BATTLE CREEK, MI – You don’t go to a casino for the food.

Or do you?

As it happens, the only AAA four-diamond restaurant in Southwest Michigan is part of FireKeepers Casino Hotel near Battle Creek, called Nibi.

The fine-dining restaurant is one of five four-diamond restaurants in Michigan, a designation reserved for restaurants with top-notch food, service and ambiance offering “a culinary experience to savor and enjoy,” according to AAA.

Nibi first earned the honor in 2023 and has since made AAA’s 2024 and 2025 lists of four-diamond restaurants, said Mason Rice, the head chef since 2022.

Nibi first opened in 2009 as part of the FireKeepers Casino, he said. The restaurant moved to the hotel side of the complex in 2021.

Restaurants have to ask AAA to rate them and Nibi had been do

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