Unverified Voracity Once Ate Sea Squirts

From the amount of food talk on here, I figured perhaps we actually DID recruit a hot dog.

Now I'm hungry, and missing A2. Damnit.

Sorry, but Zingerman's is not overrated "based on reputation." I've been coming to Ann Arbor for decades, and my family and I eat literally all of our meals (breakfast and lunch at the Deli and dinner at the Roadhouse) at one Zingerman's establishment or another. How it can be merged w/the average at best restaurants on Main St. is amusing.

3rd in the 100, by a fraction, but slow time 10.62, 2nd place was 10.61, and 1st was a new record 10.32
1st in the 4x100 with Witty 40.64
DNF in the prelims of the 200.

One time a couple buddies and I stopped for beer and burgers at the Jug. We got our food, but didn't see our waitress for a while, so we ran out the door.

We found out the next day from another friend who worked there she had quit during her shift.

I still like to stop by there Fridays before Football. I'd rather stop there then one of the "cool" places on Main.

I worked at Stucchi's for a couple years. We would stop in after closing the bars in the summer, and make some cones for the walk back.

Nobody mentioned Good Time Charlie's...the were always good for LITs and cheese break.

is also a good Korean restaurant. Ann Arbor is an embarrassment of riches for dinigg out.

In Ypsi, Aubrees has good pizza, and you can get a good burger at Sidetrack. The Vietnamese place at Michigan and Huron is also quite good IMO.

is gone. Supposedly coming back at some point but in a different location. Goddamn expansion and new construction made the landlord greedy and wanted RHL out. I am craving a jumbo dog and curly fries right now.

Does anyone else like the Jerk Pit? It's dirty, empty, and the Jamaican dude is awkward, but goddamn that's a good jerk pork sandwich.

A couple BB doubles with salami, hangover-be-gone. Nothing beats post game Red Hot Lovers though.

Or do you mean Chapati? I loved those things, and in Chicago we had Pockets to fill the void of low budget student hunger.....

btw-good pizza is pretty good, and bad pizza is.....pretty good. I doubt that ANY pizza within ten miles of a major university has ever gone to waste.

The fact that blimpy charges you extra for literally everything except the smallest portion of ketchup I've ever seen chafes me beyond belief. Quickie is where it's at now.

a) making me realize how much of the A2 experience I missed out on due to my, er, frugality as a student.

b) making me really, really want to get back there. All of you within driving distance are really friggin spoiled.

Brian, NYPD is disgusting!

I'd rather eat a Sea Squirt than go to NYPD again!

all those places almost made up for the horrible horrible cold.

anyone ever eat at sabor latino? south american stuff, pretty damn tasty.
also, le dog (esp the lobster bisque).
and not because it's good, but because i miss the late night slices, the In 'N Out pizza near Rick's.
washtenaw dairy. it counts if you've had dinner there.
Great Lake chinese restaurant puts middle kingdom to shame, but it's out on washtenaw at the road the movie theater's on. I forget the road exactly but it's worth the drive.

My favorite is West End Grill

Pricey but well worth it

Never had a bad meal and never not been impressed.

Not as good as Tribute in W Bloomfield or other similar restaurants but I love this place

I'm actually happy to see none of you mentioned Pizza Bob's yet. For some reason, people seem to wax poetic about their chipotes. Want a chipote? Take the cheapest dough you can find, stick it in the oven until it rises, then put a salad in there.

Pizza Bob's also came in dead last in the Daily's Pizza Tasting Contest. Every other pizza we ordered fell victim to the performance-enhanced masses; 80 percent of the Bob's pie ended up atop a garbage can.

The fact that you reference NYPD as a good pizza place gives me real pause, but man I miss Ann Arbor's Korean food. My favorite was the red building on South U east of Forest (the Coffee Break? there's no sign on the building). Kosmo also makes pretty good bibimbap.

We ate at Kabob Palace almost every weekend for a time. Delicious. Unfortunate that it closed.

If you were still using the old comment software the thread on this (inflammatory) post would top 500k comments.

BTB is greater than anything in Ann Arbor. Greater than Chop House, Gratzi's, Zingerman's, and even Blimpy. It is the nectar of the gods. It is food even Zeus would be ashamed of eating as it is greater than even him.

I wish I had taken advantage of Blimpy when I had the chance (and metabolism)

I miss the Vietnamese place on S. Forest, and the Korean place across the street from that over-rated pizza place whose name I forget at this moment (Pizza Inn?) on Church I believe.

