“I am going to miss bringing something lovely to this town,” said Karen Piehutkoski, the co-owner of Ann Arbor’s Kilwin’s.
The Kilwin’s storefront on Liberty Street will be shutting down by the end of this year. The old timey brick and mortar location’s charm that has defined the chocolatier’s indelible presence in downtown Ann Arbor for nearly half of a century comes from the old techniques, the earnest quality-over-quantity little touches and the quirky fact that you have to go out on the sidewalk to go from the ice cream side to the chocolate side.
By the time the door shuts for the last time at the end December, it will have been serving ice cream and chocolate to Ann Arborites, University of Michigan students, their families and visitors for 42 years. Piehutkoski has been considering closing for around three years…