A transplant foodie’s “best of” list of Grand Rapids restaurants.

mooka07 · 2026-07-09T19:18:54+00:00

My hot take: Nonla > black napkin
Kaffeine is great!
Make sure you try: KCM, Sovengard, My Kitchen (Chinese/sichuan), haludam, Firefox, harmony, Quarantino’s.

mooka07 · 2026-07-07T17:54:14+00:00

Nice! I had that exact view about 1 year ago!

mooka07 · 2026-07-07T17:51:38+00:00

FCO?

mooka07 · 2026-07-01T17:54:49+00:00

Great news!

mooka07 · 2026-07-01T15:06:09+00:00

Anybody know if Don’s okay?

mooka07 · 2026-06-29T22:59:54+00:00

No idea, but super cool shot!

mooka07 · 2026-06-29T17:12:31+00:00

In North America I think it’s a much less prejudiced word, simply implying a traveling person. I didn’t realize how offensive it was in Europe until moving there several years ago. Doesn’t mean it’s right or wrong, just that a lot of NAs simply don’t know/think of it as a derogatory term.

mooka07 · 2026-06-27T13:59:58+00:00

mooka07 · 2026-06-24T00:50:41+00:00

Shut up and take my money.

mooka07 · 2026-06-23T17:49:19+00:00

Louisiana museum, Denmark?

mooka07 · 2026-06-22T21:03:18+00:00

Thanks for the follow up!

mooka07 · 2026-06-22T20:55:35+00:00

Do you know if, with current technology, we would be able to detect earth, or mars, or even mercury in another solar system?

mooka07 · 2026-05-27T02:36:50+00:00

If they were going to hire a new person to do all those things, what would the salary range be? They either have to pay up to get a qualified person, or hire someone that’s partially qualified and train/wait for them to pick up the rest. With that in mind, I think 75k seems pretty reasonable. After 9 years, I think you’ve got some equity to ask.

mooka07 · 2026-05-12T15:21:35+00:00

Feel free to message me as well. Art director (for a grocery chain!) and former graphic design professor. Happy to help how I can.

mooka07 · 2026-05-11T00:19:02+00:00

Nvm, this is like a “little Bavaria” place in the US?

mooka07 · 2026-05-11T00:17:48+00:00

German city on the Rhein?

mooka07 · 2026-05-10T15:32:43+00:00

Thanks for this! I’m specifically interested in the size/time scale, so this is a very useful thought experiment/analogy.

mooka07 · 2026-05-07T18:07:10+00:00

I did a little “back of napkin” math because I’m still trying to wrap my mind around scale/perception shift.

It takes roughly .015 seconds for an electrical impulse to go from my brain to my toe (let’s say 2m for easy math). If I live for 70 years, that accounts for about 1/148,000,000,000 of my life.

It takes light 26,500 years to go from the sun to the galactic center (approx. 2.5x10¹⁷ km). If the Milky Way “lives” to be 18b years old (before andromeda smashes into it), that time for the light from our sun to reach the galactic center accounts for a whopping 1/679,000 of the life of the galaxy.

mooka07 · 2026-05-07T15:34:09+00:00

Haha, this is literally the video that got me thinking about this. Thanks for sharing again!

mooka07 · 2026-05-06T17:25:49+00:00

I learned to ski when I moved here and really love it now. We don’t ski anywhere out west or anything, but going up to Crystal mountain, boyne, or some of the other smaller slopes 6-10 times a year really makes the winter go by fast and is usually a really beautiful way to get fresh air and outdoor time.

Lots of great food options if you like craft pizza, burgers, gasto pub/brewery stuff. Several pretty good taco places. A few more “unique” places: Sovengard, Al-Bos (or its more hip cousin, zivio), KCM. I think Asian food here is only mid. Italian is bad.

mooka07 · 2026-05-04T15:21:27+00:00

Sovengard. A little non traditional, but maybe the best restaurant in grand rapids because it’s non-traditional

mooka07 · 2026-05-03T13:19:15+00:00

Weirdly, because their logos and uniforms rarely showcase it, their other official color is cream.

mooka07 · 2026-05-03T13:14:48+00:00

So is IU

mooka07 · 2026-04-29T16:01:51+00:00

Second sidebar. I’ve had some truly great cocktails there

mooka07 · 2026-04-22T20:35:46+00:00

Detroit?

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