30 metro Detroit restaurants that are gone but not forgotten

By Metro Times Staff on Fri, May 18, 2018 at 7:54 pm

Saying goodbye can be tough. Especially when it comes to some of our favorite restaurants. From Italian staples, hole-in-the-wall diners, and trendy eateries, here are some of metro Detroit's restaurants that left too soon (and for some, not soon enough.) Either way, these dining destinations forever hold a place in our hearts — and stomachs.

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Antietam
If you ask Antietam owner, there was nothing to eat in Detroit before he and Slow’s BBQ arrived. Then the city gentrified and got too cool for his tastes, so he closed shop in 2018.
Photo via Yelp, Antietam

The Soup Kitchen Saloon
The old, well-loved Rivertown blues and creole spot closed sometime in the 1990s and was destroyed by a fire not long after.
Photo via MT file

Chin Tiki
This tiki-themed supper club opened in 1967 and closed in 1980. But before its demolition in 2009, it played a cameo as a setting in the Eminem film 8 Mile.
Photo via Flickr, Joyce Pederson

Coach Insignia
The fancy restaurant at the top of the Renaissance Center closed in 2017. But a new restaurant run by a James Beard-award winning chef will open in its place.
Photo via Facebook

Twingos
This Midtown favorite in what’s now Shangri-Las was a hip dining spot in an area that didn’t have much to speak of in the early 2000s. Closed sometime around 2003.
Photo via Yelp Duke A.

Carl’s Chop House
A classic restaurant opened in 1951 by Carl Rosenfield, the business closed in 2008 and the building was demolished in 2010.
Photo via Facebook

St. CeCe’s
Thought known more as a watering hole, many culinary talents passed through its kitchen before it closed in 2016. It reopened as Lady of the House in 2017.
Photo via MT file

Under the Eagle
Is your favorite Hamtramck Polish restaurant Polonia or Polish Village? Ours was Under The Eagle but sadly it closed in 2011.
Photo via, Hamtramck Review

Local Kitchen & Bar
Ferndale’s Local got in early on the whole local food movement, but its owners recently decided to get in early on the ax-throwing craze. Closed in 2017.
Photo via Facebook

Joey's Stables
Classic eatery of the old style, established in 1933, and proudly serving surf ‘n’ turf in a well-appointed room on Jefferson across from Zug Island. Closed in 1989.
Photo via Facebook