Wednesday, March 25, 2009

An "Up North" Institution will not re-open this season

Nice review on likely the best of the best in Northern Michigan

A Loving So Long to Tapawingo - MyNorth

Several years ago, I arranged dinner at Tapawingo for my wife's birthday (early May), we live an hour and a half or so away.

It appears that there is another John Hoagland, top morel forager over by Boyne, and that he had dropped off morels just a little while before I called.

This caused some initial confusion at the desk.

Well, we made our reservations, made it to dinner, I dropped a business card and the chef comped us the most beautiful LARGE white morel, stuffed with small morels drenched in a morel sauce.

I can't even recall the rest of the dinner - we were just blown away.

We've dined at some of the best restaurants in Paris, New York, Chicago and elsewhere, but Tapawingo was one of the best.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Links for Spring and beyond