Antidote opens at the Detroit edge of Grosse Pointe Park

Nya Marshall opened her second restaurant this week, a Spanish-inspired room called Antidote, at 14628 E. Jefferson Avenue. The grand opening was Monday, January 19, after a soft run through late 2025.

Marshall already runs Ivy Kitchen + Cocktails a couple of miles west on Jefferson, in East Village. The new address is a more pointed choice. It sits on the line where Detroit's Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood meets Grosse Pointe Park, and Marshall, who frames herself as much as a developer as a restaurateur, is direct about wanting the room to pull the two sides toward each other.

"I have seen how one strong, consistent business can help shift the energy of a corridor, increase foot traffic, create jobs, and give people a reason to gather and stay," Marshall said in the restaurant's announcement. "I opened Antidote with the goal of adding something beautiful and reliable to the East Jefferson community, a place where residents can celebrate, connect, and feel proud of what is happening in their neighborhood."

She put the same idea more plainly to Axios, saying the corridor needs businesses that "bridge that and merge that so we can all come together to make the entire corridor, including beyond Jefferson Chalmers, more than what it is."

The space was Norma G's, the Caribbean restaurant chef Lester Gouvia ran for about five years before closing it in the fall of 2023, per the Detroit News. Marshall took over the roughly 2,000-square-foot room and reworked it. Local reporting has put the buildout well above her original budget, a sign of how much of a bet a single block can be.

The kitchen reads Spanish with a wider Mediterranean reach. Early menu notes describe mussels and chorizo steamed in cider, marinated leeks in a saffron-garlic beurre blanc, Catalan-style bacalao cod, a saffron and truffle potato pavé, and Basque cheesecake. The restaurant calls the format plates meant to share and explore, and it bills the whole thing under a house tagline, "A Cure for the Ordinary."

The drinks lean the same way the food does. The wine list pulls from Europe, the Americas, and further out, and the bar runs alcoholic and non-alcoholic programs in roughly equal weight, an idea Marshall carried over from Ivy, where the no-alcohol drinks sell well.

Antidote serves dinner Tuesday through Friday, with weekend brunch and later weekend hours, and it offers private dining. It is closed Mondays. The room is a few minutes from the Schaap Center, with free parking. The address, again, is 14628 E. Jefferson Ave.