Scholar serves up old school favorites
Few restaurants have opened up in Grand Rapids with such a specific approach in mind, particularly one that fit its building so well.
Tapas restaurant opening at lakeshore
A new restaurant that specializes in Spanish tapas is opening soon at the lakeshore.
Foodie destination
Mediterranean Island is a go-to for area restaurateurs and chefs.
Chop shop
E.A. Brady’s is a craft butchery serving up fresh cuts for your winter platters.
Turkish restaurant settles into space
A restaurant that serves food and beverages from the Kurdish region of Turkey has settled into Grand Rapids.
Pinktail Poke coming to Downtown Market
The owner of a seafood emporium and a butcher shop inside the Grand Rapids Downtown Market is planning a restaurant concept.
Suburban brewery schedules opening
A new brewery in the area is embracing the great outdoors.
Morning Belle schedules opening
The first “garden-themed” brunch place by a Grand Rapids restaurant company is opening this month.
Spectrum of spice
Dining review.
Seriously elevated cuisine
Just a few months ago, I was sitting at the same table Ernest Hemingway spent many days at in the heart of Madrid.
Chef Profile: ‘Going the Extra Mile’
Two hours before dinner service commences, Cygnus 27 chef de cuisine Stephan VanHeulen has deftly inspected the kitchen, marveling at the diver scallops — gorgeous, pearly pink and way more substantial than anything you can buy at a supermarket; smelling the exhilarating earthiness of the fluffy hen-of-the-woods, royal trumpet and white beech mushrooms; and tasting the whipped root vegetable purée. But it’s the massive octopus with eight tentacles, a dangerously delicious beast, that stopped him in his tracks.
After 20 Years, Bistro Bella Vita Stays Fresh
Aaron Van Timmeren, head chef at Bistro Bella Vita, said there was a time when the Grand Rapids Griffins would play and the restaurant would be dead. Now on game nights, Bistro Bella Vita is packed - as it is most other nights of the week when something is going on in downtown Grand Rapids.
Fancy a curry? Head to the Palace
At Palace of India, their goal is to present the same culinary delights that were relished in the palaces of the Maharajas.
The Gourmet Getaway Everyone Will Be Talking About
With January’s slow, nothing-to-celebrate slump settling in, I was looking for an experience to set the tone for the new year ahead. I craved a getaway or staycation that catered to exciting the senses—something my husband and I could enjoy together in our own town, on our own time.
Take a Taste of East Grand Rapids
The Taste of East Grand Rapids is this week.
Kitchen hustle
Irie Kitchen is the passion project of chef Vince McIntosh.
‘Superfood café’ opening doors
A “superfood café” is about to open in Grand Rapids.
Sensory awakening
MDRD brings a taste of Spain to the 27th floor of Amway Grand Plaza.
What’s for dinner?
The best takeout restaurants around town.
One Twenty Three tavern opens downtown
A tavern serving up American cuisine has opened downtown.