The Elegant RiverHouse Inn Graces Williamston's Dining Scene

The RiverHouse Inn on the Red Cedar River in Williamston is one of the most elegant restaurants to enhance the area in a while. For me, the view and the excellent gourmet menu are what I always look for in a dining experience.
I’ve spent countless hours enjoying a meal and looking out over the water, enough so that I made it a mission to travel over every body of water I could when I traveled around Europe and the limited travel I did in the Middle East. I've crossed the Irish Sea, the Baltic, the North Sea, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and a series of smaller seas around Denmark, where I lived for a year during my travels. I have always loved the sea so a view of the water, enhanced by an excellent chef, is the ultimate in pleasurable dining experiences for me.

Click here for the article.RiverHouse Inn Restaurant It appeared in the Lansing City Pulse on May 6, 2008.

Back Yard Culinary Adventures - Eaton Rapids Le Chat Gourmet Cooking School Offers Culinary Charm and Adventure

The Mid Michigan area has some excellent cooking schools with Eaton Rapids' Le Chat Gourmet Culinary Arts a most charming culinary adventure. Run by Executive Chef Denene Vincent, its intimate gardens have been planted with a variety of herbs, fruits, vegetables, and edible flowers, so that students can go out with Vincent and pick the food they will go inside and cook. The intimacy and charm of the school brings new meaning to the term culinary adventure.For a special culinary vacation, in the summers Vincent offers students a unique culinary hands-on tour of France or Italy.Her 2007 culinary summer vacation included a tour of the Bordeaux region of France. The students met and cooked with Chef Jerome Dumoulin who has cooked in Paris restaurants. Chef Dumoulin is distinguished to be among the last five artisan mustard chefs in France. Click here for the link to the article as it appeared in the Lansing City Pulse newspaper.

MSU's East Lansing State Room Restaurant Boasts a World Class Award Winning Chef

One of the most elegant restaurants in town is right on Michigan State University's Kellogg Conference Center. If you are looking for a really elegant Sunday brunch, it often fills up ahead of time, according to Executive Sous Chef, Rajeev Patgaonkar CEC, AAC. Patgoankar is a world class award winning chef and he knows better than anyone how popular the State Room menu items like French toast with peaches and cream and maple syrup sausage, Mandarin grilled quail breast, eggs benedict with crab, roast leg of New Zealand lamb, chicken and veal with pistachios, and white bean and duck confit, are to diners. That's just to name a few. But its no surprise when you find out that he has been on the cooking staff of the Saudi Royal Family and the Sultan of Oman. He also has a great lamb recipe right on line.

Click here to read the MSU State Room article as it appeared in the Lansing City Pulse newspaper on March 19, 2008.

In Lansing the new Sawyer's Gourmet Pancake House Offers Midnight Gourmet Club

Self-Styled “locavore” Bob Sawyer, is adding a new feature to Lansing's only Gourment pancake house. Now you can eat organic food with the rest of the night owls, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. All you have to do is pay the membership fee.

Find out more about the irreverend, old-hippie bad-boy himself and why he opened his mostly organic natural pancake restaurant in downtown Lansing. Click here for the Sawyer Pancake House article as it appeared in Lansing City Pulse on March 5, 2008.