Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Planthropie to host tasting takeover at Detroit's Willis Show Bar
Posted By Jerilyn Jordan on Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 4:23 PM
Willis Show Bar is the new bar on the block — the upscale cabaret and cocktail bar has been recently revived and restored, continuing its legacy as a hotspot jazz club. For the Plantharopie Tasting Takeover event, the plant-based couture small plates catering company will offer up a five-course...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Vegetarian restaurant The Clean Plate forced to leave its location, launches GoFundMe
Posted By Tom Perkins on Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 9:57 AM
The future is unclear for The Clean Plate, a Shelby Township vegeterian restaurant that built up a customer base by being one of the area's only options for healthy, plant-based cuisine. Owner Amber Poupore — who also owns Royal Oak's Cacao Tree, consulted for GreenSpace, does vegan cooking demos...
Monday, August 20, 2018
Hamtramck's Aladdin Sweets and Cafe catches fire
Posted By Tom Perkins on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:57 PM
Hamtramck Bangladeshi restaurant Aladdin Sweets and Cafe caught on fire this afternoon. The fire started around 5:20 p.m., and firefighters appeared to have it contained to a vent running up the restaurant's exterior north wall by 5:40 p.m. A commander on the scene told Metro Times that an investigation...
Brix wine bar to close, will re-open in 2019 in New Center
Posted By Tom Perkins on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 1:28 PM
Brix Wine & Charcuterie Boutique's West Village location will close at the end of the month and re-open in Detroit's New Center area sometime in 2019. Owner Mikiah Westbrooks made the announcement Sunday evening on Facebook. Opening Brix was a real dream of mine and to be able to...
Supino owner is planning a pizza concept in New Center
Posted By Tom Perkins on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:24 PM
The owner of one of Detroit's favorite — and busiest — pizzerias will soon send pies out of a new restaurant in New Center. Supino Pizzeria owner Dave Mancini tells Metro Times that he purchased a building on the same block on which Selden Standard's owners and Baobab Fare are...
Friday, August 17, 2018
Holy Moly donuts opens second location, new sandwich shop planned for West Village
Posted By Tom Perkins on Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 2:18 PM
The Holy Moly Donut Shop — partly famous for excellent doughnuts, partly known for executing a stroke of genius by opening next door to a pot shop on Eight Mile Road — has its second location up and running. It made its name with flavors like Devil's Food Cake...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Kaku Sushi & Poke opens a Birmingham location
Posted By Tom Perkins on Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:03 AM
A new Kaku Sushi & Poke location is up and rolling in downtown Birmingham. It's the restaurant's second location, the first of which opened around a year ago on West Long Lake Road in Blomfield Hills. Owner Kaku Usui — who previously rolled at spots like Sharaku, Oslo, and...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
James Beard winning chef's Japanese-inspired restaurant opens this week in Birmingham
Posted By Tom Perkins on Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:12 PM
James Beard award-winning chef, Michael Schlow, is opening his new "Japanese-inspired" restaurant in Birmingham this week. In 1999, Schlow won a James Beard Award for "Best Chef in the Northeast" with his Boston restaurant, Radius, while also collecting many more accolades through the years. He's partnering with local restaurateurs...
Monday, August 13, 2018
Detroit Black Restaurant Week announces its lineup
Posted By Tom Perkins on Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 1:56 PM
The second annual Detroit Black Restaurant Week kicks off later this month and highlights metro Detroit's many wonderful black-owned restaurants. BlackMetroEats.com's Kwaku Osei-Bonsu and Lauren Bates organized the event, which runs from Aug. 20 through Aug. 26, and is designed "to begin a tradition in and around the city...
Detroit's first Trinidadian-Caribbean restaurant opens this week
Posted By Tom Perkins on Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:23 PM
Some of the menu items on Norma G's menu aren't totally unfamiliar to Detroit. Callalloo, chicken pelau, jerk chicken, curry goat — these are plates you'll find in some of the city's other Caribbean eateries. Still, what Norma G's owner and chef Lester Gouvia is doing and preparing is...
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