Wow! Finally had the chance to stop in to Blacklist to grab some breakfast and it did not…read moredisappoint. We arrived right at open on Saturday morning as they seem to sell out pretty quickly. I would recommend pre-ordering the week leading up if you can't get there early. We went with the BEC on a cheddar everything, spicy boy on a cheddar jalapeño bagel and a hash brown on the side - YUM. The bacon egg and cheese was our winner, but each item was delicious. The everything cheddar might be my new favorite bagel in Grand Rapids! The spicy boy did pack a punch and did live up to the name, with a lingering heat. Those who love spice would be big fans. Set in such a cute area and the interior is a very cute, inviting space. Service was wonderful and inviting as well. Can't wait to be back to try more bagels!

I was finally able to walk here this Saturday morning to try Blacklist Bagels! It's run out of Chef…read moreShack, which is a small storefront that rents out to local chefs/businesses. They are only open on Saturdays 8-1pm, and I used to live farther away and it would've been difficult to make the trip to Eastown, but currently I'm walking distance to Lake Dr. It's a small store with about 3 tables inside, so mostly for takeout. I was expecting a line at 9am, but there were only a few people ahead of me! They do open advanced online ordering, which may help with the foot traffic. I ordered 3 bagels - everything, asiago, and za'tar ($8 for 3). They were out of sesame, and I got the last za'tar bagel. I wanted to make my own breakfast sandwich at home, so I didn't try their sandwiches or cream cheese this time. I also ordered a vanilla oatmilk latte from Toro Coffee (~$6), which had a pop-up stand inside as well. The bagels almost look "overbaked/overcooked," but they really just have that nice crispy exterior and fluffy inside that bagels are supposed to have! Being from the East Coast, I've complained a lot about there not being good bagels in Grand Rapids - but this is easily the best spot I've tried! I will come here again to pick up bagels for a special occasion!

Just an all around solid brewery. We went early on a Saturday, and snagged a spot at the bar. Beers…read morewere good- but the show stopper was the food! Great chips and guac, husband liked his chicken street tacos but my burrito? 10/10. Just a well executed shrimp burrito with great salsas. All of their birria items looked amazing- will try when we come back. Friendly service, and a nice vibe to it. Romos pro tip: if getting the cerveza- add a splash of their michelada mix!

Our first trip to City Built was on Cinco de Mayo. It was busy with fun Mexican music…read more The menu is listed on code on the table which made it difficult to ask questions. The serving staff was very busy due to the holiday. We started with a shrimp appetizer which was delicious! Two had the taco platter with a choice of steak or chicken and rice and beans. Very generous portions!! The burria taco platter was amazing. The beef is indescribable! Two of us shared. It comes with a beef dipping broth. The steamed shrimp plate was so flavorful. The next time we come back we hope to delve more into the menu items. Love the place

Worst Hertz ever. I booked this car three weeks ago. I prepaid. I got a notification on my lock…read morescreen saying my car was in a stall. I walk out, no car. Counter guy tells me the app is wrong, there aren't any cars currently and I should take a seat in the waiting area. It's going to be 30+ minutes. Are you kidding me rn?

Mediocre experience here. You must go to the desk to pick up keys even if you're a Hertz Gold…read moremember. When returning, you need to park the vehicle and then bring the keys inside to the desk. The cars were filthy and appeared to not have been cleaned from the previous renter as I found garbage and water bottles inside the car. Hope they can do better as Hertz is usually pretty nice.

Great place to live love the lady in the office Laurie is a wonderful woman never had any issues or…read moreproblems in the year that I have live there would recommend them to anyone

Review: Do Not Rent Here I strongly advise against renting…read morehere. The billing system is consistently inaccurate, and the regional management does not properly train property managers or respond to customer service requests. I was overcharged for the first four months of my lease. In just a year and a half, the property has gone through four different managers, which causes constant confusion. As someone on a fixed income, I prefer to pay rent early and in smaller, half-month increments to stay ahead--but the online system won't allow this flexibility. Management also removes reviews or comments they don't like, which makes it difficult for residents to share honest feedback. In my experience, this community is not veteran-friendly, does not support cultural diversity, and often speaks down to anyone who is not a cis male. Overall, I would not recommend this property to anyone seeking a respectful, stable, and transparent living environment.

