Mikette - Ann Arbor

One of our favorite places, but sad to say the new menu leaves a little to wish.

Great food and service. It was noisy and difficult for conversation. That’s my main issue.

We have previously been hesitant to dine at Mikette’s because we were waited on by the same, pretty rude, server multiple times. This time we were lucky. We had the most wonderful server, who made sure we were well taken care of. He even came after us out to the parking lot with a pair of readers he thought to be ours, which they weren’t! How thoughtful and sweet! thumbs up for Mikette this time:

How do you change from a French Bistro to “Mediterranean Flare”. A terrible idea. The whole experience has changed and not the reason we fell in love with the restaurant. No oysters? No Kale Caesar? I hated Kale until I had that salad and still dream of that salad. Very disappointing. Wish you well but we won’t be back.

We decided to meet some friends in Ann Arbor for dinner at this restaurant. I was pleased to find how easy the restaurant was to get to and it had free parking. The inside of the restaurant was very nice. I liked how there was even artwork on the ceilings. The wait staff was very pleasant as well. I was kind of disappointed as being a vegetarian, although they were vegetarian options, much of the vegetarian food is fried in the same fryer as the shrimp and other meats. I think it is important for a restaurant that has vegetarian options to realize that people do not always eat fish, or may have a fish allergy. This limited options. I was also kind of shocked that for a Friday night, which typically is a busy night for people to go out for dinner they ran out of the one vegetarian skewer, the mushroom and onion kebab. This meant, that my main meal would be a salad We ordered three different spreads with bread, the cheese fondue salad and apricot gelato. The cheese fondue was amazing! Definitely worth to have. I was underwhelmed by the spreads, although the pepper spread was very good. The bread is grilled nicely and delicious. The beet spread with feta cheese lacked flavour to my liking. I also found the white bean hummus wasn't as garlicky as I would like it. The apricot gelato was very underwhelming as it did not have a robust flavour that you'd expect with gelatos. I would say it was more like an ice cream The flavours of all the food are mediocre at best and not as flavourful as full as I would expect Mediterranean food to be. Also, some of the appetizers were definitely oversalted. The drinks are good, not overly overpriced. Worth to try but I don't think we'd be back.