Ask anyone you know and at any point in their life there has to be that place that makes you say... "Oh, your visiting (insert city)? When you're there you have to go to (insert random establishment)!"
As many of you know, I did my undergraduate work at Western Michigan Unviversity in Kalamazoo, MI. Kalamazoo is a great college town and is home to many little shops, Bell's Brewery, The Den, and (until Monday) Maggie's. Maggie's was a little whole in the wall breakfast joint just west of WMU's campus. Their claim to fame: The Breakfast Stew. This dish was a cure all for anything - a mixture of hashbrowns, eggs, saugage, cheese, oinions, and peppers - the stew got many WMU students through their weekends.
Maggie's happend to be right around the corner from the house I lived in my last two years of undergrad. Often, on a Saturday morning, we would wake up and roll into Maggie's still in our sweats. The place itself was an old house and maybe had 15 tables in total - so often times there was a long wait, but it was worth it.
This past Monday, via Facebook as well as my phone many fellow Bronco Alumni informed me of the closing. No one really knows why it happened and someone on Facebook had posted they called and Maggie's would not explain why.
Now when I venture back to Kalamazoo for homecoming, things just won't be the same. There will be something missing. Farewell, Maggie's.
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