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Username: Texorama
Post Number: 174
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 5:46 pm: |    |
The old Free Press magazine ran an article about Hamtramck one time in which the author raved about a bar selling Red, White & Blue beer for the price of three for a dollar. Those were the days, my friend. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 4469
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 6:12 pm: | |
$2.50 pitchers of Coors, and Killians or Leinenkugel's at Mitch's on M/W and Scorekeeper's on Thurs. in Ann Arbor. Wayne State needs an ultra-cheap student bar...that would make people live on campus.
Majestic is good, though. |
Jtw
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Username: Jtw
Post Number: 209
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 6:59 pm: | |
Mackinaw - agreed. someplace with pitchers under $3 that you could walk to would be huge for on-campus life. then perhaps some other bars might follow suit? |
Danindc
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Username: Danindc
Post Number: 3946
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 7:06 pm: | |
quote:$2.50 pitchers of Coors, and Killians or Leinenkugel's at Mitch's on M/W and Scorekeeper's on Thurs. in Ann Arbor. Wayne State needs an ultra-cheap student bar...that would make people live on campus.
Wow! Looks like inflation hasn't hit Ann Arbor in a while. Those are the same prices from ten years ago! |
Pmardo
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Username: Pmardo
Post Number: 70
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 7:06 pm: | |
Please nothing similar to Mitch's or Scorekeepers. That can stay in Ann Arbor. |
Andylinn
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Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 754
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 7:28 pm: | |
amen, brosef. keep that shiet in ann arbor. although i'd take ashley's, the 8-ball, or old town... |
Ray
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Username: Ray
Post Number: 1087
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 9:29 pm: | |
Oh my God! I can't BELIEVE you drink Miller Lite. |
Erikd
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Username: Erikd
Post Number: 997
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 9:33 pm: | |
quote:What's "Millers"? Is that a beer?
"Millers" is Michiganese for "Miller".
It's like Krogers, Fords, or Kmarts...
LOL |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1705
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 9:37 pm: | |
Yeah Erikd,
and the part that cracks me up is how Michigan people pluralize the singular chains but we makes names like Big Lots singular (Big Lot). WTF?  |
Saintme
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Username: Saintme
Post Number: 97
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:44 pm: | |
To the Bronx, for sure.
LOL Erikd
(Message edited by SaintMe on March 01, 2008) |
Digitalvision
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Username: Digitalvision
Post Number: 597
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 11:49 pm: | |
LOL @ ErikD...
I'm not sweating the higher beer prices - this is a byproduct of what is now really the inevitable change. You want the neighborhood to get nicer and better - well this will be an occasional side effect.
Everywhere else in the world, their "downtown-ish" corridors are usually the most expensive. Most bars I go to charge $4-5 for a beer, anyway. |
Craggy
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Username: Craggy
Post Number: 318
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 7:50 am: | |
So...in the interest of fairness...if we are to bash Union Street for their Miller lite prices, we must praise their monday special...
$12 BOTTLES of wine. That's incredibly cheap for a restaurant.
Also...as much as I love the Bronx (had a tremendous burger with a high life on Friday) its not exactly like they have a lot of overhead there.
The places are completely different. Let's stick to comparing apples. |
Ladyinabag
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Username: Ladyinabag
Post Number: 415
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 8:17 am: | |
They are just taking advantage of you because you are drunk (LOL). Don't go there. Take your friends and go elsewhere. They'll figure it out. Go to The Cass Cafe. There are so many other places to go. I don't know about The Bronx. I'd be afraid of running in to a serial murderer. Don't be ripped off. Buy a six-pack and take it, and your friends, home. Better party anyway.
(Message edited by Ladyinabag on March 02, 2008) |
Anniedawg25
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Username: Anniedawg25
Post Number: 2
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 12:26 pm: | |
mudmarker....bottomless mimosas?? You just made my day by mentioning that. How much?
Judging by the price of miller lite I am almost afraid to ask |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1707
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 12:56 pm: | |
LOL Goat. Good point |
Everydayislikesunday
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Username: Everydayislikesunday
Post Number: 360
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 1:19 pm: | |
annie -- if i remember correctly, the bottomless mimosas are $12, which, if you're going to take advantage of them being bottomless, is a good deal.. |
Jhartmich
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Username: Jhartmich
Post Number: 77
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 6:02 pm: | |
I may be wrong, but I 'm pretty sure you only get mimosas for $12 dollars if you buy the buffet. I think it was $18 bucks for the buffet. $30 total for brunch.
Back to my post: It is what it is. I was just a little surprised at her reasoning - the "we're no longer Cass Corridor" remark.
There's other places drink.
(Message edited by jhartmich on March 02, 2008) |
Everydayislikesunday
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Username: Everydayislikesunday
Post Number: 362
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 6:29 pm: | |
I've never known Union Street to have a buffet for brunch. |
Norwalk
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Username: Norwalk
Post Number: 228
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 8:41 pm: | |
Hop on the Baker Street car and come on up to Hamtamck for Cheap drinks! what ! $18.00 for a Buffet?? |
Anniedawg25
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Username: Anniedawg25
Post Number: 3
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 9:03 pm: | |
I love Baker Street car!
I went there in December and have been wanting to go back!
