Name: GRAND RAPIDS PLAYS - Spring Edition
Start: 2027-05-02
End: 2027-05-02

Welcome to Uptown – Grand Rapids' premier destination for local shopping, dining, exploring, and more. While here you'll enjoy discovering four thriving businesses districts (East Hills, East Fulton, Wealthy Street, and Eastown); nearly 400 small and independently owned boutiques, restaurants, galleries, pubs, and specialty shops; plus cozy historic neighborhoods, our famous brick-laid streets, and more. Uptown has endless opportunities to surprise and delight. Come on UP!

Uptown Grand Rapids

The Omelette Shoppe on Michigan Street is a popular breakfast and brunch restaurant in Grand Rapids, known for fresh, scratch-made meals and high-quality ingredients. Serving omelettes, cinnamon rolls, waffles, pancakes, sausage gravy and soups, this location is a go-to spot for breakfast in Grand Rapids. Using local dairy, eggs, and produce whenever possible, The Omelette Shoppe also serves 100% Arabica coffee and local organic tea. Guests are welcome to join us for lunch, featuring the same fresh, wholesome approach.

Omelette Shoppe - Grand Rapids NE

The Palio, our namesake, is a celebrated Italian horserace that runs through Siena, Italy twice each year and is the inspiration for our robust food and spirits. Palio is not just a restaurant, it’s a way of life! Palio is bold, vibrant, and embodies the spirit of The Palio di Siena horse race. It is full of life, emotions and energy. Our menu is also bold, vibrant and full of character with a profusion of flavors in our chef-inspired cuisine. Palio features authentic Tuscan-style cuisine that includes large pizzas made from our industrial gas fired stone pizza oven, bolognese, carbonara, lasagna, and many other re-invented classics prepared with freshly cut herbs from Palio’s own in-house herb garden. The wine and beverage list includes craft beer, unique hand-crafted cocktails and extensive wine and grappa lists.

Palio Ristorante

Voted in the top 5 pizza places in Michigan by Mlive, artfully crafted cocktails, artisanal fresh food, and outstanding unique and delicious beers brewed by us with love and gratitude.

Harmony Brewing Company - Eastown

Beijing Kitchen offers an extensive menu of Hunan, Szechuan and Cantonese cuisines. Large portions and economical portions for dining in or taking out.

Beijing Kitchen Restaurant

We opened our current Grand Rapids location in 2004. We were the first established pizzeria in the Heritage Hill district. In choosing our location we saw a community need for a pizzeria, or a common meeting area for local folks, business professionals and college students, a place where one could gather for a quick meal or a reflective lunch.  
  
Over the years as our business grew, our customers began asking for items and making special requests which incorporated, fresh ingredients and we began using local butchers, and vendors to stay close to the community. During the first few years were flexible enough to recognize that need, but were limited in our response to the many requests we received due to a franchise commitment. In 2009 with the support of our family, friends, and community we choose to rename our store Grand Rapids Pizza and Delivery (GRPD), and the response from everyone was humbling, flattering and gratifying.  
  
Our ability to listen to our customer’s ideas and where practical and profitable, to incorporate them into the development of our business has had a definite impact on our growth. We began with 12 sandwich offerings and now we have 25, we started with 5 specialty pizzas and now offer 19. Our menu has swelled with customer input.  
  
We have also made a few celebrity friends in our culinary adventure. We have served food to the Rockettes, Bob Seger’s road crew, Kenny Chesney and Company , and countless other entertainers. We have garnered awards for Best Pizza several years in a row from the readers of On the Town Magazine. We hope that you will also come to appreciate the fresh tastes that have brought us so much response from the public in a short number of years.

Heritage Hill Pizza

Located in Grand Rapids, Bagel Beanery is a locally loved bagel and coffee shop serving some of the best breakfast options in the area. Known for fresh bagels, expertly brewed coffee, and gourmet lattes, Bagel Beanery also offers fresh deli sandwiches and satisfying lunch options. Whether you’re stopping in for breakfast, grabbing coffee on the go through the drive thru, or ordering catering for a group, Bagel Beanery is a go-to breakfast and bagel shop in Grand Rapids.

Bagel Beanery - Grand Rapids NE

The Great Escape Room is a real-life Room Escape game. The objective is to escape from a locked room by finding clues and solving puzzles. It's a hybrid of a scavenger hunt and a puzzle game.  
  
You and your team of up to 10 will actually be locked in a room! You will have 60 minutes to try to escape. Find clues and solve puzzles to plot your Great Escape and open the door!  
  
Locked in a room with no way out, you must search for hidden compartments, secret passageways, and locks that can only be opened by your imagination. The trial is timed and teamwork is essential. Success, failure and bonding are inevitable - escape is not! When the hour is up you will only be guaranteed laughter, a sense of accomplishment, a new respect for your teammates, and, of course, a group photo. This is an experience that will be remembered for a lifetime - assuming you get out!

The Great Escape Room

Join us for an elegant, classic Afternoon Tea fine-dining experience.

High Tea GR

We're an epicenter for entertainment and fine dining with a casual feel. We offer signature drinks, food and drink specials, as well as banquet and VIP services to elevate the general sports bar appeal. Karaoke, College Night, Comedy Night, and much more!

Eastown Sports Bar

We are an economic generator through sports tourism for Greater Grand Rapids and Kent County in the West Michigan area.

We own and operate an award winning baseball/softball complex; the Meijer Sports Complex [www.MeijerSportsComplex.com](https://www.MeijerSportsComplex.com) featuring eight fields, including a championship field that seats 1,000.

Our signature event, the Meijer State Games of Michigan (Olympic-style sporting event), draws 10,000 athletes through 60+ sports in its Winter and Summer Games.  We work with many of our local sports clubs and organizations to host various regional and national tournaments.

Why Grand Rapids? We have:
•	12,000 + hotel rooms (2,500 downtown)
•	234,000 square foot downtown convention center (fits 40 volleyball courts)
•	12,000 seat Van Andel Arena
•	5 facilities that feature 4+ courts and multiple grass or turf fields
•	Grant program for new events
•	and more!

West Michigan Sports Commission

FREE intentional play with pkay experts that includes hands on, drumming and drum giveaway, circus arts, nature play, self portraits, free icecream truck, break dancing, yoga and much more.

🎪 Circus arts with Grand Rapids Circus Project  
🥁 Drum circles and giveaway with Josh Dunigan  
🧘‍♀️ Yoga with Full Bloom Children's Yoga and Mindfulness  
🎨 Play therapy based strategies with THE PLAYGROUNDgr  
💃 Breakdancing with Teknique Street Dance Academy  
🌳 Nature Play with TreeSchool  
🎲 Games with Arbor Circle  
🪨 Rock painting with THE PLAYGROUNDgr  
🍦 FREE icecream with a local icecream truck  
🤗Slime Experience with MooZoo Slime Shop  
🥕 FREE fruits and veggies with YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids Veggie Van

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