Hour Detroit // March 2022 by Hour Media

MARCH 2022

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CONTENTS ISSUE THREE HUNDRED

34 Beyond

the Block

As they wrap up season two of their hit HGTV show Bargain Block, the duo behind the Detroit-based Nine Design + Homes look to the future.

42 Restaurant

of the Year

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CONTENTS ISSUE THREE HUNDRED

Up Front THEY SAID WE 18 WOULDN’T LAST ... OOPS. Stroll down memory lane with us as we celebrate 300 issues of insight, style, and fun.

Agenda

MADE IN MICHIGAN 20

MSNBC’s Kimberly Atkins Stohr ditched her thriving law career for journalism.

70 CULTURE CALENDAR

One last chance to see the exhibit from legendary Detroit painter Allie McGhee. Plus, Oscar-nominated shorts at the Detroit Film Theatre.

BOOK REVIEW: 21 SATISFACTION GUAR ANTEED

This history of Ann Arbor institution Zingerman’s could use more nosh.

71 A NEW SYMPHONY

Two appointments usher in a new era of leadership at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

UNCHARTED TERRITORY 22 Her novel charge against the alleged Oxford High shooter’s parents thrust Prosecutor Karen McDonald into the spotlight.

72 HIGH CLASS

A luxurious new airport terminal is taking off in Waterford Township.

KICKING OFF A NEW ERA 24 From the ashes of a defunct Detroit business college rises a new and historic HBCU.

24/Seven MI STYLE: 28 LAUREN WILSON

This entrepreneur balances motherhood, marriage, and a career with style and grace.

Food&Drink

76 SLÁINTE !

Forget the green beer this St. Patrick’s Day, and toast Detroit’s rich Celtic heritage with a glass of Irish whiskey.

77 HUSTLE AND RIND

PACK IT UP 29

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OLD-WORLD CHARM 30

Local artisanal makers are crafting Brie, Gouda, and other high-quality cheeses.

78 GREAT TASTE

Jason Hall showcases the city on his Ridetroit bike tours, including one all about Detroit’s best pizza joints.

A designer imbues her metro Detroit townhouse with laidback European vibes.

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14 E D I TO R’ S L E T T E R

A local designer creates clothing and accessories from thrifted bedsheets featuring childhood classics.

WHAT’S TRENDING 32

Metro Detroit beauty experts offer a sneak peek at the biggest trends of 2022.

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79 R E STAU R A N T L I ST I N G S 109 M I D N I G H T H O U R

112 T H E WAY I T WA S “Birds of Flight,” 1955

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03.22 From Our Readers

E D I T O R’ S L E T T E R

This month marks the 300th issue of Hour Detroit. For more than 25 years, we’ve been the award-winning authority on everything Detroit — from the arts and automobiles to fashion and food — bringing you these stories via our big, beautiful pages each month. Our mission since 1996 has been to discover and share narratives about the unique people, venues, and institutions that make up the fabric of metro Detroit. I consider it fortunate timing that I joined Hour as its eighth editor just as our editorial team, led by writer and editor Dorothy Hernandez, was narrowing down our annual Restaurant of the Year honor. Unlike other annual features that highlight the best Detroit has to offer, this one does not include a variety of venues and individuals; we choose just one restaurant. So, this pick is a big deal, one that we keep close to the vest until the issue is published. As you’ll read on page 42, this year’s Restaurant of the Year was chosen not only for the chef’s impeccable, innovative food and the restaurant’s expert, welcoming service but also for its resiliency and ingenuity during the last two challenging years. As part of the restaurant-selection team, I found that dining at some of the metro area’s best restaurants was a great way to dive back into Detroit after moving back from New York with my family seven months ago. It felt both wonderfully new and familiar, since my roots are firmly in the Detroit area: My dad worked for Ford Motor Co. for decades; my great-uncle Harry F. Kelly was governor of Michigan in the 1940s; and my brother and I shared a Detroit Free Press paper route in Royal Oak, throughout junior high and high school. Coming into the editor job as Hour Detroit was approaching its 300th issue was another piece of great timing for me. As I paged through Hour’s back issues in research for our commemoration, which begins on page 18, I was reminded of some of the brilliant storytelling that the editorial and design teams have produced over the years. That will undoubtedly fuel exciting ideas for the magazine’s future. There’s one thing I know will remain constant: our mission to serve you, as the leading authority on this region and its people. I hope you enjoy this stroll down memory lane as much as I did — and that you get the opportunity to dine at our 2022 Restaurant of the Year.

