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Restaurant Profile

Monahan's Has Been Selling Fish in Kerrytown for 46 Years. Mike Monahan Is Still Behind the Counter.

The co-founder of Ann Arbor's most enduring seafood market hasn't missed many days since 1979.

Forty-six years in Kerrytown. Mike Monahan is still behind the counter.

November 27, 2025 · 5 min read
Opinion

The Zingerman's Effect: How One Deli Shaped an Entire City's Food Culture

In the mid-1990s, Ari Weinzweig and Paul Saginaw made a decision that changed Ann Arbor. They chose to stay.

In the mid-1990s, Zingerman's chose to stay local instead of franchising. That decision shaped everything.

August 7, 2025 · 7 min read
Closing

Red Hawk Bar & Grill Closes After 33 Years on State Street

The longtime Ann Arbor institution served its last meal on May 3.

Red Hawk Bar & Grill closed after 33 years on State Street, citing pandemic impacts and rising costs.

May 5, 2025 · 2 min read
Restaurant Profile

Zingerman's Deli Is the Most Important Restaurant in Ann Arbor. It Might Also Be the Most Misunderstood.

Forty-four years after opening in a 900-square-foot grocery building on Detroit Street, the Deli remains the anchor of everything Zingerman's became. But it's not a museum piece. It's a working deli that still makes tens of thousands of Reubens a year.

Zingerman's Delicatessen at 422 Detroit St is the founding business of the Zingerman's Community of Businesses, opened March 15, 1982. Forty-four years later, it remains the anchor — and the best argument for what happens when a deli refuses to cut corners.

October 21, 2024 · 10 min read