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Danny Raskin
Senior Columnist
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Ann Arbor Welcomes Jim Brady’s
T
he highly awaited two-year construc-
tion of a Jim Brady’
s restaurant in
Ann Arbor finally comes to fruition.
After numerous years of the property
standing vacant, the reconstruction was
completed this past December by part-
ners Tom Brady and Darin Dingman … It
has been a piece of history in Downtown
Ann Arbor that dates back to 1861 … on
South Main in Ann Arbor’
s historic district
between West Washington and West Liberty
avenues.
Jim Brady’
s continues to have signature
items like its legendary hamburger and
7 Mile Caesar-like salad … Jim Brady’
s Rock
N’
Rye barbecue sauce made with Faygo’
s
R&R pop is a delicious addition to several
of the menu items … A side sauce is also
offered, and the sauce is served with black-
ened barbecue chicken and pineapple …
Also featured, fish tacos, chicken and waf-
fles, Amazing Grace carrot cake and maple
salmon.
Certainly unique is its roasted cauliflower
appetizer, a vegetarian standout … The lus-
cious homemade sauce Romesco is based on
almonds, garlic and roasted red pepper …
A Vernor’
s ice cream made in-house is very
rare and is luscious on the Boston Waffle
Puff served with Sander’
s hot fudge and car-
amel sauce.
The Jim Brady Burgers are certainly
among its best-selling items … Maybe,
in fact, the biggest one with about 1,000
pounds sold per week.
Another huge and fantastic feature at Jim
Brady’
s Ann Arbor, along with its excellent
food, is a bevy of television sets, including
a large 222-inch motorized TV screen that
almost takes onlookers to a University of
Michigan football game … and gives them
the best seat in the house … It covers an
entire wall and is the only one of its kind in
the state of Michigan … among the latest in
audio-visual smart technology.
The Brady name is a much-noted one in
the dining game … and having a restaurant
with such a time-honored reputation is
priceless.
Jim Brady’
s in Ann Arbor is open daily
from 11 a.m.-midnight for lunch and dinner
… Seating is for around 200 … with bars on
two floors … 12 and 10 stools.
Doing business with its community has
become a major priority with Jim Brady’
s …
Ann Arbor must be mighty proud to have
one now within its confines.
OPENING OF NEW small plates restau-
rant Three Cats, 14 Mile, Clawson, by
Matt Prentice may be in late August of this
year … Before it opens, there will be four
training dinners that will culminate with a
dinner for charity, which has always been
his custom over the last four decades … The
Three Cats charity dinner will benefit Cass
Community Social Services, $100 per per-
son, with tickets including American wines
and liquors and Michigan Craft Beers …
The entire $100 will be given to Cass Social
Services to use at its discretion or enhance
its tiny homes, help the homeless, feed the
hungry and provide for those who need
assistance, etc. … Due to construction of
Three Cats, the date for the dinner is still up
in the air.
ALONG WITH THEIR excellent restau-
rant gem, Bella Piatti, which recently cele-
brated its sixth anniversary on Townsend
Avenue in Birmingham, and their terrific
Venetian Chef Francesco Apollonia, who
creates delicious dining favorites from where
he formerly worked, Bella Piatti owners
Nino and Liz Cutraro, are going great guns
with their seventh Wahlburger store in
partnership with movie star Mark Wahlberg
… Three more Wahlburgers with him are
scheduled for Downtown Atlanta and a cou-
ple of military bases in Germany.
HEY, GUYS AND GALS … Don’
t be like
the guy seen and heard at a fancy restaurant
in Paris ordering from the menu in French
… unless you know what you are talking
about to show that you know your stuff …
You might be ordering a stepladder or what-
ever.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE … The young
girl was having trouble getting married …
In desperation, her mother suggested she
put an ad in the paper … The girl placed
one that read, “
Attractive expert homemak-
er desires companionship of man seeking
same.
” … After a few days the mother asked
if anyone answered the ad … The daughter
hesitantly replied, “Yes — Papa!”
CONGRATS … To Bonnie Turner on
her birthday … To Jayson Handler on his
birthday. ■
Email Danny at dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.
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