I was pleasantly surprised in the morning when my van had not been broken into overnight. Not a…read moregood neighborhood. After looking at our room and finding it in disarray and with a broken AC, we requested a different room. The second room had a great AC, new. The second room was still in disarray. The lamps were crooked on the wall, and the pillows were gross. I included pics of the first room, with its slashed blanket and duvet cover. In the second room our beds had no blankets at all, just a sheet and an empty duvet cover. At first we thought they had forgotten to finish making the beds, but no. Shower heads are oddly low. About 5'. I'm 5'6" and I kept hitting my head on the thing while arching back to wash my hair. Pretty funny. Also the whole place reeked of cigarettes and the cheap nasty towels smelled like they'd been washed using old cigarette butts as detergent. Check out the mirrored staircase in the lobby. The decor was interesting throughout. Looks like it was once the fancy hotel. But the nice hotel of 1980 is the shabby 1.5 star motel of today. We ended up at this place because we booked online. Spent 2 nights there. The elevator is a death trap. We used it once and opted for the stairs thereafter. And yes of course, the stairwell smelled strongly of urine :)

We were on a motorcycle trip and booked this hotel 1 month before our stay. Every hotel was booked,…read moreand we made the mistake of not checking YELP. When we arrived, the lobby was full of people trying to check in. The lobby is dated, but looks nice. Don't be fooled, because the hotel is nothing close to nice. After waiting for a good 20 minutes, the Russian manager was finally able to help us check in. However, despite booking many weeks ago, he was unable to find our reservation. He looked through a very large stack of papers, only to be finally helped by another employee. She was able to come up with our information. A computer system would help! Following payment and signing papers we headed to our rooms. To bad we didn't notice the sign on the wall behind the counter that read "If you are unhappy with your room, please let us know within 15 minutes of your stay for a full refund ". Walking to our room the odor of stale marijuana permitted the hallways. The garbage on the floors, the filth on the walls and the dated "decor" should have caused us to leave. We had booked three rooms. One of the rooms had a hand drawn arrow on it letting us know to pull the handle upwards in order to enter. That's because the door had just been pried open obviously with a screwdriver. That's comforting. The rooms had not been cleaned. The soaps were open, dirty towels left in the room, cigarette holes in the comforters, filth everywhere, even blood on the walls. Do yourself a favor and check out my photos and don't stay here!

The Amway Grand hosted a conference I was staying at and we were fortunate enough to be booked…read moreinto the Tower building. I had a real decent King room with a nice view of the Grand River. The service is always very nice. The accommodations are also consistently decent. I always enjoy my time at the Amway Grand Thank you very much for a wonderful conference experience, Looking forward to the next time!

I love staying at a huge hotel, because that usually means it has a decent fitness center. Amway…read moreGrand Plaza does indeed have a decent fitness center! There are several treadmills, a few ellipticals (my favorite), a whole area dedicated to free weights, and lots of other equipment. The fitness center is a rectangular glass box that faces both the pickleball courts and the pool, so you get an interesting view no matter where you're working out. Yes, this hotel has pickleball courts. It's $35 per hour to book a court. When we were there, there were Pickleball Players with a capital P tearing up the courts, so I'm thinking this isn't a place to bring your toddler to throw balls. These pickleball courts are for people who want to really play. Our hotel room was just fine. It was a little small for a two-queen-bed room, and the window faced the back of another building. But it was clean, and the shower worked, and the beds were comfy. One thing that I love is that housekeeping will automatically refresh your room, and you don't even have to beg. The hotel is huge, and there were a couple of big conferences going on while we were there, so there were lots of people milling about, but it never felt overly crowded. The first floor of the hotel feels like an indoor mall: there's a coffee shop, two restaurants, a wine shop and a gift shop. If you go up to the 27th floor, you'll find MDRD, a modern Spanish restaurant with a rooftop bar that overlooks the Grand River. This is not the place to take kids -- this feels like an adult-only space. They also have a dress code: smart casual. The adults in our party enjoyed a couple of drinks (wine and beer and bourbon) at the bar, and it was cool to just sit and watch the traffic on the Grand River bridge crawl by like ants. Parking is valet or a parking garage that's around the corner. I try to avoid valet when I can, for personal reasons, so we did self-park, which was no big deal.

