The dining scene in Detroit is brimming with Motown with delicious tastes, smells, sights, and sounds for visitors and residents to take in. Take a huge appetite since you’ll desire to savour all the food you can find from the simplest local dishes such as coney dogs and slices of Detroit-style pizza, to gourmet dishes, international cuisines and a myriad of other delicious meals within.
Selden Standard
Near adjacent to Wayne State University campus, Selden Standard sets the table for elegant and casual breakfasts, lunches, and dinners with a relaxed ambience. Customers return for the shared small plates that are served with an expertly vetted assortment of craft beer, wines, spirits, as well as creative cocktails to be enjoyed at any time of the day. With meat, veggie cheese, and fish-centric options on the menu, each one focusing on local ingredients, there’s a dish that will please everyone at your gathering.
Dime Store
Get up and head to this easy-to-love Downtown brunch spot to ward the morning hunger pangs. Enjoy hot pork belly benedict with spice crisp potato hash that’s filled with duck confit, various breakfast omelettes, hearty sandwiches as well as mac and cheese, topped with delicious additions like Lardons, and Brussels sprouts. You can wash it down with freshly roasted Zingerman’s Coffee or Rishi organic tea. Those looking to get a lick of hair are able to order a boozy Bloody Mary or a “beermosa” instead.
San Morello
As part of the Shinola Hotel’s gourmet program, which is led by the renowned chef Andrew Carmellini, San Morello offers the feeling of stepping inside an Italian neighborhood trattoria located in the middle of the city center Detroit. There, Tuscan foie gras, tuna crudo and dry-aged duck breasts are a delight alongside more well-known dishes like osso Bucco as well as eggplant Parmesan and pasta made by the house along with wood-fired pizzas. Mangia, mangia!
Chartreuse Kitchen and Cocktails
In addition to cocktails featuring the restaurant’s signature ingredients, Chartreuse wows Midtown diners every day with exquisite plates of upscale food that looks as gorgeous in taste. The chefs treat fresh, seasonal ingredients with most respect, effortlessly converting the ingredients into tasty final results such as fragrant sourdough bread seafood tartares, scallops cooked in coconut roasting carrots, and the grilled anchovies.
Slows BBQ
“The Reason,” a delicious stacked-high pulled pork sandwich that is drenched with a sauce made in North Carolina and served with coleslaw and pickles, could have helped put Slow’s first Corktown place on the map after the first barbecue restaurant opened in the year 2005. The delicious menu of St. Louis-style pork ribs beef brisket and smoke-smoked Amish chicken mac and cheese, chili fritters made from corn, as well as black beans that have been refried keep customers coming back in a flurry for years after.
Ima
Satisfy your appetite for delicious Japanese noodles rice bowls, rice bowls and dumplings while you rub shoulders with other guests in a comfortable communal dining space. Udon noodles are deliciously packed with tasty food items like tofu, mushrooms eggs, smoked pork loin as well as lobster. All with a tasty broth. Even the little ones are treated to plenty of the spotlight with the chicken noodle and buttered udon soup on the kid’s menu. Be sure to try the jicama-wrapped tacos, as well as the sake-steamed Clams.
Buddy’s Pizza
The pizza is positioned the middle of New York thin slice and Chicago deep dish Detroit-style pizza comes in large rectangular-cut slices stuffed in tomato-based sauce that is bubbly, melting cheese and a variety of toppings. In the pizzerias of the region, Buddy’s is the only one to claim to have the original recipe and served the original recipe to diners in 1946. Customers can now choose to have specialty pizzas and sandwiches, as well as burgers and homemade pasta.
Roast by Michael Symon
From its beautiful downtown location in the iconic Westin Book Cadillac building, Roast serves a predominantly carnivore clientele with charcuterie short ribs, carpaccio, barbecued pork chops as well as plenty of steak. There are delicious vegetable dishes available however there is nothing to be said about the meat. Like the name implies, Roast is a destination-dining experience for lovers of meat, as per the interpretation of The Iron Chef himself.
Hudson Cafe
The name is a reference to a local favorite department store, and proud play a role in Detroit’s continuing comeback story, this trendy downtown café rouses its customers with vibrant decor and bright murals. (The coffee also helps.) Delicious menu options include filled breakfasts and red velvet pancakes. S’mores French toast delicious and sweet crepes salads, sandwiches, and many Benedict choices.
