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Located in the heart of downtown Traverse City overlooking West Grand Traverse Bay, amical has been offering eclectic European cuisine to our dining patrons since 1994. Order from creative and revolving menus, fresh selections prepared in our open kitchen and served in the cozy dining room or on our vibrant street-side patio. amical is Traverse City's downtown bistro!

11/03/2026

Nine-Spice Lamb | Stuart Brioza, September 24, 2002

One of four entrées on this week’s Tapawingo menu, each rebuilt from the original recipe by our own Tom Kelly and fellow Tapawingo alumni.

Tribute to Tapawingo runs through Sunday, November 8. Reserve on Resy or call (231) 941-8888.

11/03/2026

Chilled Red Beet Soup | Stuart Brioza, August 3, 2001

The oldest recipe on this week’s menu, from a late-summer Tapawingo menu a quarter century ago.

Tribute to Tapawingo runs through Sunday, November 8. Reserve on Resy or call (231) 941-8888.

11/02/2026

Spice Cured Salmon | Stuart Brioza, August 25, 2001

Stuart ran Tapawingo’s kitchen in the early 2000s, before he and Nicole Krasinski left for San Francisco and opened State Bird Provisions. This appetizer comes straight off one of his menus from that time.

Tribute to Tapawingo runs through Sunday, November 8. Reserve on Resy or call (231) 941-8888.

11/02/2026

Starting tonight, Tapawingo’s menu is back for one week!

Our own Tom Kelly worked at Tapawingo as pastry chef and sous chef, and he kept every menu and recipe from his time there. With help from fellow Tapawingo alumni, we’ve rebuilt a menu from Chef Pete Peterson’s kitchen. Every dish is credited to the chef who cooked it and the date it appeared on a Tapawingo menu.

Tribute to Tapawingo runs tonight through Sunday, November 8. Reserve on Resy or call (231) 941-8888.

11/01/2026

This November, every Amical gift card gives back to a local school.

When you buy a gift card, just choose the school you’d like to support, and 20% of your purchase goes to them. Swipe for the full list.

Gift cards are available in person at 229 E. Front Street, online or by phone at (231) 941-8888 through November 30.

10/30/2026

Tapawingo closed in 2009, but Chef Pete Peterson didn’t stop. He moved to Traverse City, cooked through a small catering business, led food and w**e tours around the world and taught at the Great Lakes Culinary Institute at Northwestern Michigan College.

Pete passed in February. At a dinner held in his memory, Tapawingo alumni were trading stories, and our own Tom Kelly, who worked there as pastry chef and sous chef, mentioned the menus and recipes he’d kept. The others had kept things too. Tom had an idea, and when he brought it to us for the Cookbook Dinner Series, it was an easy yes.

Tom reached back out to his Tapawingo network, and with their help we’ve rebuilt a menu from the original recipes. Tribute to Tapawingo is our thank-you to Pete.

November 2–8, with an encore tasting menu November 13–15. Reserve on Resy or call (231) 941-8888.

10/27/2026

Chef Pete Peterson’s biggest legacy is the people he trained. Many of them went on to run kitchens of their own, and some stayed in northern Michigan to help build the food scene we have now.

Two of them, Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski, ran Tapawingo’s kitchen as executive chef and pastry chef before opening State Bird Provisions in San Francisco. It won the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant in 2013, and Stuart and Nicole won Best Chef: West in 2015.

Amical has its own link to that story. Our original owner, Dave Denison, knew Pete. When we chose the State Bird Provisions cookbook for our 2018–2019 series, Pete connected us with Stuart and Nicole, and Chef Ben Hoxie staged in their kitchen before cooking that menu here in May 2019, ten years after Tapawingo closed.

Tribute to Tapawingo runs November 2–8, with an encore tasting menu November 13–15. Reserve on Resy or call (231) 941-8888.

10/24/2026

Stuart Brioza, who ran Tapawingo’s kitchen in the early 2000s, has called it “the restaurant at the end of the world.”

For 25 years, Tapawingo cooked from the farms, orchards and waters of northern Michigan, long before “farm to table” was trending. The New York Times called it “the region’s epicenter, gastronomically speaking,” and Chef Pete Peterson earned multiple James Beard Award nominations for Best Chef: Midwest.

Pete was one of the people who laid the foundation for how this region eats. If you’ve eaten well anywhere up here in the last forty years, you’ve probably felt his influence without knowing his name.

Tribute to Tapawingo runs November 2–8, with an encore tasting menu November 13–15. Reserve on Resy or call (231) 941-8888.

10/23/2026

When it rains, it pours! The flu bug has taken hold of our team, so we’ve decided to close Friday, October 23 through Monday, October 26 to give everyone time to recover and to keep it from spreading to any more of our staff or guests.

We’ll be back Tuesday, October 27. Thank you for your patience & understanding.

If you had a reservation during this time, we’ve already reached out by voicemail, text message, or email if we didn’t have a phone number on file.

10/22/2026

Amical is closed tonight, Thursday, October 22nd, while we take care of some repairs.

We’ll be back tomorrow, Friday, October 23rd. Thank you for your patience, and we look forward to having you back at our table.

Address

229 E Front Street
Traverse City, MI
49684

Opening Hours

Monday	4pm - 8:30pm
Tuesday	4pm - 8:30pm
Wednesday	4pm - 8:30pm
Thursday	4pm - 8:30pm
Friday	4pm - 9:30pm
Saturday	4pm - 9:30pm
Sunday	4pm - 8:30pm

Website

http://www.amical.com/

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