Food + Drink

I lived around the corner from Olive’s, 2162 Wealthy Street in East Grand Rapids, for years. I love cooking and entertaining in my home, so I didn’t eat there every week, but often enough to know the menu, what I liked and what didn’t suit my taste.

Founders is rolling out another specialty beer.

The co-owner and chef of a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant that opened in Midtown in late 2018 said he and his business partner are permanently closing the restaurant.

Great tasting sushi is never too far away in Grand Rapids. Here are four top spots to visit – from downtown to Knapp’s Corner.

I had dined at Nunica’s Crockery Creek Saloon but seeing a note on the website had me dumbfounded. Bartender Jeanie Meredith filled me in — not up — on the “Creek Water.” 

"Butcher’s Union is a place where you can get a square meal and a stiff drink at an affordable price.”

A new mug club membership is rolling out later this month in a handful of Grand Rapids bars with a unique goal, to promote a “life free of hangovers, harm, pain and regret.”

In just a few short weeks strawberry season will be upon us. The seasonal delicacy is generally available from area growers beginning in mid June.

Fancy yourself a chef? The West Michigan Whitecaps are once again calling on fans to contribute ideas for its 2018 concessions menu.

Grand Rapids may be indulging a bit too much.

Indianapolis-based beverage company Circle Beverage's drinks now are available throughout the state of Michigan.

Kids and adults alike are invited to taste their way through the Downtown Market from A to Z this month.

An investment from entrepreneurs linked to Founders Brewing Company will help a New York-based beverage company expand its distribution footprint in West Michigan.

Both locations of Real Food Café have been sold to a local restaurant group.

Hidden at the top of the Canopy Hilton Grand Rapids, there sits a snazzy spot to spend an evening.

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.

A brewery in the region is moving to a larger taproom.

House Rules offers a new take on drinking games.

Oktoberfest kicks off in September and wraps up on the first Sunday in October or October 3, whichever is later. This year, why not...

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