Aubree's Has Been Holding Down Depot Town Since 1972
At 39 East Cross, a pizza-and-beer joint that outlasted everything around it.
Fifty-three years is a long time to sell pizza in the same building.1Aubree's founding date per the restaurant's own history and Ypsilanti dining guides. Restaurants open and close on Cross Street, neighborhood identities shift, and the conversation about Ypsilanti's food scene keeps finding new chapters. Aubree's Pizzeria & Grill keeps pouring beer and running pies out of the kitchen at 39 East Cross Street, same as it has since 1972. There is something useful about a restaurant that does not need to explain itself.
The Food
The feta bread is the order. A slab of dough baked with a layer of crumbled feta, warm and salty and gone before you've finished deciding on entrees. It costs around $9 and it is the reason half the regulars walk in the door.2Prices approximate as of summer 2025, based on menu observations. If you are bringing someone to Aubree's for the first time, order it before they sit down.
Pizza is the core of the menu, and the kitchen runs a list of specialty pies alongside build-your-own options. A large specialty pizza runs $18 to $22. The crust sits in the middle ground between thick and thin, sturdy enough to hold toppings without going limp, with a slight chew at the edge. Nothing revolutionary. Nothing trying to be. The pizza at Aubree's is the kind you eat without thinking about it too hard, which is a harder thing to get right than people realize.
Beyond pizza, the menu covers ground: burgers, sandwiches, wraps, salads, wings. A burger with fries runs around $14. The wing selection includes a dozen sauce options. This is a kitchen that knows its audience, and its audience wants options when a group of six shows up and nobody can agree on a cuisine.
The beer list is broad. Drafts rotate through Michigan craft and national standards, and the bottle selection fills in the gaps. Pitchers during happy hour remain the move for groups.
The Room
Aubree's functions as two things simultaneously: a sports bar and a neighborhood restaurant. Televisions line the walls. Tables fill the middle. A bar runs along one side. On game days, the volume rises. On a quiet Tuesday, the room settles into the kind of comfortable low hum where you can actually have a conversation. The split personality works because neither side tries to dominate. Families come for pizza. Groups come for the game. Both find what they came for.
Depot Town's Constant
Cross Street has changed around Aubree's. Sidetrack has anchored the other end of the block since the early 1980s. 734 Brewing arrived and gave the corridor a taproom. MAIZ brought scratch-made tacos. Bellflower put fine dining on Pearl Street. Each addition reshaped how people think about eating in Ypsilanti.
Aubree's predates all of them. It was here when Depot Town was just a few businesses near the old train depot, before the corridor became a destination. The restaurant has outlasted trends, recessions, and whatever else the last five decades threw at it. Part of that is the franchise model. Aubree's runs locations in Dexter, Grand Blanc, and elsewhere across Michigan.3Aubree's operates multiple Michigan locations including Dexter (8031 Main St) and Grand Blanc. But longevity in the restaurant business still requires something beyond a business plan. People have to keep coming back.
They do. Order the feta bread. Split a pitcher. Let the group argue about toppings. Aubree's has heard it all before.
Aubree's Pizzeria & Grill is at 39 E Cross St, Ypsilanti (Depot Town). Open daily for lunch and dinner. Happy hour daily.