The El Dorado, Cafe, Catering and Events located at 149 E. Front Street in DownTown Traverse City next to the Captain's Quarters, between Cass and Union streets is the best kept secret in Traverse City. Chef John Hardy, Owner, has over 30 years of culinary experience. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. He has combined his love for the West with his love for cooking and created Cowboy Cuisine. Breakfast is served, in the Fall and Winter Months, Tuesday-Saturda…
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Posted by The El Dorado Cafe Catering and Events, John and Tracie Hardy, Owners on November 12, 2009 at 8:00am —
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New website offers a place for Northern Michigan residents to buy, sell, and trade
Wheels-n-Deals Magazine Online is a place where the Northern Michigan neighbor has all the tools to buy, sell, or trade with one another. This powerful user friendly website is exclusive to over 15 Northern Michigan counties and has the added benefit of a national audience through search engines. Members of the communities can sell all types of property; autos, snowmobiles, motorcycles or watercraft (to na…
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Posted by Amy Savage on October 5, 2009 at 5:35pm —
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Most Traverse City people know John Robert Williams as one of the guys who founded the Traverse City Film Festival and as a local photographer who has operated his photo studio in town for 30 years. His studio also shares his moniker, John Robert Williams Commercial Photography.…
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Posted by Missy Luyk on September 18, 2009 at 3:09pm —
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My wife Deborah is a Michigan girl. Born and raised and proud. She's not shy about it either when talking on blogs and over the Internet. She's "smitten with the mitten," as she likes to tell her out-of-state friends. And a couple of years ago, when we were thinking of taking our vacation out east, she said,
"I don't know. I think I'd like to relax and go Up North. Besides, everything we want to do and our boys want to do is there anyway."
Except whales. And the ocean. She knew this. And I did…
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Posted by Darren King on July 25, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Not a day for yachting you say? Certainly not the most thrilling. Despite thick gray threatening clouds overhead, the Traverse City Yacht Club held it's Wednesday races. And despite the dead calm over Grand Traverse Bay the boats did make it back to the marina, eventually. And I was in attendance.
Inspired by the June issue of
Traverse Magazine, one of the items on my summer list was to enjoy a drink on the deck at Scott's Harbor Grill while watching the Wednesday yacht races. I invited…
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Posted by Rachel North on June 17, 2009 at 11:52pm —
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I remember waiting as a kid to go Up North. And once there, usually after the summer solstice we had two weeks or so to do everything cool. Even later when I worked Up North in the summer, staying with Grandma for a month or more, it was a mad dash to squeeze as much as possible out of the short time here. Nothing has changed now that we live Up North. And yesterday marked the start of summer with our first dinner on the beach. We're late. Memorial Day usually initiates the first picnic.
Starin…
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Posted by Rachel North on June 14, 2009 at 11:00am —
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It’s been a few days since I’ve attended the Wisconsin Cheese Throw Down at Bowers Harbor Inn, and I apologize for the delay in the post-party blog. But you see, I’ve been in a cheese coma.
This is what happens when a cheese lover attends an event showcasing a thousand-plus chunks of fine cheese and a dozen cheese-inspired gourmet dishes, all of which is washed down with her favorite local beers and wines.
Judging by the turnout (Bowers Harbor Inn, its fabulous new outdoor patio and spiffy new…
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Posted by Lynda Twardowski on May 11, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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Living now in Traverse City, a place I consider a food lover’s paradise, it sometimes shames me that my three favorite foods haven’t changed as I’ve become an adult. They are, exactly as they were at age six: pizza, ice cream, and cheese.
These are my deserted-island three. My last-meal trifecta. My go-to, triple-time-healer of a broken heart, bad hangover or even slightly irritable episode of P.M.S.
I eat the big three, I feel joy. It’s very simple.
They don’t have to be high-end either. In…
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Posted by Lynda Twardowski on May 5, 2009 at 9:11am —
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Go ahead women of Northern Michigan, breathe my rarified air. Yep. I touched
Carter Oosterhouse, the carpenter-model-star of a slew of HGTV shows (currently,
Red Hot and Green and
Carter Can). Want the sizzling truth? He put his arm around me. Okay, enough. I'm old enough to be his mother (he was born when I was a freshman in college—I did the math). But here is what I really want to say about Carter: He’s a really good guy.
The hometown…
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Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on March 2, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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I got to know Brandon Stout this weekend. Before Saturday afternoon, he’d only been a name—a part of the backstory to the piece I wrote about Traverse City Iraq war veteran in September of 2008
Michelle Rudzitis. On January 22, 2007, Michelle had her leg blown off by a roadside bomb when she was serving in Iraq. Brandon was her driver. The blast killed him.
