YpsiTasty grub crawl highlights Ypsi restaurants who source locally
The grub crawl includes numerous restaurants and a stop at Ypsi's farmers market, so participants can meet the farmers who provide some of the food they'll be eating.
This Tuesday evening the A2Y Regional Chamber and Growing Hope will use the fourth annual YpsiTasty grub crawl to highlight businesses that use local farmers to source their ingredients.
Katie Jones, director of marketing and events for the A2Y Chamber, says the chamber had been doing grub crawls in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti for several years when, in 2014, Growing Hope approached the chamber asking to do an Ypsi-specific grub crawl with some “local Ypsi flair.”
“We decided to figure out how to do one in Ypsi and have the participating restaurateurs focus their items on locally-sourced ingredients,” Jones says.
To further that mission, the Ypsi Food Co-op and Ypsilanti’s Tuesday farmers market will be included as stops on this year’s YpsiTasty event.
“It’s important that people know they can stop in and meet the farmers that provide some of the ingredients that have gone into the taste options they will experience later that night,” Jones says of the farmers market.
Jones says she’s glad to see that Ypsi’s food scene has grown since 2011, when she first started going to grub crawls.
“Back in 2011, we had all the old regular restaurants downtown, but since then we’ve highlighted Depot Town and businesses on Cross and River streets and further down Michigan Avenue,” Jones says. “This year, we have a good mix of the old trusty restaurants like Haab’s but also newer ones like Ma Lou’s and the Ypsi Alehouse.”
This year’s complete list of grub crawl destinations includes:
Encuentro Latino (at Ypsilanti Farmers Market until 7 p.m.)
Tickets cost $25, and participants should arrive at their first destination between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. After receiving a ticket, participants can visit each location on the grub crawl once until 9 p.m. More information and registration is available at the A2Y Chamber’s website.
Sarah Rigg is a freelance writer and editor in Ypsilanti Township. You may reach her at sarahrigg1@gmail.com.
Photos courtesy of the A2Y Regional Chamber.
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