Tag: Restaurant Reviews
Restaurant Review: At Anano’s in Farmington Hills
MY FORMER HOME is Los Angeles. And in Southern California, the late, great Jonathan Gold was regarded as a saint. He was a vivid...
Restaurant Review: Norm’s Diner
They say your favorite restaurant is the one that feels like home, and Norm’s Diner — bright, modern, and homey, resting on a quiet,...
Restaurant Review: Ostrea Detroit
I don't normally review restaurants two months after they open. It’s just not good etiquette. The food, the bar, the service — every restaurant...
Restaurant Review: Standby in Detroit
As Detroit's restaurant scene grows, so does its risk of exploitation.
Opportunistic outsiders in the form of real estate developers and restaurant groups cast a...
Restaurant Report: Highlands
For the better part of the past 48 years, the top two floors of Michigan’s tallest building have been a place to eat, drink,...
Restaurant Report: Sana’a Yemeni Cuisine
Finding a good mechanic — like finding a good hairstylist — is crucial to city living. You need someone dependable, honest, and unequivocally skilled...
Enjoy Dinner Fit for a Queen at Vinyl Tasting
Occasionally, a meal is so good you nod along to each bite, grooving to the pulsing rhythm of different flavors and textures. Maybe you...
Restaurant Review: Puma
Upon walking into Puma for the first time, my thought was that the building has sort of a bombed-out-then-refurbished look to it — the...
Feel Forever Young at Noori Pocha
"I feel like I'm 21," my friend Liana says directly into my ear. Her voice is drowned out by the pulsating electro-pop dance tune...
Restaurant Review: Adelina
A restaurant can be a lot of different things at once.
Adelina is a new downtown destination under the capacious umbrella of celebrity chef Fabio...
Restaurant Report: Roman Village
How does one face the daunting task of owning and operating five different restaurants? Well, it helps to have a big family.
The Rugieros have...
Restaurant Review: Hiroki San
"Approachable," "laid-back," and “unpretentious” are words that many a writer (myself included) seems to be using a lot lately to describe many new, upscale...
Restaurant Report: Coeur
Roy Choi. Cat Cora. Kwame Onwuachi. Some of the most famous chefs in the country have studied at the Culinary Institute of America in...
Restaurant Review: Alpino in Corktown
No matter how hungry I am when I go to Alpino, I always leave absolutely stuffed. This past winter particularly, the restaurant had a...
Justice Kyra Harris Bolden & Other Top Hour Detroit Stories
Kyra Harris Bolden Talks About Her First Year on Michigan’s Supreme Court
Hour Detroit caught up with Michigan Supreme Court Justice Kyra Harris Bolden to...
Restaurant Review: Beppé in Royal Oak
Sometimes you just want bar food and a beer. Other times you want to treat your significant other to date night, from craft cocktails...
Restaurant Report: Le Suprême, The Apparatus Room, and Ash—Bar
Le Suprême: Parisian eats in the heart of Detroit
We’d all love a trip to Paris sometime soon, but we’re Americans — we work a...
Restaurant Review: Zana
In Albanian mythology and folklore, the zana is a mountain fairy. Stepping into Zana in Birmingham, you feel like you have been whisked away...
Restaurant Report: Venue in Ann Arbor
At 25,000 square feet with essentially four restaurants and a bar under one roof, not to mention a podcast studio, a gourmet market, coworking...
Restaurant Report: SavannahBlue and Willow
As a kid, J.D. Simpson would peer through the spindles of his family home’s staircase, looking down at the adults eating, drinking, and being...
