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Few restaurants have opened up in Grand Rapids with such a specific approach in mind, particularly one that fit its building so well.

A new restaurant that specializes in Spanish tapas is opening soon at the lakeshore.

Mediterranean Island is a go-to for area restaurateurs and chefs.

E.A. Brady’s is a craft butchery serving up fresh cuts for your winter platters.

A restaurant that serves food and beverages from the Kurdish region of Turkey has settled into Grand Rapids.

The owner of a seafood emporium and a butcher shop inside the Grand Rapids Downtown Market is planning a restaurant concept.

A new brewery in the area is embracing the great outdoors.

The first “garden-themed” brunch place by a Grand Rapids restaurant company is opening this month.

Dining review.

Just a few months ago, I was sitting at the same table Ernest Hemingway spent many days at in the heart of Madrid.

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.

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.

At Palace of India, their goal is to present the same culinary delights that were relished in the palaces of the Maharajas.

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.

The Taste of East Grand Rapids is this week.

Irie Kitchen is the passion project of chef Vince McIntosh.

A “superfood café” is about to open in Grand Rapids.

MDRD brings a taste of Spain to the 27th floor of Amway Grand Plaza.

The best takeout restaurants around town.

A tavern serving up American cuisine has opened downtown.