I had broken down on a busy intersection in Lansing. We called PJ's Towing and got a driver named…read moreShawn. He was fantastic, very professional and we enjoyed speaking with him on the ride back. If you ever need a tow, this company is great and will take good care of you. He was even able to give a ride home since I didn't have my truck. Extra fee, but worth it! I hope i don't need to use them too often but I will definitely use this company again if needed. They are prompt with answering the phone and getting a driver out to you. Fantastic experience, minus my truck.... We didn't use our insurance and the rate was way lower than I thought a tow would be. Services

True definition of service with a smile!…read more I was recently involved in a car accident, and there was a lot of confusion on the scene as traffic was busy and it occurred right in front of a high-traffic business on a main street. After speaking with the police it was unclear if I needed to call for a tow, or if he would. I called my insurance company and they advised to let the police handle it. I approached the officer once more and he provided me with phone numbers to a couple of different companies. After calling the first company, I wasn't optimistic about how the aftermath of this accident was going to play out. Next I called PJ's and from the moment they answered the phone, I felt relief and assured that everything would be ok. The woman that answered my call was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. She was also quick in gathering info and making decisions. She collected my payment info and assured me that I would be charged only once the car was picked up. About 5minutes after leaving the vehicle to seek medical care, the tow truck driver called and told me that they would not be charging me because car was totaled. He took the necessary info from me and said he would take care of the rest. I was elated to avoid the unexpected $100 expense the week of Christmas! I am thankful for PJ's for their service, care, and honesty!

Never again. My entire house had to be rewired. Old nob and tube taken out.l, to be replaced by…read morecurrent 3 prong grounded wiring. One week after " completing" the job, I had electrical failures upstairs. They came back corrected their mistake. Second week during a renovation project the builder discovered the old nob and tube wiring they said they removed was still intact and ACTIVE! Whitney came back out a second time and took care of the issue. Third week I went into the basement and discovered they had taken out all the light socket and electrical switches and didn't replace any of them. Five in total. In addition the " boss" adamantly said to take care of each of those three problems it would cost extra. Thank goodness I had a contract. emEnd if discussion. My son, had a very similar issue not knowing it was Whitney that I hired. Whitney sent out a plumber to fix a Clogged drain. My son used a plumbers snake and a few other things to remedy the problem clog to no avail. when the plumber from Whitney came, my son showed him where the clog was. Plumber said you need a snake to unclog it and I didn't bring one. Charged my son $250. My son said your website says free estimates. Plumber replied, estimates are free. This is a diagnostic fee. Good grief. I highly do not recommend this company

Al customer service!!!!!!!!! hired them to install a water softener and filtration system and…read moreinstall and vanity in our bathroom. We have had three separate issues from the that they have done and cannot get them back out here. AI AI when you have that a plumbing company has done that is now leaking on your brand new carpet and walls but completely remodeled house and you cannot get a hold of anybody. This is not a company you work with and clearly they don't really know what they're doing anyways. do not use!!!!!!!!!

My buddy's car got towed unfortunately due to him parking in a non-guest designated car. The…read moreprocess was tedious, we had to pay at one location and pick the car up at another. I was helping him through the process and it took us a solid 2 hours to get things done. However, I'd like to give credit to all the people we met throughout our experience. I'd like to mention the lady at the service desk for the ability to deal with frustrated costumers which comes due the nature of the work they do. She was helpful and calm throughout our conversation. I'd also like to mention Justin who was handling unlocking the Lot's gate for us. He was very professional and friendly and quite frankly a great person to talk to. He was able to relate to the frustration position we come from. I'd give Justin 5 stars for his great costumer service. Overall 2.5 stars Service 5 - Mainly because of Justin (Towing Supervisor) Process 1 stars Cost 1 stars

WORST experience and inefficient operations I've EVER SEEN!!!!! If I could give 0 stars I would! We…read morego to a location we're told to so that we can pick up our plate. We're then told to go to a SEPARATE location 20 min away, we get there CANNOT figure out what to do. Call the towing and told we need to wait 20 min to get let in. We sat for over an hour in the car waiting, called multiple times and told we could not have an eta, and all we needed was our plate off of our total vehicle!! This experience was absolutely insane and I will NEVER use this towing service again.