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The Wurst Bar in Ypsilanti is creative brats and burgers and craft beer and whiskey to go with them, and after seeing so many customers drive quite a distance for the fun-generating, taste-bud-tantalizing, community-engaging establishment, owners Jesse Kranyak and Jim Seba have decided to open a second location in Livonia.
The Wurst Bar Livonia is expected to open its second gastropub this fall at 28121 Plymouth Road in the former Penalty Box. When it opens it will likely be a draw for its metro Detroit fans who can't get to Ypsi as often as they'd like. And just like The Wurst Bar Ypsi, which opened in January 2011, The Wurst Bar Livonia will wave its flag of devotion to locally sourced foods. There will be one menu difference: the addition of adult milkshakes.
The new location in the more staid suburb of Livonia will also be a change in feel from the Ypsi location with its small, eclectic downtown bar across from Eastern Michigan University. It pulls in a mix of college students, hipsters and locals who come for Wurst's specialties and 24 regularly rotating taps. The spirit of The Wurst Bar's operators with their food challenges, tap takeovers and out of the box events and nightly specials will carry over to Livonia.
The Livonia location is expected to be the first of at least three other metro Detroit Wurst Bars, if all goes well for the gastropub that has been in the running for top burger in metro Detroit numerous times.
Source: Jesse Kranyak, co-owner, The Wurst Bar
Writer: Kim North Shine
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