Sage’s Grocery promises European and Asian goods and prepared food, as well as community connection, when it opens this winter at the corner of Main and Madison streets in Ann Arbor.
“I am just really looking forward to the face-to-face interaction with customers and my employees, and caring for people through food,” says owner Brian Lee. “I think these sorts of businesses make a neighborhood special. They make a neighborhood the kind of place you want to live in.”
Before foraying into the food industry Lee was an industrial designer in Chicago, where his extended family resides. His wife, Allison, has relatives in Ann Arbor, and last September they moved from California to Michigan to be closer to relatives. They also have two sons: Oliver, 1; and Sage, 3…