Hmm $12.00 mimosas, I can DEFINATLEY get my money's worth..Ive been known to throw back 1, or 2, or 6
But $30 total? That brunch buffet better be GOOD! |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 4144
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 5:06 pm: | |
Friends went to the Union Street last friday , got fish and chips - $17! Seems like a lot, they said the same thing, too expensive. |
Ladyinabag
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Username: Ladyinabag
Post Number: 428
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 5:11 pm: | |
Red Lobster blows Union Street away....the price is similar but Red Lobster is BETTER. I LOVE RED LOBSTER!•• |
Histeric
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Username: Histeric
Post Number: 861
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 5:13 pm: | |
You ARE kidding...right? |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 4145
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 5:15 pm: | |
Red Lobster?? Their new slogan is "You get what you pay for" |
Wazootyman
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Username: Wazootyman
Post Number: 318
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 5:27 pm: | |
If you think that's expensive, try the Hudson Bar in Manhattan. One of the funkiest, most interesting bar experiences I've ever had. Feeling a bit cash poor, I ordered a Miller Lite, but instead got a $12 beer. Oh, wait, it was a Miller Lite.
I guess it's all relative, but I just don't see a $5 Miller unreasonable, nor $17 for a fish & chips dinner. The place seems to always draw a good crowd, so they must be doing something right. If you want to get drunk for cheap, buy a case and invite a few friends over. If you want a dining-out experience, you're going to pay what the owner values that experience at. I love Union Street, and would go more often if I lived a little closer...
Last weekend I took the lady out to dinner at J. Alexanders. The total tab was about $100 after tip - not including the drinks we purchased at the bar while waiting for a table. We had an appetizer, soup, salad and our entrees, all of which were exceptional. Was it expensive? Absolutely. But the service, preparation and ambience left me satisfied that it was well worth it. I only wish I could go more often - as I sit here eating a hot pocket. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 5464
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 5:53 pm: | |
That's highway, er, avenue robbery!
But YUM their Dragon's Eggs are delicious! |
Sknutson
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Username: Sknutson
Post Number: 1077
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 6:05 pm: | |
quote: dropped into the Cass Cafe on Thursday and I'm pretty sure they had Black Labels for $1.
Hey Mabel! Black Label!
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Focusonthed
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Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1715
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 10:44 pm: | |
quote:That's not gentrification. That's greed!
From the land of $4 Miller Lite pints,
DaninDC
Ditto, from Chicago. |
Busterwmu
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Username: Busterwmu
Post Number: 432
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 5:11 pm: | |
If you go to Milwaukee and take the free Miller Brewery tour, you get three free glasses of beer :-) Not too bad! |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1013
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 5:22 pm: | |
Jhartmich, screw that pompous "Mid-Town" crap! Grab a 40 in a brown paper bag and call it "Skid Row", as a real Detroiter would do. |
Jhartmich
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Username: Jhartmich
Post Number: 81
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 6:04 pm: | |
noted |
Lukabottle
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Username: Lukabottle
Post Number: 149
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 07, 2008 - 12:56 am: | |
I used to work for Red Lobster. I left because their food quality took such a dump. I watched it go downhill quickly the 6 years I worked there.
Cheap bear with good service and eccentric clients, by far Temple Bar.
$.75 draft of Milwaukee's Best, free wifi, and reasonably priced shots. Tell George the owner that Christina was thinking about him if you stop in. |
Drjeff
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Username: Drjeff
Post Number: 28
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 10, 2008 - 1:46 pm: | |
I've always been intrigued by the Temple bar, but where the hell do you park so that your car windows remain intact? |
Rax
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Username: Rax
Post Number: 172
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 10, 2008 - 3:39 pm: | |
Miller Lite? 5 bucks?! I'd only pay that for a rich, handcrafted microbrew. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 2007
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 10, 2008 - 4:08 pm: | |
Temple is my new favorite bar. Blowout introduced me to a new one this weekend, too: Chill & Mingle. |
Gravitymachine
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Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1988
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 10, 2008 - 4:12 pm: | |
quote:Miller Lite? 5 bucks?! I'd only pay that for a rich, handcrafted microbrew.
which incidentally is the going rate for many of the microbrews they have on tap if memory serves
why the hell would you go to union street, with their beer selection, and get a miller lite anyways?
(Message edited by gravitymachine on March 10, 2008) |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 5261
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 10, 2008 - 4:15 pm: | |
Every time I drive by the Temple Bar I always wonder if it is closed for good or vacant or what? The surrounding area looks worse than Grozny, so not sure about parking. |
Oldestuff
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Username: Oldestuff
Post Number: 71
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 5:15 pm: | |
There's always Michigan Ave - plenty of bars, good food - Friday fish fries at the Gaelic League and
cheap prices for beer. |
Detroitpharmstudent
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Username: Detroitpharmstudent
Post Number: 23
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 5:40 pm: | |
something everyone might like to know: Sunday night at the garden bowl - $5 PITCHERS of miller lite. i thought that was crazy! almost as crazy as the $5 glass at union street. |
Jerrytimes
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Username: Jerrytimes
Post Number: 103
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 7:13 pm: | |
The problem isn't completely the fact that the beer is $5, but that you would even think of drinking Miller Lite. It's water in a brown bottle.
By the way, someone mentioned Leininkugels. Fantastic beer and they are now at the Jow for the rest of the season. Nice.....nice... |
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