Weekly live music concerts by local musicians serenade diners outdoors in our patio seating space. Reservations are encouraged because the event is popular!  This week’s band is Flying Latini Brothers.

$45 /dinner
Special Dinner #76

The Heirloom Harvest dinners have been so popular over the past few years that we’ve agreed to feature three across the growing season!
Cornman Farms is a pet project of Chef Alex’s that began with a field of heirloom tomatoes and has grown to a multi-acre farm growing a wide variety of flavorful, heirloom produce to serve on Roadhouse plates! Each dinner will be designed to focus on what Chef Alex and Farmer Mark are harvesting at the time. As we follow the growing season, the menus will vary to reflect the diferent vegetables being served at that moment. The series of Heirloom Harvest dinners will culminate with a menu reflecting the preservation of foods for sustenance over the winter months.

Check Out the Buffet Menu:

Starters & Salad:

Sliced Heirloom Tomato Bar w/ Handmade Fresh Mozzarella, Olive Oils & Sea Salts

Spinach Salad with Kelly’s Golden Eggs & Bacon
Grilled Scallions & Zingerman’s Creamery Goat Cheese
Bread Salad with Heirloom Cucumbers, Tomatoes & Capers
Roasted Detroit Dark Beets with Maytag Blue Cheese
Radish Tea Sandwiches

Breads:

Garden Breads from Zingerman’s Bakehouse

Entrees:

BBQ Organic Salmon with Garden Sofrito
Green Tomato Lasagna with Farro Noodles
Spring Lamb with Mint and Rhubarb
Coffee Spiced Local Plymouth Rock Chicken
Low Country Risotto with Heirloom Tomato Jus

Sides:

Roasted Spring Carrots
Col. Nancy Newsom’s Beans
Buttered Turnips
Steamed Irish Cobbler Potatoes

Desserts:

Gelato Sundae Bar with Local Peaches, Blueberries, Strawberries, Bourbon Caramel, Scharffenberger Chocolate Fudge Sauce and Cream

$75/dinner
Special Dinner #77

Southern Foodways Alliance (www.southernfoodways.com) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to document and celebrate the diverse food cultures of the South. Their research has helped bring Roadhouse staples such as Eastern North Carolina pulled pork barbecue, Mason Tennessee buttermilk fried chicken, Anson Mills grits to Ann Arbor and even Edwards’ bacon to Ann Arbor.

Sam Edwards, whose bacon will be served at this dinner, will be our special guest. He’ll share stories from his almost-century-old family business, and talk about putting the flavor back in bacon! (Check the recent article in the New York Times.)

The dinner, crafted by James Beard-nominated Chef Alex Young, and excerpted from Ari’s latest book, Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon, will feature bacon from beginning to end. Starting with appetizers, bacons hailing from all around the country will be the star of each course, including dessert. With vastly different flavor profiles (think olive oil here) these bacons represent the nuanced flavors of the better bacon being made by passionate individuals like Sam Edwards!

Join us for a fun and flavorful look at one our country’s most beloved foods: Bacon!

Appetizers:

Angels, & Devils on Horseback,
Date with Bacon
Edwards’ Aged Country Ham Plate

Bread:

American Fried Bread

Salad:

B.L.T.: Edwards’ hickory smoked bacon with heirloom Cornman Farms tomatoes & lettuce

Entrees:

Lex’s Roast Chicken: with bacon and coffee spice rub
Carolina Fish Muddle

Sides:

Oyster & Bacon Pilau
Spaghetti a la Carbonara
Cabbage & Irish Bacon
Bacon Fat RoastedCornman Farms Vegetables

Dessert:

Bacon-Apple Pie
Mini-Buttermilk Biscuits with Chocolate-Bacon Gravy

Check out the Makin’ Bacon Flyer!

$45 / dinner
Special Dinner #75

Chef Alex pulls out all the stops with a down-home barbecue buffet! This annual event features our favorites of the barbecue world served with authentic sides prepared with fresh veggies from Cormnman Farms. Don’t miss out on Zingerman’s Bakehouse pies to finish off this regional tour of an all-American foodway. With both indoor and patio seating, this is one of our biggest events of the year! Don’t miss it! (Bon Apetit named Zingerman’s Roadhouse as one of the Top Ten BBQ Restaurants in the country!)

Call for reservations! 734.663.FOOD (3663)

Check out the Menu:

STARTERS & SALADS
Tamales Bay BBQ Mussels
Red & Yellow Watermelon Skewers
Bartlett Blue Cheese Stuffed Heirloom Tomatoes
Martelli Macaroni Salad
Grilled Romaine Lettuce Rolls
Cornman Farms Radish & Cucumber Salad

BREAD:
Wood-Fired Breads from the Bakehouse

ENTREES:
Pit-Smoked Local Duroc Ham (slicing station)
Coffee Spiced Pit-Smoked Heritage Turkey & Bourbon
Dry Rubbed Texas Short Ribs
Kentucky Mopped Spring Lamb
Back Strap Smoked Organic Salmon

SIDES:
Pit-Smoked New England Beans
Grilled Cornman Farms New Potatoes
Steamed Corn on the Cob
Grilled Bok Choy

DESSERTS:
Key Lime Pie from the Bakehouse
Michigan Peach Cobbler w/ vanilla gelato
Local Strawberry Shortcake w/ pound cake, short bread biscuits, whipped cream, and chocolate fudge sauce

BBQ Dinner Menu