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Behind the Scenes

L U X U R Y R E A L E S T A T E. R E D E F I N E D.

WHEN PHOTOGRAPHER EE Berger stepped foot into 2022’s Restaurant of the Year for the photo shoot, she was “struck by how spacious and comfortable the space felt. I love how high the ceilings are, the exposed brick sections, and the concrete touches. The food was just really beautiful and striking. It was easy food to shoot because it was so bright and fresh and included lots of color.” She had never dined there, but “everyone I have spoken to who has visited has raved about it and can’t say enough.” Find out what eatery we named Restaurant of the Year on page 42.

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WHAT MAKES YOU RETURN TO A RESTAURANT AGAIN AND AGAIN?

EE Berger

PHOTOGRAPHED “RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR” (PAGE 42) “I eat a mostly vegetarian diet, so any restaurant that can blow me away with its plant-based dishes will have me coming back. Also, like many other people these days, I’ve grown to love outdoor dining. I’m drawn to any spot with a great patio setup.” After graduating from the College for Creative Studies, Berger moved to New York and worked in fashion. Since returning to the region nearly eight years ago, she’s worked as a freelance photographer with a focus on food and products. Berger lives in Detroit with her husband, her daughter, and a team of pets.

Khristi Zimmeth

Lindsay Kalter

“Since the pandemic, any restaurant where I can enjoy a meal with good food, good wine, and good company — be it family or friends — will keep me coming back. I’ve learned not to take those things for granted.” A former editor at Travel & Leisure, Zimmeth works as a contributing editor for Better Homes & Gardens and a columnist for The Detroit News. She writes for a variety of local and national publications. When not working, she enjoys antiquing, reading, and traveling.

“A menu — big or small — that always delivers, no matter what you order. A place that doesn’t rely on an overdone atmosphere rather than quality food. And bartenders who consistently make good drinks (especially a Sazerac).” Kalter is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in many publications, including The Washington Post and Business Insider. She has held positions at Politico and the Boston Herald, and has covered topics including the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health, and substance-use treatment. She lives in Ann Arbor with her wife and cat and is expecting a baby boy in June.

WROTE “BEYOND THE BLOCK” (PAGE 34)

PROFILED KAREN MCDONALD (PAGE 22)

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03.22 NEWS, NOTES, AND PERSONALITIES

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M IL E S T O N E S

TIME & AGAIN

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DETROIT DIGITS: MILESTONE EDITION

Newsstand price of Hour’s first issue (above) in 1996. It’s now $3.95.

Full-time Editors. They are Veronica Pasfield, Ric Bohy, Dave Manney, Michelle Solomon, Rebecca Powers, Steve Wilke, Dan Caccavaro, and Kate Walsh. In addition, managing editors George Bulanda and Lyndsay Green were in charge when the magazine was in between Editors.

People who graced the cover more than once. That would be laterdisgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, solo in February 2003 and in September 2005 with opponent Freman Hendrix.

Pro athletes who appeared on the Hour Detroit cover, beginning in April 1999 with Tigers outfielder Bobby Higginson. This also includes Red Wings great Steve Yzerman (November 2005) and former Lions wide receiver Golden Tate (November 2018).

Covers that featured or showed cars. Sixteen were January covers to correspond with our auto issues tied to the North American International Auto Show.

