Category Archives: Dining

I Made it to Sixty – Dinner at Marais (Part One)

Posted on September 19, 2014 by thewineraconteur

Everyone is telling me that “sixty is the new forty” and that is fine, but I don’t feel any different. My hairline may have receded and as I like to say about my waist “that my horizons have expanded,” but … Continue reading →

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A Dinner Party in Windsor

Posted on September 17, 2014 by thewineraconteur

A friend in Canada is getting ready to sell his home, so he invited some people over for dinner before he moved. One forgets how much bother it seems to be to cross the border, when for years it was … Continue reading →

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Echo’s Place

Posted on September 13, 2014 by thewineraconteur

Every now and then, you think that you know all of the places to have dinner in a city and then you are surprised. This happened the other night. I spent years living and working in Dearborn, Michigan and I … Continue reading →

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A Second Night in Columbus, Ohio

Posted on September 5, 2014 by thewineraconteur

It was a day of logistics to get all the cousins and their parents coordinated, so they could go off for a day trip to the National Museum of the United States Air Force located at the Wright Patterson Air … Continue reading →

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Cantina Laredo

Posted on September 3, 2014 by thewineraconteur

We had arrived in Columbus earlier then the other members of the family that were meeting us, which was fine. My daughter had went and challenged me to do the ALS Ice Bucket challenge, and I figured since I had … Continue reading →

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Some New Offices

Posted on August 30, 2014 by thewineraconteur

I had the privilege of attending a party to showcase the new suites for an accountant. I went as a guest and the leasing agency for the building had a wonderful affair to show off the new units, along with … Continue reading →

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Another Dinner Club Meeting

Posted on August 28, 2014 by thewineraconteur

My dinner club is a venerable old society that was founded in the late 1800’s in Detroit. The Detroit Philatelic Society was even honored when the City of Detroit celebrated their 300’Th Anniversary as one of the oldest clubs still … Continue reading →

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A Quick Dinner in Northville

Posted on August 26, 2014 by thewineraconteur

Some dinners are planned and other dinners are by happenstance. This was one evening, as a fine gentleman had passed away, much too soon and very respected in his community. The funeral home was totally congested and we parked about … Continue reading →

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The City of Lathrup Village

Posted on August 24, 2014 by thewineraconteur

Somehow the sound of it sounds incongruous, but because of the many laws governing municipalities some villages do indeed become cities. Townships get incorporated, but then they are just referred to as “the city of.” I found myself in tow … Continue reading →

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“Wears Like a Pig’s Nose”

Posted on August 22, 2014 by thewineraconteur

Isn’t that a great way to advertise a product? Actually it was, at the beginning of the last century. It was the slogan for Finck’s Overalls, which curiously are still in existence, but now known by another label. The Finck … Continue reading →

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