October 16th, 2020 at 6:40 PM ^
Love me one of their chocolate chip milk shakes
October 16th, 2020 at 9:46 PM ^
correction: chocolate chip and coffee milkshake. and a sister ann with meat, on wheat.
October 16th, 2020 at 6:46 PM ^
Pizza House > Cottage Inn > Pizza Bob's
October 16th, 2020 at 6:58 PM ^
Maybe for pizza, but PB's milkshakes are the best in Ann Arbor
October 17th, 2020 at 4:40 AM ^
My nephew worked at Pizza Bob's several years ago, and used to regale me with stories of both the milkshakes (which were as good as he advertised), and which UM sports celebs had come through the door. (Big surprise, he thought John Beilein was a great guy.)
But his favorite visitors were the women's volleyball players. Athletic women with legs that went on forever. No surprise there, either.
October 16th, 2020 at 8:39 PM ^
Pizza House costs too much money for Pizza, it’s good but expensive.
October 16th, 2020 at 10:29 PM ^
Pizza House stole the chipati from Pizza Bob's. You cant overlook that kind of chicanery.
October 16th, 2020 at 11:24 PM ^
For pizza, sure. Pizza Bob’s for the shakes, subs, and the ORIGINAL Chipati all day.
October 16th, 2020 at 11:32 PM ^
I used to be a Pizza House for chipatis person. One of my housemates worked at Pizza House when we were in school (mid 80's) when it was still just a frame house and so we ate a lot of chipatis. But I've changed my tune since then. Pizza Bob's bread (chipati) is thinner and more delicate, and I now like it better.
October 17th, 2020 at 9:24 AM ^
Dominic’s is the one to rule them all.
October 16th, 2020 at 6:46 PM ^
The Speedway on Maple has the best Rancho Steak Tornados ever
October 16th, 2020 at 6:48 PM ^
Taco Bob's Killer Taco for $5 was an incredible value in 1984.
It was really more burrito than taco but who's counting?
October 16th, 2020 at 6:53 PM ^
Hmmm, $5 in 1984 adjusted for inflation is equal to $12.50 today. So while not expensive, I would not really consider it cheap. Must have been a HUGE amount of food.
October 16th, 2020 at 6:48 PM ^
Or Krazy Jim's.
October 16th, 2020 at 6:50 PM ^
How about Ashley's?
October 16th, 2020 at 6:57 PM ^
The Pretzel Bell has a long and convoluted history, as does the Old Heidelberg.
October 16th, 2020 at 7:16 PM ^
Backroom dollar slices
October 16th, 2020 at 7:20 PM ^
God yes
October 16th, 2020 at 7:38 PM ^
Nothing will ever taste better than that slice at 230 in the morning while highly intoxicated.
October 16th, 2020 at 8:50 PM ^
Go blue.
October 16th, 2020 at 9:40 PM ^
That place after midnight was pure gold. Main thing I missed after I moved to North Campus.
October 16th, 2020 at 7:22 PM ^
Rick's
October 16th, 2020 at 8:05 PM ^
I think they already did Rick's.
Edit: No they didn't do Rick's. So yes, Rick's is in order. I remember our professor taking us there for class late on Friday afternoons and enjoying underage beer and wings.
October 17th, 2020 at 9:37 AM ^
Sklars have a great bit about Rick’s and the fact they had toilets with no doors in the 90s. Also a favorite brawling spot for Michael Phelps.
October 16th, 2020 at 8:56 PM ^
May 1996 weekend of the then Jim Harbaugh celebrity golf outing. My friend was dating one of the bouncers so he let me into this closed event at Rick's. That night I got to have beers with Harbaugh, Junior Seau, AC Slater, Stephen Baldwin, and a bunch of Red Wings.
I told Harbaugh about my first ever Michigan game sitting in the front row corner of the endzone (before they lowered the field, couldn't see shit). Then he scored a TD and ended up in that corner where I hit him on the top of the helmet as he was celebrating. He loved that story, slapped me on the back sort of like he did to Lions coach Schwartz.
While taking a leak Mario Lopez asked me if I had a condom. The next day word spread around campus that his limo dropped a tri delt off at her sorority house....
October 16th, 2020 at 10:03 PM ^
That was a good story, right up before the end.
October 16th, 2020 at 11:49 PM ^
Trust me I was bummed about the last part as well.
October 17th, 2020 at 12:31 AM ^
I knew Mario Lopez and was dating a Tri Delt from ‘95-‘98....so calling BS on that final part. But Adam Sandler did call up the AE Phi sorority when he was in town for his comedy show.
