Appetizers include shrimp cocktail, steamed mussels, crabcakes, several kinds of oysters, baked brie, saut ed wild mushrooms, and saut ed spicy black bean cake. The black bean cakes are big sellers, as is the baked brie, said Cleveland. In one month here we'll sell as many baked bries as we sold in three months in Plymouth. It has more spices. It's hardy, interesting pumpkin pie.
Ambience also is part of Cleveland's new place.
The building, which dates to 1901, has been reincarnated several times, mostly as a bar. Mich. Cleveland believes it was constructed about 1900. It certainly bears testimony to a century of use. The personable Cleveland is a hometown boy. He grew up in Ann Arbor and knows many of its merchants and business owners.