B is for The Bird – Mt Pleasant
Downtown Mt Pleasant is so cute! Brick buildings, sidewalk dining, cute shops. The Bird is as old as time, it was there when I graduated CMU 30 years ago, and when my parents went to CMU 60 years ago.
It’s less restaurant, more bar. And it’s dark, no windows. It smelled like grease. Twenty years ago it would have also smelled like stale cigarettes and there would be peanut shells on the floor. I only went there a couple times during my college years. We brought our Chippewa Alex with us, I don’t think he had ever been there.
We were seated quickly, it was virtually empty with just one other group sitting at the bar. I asked about the mini tacos, but the server quickly warned me against them as they were basically freezer to microwave. Instead I got the fried chicken sandwich and it wasn’t much better. Ray got a burger and fries and said it was good. It is a bar, not a fine dining establishment.
We were so happy to see Alex though. School for his final semester was about to start, and he was starting to make his plans for that and his future. He has been getting in to making pottery, doing watercolor and crochet. He’s always been an artsy kid but had taken a somewhat of a break during the busy college years. He shared with us his plan to do an art fair during the first weekend of school. He had tons of finished crochet and pottery projects to sell, and wanted also to create little drawings, caricatures for customers. It has always been a dream of Ray’s and mine to have a booth like that, so of course it got us dreaming as well. We were happy to talk with Alex, help him brainstorm for what he would need and help him obtain those things.
All in all, it was a fun day. We did also have dinner in Mt. Pleasant later with my dad and his partner Dana, but it wasn’t a C restaurant so you don’t get to hear about it. lol.
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