ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN

In suburban Detroit vicinity, LILY’S SEAFOOD & BREWHOUSE,first visited August ‘04, featured beautiful carved wood bar, sundry fish tanks, and patio dining. Calamari, blackened catfish, and exquisite mussels (with Chardonnay sauce and blue-cheddar cheese) are recommended alongside sharp-hopped red-fruited spice-tingled Reggie’s French River Red, cereal-grained orange-kissed perfume-hopped Harvest Ale, and buttery grapefruit-peeled lemon rind-embittered Maddie’s Best Bitter.

Washed-out banana-clove-bubblegum-influenced lemon-soured Whitefish Bat Wheat and diacetyl yellow-fruited softie Lily’s Light Pilsner fared fair. After dinner, sedate wood-burnt oatmeal-induced black cherry-like Strange Stout proved elegant.

During August ’06 sojourn, tested diacetyl cereal-grained woody-hopped bark-tinged citric-depleted Sven & Ollies IPA and buttery rye-pumpernickel-fronted lemon seed-y perfume-hopped Rutgers Rye.

www.lilysseafood.com

If you like this, try:

1. GREAT ADIRONDACK STEAK & SEAFOOD
2. BACK ROAD BREWERY / DUNELAND BREWHOUSE
3. DELAFIELD BREWHOUSE
4. JOHN HARVARD’S BREWHOUSE – MANCHESTER
5. GRIZZLY PEAK BREWPUB
6. AMERICA’S BREWPUB
7. C.H. EVANS BREWING
8. SLY FOX BREWHOUSE – PHOENIXVILLE
9. REDWOOD LODGE MESQUITE GRILL & BREWPUB
10. MC KENZIE’S BREWHOUSE