October 16th, 2020 at 7:25 PM ^
Defunct institution here, but my dad just bought me a shirt for Drake’s Sandwich Shop for my birthday, from a company that produces shirts of defunct places. It’s been gone most of my life, but when I was four or five, I have fond memories of getting candy there as well as old-fashioned cherry cokes. If I ever won the powerball, I’d probably open up a new version with some new features. But as it is, great memories of Drake’s.
October 16th, 2020 at 8:04 PM ^
Link to the company that makes stuff from defunct places? Thanks.
October 16th, 2020 at 8:48 PM ^
Seconded! Link please!
October 16th, 2020 at 9:33 PM ^
Thank you!!!
October 16th, 2020 at 9:57 PM ^
I’ve gotten a few shirts from them. Highly recommended. The shirts can run a little on the small side, or maybe I’m just getting larger.
Anyway, my favorite shirt is the one for Bilbo’s in East Lansing. One of the few nice things that used to be in EL.
https://longlosttees.com/collections/east-lansing-msu/products/bilbo-s
October 16th, 2020 at 8:10 PM ^
Hard upvote on this. A grilled cheese and limeade . . . Best ever.
October 16th, 2020 at 8:28 PM ^
A grilled nut roll a la mode w/ some fancy tea to try and impress the future lawyer I was hot for.
October 16th, 2020 at 9:24 PM ^
Did it work?
October 16th, 2020 at 9:01 PM ^
While I was a junior and senior at Huron High, a lot of the prettiest girls in my class worked at Drake's. They used to wear these lime green jackets over their miniskirts. Transports of ecstasy thinking about it even now. Once did a little kissing with one of them up in the often roped off Martian Room.
October 16th, 2020 at 9:36 PM ^
Thank you sir!
October 17th, 2020 at 8:29 AM ^
I had an office in Nickels Arcade when my daughter was small, and I'd frequently take her with me to the office on Saturday mornings. We'd always have lunch at Drake's—grilled cheese and chicken noodle soup for her, and a BLT and chocolate malt for me. The best times.
October 16th, 2020 at 7:29 PM ^
Casey's Tavern?
October 16th, 2020 at 7:53 PM ^
Love Casey's! It was a favorite spot after softball and years later I was fortunate to work within a short walk and enjoyed many a lunch or happy hour there. I think they may be completely closed waiting for the pandemic to pass. I hope they re-open.
October 16th, 2020 at 8:42 PM ^
I thought the name was Casey’s Dugout.
For current places how about Rays Redhots, formerly Red Hot Lovers
October 16th, 2020 at 8:58 PM ^
my aunt and uncle live on the river off of barton drive. We go to Casey's every time I'm in town. I've probably had their french dips 20 times.
My parents came up for my 21st birthday and we went to Casey's. I had my first ever legal beer there, a pitcher of Bell's Solsun. Absolute delicious, Oberon doesn't quite taste the same.
October 16th, 2020 at 7:34 PM ^
Del Rio RIP
October 16th, 2020 at 8:05 PM ^
The first date I had with a cute UM art school student back in 1976 was at the Del Rio.
Just celebrated our 41st anniversary in August.
October 16th, 2020 at 9:39 PM ^
Me and two friends looked at buying the Del Rio when it was for sale about twenty years ago. Far too much in the way of upgrades required for what they were asking for it, though ($850k IIRC) -- needed one of everything.
October 17th, 2020 at 8:18 AM ^
The Del Rio was originally operated as a collective, employee-managed coop, and this organizational structure was not conducive to long-term financial health. Which no doubt contributed to the need for significant upgrades when you were looking at buying it.
For a couple of years back in the late '70s I worked on a painting company owned by a friend who I'd met in UM's architecture program. One of the jobs we did was painting the exterior of the Del Rio building, and I got to ride the cherry-picker we rented to paint the upper floor windows. Nice view from up there.
October 17th, 2020 at 8:48 AM ^
It's been a while but my recollection is that very little was dropping to the bottom line -- think they were only showing a profit of $45K a year or so. But maybe they were stuffing mattresses.
Would have been great to save Del Rio but, as an investment, it made no sense at all.
Remember their great cassette tape collection (from which they took no requests)? The wait and bar staff was pretty entitled. We went there during a pub crawl during an incredible hot day during the Art Fair and were ejected because my buddy quoted Chaucer (replete with a "teat" reference). I still get a lot of mileage out of that decades later!
October 17th, 2020 at 8:54 AM ^
It's been a while but my recollection is that very little was dropping to the bottom line -- think they were only showing a profit of $45K a year or so. But maybe they were stuffing mattresses.
Would have been great to save Del Rio but, as an investment, it made no sense at all.
Remember their great cassette tape collection (from which they took no requests)? The wait and bar staff was pretty entitled. We went there during a pub crawl during an incredible hot day during the Art Fair and were ejected because my buddy quoted Chaucer (replete with a "teat" reference). I still get a lot of mileage out of that decades later!