MILESTONE

They Said We Wouldn’t Last. Oops. Stroll down memory lane with us as we celebrate 300 issues of insight, style, and fun BY STEVE FRIESS

THREE HUNDRED IS A LOT OF MONTHS. A quarter-century. We’ve had four Michigan governors, five Detroit mayors, eight presidential elections, one NBA championship, and four Stanley Cups since the first issue of Hour Detroit appeared in the summer of 1996. Heck, Chrysler became Daimler Chrysler, then Chrysler LLC, then Chrysler Group LLC, then Fiat Chrysler, and now Stellantis in that span. Back when Hour Detroit launched, skeptics doubted anyone here would read an aspirational, glossy city magazine. Who, they wondered, would buy into a version of Detroit that delved lovingly into fashion, culture, and food, that made it feel glamorous and substantive. Never mind that all of that exists in abundance; before Hour, the sense was that writing about much beyond urban decay was indulgent or vacuous. Fortunately, publishers John Balardo and Thomas Hartle, editor Veronica Pasfield, and designers Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis didn’t care. That first issue had all the hallmarks of what was to come — a cover featuring an up-and-coming local actress, tips on celebrating the auto industry’s 100th anniversary, a look at Dearborn’s Lebanese restaurant scene, a profile of Red Wings star Steve Yzerman accompanied by what we’d now refer to as “thirsty” photos of him, and a nopunches-pulled profile of Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer. That’s long been Hour Detroit’s secret sauce — sweet and savory, mingled and as tantalizing as Himalayan sea salt on a cube of fine caramel. The lighter fare, presented alluringly with high-quality color photos and lively writing, stands alongside insightful, serious journalism covering politics, crime, development, business, and health. It’s easy to dismiss Hour as more style than substance, but a careful read proves we’ve always worked to address and explain important issues, too. Two cases in point. Our first issue to go to press after 9/11 had a sumptuous Thanksgiving food cover. Inside, though, readers found a story about the late World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki, a Detroiter whose work also dots our own region, and a prescient feature on how the then-new terrorism era would dwindle our rights to electronic privacy. Nineteen years later, we ripped up our May 2020 issue days before going to print to document the traumatic and surprising ways our lives were changing as COVID-19 took hold. In those first pages in 1996, the hope, the team wrote then, was to “gather people who wanted the same things: fun and challenging edit, a sophisticated voice, smart visuals. In short, a magazine that is a treat.” Challenge accepted — as the 10 issues on these pages prove.

Winter 1996-97

COVER: Jeff Daniels, a Chelsea native best known then for Dumb and Dumber. Now he’s a two-time Emmy winner and has three Tony Award nominations. DANIELS ON GOING TO RED WINGS GAMES WITH FRIENDS: “I tell them, ‘Hang onto my coattails; we’re going in to talk to Stevie [Yzerman].’ We all know how we got in. As I tell them, this fame is meant to be exploited.” ALSO IN THE ISSUE: Garland Lodge in Lewiston; Royal Oak art gallery owner Barbara Bunting; U.S. Attorney Saul Green; a recipe for Hutch Rabbit Stew. SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES AD: Q95.5 hypes former Partridge Family star Danny Bonaduce as a morning-rush DJ.

February 2000

COVER: Restaurant of the Year The Rugby Grille, our second ROY selection and the first to be featured on the cover. It remains a Birmingham staple, although the average dinner entree price is now about $48, significantly higher than the $31 listed in the 2000 write-up. PRAISE FOR THE RUGBY: “It’s pricey, true, but that is certainly no guarantee of this kind of quality. It has all the trappings of snootiness yet manages to avoid even a trace of it.” ALSO IN THE ISSUE: One year after the deadly 1999 explosion at a Ford River Rouge power plant; GQ magazine insults Detroit; Apple’s iMovie; Detroit native, Duke basketball star, and soon-to-be No. 1 NBA draft pick Shane Battier. SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES ADS: Whole Foods Market spotlights the grand opening of its West Bloomfield location; Verio pushes DSL for internet service as “a giant leap for your business,” while also including its AOL keyword.

