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Vol. CXXXII, No. 108
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Phillis Engelbert – Detroit Street Filling
Station, The Lunch Room and
North Star Lounge
Celebrating Women’s History Month with Ann Arbor businesses
From yoga to tteokbokki, The Michigan Daily sat down with five female business owners based in Ann Arbor
IRENA LI, MARY COREY &
EMMA SPRING
Daily News Editor & Daily Staff Reporters
You may not know her name, but there’s a good
chance you’ve wined and dined at one of the
three prominent Ann Arbor establishments run
by Phillis Engelbert: Kerrytown staple Detroit
Street Filling Station, the recently-opened North
Star Lounge and The Lunch Room Bakery &
Cafe in Huron Towers. With a focus on locally-
sourced produce and community organizing,
Engelbert’s restaurants provide an assortment of
eclectic vegan fare for their patrons.
Eve Aronoff Fernandez – Frita Batidos
Diana
Marsh –
Thistle &
Bess
Whether you are shopping
for classy gold jewelry, sparkly
cocktail-themed
Christmas
ornaments or realistic food-
shaped candles, owner Diana
Marsh promises that you don’t
have to look any further than
Thistle & Bess, a funky store
full of surprises. Located on
Ann Arbor’s 4th Avenue on
the outskirts of the Kerrytown
District, Thistle & Bess opened
a physical location in 2015 after
making its mark as an online
antique jewelry store.
Ji Hye Kim – Miss Kim
Floor-to-ceiling glass panels and a stark
white interior beckon Main Street passersby
into the Cuban-inspired burger and “batido”
joint, Frita Batidos, owned by Eve Aronoff
Fernandez.
The
indoor
picnic
tables,
reminiscent of a cozy backyard gathering, are
often completely filled with patrons indulging
in Cuban comfort food, including the signature
frita burgers and batidos milkshakes the
restaurant is named after.
Aronoff Fernandez opened Frita Batidos in
Ann Arbor in 2010, and a secondary location
in Detroit nine years later. But before she
crafted the best burger in the city, Aronoff
learned about cooking from her Jewish
mother in New York. In an interview with
The Michigan Daily, Aronoff Fernandez said
her passion for cooking stems from a long
line of Jewish mothers who instilled the
importance of nurturing through food in her.
Jessie Lipkowitz – aUM Yoga / Polarity
Nestled in the heart of Kerrytown, Miss Kim,
an award-winning restaurant operated by Ji Hye
Kim, serves traditional Korean cuisine with a
contemporary twist. Kim opened the restaurant
in 2016 as a part of Zingerman’s Community of
Businesses through their Path to Partnership
program, which allows anyone, regardless of
previous business experience, to apply to either join
an existing Zingerman’s business as a partner or, in
Kim’s case, start their own.
Jessie Lipkowitz has a journey full of twists and
turns that led her to become the owner of aUM Yoga
and Polarity, a yoga and pole studio located on South
University Avenue in Ann Arbor.
Lipkowitz said yoga has been a transformative
practice for her and she hopes it has been for the
other people who step into her studio as well.
“Yoga saved my life,” Lipkowitz said. “In no way
am I saying that yoga is a cure, but it is definitely a
tool and a tool I’m very passionate about sharing.”
Read more about these five businesses at michigandaily.com
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BELA FISCHER/Daily
Women are at the forefront of a new wave in entrepreneurship, with one survey finding that nearly half of all new businesses in
the United States in 2021 were founded by women. Despite this growth, women continue to face barriers to entry and growth while
women business owners remain underrepresented at large. To celebrate Women’s History Month, The Michigan Daily’s business
beat spent March sitting down with five female business owners based in Ann Arbor to discuss their stories and experiences.