Great fun for all! Great live music and entertainment. Great vendors selling unique items. Great…read morefood and drinks.

I remember the first time I came to Dally. I instantly fell in love with it! It's super cozy and…read morefamily oriented. If you ever wanted to feel like you belong, this is the place to be.

Had a great time at this festival. Great music on 2 separate stages. Lots of merchandise to look…read moreat. A few food trucks. Satisfactory alcohol choices. Lots of smiling faces. Plenty of dancing. Biggest downside was the 15 bucks a person to get in. I know I know , not really a bad price if you are hanging out for awhile. Probably won't keep me from going next year so I guess this is a go to place in my book.

I love it. The Irish focus on entertainment and history. With two "tents" of entertainment you…read morealways have a choice of what you wish to see, whether it be bands, Irish dancing, contests, etc. Plenty of "culture" set up all around the place and, of course, plenty of beer. The only nit? They need to get someone there who can serve some traditional Irish fare. It's a bit disappointing to go to an Irish fest and have to choose between pizza, burgers, fish and chips, etc. Where's the Irish fare? Bands are excellent, parking is free and admission is reasonable. We were there from noon to 7 PM on a Saturday and had a great time just walking and watching and listening.

I always love the street fair!!! The vendors are always so cool and unique and the food trucks that…read moreare there are always a hit! It's so nice to just walk around and experience the different artists in the community with drink in hand.

Love the DIY fair! It's an annual tradition to say goodbye to summer and welcome in fall. They have…read moresome fun and unique art stands. My daughter particularly enjoys the stuffed toys and puppets. I enjoy the atmosphere and fun crowd. The music is great and so is the food. They have one of the best funnel cake trucks with amazing fried Oreos, sooo good!!! Treat Dreams has an ice cream truck with their famous flavors. The ice cream cookies are the absolute best!!! They have an eclectic variety of food trucks that look and smell mouthwatering. But they could use more seating, it's very limited compared to the amount of people eating the goodies. I love the adult beverages available to purchase through tickets. They have a ginormous variety of beer and mixed drinks, plus some of the money goes toward different charities and good causes. It's ten tickets for $20, but this year I noticed you may purchase individual tickets. I prefer this option! Tickets are $2 a piece, so most beers cost around $6 or three tickets. I got the Griffinclaw pumpkin beer. It was amazing! Very pumpkin forward with a nice spice aftertaste. Most of the mixed drinks are between three and four tickets, cheaper than most bars. I've even seen some for two tickets. The parking can be challenging. We were able to find a good spot and only paid $3.00. But I wonder if it gets more challenging in the evening hours. I bet this a fun time at night. This is a great event when paired with the Funky Ferndale fair. I look forward to next year.

First time at the Plymouth Art in the Park. We usually come here for the ice festival in the…read morewinter, so we can have a yummy hot chocolate from Alpine Haus. It's made from real chocolate. There's a lot of vendors. Food trucks were mostly by the center park area, some random ones are down the side streets from the park. Bring a hat or umbrella. Doesn't appear the earlier rain had much impact as far as the crowds much.

We came on a Saturday and parked in the shuttle lot. The…read moreshuttle is $8/a person and was nicely air conditioned (badly needed for a hot hot day)!! The ride is about 15 min but the shuttle is comfy (it is a huge bus)! You pay at a tent and don't need a ticket. The shuttle dropped us off right at the end so we could start from the side (there are many vendors). It was right by the fire station. It was very hot walking through but we did find a market that was perfectly air conditioned to cool down in! We bought a refreshing Acai bowl at Wander Bowls Acai, a cookie from Chocolate Chipped Bakery (SO good and they give you a coupon for a free cookie at their farmington location), and a birthday card from the store Vitrine (also nicely air conditioned and has the cutest things)!! We saw the blue fountain, chalk art, music performer, the jurassic park dinosaur, etc. Overall, the vendors are great but it was a crazy hot day and so we didn't have enough energy to walk the whole thing. Loved what we did get to see and I think it is worth attending!