# May 1998

COVER: Elmore Leonard, a Bloomfield Hills resident dubbed “The Dickens of Detroit” by Time magazine, for bestsellers that would inspire Get Shorty and Justified, among numerous other TV shows and movies. Leonard died in 2013. LEONARD ON WHAT HE WAS DOING DURING THE INTERVIEW: “I’ve just spent two hours with Clint Eastwood; now we’re way in the back of a place at a bad table lookin’ to see who’s comin’ in.” ALSO IN THE ISSUE: The Detroit Science Center reopens; a metro Detroit housing boom; the Beef Jerky Outlet in Chesterfield Township; the Detroit Boat Club; the (now closed) Golden Mushroom in Southfield. SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES ADS: Lexus of Southfield “introducing the first luxury SUV that doesn’t ride like a truck”; a Northwest Airlines ad features Bo Schembechler.

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# July 2009

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July 2006

COVER: Michael Moore of Flint, then riding high on his 2002 Oscar win and the $119 million box-office take of the anti-Bush film Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004, still the highest-grossing documentary ever. MOORE ON MAKING FRIENDS WITH REPUBLICANS IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN: “They’ve gotten to know me as Michael Moore the human being, not as Michael Moore the fictional character created by the Fox News Channel. That’s a bad thing for Fox, actually, because once people truly discover who you are, they realize that we might not think so differently from each other.” ALSO IN THE ISSUE: A new Detroit ordinance requiring handsfree cellphone use while driving; then-Dateline NBC reporter Chris Hansen of Bloomfield Township; WDIV Local 4 journalist Rhonda Walker’s favorite shoes; an all-male lineup of Detroiters of the Year. SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES AD: A special advertising section from the Building Industry Association of Southeastern Michigan insists — just before the start of the Great Recession — “there’s no dispute that buying a home is still one of the most solid and best investments anyone could make.”

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COVER: Detroit Institute of Arts CEO Graham Beal with a 1953 Riley, which was “similar to his first car,” for a feature on prominent Detroiters remembering their first set of wheels. Cars appeared on January covers beginning in 2000; the last one was in 2019. OAKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE L. BROOKS PATTERSON ON HIS FIRST RIDE: “A 1954 two-door Ford with ‘Miss Pig’ painted on the side, which should have served as a warning. I hated it, but it was all I could afford while in college. It cost $400.” ALSO IN THE ISSUE: Fad diets and obesity in Michigan; Motown Records hits 50; a recipe for a jalapeno bloody mary; the mansions of early auto industry giants. SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES ADS: MGM Grand Detroit announces the opening of a Wolfgang Puck eatery; Mercedes acknowledges the miserable economic period is a time “when even the most affluent motorists are rethinking their priorities.”

COVER: Kid Rock, aka Robert Ritchie of Romeo, Michigan, was our Detroiter of the Year, an annual feature that premiered in 2003. He was riding high after selling some 20 million records and performing at the 2006 Super Bowl. More recently, he’s best known for his conservative, proTrump politics and teasing a 2018 run for U.S. Senate as a Republican. ROCK ON HIS LOCAL PROFILE: “One of the things I’m proudest of is that I don’t have to drive around town in some tinted-down foreign car, hiding from people. I can go anywhere locally, anywhere I want. People just say, ‘What’s up, Rock,’ maybe want a picture or just to say hello.” ALSO IN THE ISSUE: Indie band The Hard Lessons; the 48 Hour Film Project; the failed effort in 1927 of Detroit pilots to circumnavigate the planet in a monoplane; a recipe for campfire pecan trout. SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES ADS: Todd’s Room, a Birmingham cosmetics shop, promotes a “bad girl” look, showing a model in black leather with a gun dangling from her hand; a Mercedes ad promotes Sirius Satellite Radio with “over 130 channels.”

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COVER: Our annual Best Dressed issue, featuring Torii Hunter, a Detroit Tigers outfielder who hit his 300th career home run five months earlier. The first Best Dressed issue was in 2008. HUNTER ON GETTING BESPOKE: “When I was coming up, I had nothing. ... As soon as I was able, I started shopping. That was in 1993 when I got a signing bonus with the [Minnesota] Twins. I went out and bought a bunch of outfits by Girbaud and a bunch of Jordans.” ALSO IN THE ISSUE: 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination; polar bears mating at the Detroit Zoo; Bistro Joe’s in Birmingham; a recipe for venison sweet potato meatballs. SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES AD: Volvo flaunts its factories’ ability to run on hydropower.