Since his death, Michelle has gotten to be friends with Brandon…
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Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on January 29, 2009 at 10:36am —
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When my husband and I invite kids to go cross-country skiing with us, they've been known to run and hide, or slink off and call their parents to come get them. When we ask parents to bring the family along, they usually hem and haw and say they really should get their kids out skiing—after all, it's one of the healthiest, cheapest sports around—but usually they don't go. They know their kids will whine.
Which would leave me thinking that kids and Nordic skiing just don't mix. Except that we hav…
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Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on January 22, 2009 at 1:03pm —
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A couple years ago, when the
Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA) opened its downtown Traverse City terminal and expanded its routes, my Up North life took a big leap for the better. I’d always figured I’d pretty well hacked out a good life here in the Northwoods—a house with a view of Sleeping Bear Bay (okay, from the driveway) and a job doing what I love in downtown Traverse City. But that winter commute really started wearing on me. So when I heard that B…
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Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on January 14, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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I'm 50. It's winter in Traverse City. I have a desk job.
Two years ago, when I was 48 and it was winter and I had a desk job, I looked down at the midlife crisis my body was in and asked myself if there wasn't some remedy. I think I may have found it. One ingredient to this cure is across the alley in back of my office on Front Street, around the corner and up the flight of steps next to the Omelette Shoppe on Cass. The scent of warm raisin bread with frosting follows me up the steps. But once…
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Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on January 8, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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It’s Friday, the end of a very long workweek in Traverse City, and I’m looking forward to a wild time tonight. Nope, it’s not dropping mega bucks at a smoky nightclub or waiting in line for a table at the Olive Garden. My husband and I will cross-country ski Alligator Hill in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Dressing for for this occasion is simple. I leave my ski gear hanging on a hook in my bedroom so I can be changed within 15 minutes of getting off the bus from work. I have a new…
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Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on December 5, 2008 at 8:00am —
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I spilled the beans that I can't make a good pie crust (or, to be honest, any pie crust) in the October issue of
Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. Since then, I got a little help from my friend, Olida, a homemade Michigan apple pie lover transplanted to NYC, who had been experimenting all summer with her pie crust while awaiting fall apples. Now she's a pro, even mixing Gruyere cheese in the crust of her apple pies.
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Posted by Emily Betz Tyra on November 25, 2008 at 4:00pm —
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My husband and I are starting our second renovation project in two years. After 26 years of marriage, we feel that our relationship can finally withstand it. A year ago we remodeled our kitchen. This renovation is for two bathrooms that haven’t been updated since Hubert Humphrey ran against Richard Nixon in 1968. That is excepting the red magic marker graffiti my son scribbled on the wallpaper when he was 4 in 2001.
Our contractor, Kevin McCarty of
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Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on November 17, 2008 at 12:07pm —
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I had lunch at Blue Tractor with my old friends from Northwestern Michigan College on Friday. I say old because we have known each other for at least 30 years (classes of 1978 and ’79), and because all but two of us forgot our reading glasses back at the office so we passed one pair around the table so we could read the menu.
Bruce Byl got the group together, seven of us—some of us see each other often, others only now and then—and he came equipped with donation forms for NMC’s Community Campai…
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Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on November 10, 2008 at 3:36pm —
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I just checked the weather report for tomorrow, November 1--it will be mild temperatures, dry and partly sunny. I can't think of more perfect weather for the Ultimate Up North Kitchen Tour. If you don't have your ticket yet, don't worry. Just choose one of the homes/kitchens near you to purchase your ticket and get a copy of the directions. Here's a list of the homes and locations--and if you have any questions at all, please call me on my cell phone, 231-624-1524. We'll see you out there!
P.S.…
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Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on October 31, 2008 at 12:09pm —
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As children, my brother and I lived with our parents in a suburb of metro-Detroit. But really, we grew up on the lakes and rivers of northern Michigan. There, our father gave to us the values that come from experiencing first-hand, nature and wildlife. Hiking for hours through the Porcupine Mountains seeing black bears, camping along Grand Traverse Bay, fishing the flood-waters of the Au Sable River. We always stopped for lunch on a sandbar and the evening always ended with a roaring campfire, w…
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Posted by Darren King on October 30, 2008 at 6:30am —
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For reasons I won’t get into, I headed down to Right Brain Brewery in Traverse City’s warehouse district yesterday afternoon about 3:30. And there, sitting outside by the alley, were a dozen old bourbon casks just off the truck from Kentucky.
Why bourbon casks at a brewery? The i…
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Posted by Jeff Smith on October 17, 2008 at 9:00am —
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Fresh, Homemade Food in Downtown Traverse City
New website offers a place for Northern Michigan residents to buy, sell, and trade
John Robert Williams- The man behind the lens
Hosts to Pure Michigan
one down, more to go
The Cheese Throw Down Afterglow (and a Trip for Tastebud Travelers Who Missed the Party)
Carter Oosterhouse in Traverse City
Help with Holiday Pie (Crust)
Distill My Heart