This last weekend was the second, of what will hopefully become the annual, BRU - Burgers, Wings…read moreand Beer Festival held at the Royal Oak Farmer's Market benefitting the Children's Leukemia Fund. The event was hosted by Bagger Dave's, Buffalo Wild Wings and Bell's Brewery and for $40 you got around 12 beer tokens and 5 food tickets to use sampling all different forms of instant gratification. Beginning at 7 pm and running until 11 on June 16th, I can only imagine what a huge success this was for CLF and the ROFM. Last year, on its first run, the event ran well but not nearly as well as this year. With a more organized 4 sided Bell's beer tent offering several brews unavailable outside of the actual brewery like Deb's Red, a Smoked Ale and a Sparkling Ale, patrons had more choices to sample and more taps to keep the lines ultra ultra short! There was plenty of bell's swag to go around and everyone got a gift bag at the end of the evening including a Bagger's pint glass and some killer Oberon posters. To top it off, our very own Yelp Ambassador, Annette, was there serving up some great Yelp swag too. Food this year was great again and provided by Bagger's and BW3's on a ticket per item basis. The food tables were on the second half of the venue so that you could just walk up and order what you liked from their menus, and hi-top tables were arranged in the center of the room to eat and mingle at. Whereas last year, servers had to carry trays while walking through the crowd, this year was so well organized that it should insure its return next year!! Live music played all night and two sets of Bell's bean bag toss were free for guests who felt like some sporting fun. Raffle tickets were sold throughout the night and the drawing was held at 10 pm to round out the festivities. All in all this was a great evening that benefitted an amazing cause and ran even better than last years event!! My only suggestion would be to add about 24 of those hi-top tables around the venue so more people had a place to stand and eat. Great Job CLF and ROFM!! Looking forward to the 2013 BRU Fest.

This is a really great festival, and the location at the Royal Oak Farmer's Market is great! It is…read morewell-organized. The food was okay - the burgers from Bagger Dave's were not hot. Also - the band was a little annoying - they played some strange (old) music that might have been better for an older crowd. A lot of the people at BRU seemed to be in their mid-20's to late-30's.

Pig and Whiskey is a great time-beers, BBQ, and great music. The festival takes place every year in…read moreFerndale in mid-July. The stage for music is located right next to WAB and beer and whiskey tents are set up in the parking lot behind WAB, The Emory and surrounding restaurants. Admission is free and you can bring your own bottled water with you. It's also a dog friendly event and lots of people walk their dogs around the fest. You purchase tickets at designated tents similar to Arts Bears and Eats. Tickets are $2 a piece. Most beers are about 3 tickets and whiskeys are between 4-7 tickets. I usually start with a sheet of tickets for $20 but you can buy as few or many tickets as you like but they are non-refundable. Food vendors for the BBQ portion were located further down, past the whiskey and beer vendors this year. Surprisingly BBQ/food vendors only accepted cash or credit this year and didn't accept tickets which was kind of annoying because last year they only took tickets and wouldn't take cash and I wish they had posted that somewhere before I had bought extra tickets. The food is good. I had BBQ ribs from Bad Brad's BBQ with a Mexican style watermelon salad with cojita cheese and cilantro which was light and refreshing. Their Pig Candy-candied bacon is delicious! There were lots off BBQ vendors with pulled pork sliders and tacos, ribs, mac and cheese, jalapeño cornbread, and Cheeto covered street corn. Picnic tables were all the way at the other end of the festival this year and it would be nice if there was seating near the food tents. Lots of great beers too from Dogfish Head, Griffin Claw, Shorts, B. Nektar and more. They have whiskey from Jack Daniels, Jameson, Old Forster, Four Roses, Woodsford Reserve, and more. Last year they had some tents that mixed craft cocktails with whiskey and bourbon. I had a Woodsford Reserve mint julep that was amazing and a pineapple upside down cake cocktail with brown sugar bourbon mixed with pineapple juice that was delicious. This year I didn't see many cocktails, just strait whiskey or bourbon or you could add a a mixer but mixers were only limited to lemonade or Faygo soda. The main reason I go every year is for the music. A friend and I love Electric Six and we attend to see them perform every year. Electric Six has closed out the festival on Sunday night for the last six or seven years. They always put on an awesome show. Last year there were torrential downpours and they had to call the festival due to rain, so lots of people got stuck with drink tickets which were non-refundable. However they didn't cancel the music and moved Electric Six's set down to The Loving Touch and it was a really great show. This year we also saw Ann Arbor band Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers who are a lot of fun to see. Verve Pipe also played on Friday night. The festival runs Friday through Sunday. It starts at 6 pm on Friday and around noon on Saturday and Sunday and goes until midnight with music ending at around 9:00 on Sunday. I always have a blast and I'll definitely be back next year.

