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Inn Season Café Obtains Liquor License

Fans of Inn Season
Café who have longed for
a beer with their (tempeh)
burger or a pinot with their
pasta, take note: Metro
Detroit’s oldest vegetarian
and vegan restaurant can
now oblige.
The downtown Royal
Oak restaurant, a pioneer
in local farm-to-fork,
organic, plant-based cui-
sine for the past 36 years,
has obtained a liquor
license and is now serv-
ing beer, hard cider and
wine. Craft cocktails will be
introduced by winter.
“We couldn’t be happier to accom-
modate our most frequent customer
request,” says owner Nicholas Raftis.
“You can now enjoy a glass of wine
or a beer with your meal, and know
that, in addition to its being deli-
cious, it was hand-selected with a
focus on quality ingredients and
small-batch production.”

With Elie Boudt of
Elie Wine Co. helping
to choose the wines, all
offerings are vegan and all
are organic and/or biody-
namic. From a sparkling
Spanish cava and a French
rosé to fruity whites, fuller
reds and even sake, all
are made with clean,
unprocessed ingredients
and sustainable farm-
ing techniques. Beers are
p
predominantly
local, with
some also organic and/or
gluten-free.
Inn Season Café is locat-
ed at 500 E. Fourth St.,
three blocks east of Main Street, in
Royal Oak. Offering fresh organic
cuisine with vegan, gluten-free,
wheat-free and soy-free options,
Inn Season is also Royal Oak’s only
kosher restaurant, certified by
Kosher Michigan.
For details, menus and updates,
visit www.theinnseasoncafe.com. •

Taste of Southfield

The Southfield Area Chamber of
Commerce will host its 14th Taste
of Southfield on Tuesday, Oct. 10,
from 5-8 p.m. in the Southfield Town
Center Atrium.
The Taste of Southfield is one of
the city’s premier annual events
and will feature a sampling of local
restaurants and banquet facilities,
including: Beans & Cornbread,
Biggby, Cake Crumbs, Fire Iron Grill
– Marriott, Las Cazuelas Grill, Motor
City Soul Food, Nomad, Olga’s, Penn
Station East Coast Subs, Pi Banquet,
Plaza Deli, Skyline Club, Shriner’s
Silver Garden, Sweet Magnolia’s,
Tango’s and Tropical Smoothie and
Wing Hong Restaurant.
The event will also include music
and dancing, shopping with local
vendors like Detroit vs Everybody
and Amazing Skin by Nina Maria
and the best restaurant contest.
For the second year, the event

will feature an Edible Creations
Competition. The competition,
modeled after popular Food
Network show Chopped, challenges
contestants to create a dish using
an assigned ingredient. Sweet
Magnolia’s won the 2016 Edible
Creation Competition using the
featured ingredient of pumpkin to
create the winning Grilled Apple
Smoked Turkey Sandwich. This
year, the dish is a salad with sweet
potato as the featured ingredient.
This year’s contestants are Beans &
Cornbread, Tango’s and Nomads.
Tickets can be purchased at
bit.ly/TOS2107 and are $20 for
Chamber members and $25 for non-
members in advance or $30 at the
door. A portion of proceeds will ben-
efit the American Heart Association.
For more information, contact
the Southfield Area Chamber of
Commerce at (248) 557-6661. •

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