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10 Detroit Foods To Devour On Eat What You Want Day

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 long, long time. We’re here to help you with some amazing Detroit food suggestions. Even if it’s not exactly Eat What You Want Day, you can enjoy these Detroit area specialties. Some on our list are old favorites, and some are newer additio...

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SNEAK PEEK: Inside Chartreuse Before Their May 19 Opening Date

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 Chartreuse, the bright green herbal liquor with centuries worth of staying power. Owner Sandy Levine, whom established his reputation with popular craft cocktail bar The Oakland in F...

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One Of Detroit’s Favorite Brews Will Be Shared With Colorado, Too

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, Dirty Blonde and Hop-A-Peel IPA. They will be available in both packaged and draft options, as well as some limited seasonal draft items. “We are so excited to bring the spirit of Detroit bee...

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Dearborn's First Microbrewery Opening Soon

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 to open their 2,450 square feet microbrewery late May/early June at 21930 Michigan Ave. People will be able to watch brewer John Rucinski through a glass partition as they drink their al...

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Short Orders: Free Cappuccino At Avalon Bakery, Grand Cirque Set To Open This Fall, And More

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 Bakery in Midtown celebrates its new Heart and Soul coffee blend by offering free cappuccino and espresso now until Friday during store hours. The blend was made through their partnership with Great Lake...

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Mae's In Pleasant Ridge Sold, To Be Closed For Brief Time For Renovations

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’s Cap’N Crunch chicken tenders, will hopefully appreciate the Xhomaqi’s unique style. The Double EE’s Mac and Cheese omelet has quite the following. According to current owner Jessica Lundgren, M...

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5 Places To Try If You've Never Done Detroit Restaurant Week

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 these fine establishments to choose from? We chose the five participating restaurants to put at the front of list for making reservations during this 10-day food rush from May 1-10, with an eye...

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Bon Bon Bon Opens First Chocolate Showroom in Chrysler House Downtown

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 Hamtramack center still opens every Saturday. Owner and chocolatier of Bon Bon Bon Alexandra Clark started with a desire for 200 sq. ft. of downtown retail space. Her team has transformed it...

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QUICK TIP: Luxury One-Night Dinner at The Reserve in Birmingham

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 and C.A.Y.A. Smokehouse Grill in Wolverine Lake, will each prepare an appetizer and course paired with a fine wine. The dinner is tomorrow (April 29) with cocktails starting at 6 p.m. and dinner lasting from 7-10 p.m. Dishes worth mentionin...

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Tomo's Coffee On A Bicycle Cart Will Be Coming To A Farmers Market Near You Thanks To Kickstarter Success

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 transport a cold brew keg and tap system to sell ready-to-drink 16-ounce cups of coffee for $3 to $4. Business partners Kara Eggebrecht, Wesley Eggebrecht and Alex Mackenzie were able to reach their goal...

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Rock City Eatery Rocks Out The Flavors

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 of a Detroit winter, the Eatery still managed to fill seats on a Tuesday.   Nikita Sanches started selling his crazy flavored pies (as Rock City Pies) at Ferndale’...

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WindsorEats Provides Great Tasting Reasons to Cross the Border

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 shape the culture of each area. A blog called WindsorEats.com, which has been run for over a decade by brother and sister duo Pina and Adriano Ciotoli, tracks and hi...

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For Japanese Cuisine, Kitchen Hanzo Is The Real Deal

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 designed to transport diners to an izakaya, a Japanese after-work establishment that serves food to accompany drinks. The menus decorating the walls are hand-written in Japanese by the sous...

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Dine Like You're Gatsby At Antietam

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 and plays big jazzy melodies inside a restored Art Deco building where you will find subtle hints to Detroit’s past. The building still has the original ornate tin ceiling and rose compass...

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Pop-Up Restaurant NOODL Is Worth The Carbs

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 over a four month period in Detroit. I visited the most recent experience, “Ragù,” at POP, located on the top floor of Detroit’s Checker Bar, where Steven paired four flavors of rigatoni wi...

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A-Mae's-ing: A Pleasant Brunch In Pleasant Ridge

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 the world of brunch. Their hearty menu satisfies early morning cravings with six types of eggs benedict and five types of breakfast skillets. The skillets use redskin potatoes roasted in olive oil, sea salt, garlic and rosemary...

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Dilla's Delights Are Detroit's Doughnuts

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 Wayne State University, doughnuts are found at Alley Taco, part convenience store and Mexican food stand, and Goodwell’s Market, the local organic grocery store where live music and chess games are played for thos...

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City Girls Soap (And Their Goats) Find Success And A Home In Pontiac

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 Amy and John McIntire, which uses goats’ milk to create high quality skincare products that are sold locally. Three exasperatingly curious and adorably affectionate Oberhasli goats graze on land ow...