Detroit Free Press: Church halts liquor license

Your food is delicious, Marta Parilli’s customers would tell her, reports the Detroit Free Press. But a drink would make the meal even better. Can we see the wine list? Well, no. Parilli is the owner, manager and cook at Marta’s Fine Foods in Oshtemo, just outside Kalamazoo. She opened her small European-style deli just before Memorial Day last year in the little strip mall near Ninth Street and Stadium. 

 

Parilli began the standard process to obtain a liquor license, applying for one of the two available through the township board. Trustees expressed their support for the idea and scheduled a routine vote. But a nearby church notified the board that it opposed the restaurant’s request. And to the township board’s surprise, the Michigan Liquor Control Commission said that was enough to deny quick approval of the license. The matter went back to the township board which granted its approval now must return to the Liquor Control Commission for final review.
 

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Source: Detroit Free Press