ANN ARBOR, MI — I was born in Maryland and spent 12 years in Oregon — two states where fresh seafood is less a luxury and more a lifestyle. Whether it was crab feasts on the Chesapeake or cedar-planked salmon in the Pacific Northwest, those coastal flavors shaped my palate early.
Seafood isn’t just my favorite food; it’s part of who I am.
So when my family moved to landlocked Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2019 — a city known more for its football Saturdays than fish markets — I was skeptical. Could I find a place that measured up to the tide-high expectations I had built living on both coasts? I expected compromises, not comparisons…