He's a dive instructor and musician. He’s run a vegetarian restaurant in Honduras and has been a private chef to musicians including Snoop Dog and The Avett Brothers. Now Jack Fivecoate is funneling his creative energies into the Daily Blend food truck in Traverse...
Walk into Common Good Bakery on 14th Street in Traverse City and you’re going to leave feeling better than when you came in. And it’s not just because of something you ate there, or that warm bag of crusty, flaky, savory or sweet baked goods swinging from your hand....
Between Traverse City’s sizzling restaurant scene and its Great Lakes Culinary Institute at Northwestern Michigan College, TC kids are all but born epicureans. Throw in parents who love to cook, as is the case with Mary Dueweke’s and, well—it's no surprise that she...
Scott Lankford—designer and the new owner, with his wife, Dr. Heather Rassel, of Manny's Cheese Bar just south of Suttons Bay, is passionate about his new vocation: “I love food. I love wine. Cheese is very similar to wine,” he says. “The nose, the terroir, the...
October loves sausage. And we love what Adam McMarlin is doing at his new eatery, Wren the Butcher (Wren being Adam’s daughter’s middle name), tucked into the back corner of the bustling new State Street Marketplace. Adam came to his profession the organic way: up...
For 35 years, at their farm in the quiet countryside around Suttons Bay, Shirley and Jim Alpers have been growing some of the best raspberries you’ll ever savor. Not surprisingly, Shirley has a trove of berry recipes that she whips up for events like bake sales and...
Ever heard of Le Bernardin, New York City’s famed three-starred Michelin (and four-starred New York Times) restaurant devoted to fish? Or how about Le Bernardin’s chef Eric Ripert, who also hosts PBS’s Avec Eric cooking show? If so, you’ll understand just how...
Back in the 1990s, Pete Boothroyd was running a health-food concession stand—smoothies, juices, salad sorts of things—in the corner of a fitness center on Traverse City’s Centre Street. When the gym closed in 2000, Boothroyd expanded his stand to a 60-seat lunch spot...
The aromas that waft from Sweet Tartlette, a diminutive patisserie on Traverse City’s West Front Street, hint of the edible luxuries inside: house-candied orange slices, melted dark chocolate, fresh-squeezed key lime, roasted hazelnuts, toasted coconut and warm,...
Northern Michigan Local Foodie: Chocolate connoisseur Mimi Wheeler dishes on her go-to rub recipe for beef, poultry, or even tossed in a salad.
Darryl Schultz hates his first name so he goes by D or The Meatman. After 25-plus years in the meat business he has certainly earned the claim to the second moniker. The Meatman’s passion began as a hobby, processing wild game into sausage to give to his friends....
As of this writing, we don’t know how Chef Kim Ryan, a contestant of Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen, will fare in the reality cooking show. Suffice it to say that she wowed celebrity chef and the show’s host Gordon Ramsay with this dish—that she developed one evening when her...
The snow has barely melted when the harvest begins at Groleau’s Farm Market on Hammond Road in Traverse City. But as it has been since Louis’s great-grandfather started the farm over 100 years ago, the harvest hits its zenith at summer’s end. There are days when Lynn...
Here’s hutzpah for you: Born-, bred- and resident-New Yorker Rita Robbins co-purchased Boyne City’s Lavender Hill Farms, the state’s largest commercial lavender operation, after seeing it only once ... in January. Fast-forward to August and with thousands of...
It didn’t take any “special persuasion” for voters to name The Godfather, a sandwich at Folgarelli's Market in Traverse City, a Top 3 winner in Traverse Magazine’s Red Hot Best contest in the sandwich category. The Don Corleone of Northern Michigan sandwiches has...
Armed with a degree from the Great Lakes Culinary Institute, Andi Pellici could have launched her culinary career in any number of directions. She chose the intimacy of being a personal chef: “I like the idea of friends and family gathering together with a chef to...
Don’t let her all-American smile fool you. The woman is good with knives. Cleavers and meat saws are her thing too. Andrea Deibler is a rising star in the world of whole animal butchering. As a Kansas City girl who went on to work at a restaurant in Chicago, her...
A trip to the new Cellar 152 Wine & Gourmet Market in Elk Rapids for a grab-and-go meal (or to eat at their rustic wine bar overlooking the Elk River!) can make a gray winter day feel festive. Jordan Hubbard is the man behind the food—an earthy, sensual cross...
Northern Michigan is bustling with exciting and unique winter events! From Traverse City Comedy Fest to the North American Vasa, Valentine's dinners and more, there's plenty to do across the region this February 2023. February 3 | Singer-Songwriter & Popular Music...
Satisfy your inner foodie with these eight winter festivals, dinners and wine-tasting excursions taking place across Northern Michigan from now through mid-February. Hosting a local event? Let us know! info@mynorth.com.January 21 | Bavarian Ski Fest | Roscommon Unpack...
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