Fun times had at the 2016 edition. First time doing it big and was finally able to catch the yearly…read moreThe Blueflowers performance. Nice to catch the show or just hear the music in the near distance. Everything was laid out well, though I didn't realize at first there was a whole another grilling section. I really enjoyed @smokeringdet's burnt ends. Their sauce was unique and addictive. Wanted to try more. Rub's ribs were just okay, but liked that they were grilling corn and buttered it well. I'm familar with Woodpile so passed them by, but they are the real deal. Rockefeller's (Jai Lee Dearing) had some great bbq going: ribs, outstanding chicken wings, sausages, grilled corn, and 1lb burgers! Union Woodshop or was it Vinsetta? had a nicely priced slider Macon Bacon sandwich that was so damn good. Lots of whiskey choices but I didn't partake. Liked the beer tent choices esp. Lagunitas. Pricey but they have good strong beer. Definitely dog friendly as there were quite a few. Seating can get dicey. Expect to communal share a table. Which can be nice brief meetings amongst strangers. And can offer insights into what others are or have tasted. Fun times. Great yearly summer event. Not too massive.

This is a fantastic event. Burgers, beer, ice cream, chocolate, corn hole, music, voting, shopping…read moreand photo booths. What's not to like? Upon entry, you get a tasting glass (giving drunk people glassware was not a great idea) beer sample tickets and voting cards. I was very thankful for the rinsing stations and proper indoor bathrooms. VIP entry was an hour earlier than general admission and thanks for that! It was very crowded an hour after main doors. When handed a flier, we were excited at the prospect of a couple sour beers and assortment of mac n cheese, fries and other sides. Unfortunately, the flier or the vendors were mistaken - no sour beers to be had, only one mac n cheese, and only two burger spots had fries. Which made the voting for best fries and best mac n cheese a bit puzzling. There were turkey burgers, Asian-fusion flavors, and traditional patties with minimal toppings. Something for every burger-lover. Our favorite came down to Mt. Chalet. The burger was cooked perfectly, minimal toppings but so flavorful. Their mac n cheese was excellent too though the only one there. I think the secret ingredient is pork. Shredded pork in the mac n cheese and fried pieces of ham on the burger, but just a tiny bit to compliment the flavor. Bfree had my vote for best desserts and gluten free items. The Guernsey ice cream was pretty rich and perfect on the little cones. There was also a chocolate company that was on point, but cannot recall their name. If you are on the fence about going - the icing on cake for this event was NO KIDS!

