Today is “Eat What You Want Day,” and that means a unique opportunity (as it’s a holiday, the Internet said so) to take a break from your diets, give in to your gastronomic urges and have something that you maybe normally wouldn’t – or have desired to for a...
Detroit is adding to its reputation as the new “It” city with the addition of Chartreuse Kitchen and Cocktails, where the food rivals the surroundings in show-stopping pieces. Major players in the Detroit food and art world worked together to develop what promises to be an extraordinary experience inspired by...
Atwater Brewery, founded in 1997 has been one of Michigan’s fastest growing craft breweries. The biggest brewery in Detroit has partnered with Elite Brands to distribute their beer throughout the entire state of Colorado. Those in the Rocky Mountain State are now able to enjoy their Vanilla Java Porter,...
Most pedestrians walking on the clean cut sidewalks along Michigan Avenue in downtown Dearborn will miss Dearborn Brewing Company’s unfinished, unassuming storefront. Big things are brewing for Dearborn’s first microbrewery and we are not even talking about the 300 gallons that can be produced a day. They plan...
This is our new column Short Orders – it’s the essential Detroit food snippets from around the web to make it through the week. Grand Cirque Brasserie will open in the David Whitney Building this fall. The menu is classical French with dishes like lamb cassoulet and quiche lorraine. Avalon...
The Woodward corridor neighborhood favorite Mae’s (which we’ve written before about here) has been sold. The new owners are Valter and Elda Xhomaqi, who own Birmingham brunch spot The Whistle Stop and Double EE Restaurant in Ferndale. Those who will miss the creativity behind such hits as Mae’...
Detroit Restaurant Week is the glorious bonanza where you can eat a three course meal for $30 in expensive Detroit restaurants where manners matter. Although all of the restaurants are interesting and definitely worth it, what about the Restaurant Week newbie? Where should you start when there’s all of...
Wildly popular Hamtramack-based chocolate company Bon Bon Bon sells out of bon bons so quickly they have opened their first showroom on the iconic Chrysler House first floor, all before their first year anniversary as a new small business. Their Detroit retail space is open everyday except Sunday and their...
If you have high end tastes, this might be your style. This is a night of fine dining and fine wine at the Seasoned Chefs Dinner held at The Reserve on 325 S. Eton St. in Birmingham. Seven chefs, some coming from as far as Evans Street Station in Tecumseh...
At first blush, coffee on bicycle cart sounds a little crazy (and tasty), but it’s coming to Metro Detroit thanks to a popular online crowdfunding campaign. Tomo Coffee Company has surpassed their $7000 Kickstarter goal by more than $1,000 for a custom-made bike cart. The unique bike will...
Rock City has grunge rock appeal with its mismatched furniture, dim lighting, and unfinished walls decorated with pop culture pictures. Each table has mason jars of stainless steel utensils, chopsticks, clipboards for the menus, and a child-sized blackboard with the specials written in neon chalk. Even during the sludgy gloom...
Windsor is the coolest city Detroiters barely know. Just like Detroit, Windsor has neighborhoods with brilliant individual personalities, from refined Walkerville, the town that whiskey built, to Via Italia, where Nonas still gossip in Italian on the street. Whichever neighborhood you explore, there are tasty eats at each stop which...
Stepping into Kitchen Hanzo is a sharp contrast from the tony suburbs of West Bloomfield. The long dining counter forming the perimeter of the open kitchen sets the stage for the meal to come. Sizzles, cooking aromas and cooks efficiently prepping dinner orders play out like theater against a backdrop...
Eating at an excellent restaurant should feel like a few hours at an amazing destination. Eating at Antietam, one of the latest additions to Detroit’s fine dining scene, feels like escaping to Paris in 1925, when Fitzgerald and Hemingway first met in the Dingo Bar. Antietam serves French-influenced dishes...
Calling all Detroit pasta-holics: NOODL is a local pop-up restaurant that’s worth the carbs. Created by Chef Steven Reaume, NOODL is focused on homemade pasta and sauces with inventive twists. This winter, Reaume is hosting “4X Pop-Up Series,” focusing on four pastas paired with four sauces at four events...
Mae’s is the Metro Detroit insider’s breakfast joint. Feel it as soon as the doors open to a sunlit sea of turquoise chairs. It is homey, but the funky salt and pepper shakers, chalkboard menus and the vintage posters are clear signs that reality has been replaced by...
For all the Detroit foodies hungry for a food adventure, try as many Dilla’s Delights doughnut flavors as you can in a single day. These doughnuts are a common denominator that tie together some of Detroit’s neighborhoods. In Midtown, home to the erudite Detroit Institute of Arts and...
Drive down Orchard Lake Road toward Pontiac. Watch the strip malls recede into clean and refreshing nature. Park by the Goldner Walsh greenhouse and walk to the stone amphitheater. Beyond the amphitheater is a barn housing goats belonging to City Girls Soap, a family farm and small business owned by...
