While traveling through Michigan recently, we were searching for an alternative to the usual hotel stay when we happened upon the Stuart Avenue Inn, situated right off of route 43. The inn is located in the Stuart Historic Neighborhood, an interesting area with some impressive examples of 100 year old Victorian homes and is directly across from the Kalamazoo College campus. The inn actually has a large enough room to accommodate families. Each room has a private bathroom as well as a small kitchenette, which is unusual for most B&B’s. The new innkeepers, Dana and Chris, were very welcoming and their enthusiasm about upgrades for both the guest quarters and gardens was evident with work already in progress. We had our choice of eating breakfast in either the dining area or outdoors in the garden. Our breakfast was delicious, with a selection of homemade breads along with locally grown fresh fruit. The ricotta pancakes and mushroom frittata were both outstanding dishes. Dana... more