and a waiter named Derek D., then do not go there. That’s basically it.
About a week ago, Ann Arbor had its annual art fair. (Blogging about the past will be commonplace as I recount summer happenings.) Well, there are actually 4 different art fairs. Basically, the town is turned into a big outdoors gallery, with some festival atmosphere. I can see how drivers would find the closing of the streets extremely annoying, but I think I had a good time overall. Not surprisingly, everything was rather expensive. But I did go to a free demonstration of silkscreening where I made shirts that said ‘Go Grue’. Very dorky of me, but fun.
Since I can hardly afford their works, I thought I would link to some artists whose work I liked and whose business cards I remembered to ask for:
- Gabe Lanza: cartoon-inspired multimedia.
- Chris Honeysett: photography.
- Maria Gruber: photography.
- Maria Napoli: color-field oil paintings.
