
The daily says the highlight of this space is its glass-enclosed, outdoor "house," which will be used as its main dining room and that retracts to let in the open sky. The 314-seat restaurant, going into One Detroit Center at Woodward and Congress, will feature a whiskey lounge, a seafood raw bar, open kitchen, a fire pit, surrounded by lounge seating and pear-shaped European Hornbeam trees in planters.
"We wanted to create a really awesome urban landscape," restaurateur Jeremy Sasson told the Free Press's Sylvia Rector.
The restaurant will open for lunch, dinner and brunch from the start, a departure from other establishments, which have staggered their meal services in stages. In addition to the sprawling dining space, Townhouse Detroit will feature a U-shaped bar that seats about two dozen, the Freep reported.