Raise Your Spirits
This year, the hottest gifts are decidedly practical, yet far from dull.
Iridescence
Sashimi Wrap. With ponzu dipping sauce.
American Harvest
Pan-Roasted Shrimp with Lobster Sauce. Crisp potato-truffle chips, potato purée, and frizzled leeks.
Eateries Wake Up to Breakfast
The enduring appeal of eggs and bacon is prompting more metro Detroit restaurants to add morning service to their menus.
Sweet on Dessert
These metro Detroit pastry chefs take the cake when it comes to creating confections that serve as memorable finales.
Big Rock Chophouse
Grilled ostrich, spaetzle, arugula salad, and blueberry reduction.
A Cook’s Tour
Guided by Rina Tonon, owner of Café Cortina, we take a culinary excursion through the Italian section in Windsor.
Appetite for Travel: White Dog Café
Philly’s White Dog Café has a collar on fresh food.
Gone Fishing
Whitefish and ratatouille make a delicious duo at Old Stone Bar & Grill.
Salvatore Scaloppini and Ocean Prime
Larry Bongiovanni’s appealing trattorias are scattered around town, but the Grosse Pointe Woods outpost seems to have caught the imagination of the neighborhood and Cameron Mitchell certainly has the knack of creating crowd-pleasing restaurants, and his newest in a free-standing building on the golden corner of Big Beaver Road and Coolidge.
Forest Grill
Brian Polcyn’s long-anticipated Birmingham restaurant is a hit.
Tracy Parlangeli and Frank Grippi
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.
Upper Crust
Pizza in Italy inspired Dave Mancini to aim for the top at his Supino Pizzeria, located in Eastern Market.
Going Global
El Barzon’s Mexican and Italian menu is the best of both worlds.
Taking Stock
Much the way we’re drawn to the ocean, something about soup appeals to our very core.
White On!
Fresher, crisper, and more distinctive white wines have no reason to take a back seat to reds anymore.
Jonmarx
The pretty little village of Oxford has its first upscale restaurant.
Norm LePage and Eve Aronoff
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.
Batter’s Up
Detroit has several French connections, and now it has another — a delightfully unexpected little crêperie in downtown Detroit.
Vinsetta Grill and The Bar
Ron Rea has just applied his décor skills to this bar and grill on the Woodward strip, a classic neighborhood spot with booths and tables in a two-room setting that has a Frank Lloyd Wright feeling with its geometric lamps and burnished wood...