Restaurants keep coming and going…a lot of my favorite ones have closed down and I miss ‘em!

Some establishments were closed due to the pandemic, some due to Michigan’s statewide smoking ban, others for different reasons entirely.

I used to dig goin’ to the Big Boy just north of Frandor…and the Imperial Gardens in Okemos… and the Traveler’s Club, Whaling Station, Mountain Jack’s, Backstage, Firehouse, White Castle, and others.

Other favorites of local residents include:
Jim’s Tiffany
Emil’s
Pour House
Don’s Truck Stop
Sambo’s
Bill Knapp’s
Sweetwater Wharf (later Jambalaya’s)

House of Ing closed for good on March 31, 2016.

Below is a list featuring a slew of Lansing's favorite restaurants that are no more...feel free to correct me or mention your own. There are many, many, many more local favorite restaurants that don't exist anymore and this is only a partial list:

BAGGER DAVE'S
BEST STEAK HOUSE
BILBO’S
BONNIE’S PLACE
BRUNCH HOUSE
BURGER CHEF
CANTINA EASTWOOD
CHESAPEAKE CRAB HOUSE
COPS CAFE' AND BAKERY
DEMARCO’S
DINE’S RESTAURANT
DON’S WINDMILL
ESPRESSO ROYALE CAFE'
FAMOUS DAVE'S
FINLEY'S (W. Saginaw)
FIRESIDE GRILL
FOO YING CAFÉ
FOR CREPE'S SAKE
FRANDOR DELI
FRONT PAGE
FRONTIER RESTAURANT
GOOD SLICE PIZZA
HERSHEY’S STEAK & SEAFOOD
HOBIE’S DOWNTOWN
HOT 'N NOW
KENNY ROGERS ROASTERS
MIJO'S
PAN TREE
PARTHENON RESTAURANT
PISTACHIO’S
PRETZEL BELL
SCHENSUL’S
SCOFE’S
SMALL PLANET
SNEEKER’S
TAPS 25
TARPOFF’S
TONY SACCO'S
USA CAFÉ
VERNADINE’S
YORK STEAK HOUSE

Where else? Feel free to add to the list!

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