South U. Pizza

Tiny Oasis changes to pizza, sub shop.

by Sally Mitani

posted 1/27/2010

Nizar El Awar came to Ann Arbor twenty-five years ago "to visit my brother, who graduated from U-M. I guess I'm still visiting," he smiles. Shortly after he got here he opened a tiny toll-booth-sized sandwich shop on South U called Oasis. Now he owns four businesses, and his original Oasis has just been repurposed as South U. Pizza--flanked by his two much larger businesses, Rendez Vous Cafe and Oasis Grill (he also owns Smoka Hookah across the street).

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