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Rickie Cousino

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Ugly Mug Café serves customers with devotion

Ugly Mug Café, located on Cross Street, offers some of the best coffee around. Ugly Mug was among the first to introduce third wave specialty coffee, the move to make coffee more of a high-quality food product akin to wine or chocolate. The scientific theory and culinary execution is used to make what they call a developed, sophisticated and complex cup of coffee. To them, it is just not coffee but an art form to be proud of.

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Hungry? Sidetrack satisfies

Sidetrack Bar and Grill, located at 56 E. Cross St. in Ypsilanti, has been rated as having the best happy hour in Washtenaw County on AnnArbor.com, rated in the top 20 of GQ magazine in 2005 as “The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die” and has been referred to as “the best of the best” by Gayle King, best friend of Oprah Winfrey.

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