Under the Radar Michigan — Season 1, Episode 5: "Shut Your Pie Hole" - Traverse City, Port Austin

Episode synopsis

Traverse City, Port Austin: Traverse City: Where High Class Spirits Meet a Small-Town Vibe Host Tom Daldin ventures to beautiful Traverse City, located at the base of Traverse Bay in northeastern lower Michigan. It’s a city that boasts a great downtown area that is filled with wonderful restaurants and is known for its exceptional spirits—specifically, vodka. It’s a little known fact that Traverse City produces the top 6 best vodkas in the world. To investigate, Tom visits the Grand Traverse Distillery, which produces these high-class spirits. One visit is all it takes to see why it has been the proud winner of numerous blind-tasting events and how it has developed into a local institution, simultaneously elevating the status of Michigan products the world-over. Traverse City is also home to an already iconic Michigan product: the cherry.

About Under the Radar Michigan

Explore the best of Michigan - from restaurants and museums to cool businesses and neighborhoods - and discover its unique people, places, and things.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1"Take Me to the Pilot" - Kalamazoo, Detroit, Royal Oak
• E2"Piece of Cake, er Strudel" - Grand Rapids, Cadillac, Port Huron
• E3"My Guitar is Worth $12.50" - Detroit, Lansing, Battle Creek
• E4“Does it or Does it NOT?” - Marquette, Alpena
• E6"Never Leave a Man Behind" - Sault Ste. Marie, Cheboygan
• E7"Good Enough for Bo" - Munising, Ann Arbor
• E8"A Tale of Two Tawas" - Tawas, Monroe
• E9"Light the Town!" - Boyne City, Rochester
• E10"Farewell to Arms" - Detroit, Petoskey
• E11"Mike... You Still With Us?" - Hamtramck, Frankenmuth
• E12"One Block South of the Blinking Light" - Houghton Lake, Marquette
• E13"Swamp Rabbit" - Lansing, Wyandotte