Drinks

There's a soft open, and there’s a whisper-soft open. The latter is the approach taken by The Aladdin Sane, the Japanese cocktail bar on...

Am I in a fever dream, or is this just how we operate in public now?You’ve asked yourself this as many times as I...

Prohibition has long been dead, but the speakeasy-style bars of the Prohibition Era are making a comeback. Recently, metro Detroit has seen the revival...

Stroh's. Gobble. Tivoli. Zynda. E & B. Once the powerhouses of Detroit beer, many of them have faded from memory now. The brewing industry...

"Detroit's living room" That’s what Roula David hopes people will find when they check out her combination bar, art gallery, coffee shop, music space,...

It only took one lecture to change Eli Green’s life trajectory. The Troy native had been living in New York for several years and...

"No one tells you what’s in the glass. You have to look at the color. Where’s it from? What’s the terroir? What was the...

One silver lining that came from the pandemic is a thing called social districts, a concept in which a portion of a city’s downtown...

Ten years ago, Detroit was clawing its way out of the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Jack White made his homecoming debut at...

Whether or not he was the originator of the phrase “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” Sigmund Freud was a connoisseur of fine...

Not too long ago, Very Serious Bartenders — pardon me, Mixologists — spent a lot of time convincing the public that their profession required...

Detroit has a long history of tiki bars.Apparently, on dull winter days, nothing seemed better to Detroiters in the 1950s and ’60s than the...

Mai Tiki, Ferndale This recent addition to the Detroit tiki bar scene “do the tiki genre proper,” Don Peterka, owner of Detroit Tiki Co., says....

Once upon a time, sports bars didn’t exist. Certainly people gathered at 19th-century bars, and inevitably sports were discussed, sometimes hotly. Today, the modern...

The home opener is an unofficial holiday in Detroit — here are the best spots to pregame and after-party

The city's cocktail renaissance has by now blossomed into an internationally recognized scene. Detroit's trademark ingenuity and drive shine through in it's bars, from...

It's that time of year again, when all of the U.S. dons green and tries out atrocious Irish accents. Fortunately, metro Detroit has plenty of...

Green outfits, green beer, and more

Saksey’s Cocktail Lounge, an intimate cocktail bar, is slated to open to the public in the spring. The lounge offers many unique features, including...

It is a significant understatement to say that I am not a ski person. The first time my parents tried to take me skiing,...