Zamaan Grill Closes After 15 Years on Eisenhower
The Middle Eastern restaurant at 865 W Eisenhower served its last meal this week.
Zamaan Grill closed this week after 15 years at 865 West Eisenhower Parkway. If you lived on the west side, you already know.
Eisenhower is not a street people go to for dinner. It is a commercial corridor of strip malls and parking lots, the kind of road you drive to get to Costco or the vet. Zamaan was the exception. Fifteen years in that location meant that people were making a specific decision to eat there, not stumbling past. You went because the lamb kebabs were good and the hummus was made in-house and the portions were honest, and because it was yours if you lived in that part of town. I knew people who ate there every week. That is not loyalty to a brand. That is a habit built on the food being right.
The west side does not have the density of restaurants that downtown does. Losing a 15-year anchor there is not the same as losing a two-year-old concept on Main Street. When Zamaan's lights go off, the nearest Middle Eastern food is a drive, and the block gets a little more anonymous. One more storefront between the Subway and the nail salon waiting for a tenant.
No successor has been announced for the space.
Zamaan Grill was at 865 W Eisenhower Pkwy, Ann Arbor. Open since 2011.