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COVER: 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, with 18 pages of reports on the racial violence that shook and destroyed the city. EYEWITNESS ANITA GIBBS REMEMBERS: “A cherry bomb lit up the pawn shop on the corner of 12th and Taylor. We could feel the heat from it all the way past the diner by the alley. … Leaving your home in the middle of the evening with the rage and mayhem of buildings on fire around you — imagine that at 7.” ALSO IN THE ISSUE: A documentary on ex-Pistons coach Earl Lloyd; a road trip across the Mitten on M-72; great brunch options; a fashion feature with Detroit City Football Club players. SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES ADS: Native Stem Cell of Bloomfield Hills promotes stem-cell therapy to heal arthritis; Little Caesars Arena touts availability for private event bookings.

COVER: Aretha Franklin, rendered by Best Fine Artist Kim Frank Fujiwara for the 2019 Best of Detroit issue, featuring our 20th list of the best offerings in the metro area. KEY PASSAGE ABOUT FRANKLIN’S AUGUST 2018 DEATH: “The world mourned the superstar’s death, but in Detroit, her presence lives on. In May 2019, Chene Park was renamed Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre, and that June, the Senate passed a bill to rename a stretch of M-10 Aretha L. Franklin Memorial Highway.” ALSO IN THE ISSUE: Bob Seger’s final tour; Motown Records’ 60th anniversary; CBD-infused face moisturizer; a debate over adoptions by LGBTQ parents; a recipe for a Dadhattan cocktail. SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES AD: Hub Stadium in Auburn Hills offers axe-throwing and “bombowling” at “your next event.”

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COVER: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, recapping a year in which she gave the State of the Union response, contended with COVID-19, had a murder plot against her foiled, and was shortlisted for the Democratic vice presidential nomination. WHITMER ON SEEING HERSELF HUNG IN EFFIGY AT AN ANTI-LOCKDOWN RALLY: “I wasn’t mad. Was I fearful? I was not afraid. Was I sad? That was the emotion I felt. It was sad because we’re working so hard to try to keep people alive, to try to keep our hospitals from being overwhelmed.” ALSO IN THE ISSUE: Updates on Michigan Central Station and Packard Plant restoration; COVID-era matchmaker Lisa Chaben; autonomous vehicles; a recipe for Bad Brads BBQ’s banana cream pie. SIGN-OF-THE-TIMES AD: Future Grow Solutions, a cannabis wholesale grower, touts space-age-looking grow towers.

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treasurer of Cement Masons Union Local 514 in Detroit, and her mom, a retired homemaker, Atkins Stohr says. After getting her undergraduate degree at Wayne State University, where she wrote for the school paper, The South End, she headed to Boston University School of Law and then spent three years as a litigator before enrolling at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. After that, she put in stints at both Boston daily newspapers and then covered the Supreme Court for Lawyers USA. That led to a guest-host gig on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and, since 2017, her ongoing MSNBC berth. In this conversation, the East Cost-based Atkins Stohr, 48, talks about why her Midwest roots improve her work, recalls giving John Conyers a ride, and explains her disagreement with podcast co-host and former Michigan prosecutor Barbara McQuade.

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‘I’M NOT SORRY’ MSNBC’s Kimberly Atkins Stohr ditched her thriving law career for journalism, only to find fame as a legal pundit BY STEVE FR I ES S ILLUSTRATION BY RACHE L I D ZER DA

MUCH TO HER PARENTS’ ANGST, Kimberly Atkins Stohr decided in 2000 that becoming a lawyer was a mistake. She’d gone into six-figure debt for that Juris Doctor degree, and now she wanted to throw away a budding career to become, uh, a journalist? Two decades later, her parents feel much better about that shocking choice. The legal analysis column in The Boston Globe is great. The co-host gig on the hit weekly podcast #SistersInLaw is fun. But it’s the Southfield and Oak Park native’s ubiquitous appearances on MSNBC, where she’s a legal and political pundit, that finally redeemed this choice in the eyes of her father, a retired secretary-

You’ve made yourself a prominent journalist by focusing on the other thing you studied: the law. But it does seem like a haphazard way to get to where you are.