I had the BEST time here! Thanks so much to Annette, Chelcie and Yelp for the opportunity to…read moreattend! The burger bash was a belly busting adventure in all things burger, mac and cheese, fries, beer and cider. What is not to like about that? It was an embarrassment of riches and even the veriest glutton wouldn't have been able to sample every item. My husband and I quickly determined even the slider sizes were too much and the only whole burgers we ate were Red Crown and Lazybones Smokehouse (which were the two clear best), the rest we split in half or each just took a big bite. Lazybones, which won best overall, was the hub's fave. I quite liked it too. Pulled pork, cheese and Better Made chips on a burger? Delicious. Red Crown won my heart though, as well as winning most flavorful according to the other attendees, with the crispy pork belly, kimchee and avocado mousse. It was sooooo good. I voted it best burger. Other favorites were the Novi Chophouse burger which featured excellent bacon and paper thin long slivers of grilled onion and the burger with the coney on top of it (I cannot be sure whose this was but kudos all the same). As for mac and cheese, Onyx took the prize and it was good but I preferred the Red Crown version myself. We had quite a few misses on mac. These two were the standouts. The seasoned fries from Blackfinn were awesome, thanks so much to the woman in line behind me who let me sample some of hers, I was not tempted at all but she insisted and they were amazing. I also liked the garlic dip that accompanied the perfectly thin and crispy fries from Lucky Strike myself. The beer was fun. I am not much of a beer person myself but if you were it was right up your alley. I had a suprising maple concoction from Tommy Knockers that held my interest. I was most into cider though, which I have had before but really discovered a love for here. I liked the blueberry apple varietal (Blue Gold) from Vander Mills Cider but I fell in absolute love with Woodchuck's Belgian White. Like a marriage and kids type love. The clear winner of desserts for me and the rest of the crowd was Serendipity Cakery of Wyandotte. They had huge variety and it was seriously tasty. Cake balls? That is some triple yum stuff; good cake, excellent frosting and fun decorations. The chocolate banana and the creamsicle versions made James and I extremely happy. Desserts though were a huge disappointment because many vendors were out so quickly. Poor planning as there was no more Peteet's (I love them though and have sampled plenty before and will again), Cacao Tree or Slice of Heaven (which I was DYING to try). This was relatively early in the night too, at nine-ish. The event ended at 11. Sad. The Detroit Mini Donut people were awesome though, sweet people and fresh tasty donuts. We all know I am a doughnut snob and I really liked them. The Chez Chloe lava cake was so sinfully good, not for my husband who gets dark chocolate headaches but for me. I could have eaten it all day long. The crowd was so friendly and fun. So many people just talked to us, gave recommendations and opinions, welcomed us to seating areas, even shared some food. I mean I was not expecting that at all. Despite the lines and waits it was just peaceful and happy. Well done to the farmer's market, the organizers and the participating businesses for making it so easy and well organized. If you bought additional beverages it was reasonably priced and all, no silly gouging. They even had a smoking area so my husband did not have to leave or feel uncomfy. Overall it was just a great night. I rolled home fat and happy. We will definitely return next year! I also have a new list of local places to patronize, so more reviews to come. Win/win.

What a great time! Went there in their last night. The staff/actors/ docents were great…read more Weather was pretty crummy, but we made the best of it. Rode the horse draw carriage, and there was a musician/singer on board leading us on in carols. Went through about half the houses and exhibits. This is really a fascinating place! The carousel, which was a ball. By the time we got to wear the model T ride started, we were kind of wet and getting a bit tired. The one was that horrible, but we decided to skip it. They did not have the fireworks this night because of the rain. I'm from out of town, but that how you recommend people this area to make this part of their holiday event.

We were there on closing night. Plenty of places to park and it wasn't crazy busy. But it was 60°…read moreand raining like crazy. But we were well dressed for it was the weather and had a great time. Entered right at 6:30 and got in line for the horse drawn carriage. The woman playing music and singing Christmas carols on the ride was delightful. We walked all around and ate yummy mini donuts. They were sold out of roasted chestnuts, which was disappointing. They were having model T rides, but the line was longer than we wanted to wait in. Went through Menlo Park and several of the Edison buildings. Enjoyed seeing the Wright brothers workshop as well as their home. All of the tour guides for lack of a better word were dressed in period clothes and we're quite knowledgeable. And they were all very, very friendly and willing to answer questions. Next year, I would consider doing one of the special dinners. Pay attention to win tickets go on sale. Some of the dinner sell out fast.