#restaurant-openings
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Sunda lands a fifth restaurant in the district Detroit
Billy Dec is honest about the bet. He has framed Sunda's Detroit room as a step outside the brand's familiar model and called it an exciting risk that is still a risk.
Antidote opens at the Detroit edge of Grosse Pointe Park
Nya Marshall opened her first restaurant, Ivy Kitchen + Cocktails, in East Village in December 2019. She bought the building a decade ago when there was effectively nothing on that block.
Medusa opens anthony Lombardo's Sicilian restaurant a block from SheWolf
Selden Street between Second and Third is Anthony Lombardo's block now.
Street Beet finally gets a Corktown address with its name on it
The pop-up has been Detroit's most ambitious vegan operation for seven years. McDaddy's. Taco Hell. The plant-based versions of the things you actually want to eat at one a.m.
Five Wayne State alumni open Rahha inside the Hannan Center
Rahha translates loosely from Arabic as comfort, peace of mind, the feeling of finally putting something down. The five founders chose it deliberately.
Tacos Wuey opens on Vernor with a family Birria recipe
Eddie Vargas grew up around Vernor Highway. He spent the past several years cooking other people's restaurants for them.
La Fonda Street and Encarnación open as a coffee-and-cantina pair in West Village
Robert Encarnación was a Bank of America small-business banker in Miami before he moved to Detroit. He came up for a weekend in April 2019. By the end of June he had moved.
Filipino comfort food in a New Center bakery, finally
Jonathan Peregrino spent fifteen years in corporate America before quitting to bake.
Sepia coffee project lands a North End shop after a long detour
Martell Mason got into coffee through trade dynamics, not espresso.
Hamilton's anchors the Godfrey hotel in Corktown
The Godfrey Hotel opened on Michigan Avenue in summer 2023, but its full-service ground-floor restaurant came later.
Leña fires up spain in Brush Park
The hearth is the room. Walk into Leña, look left, and the kitchen opens out around a wood-fire hearth burning Michigan oak, cherry, and applewood.
Vecino bets a roofless Cass Corridor building on heirloom corn
Vecino opened on a Friday in April after a long buildout. The 1926 corner at 4100 Third had sat empty for fifty years before Adriana Jimenez and Lukasz Wietrzynski talked themselves into it.