Let's see, what else... the Korean place on S. U closer to U towers, if it's still open, is subpar to the other one.

Literally laugh out loud funny on some of the hot dog comments earlier, well done team.

FWIW, I find the scarcity of Fleetwood Diner on this thread disturbing. How can you talk about Ann Arbor food without mentioning the place that bends the very definition of what we can consider food.

Also, as a person of brown (...er, color?, descent?) I have to vouch for Shalimar, it is very very legit. One of the only places that will make the food as spicy as I ask. (I always ask for "Desi" Spice to the waiter...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desi)

Finally, agree with many others that Ann Arbor has a very strong spread, one that can appeal to a wide variety of tastes & palates.

for no thai? I think I'm gonna miss that place the most

I love me some Blimpy Burger. One of those places you don't appreciate enough until you move away. I have cravings. I had the fried zucchini, badass.

Also, the place I are more than anywhere else while in college: Markley cafeteria. Me and my friends ate there ALL THE TIME freshman year.

It's a little dissapointing that he didn't do as well, but still looks very fast.

I think my preference for Casey's over Red Hawk is created in part by the fact that it isn't always filled with 20 couples on first dates. Screw young love.

Main Street gets props for Prickly Pear and Middle Kingdom. Used to be a great little Thai joint in Braun Court, too. What was the name of the kinda overrated but pretty good place below street level in Kerrytown? Is it still there? And what about DeLong's Pit BBQ?

I also harbor a special place in my heart for Cottage Inn. Forget the food -- the staff used to throw a post-Art Fair bacchanal that was un-fricking-real. Seriously, I thought I had stumbled into the filming of "Caligula."

Funny story: I used to work as a waiter at one of the nicer restaurants on Main Street about ten years ago, and had a co-worker who previously worked at another Main Street chic joint. He told me that once he had an old guy and his grandson/student as customers. The old guy orders some drink with premium vodka, gets it, sips it, and declares "this isn't [name of premium vodka]." Buddy responds, "dude, I saw the barkeep pour it out of the bottle." Old guy is adamant. Grandson interjects at this point, kinda embarrassed, tries to move on. Couple nights later the pal is closing, walks into the manager's office to find the guy refilling premium vodka bottles with a drum of Popov. Of course.

was my go-to restaurant for good cheap Korean food. I've had better Korean since, but I was a Korean food-virgin when I first went to U. Cafe, so it will always have a special place in my heart. On a related note, isn't it strange that there are so many good Korean restaurants in Ann Arbor? Between U. Cafe, Seoul Garden and that one on South U next to Maize and Blue (I forget the name), it's Korean food heaven. Not that I'm complaining.

But I'm pretty sure all "Cinnamon" you find in the U.S. is Cassia, and Cassia is in fact, commonly referred to as Indonesian Cinnamon.

Casey's > Red Hawk (even though they are owned by the same people)

Benny's > Northside Grill > Angelo's

Before you blast Main Street don't forget about how good Shalimar is. Best Indian restaurant I have found.

When I went to school, there was a cheap little eatery in the League called "Wendy's." I wonder if it's still there...

If you don't live in Ann Arbor, NYC, or maybe Philly you can't possibly understand the utter corned beef wasteland that is most of the US. Hence, Zingerman's is not overrated. It's like Starbucks. It's easy to crap on it, but just try driving 400 miles with nothing but truck stop coffee. You'll change your tune right quick.

Just because Zingerman's and all the Main Street restaurants may very well be overrated does not mean they should be avoided at all costs. (Same goes for Blimpy Burger, which is still not overrated.) Practically every restaurant in A2 rocks my socks off, including the overrated corporately hyped ones and the hidden Ann Arbor gems. Heck, in my hometown, Chop House and Palio's instantly become the two best restaurants in town. Places like Eve and Pacific Rim just take it to another level.

Wow, weird Red Hawk backlash. Red Hawk isn't special, but it's very good for the price. And their beer is exactly as expensive as beer at every other restaurant in town.

I've only been to Casey's a couple times; the only memory I have is getting a rubbery corned beef. Maize n' Brew Deli is good, though, and I concur on Jerusalem Garden, and the sadly departed Del Rio.

Bell's Pizza is a fist of grease.

Forget Ann Arbor - I'm going to Sidetrack.

How can you be in Ann Arbor and not consume a single Bell's pizza? the lack of Grizzly Peak is equally distressing.