Restaurants & Food

Italian halibut in ‘crazy water’ is swimming in flavor.

It shares the ground floor of the new Westin Book Cadillac with Michael Symon’s high-powered Roast, offering a casual but still-dramatic setting that combines a hint of the building’s vintage in the black-painted, structural-steel columns and exposed ceiling, which contrast nicely with contemporary furnishings.

A salad with a good mix of the season’s bounty

Lori and Brian Burke’s woodsy haven for wine and wine-compatible dishes has a charmingly unpretentious attitude, a creative menu of small plates, appetizer pizzas, salads, and cheese selections, and an extensive list of wines by the glass, the flight, or the bottle.

Their stylish menus are enticing enough to attract a loyal clientele of discriminating diners, but no matter how expert they are, restaurant people like to take a break from their own kitchens for a taste of someone else's cooking

Celebrity Chef Michael Symon’s signature restaurant on the street level of the Westin Book Cadillac is a terrific addition to downtown’s dining options

In 2004, when Rick Halberg’s Northville restaurant, Emily’s, marked its 10th anniversary, chef/proprietor Halberg took his 14-member staff out for a celebratory dinner.

Like a director putting together a repertory theater ensemble, Brian Polcyn staffs the kitchen of the Forest Grill with people who are talented enough to take on a variety of roles and fill them seamlessly. They switch positions regularly, moving from station to station, learning to be proficient with the grill, the clay oven, the sauté pans, the salads, and pastries, in the time-tested fashion of the classic European kitchen.

Crawfish pie is a yummy salute to Fat Tuesday.

This low-lit, L-shaped space in Papa Joe’s Plaza is done up in sophisticated style with large, enveloping booths and granite-topped tables, with great attention to detail paid in every aspect

Many inexpensive wines have lost their distinctive characteristics, but some stand apart from the crowd.

Their stylish menus are enticing enough to attract a loyal clientele of discriminating diners, but no matter how expert they are, restaurant people like to take a break from their own kitchens for a taste of someone else's cooking

Downtown’s Madison Theatre was a destination for many years, and now the building is active again with the opening of a contemporary Italian restaurant.

Chef Luis Garza returns to the cuisine of his native land at a sleek new Mexican spot in Novi.

Godaiko’s soothing décor and pleasing Japanese cuisine offer a break from turbulent times.

Inviting varieties of bakery-shop confections say ‘be mine’ to valentines of all ages

With its fresh approach, Mercury Coffee Bar perks up Michigan Avenue.

It’s not bad being the next-door neighbor of the DIA, and that’s where this Asian restaurant is located — in the Park Shelton, the very building where Diego Rivera lived while working on his murals.

Spinning off the success of their Ferndale original, husband-and-wife proprietors Thom and Regan Bloom have taken the next step.