Drinks

A veteran- and Black-owned brewery, Roar Brewing Co. is planning its soft opening this Sunday, March 23, in Midtown. But it won’t just be...

Green outfits, green beer, and more

"I heard a pow!" Just a big pow!”That’s what Gerald Stevens believes to have been an electrical fire sparking in the old reach-in coolers...

Watching talented bartenders who’ve worked together for a long time is like watching an intricate dance: They know the steps, and they know exactly...

Detroit's musical heritage is unparalleled. Motown, electronic dance music, R&B, gospel, and more: They all have a home here in Detroit. But the city’s...

In September 2014, abartender friend called and asked me if I’d like to check out something new in Eastern Market: a craft distillery. In...

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...