O'Toole's of Novi on Novi Road down the road from Twelve Oaks Mall
Our tour of Michigan continued today as we made our way East to Novi. When we woke up, the choices were Ann Arbor or Novi. I chose Novi. I shouldn’t be allowed to pick things.
Let me back up and explain a little. The goal today was to find a new shirt for J. She had something from H & M that she really liked and wanted to go there again. The closest H & M stores are Novi and Ann Arbor. She talked about Zingerman’s many times this week. I should have just took the hint. Instead, I wanted to go someplace new. Things were fine until we got five miles from our exit. MDOT decided to START construction on a Saturday two weeks before Christmas. We sat in traffic for 40 minutes….20 of those were at a complete stop. Crews were painting lines. It was ridiculous. That just set the day off on a bad note.
After finally making it to our exit, we took a right on to Novi Road and headed away from the mall and big commercial area. About a mile down the road, we came up a little bar set back quite a ways. It’s not what you would expect in such a highly commercialized area.
When walked in around two o’clock on a Saturday afternoon. There were a few people at the bar watching basketball, but the dining room was mostly empty. Around the bar, there are some pub tables. On the other side of the room, there are some booths and regular four tops. I chose the pub table hoping we’d be close enough to the bar that the waitress would be on top of things. Again, I was mistaken. Read the rest of this entry »
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