Food and Drink

SoupGrant's January dinner. Winners Cuts And Convo's are pictured are holding the check. 

St. Patrick’s Day is coming, and there are great ways to celebrate locally without drinking vast quantities of green beer or driving the snakes out of Ireland. All of these are pretty family-friendly (but please don’t give your children Guinness), and half of them are free:

"I realized that I would have to soon find a series of people willing to go with me and order different pizzas so I could try a slice of each."

"On Saturdays in the 1970s, my mother and her best friend Joyce were ladies who lunched in East Lansing. If I was lucky, I got to go with them."

After years away, coing back to the State Room was a revelation.

ELi's Ann Nichols reports on the controversy over El Azteco's cheese dip.

"Remember that one time on Valentine’s Day when we ate all the condiments at Emo’s?"

Where did East Lansing's Thai Kitchen go?

If the lunch buffet pleases your palate, you might come for a sit-down dinner with dosas, poppadums, and possibly a Tandoori mixed grill, a Saag dish rich with cream and spinach, or a Vindaloo curry that will set your mouth on fire.

That little liquor store near El Azteco that’s been there forever.

The question: Any hope of groceries downtown?

If you live in or near downtown—which more and more permanent residents seem to be doing—there are actually a few nearby places you can now walk or bike to get some basic groceries.

The draft options on this pass included stout, cider, a double IPA, wheat ale, hefeweizen, red ale, fruit beer, brown ale, and a porter.

The folks behind the Purple Carrot Truck settle into farm-to-table upscale dining.