While this year’s Best of Ann Arbor survey covered critical categories to find out the city’s best of everything, there were certain categories that were inappropriately left out. Here is my attempt to cover all the bases.
Best soup: Le Dog
Best non-Zingerman Corp. deli: Amer’s
Best multi-tap: Ashely’s Pub
Best cheap beer: Del Rio
Best cheap bar food: Del Rio
Best Coney Island restaurant: Not Leo’s
Best place for your folks to take you: Chop House, Escoffier (tie)
Best martinis: Bab’s
Best Vietnamese: Saigon Garden
Best Ethiopian: Blue Nile
Best organic brewpub: Leopold’s
Best cold subs: Jimmy John’s
Best hot subs: Pizza Bob’s
Best cheap Middle Eastern food: Jerusalem Garden
Best Middle Eastern Restaurant: Kabob Palace
Best place to feel that you’re wasting your money: Studio 4
Best expensive non-Zingerman Corp. deli sandwich: Maize and Blue
Best botique breakfast: Cafe Zola
Best ‘Hippie Hash’: Fleetwood Diner
Best undiscovered breakfast: Frank’s
Best vegan: Earthen Jar
Best place for late night munchies before going back to Markley: Panchero’s
Best place for late night munchies before going back to East Quad: In and Out, Bella Napoli (tie)
Best pizza slice you really think you should have but you’re just drunk: In and Out
Best place for indigestion: Hong Kong Inn
Best place that only feebs think is A2’s best restaurant: Gandy Dancer
Best place to mis-use MSA funds: University Club
Best place to get pissed off at the service: Michigan Union Subway, Pierpont Commons McDonald’s (tie)
Best place to run into Regent Dan Horning (R-Grand Haven) and his drinking buddies: Ashley’s Pub
Best place to smoke a cigar: La Dolce Vita
Best place to purchase cigars and tobacco: Masion Edward
Best sidewalk hot dog vendor: Beiner’s Weiners
Best hot dogs around: Yesterdog
Best coffee special: Double Punch Tuesday’s at Espresso Royale
Best place to read The New York Times every morning: Espresso Royale on State Street
Best pizza delivery: Cottage Inn
Best late night pizza special: Cottage Inn’s Late Night special, Bella Napoli’s 94 cent slice (tie)
Best place to run into University officials during the lunch hour: University Club
Best place to run into University officials during dinner: The Earle
Best satellite campus: Dearborn
Best place to Eat Chef Jan’s fine cuisine: ChinaGate
Best place for drunk sorority girls to flirt and practice Spanish: Panchero’s
Best place to find Michigan Review editors steal food: Any Chinese buffet on Stadium Boulevard.
Best vegetable tempura: Hinodae
Best Northern Italian food: Bella Ciao