Joshua E.'s Profile

Just there for drinks on a Friday night.

Service was very poor. Out of bitters for my old fashioned.

Only giving 2 stars because the atmosphere was nice, otherwise it'd be 1.

UPDATE: Unfortunately The Café at Café du Nord's Wifi connection is not great.  I'm seeing major packet loss... which is probably not so bad for web browsing, but bad for an ssh connection.
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New favorite café in my neighbor hood.  Why?

Because I frequently am looking for a café I can work at during the day.  My requirements (not necessarily in order): 1.) wifi, 2.) power, 3.) good coffee, 4.) (optional) some good food

This place has all four.  Sweet.

Great book store.  Lots of selection, and next to Ben & Jerry's.  Buy a book, get an ice cream, eat and read on the picnic tables outside.  Yeah.

I spent many nights of my youth eating ice cream here.  Yum.

Nice bookstore, Annie's, connected to the scoop shop too.

Great bar.

Pool tables, darts, beers.  Yum.

Sunshine is a great natural food store that's been in the Rutland area for over 30 years!

Great produce, lots of bulk foods, friendly and knowledgeable staff

This place is good.

Not spectatular, but solid.  Good food, reasonable prices.

Not sure it'll drag me away from the other Indian options in Ann Arbor, but definitely worth giving a try.

I love this cafe.

I love bagels.  with eggs on them.  and cheese.

Yum.

Mediocre service, suspect further problems, and expensive.

For a long time my car's AC hasn't worked.  I had some longer drives coming up this summer, so I decided to get it fixed.

I asked Carlos, at Carlos Exclusive Auto Services, my favorite mechanic in the city for a recommendation, because sadly he doesn't do AC work.  He pointed me to Alouis which I hoped would offer the same pleasant experience I always get deal with Carlos.  Unfortunately, my experience with Alouis has been far from pleasent.

It started with me getting up bright and early and bringing my car in.  But I  didn't get up early enough, and as Alouis doesn't take appointments, got there after they had filled up for the day and they told me to come back the next day.  Ugh.

The next day I arrive 10 minutes before they open and get my car in, no problem.  They call me later saying they found a leak in the condenser, and basically the only way to fix it is to replace it, which will cost me $760.  It feels like a descent chunk of change, but I tell them to go ahead as it'll be worth it to have the AC in tip-top shape again.

So I get the car back, everything's great, take a trip and a couple longer drives, and the AC is keeping me cool.  But then a few weeks after I was in the shop there's a pop, and a hiss, and green liquid under my car, and the AC doesn't work!?!??!

I go back to Alouis, they take a look.  This time is the compressor.  I always thought the compressor and the condenser were the same thing with different names, but now I have clearly learned they are not.  The compressors seal had broken, and it'll cost $700+ to replace the compressor this time.  Arg!

How do I know they didn't screw something up with the condenser that caused this compressor problem?

I didn't have them fix it.  I intend to go get a second opinion, and try to find out how likely it is Alouis caused this second problem.

I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt, but from the other reviews on here, and my general impression of them, I don't trust them.

Think twice before you take you car into these guys.

Looks really cool.  Opens tonight.  I May go tonight... if I do, there will be a real review here soon.