Yeah, totally, but I’m not sorry. I always knew since the time I was pretty young that I wanted to be an attorney — or I thought I knew. My mom told me often that I was good at arguing, and I thought, “You know, she’s right. I should parlay that into a career.” Along the way I wrote for my high school newspaper and the paper at Wayne State, where I covered, among other things, the [1998] gubernatorial race between John Engler and Geoffrey Fieger. That was really fun. I went to a debate with the reporters from the Free Press and The News, and it was thrilling. But I never CO N T I N U E D O N PAG E 96

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and scientists in both other countries surveyed more than 3,600 people about their views on vaccines, genetically modified foods, and alternative medicine. Respondents who sought information from “legacy” news outlets were less likely to fall for incorrect ideas about health matters “perhaps because of editorial gatekeeping differences across news, social, and alternative media,” says researcher and U-M communications professor Scott Campbell. YOU SAY POTATO, THEY SAY PHOTOSYNTHESIS: Plants are pretty inefficient in how they use solar energy to grow and

produce crops — so fixing that could help farmers grow a lot more food, according to a report in the journal Food and Energy Security, authored by Michigan State University researchers Heather Roney and Berkley Walker. The duo calculated and collected data on every major energy input and output needed to grow, transport, and cook french fries and compared them to photosynthetic efficiencies of potato crops. They determined that there is 80 times more wasted energy in the natural cropgrowing process than what it takes people to cultivate, harvest, ship, and prepare fries. “The theoretical

improvements to photosynthesis proposed in this publication are key to a second green revolution, where more energy from the sun is incorporated in farming, while using less fossil fuels,” Roney says. BUT IS IT BETTER THAN GOOGLE?: It took just seven months into a five-year endeavor for the folks at the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to create what is being called “the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever.” DESI, located near Tucson, was designed and built as a joint project of the University of Michigan, the

IF WE CAN KEEP DESI WORKING FOR THE ENTIRE FIVEYEAR SURVEY AS WELL AS IT HAS SO FAR, WE CAN EXPECT GREAT SCIENCE TO RESULT.

University of California Berkeley, and the U.S. Department of Energy, among others. U-M students built DESI’s 5,000 robotic “eyes” — incredibly high-tech light-collecting fibers — which every 15 minutes are reconfigured to point to different patches of deep space and map what they “see.” “DESI is one of the most complex instruments fielded on a telescope,” says physicist Gregory Tarlé, who leads the U-M Dark Energy group and who led the DESI fiber positioner construction project. “If we can keep DESI working for the entire five-year survey as well as it has so far, we can expect great science to result.”

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BOOK REVIEW

Wonky with a Side of Tasty A history of the Ann Arbor institution Zingerman’s could use more nosh BY JENN McKEE

I REMEMBER THE MOMENT when saying “Let’s go to Zingerman’s” got confusing. It was simple back in 1989 when, as a University of Michigan freshman, I was led by a resident assistant along with my hallmates on our maiden pilgrimage to the deli. Growing up in small, rural Brighton, I’d never even met anyone Jewish before, so I’d known bubkes about babka. The experience was a revelation. The tricky part came later, in the 2000s. I’d be scheduling an interview, when the person would suggest meeting for coffee at Zingerman’s, and I’d have to ask, “Roadhouse? Bakehouse? Next Door?” Yes, the tiny deli with a big reputation has, over the years, evolved into a local conglomerate known as the Zingerman’s Community of Businesses. If Ann Arborites feel like it’s Zingerman’s town and they’re just living in it, there’s good reason for that, as Micheline Maynard explains in Satisfaction Guaranteed: How Zingerman’s Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community. Ironically, Maynard tells us, the COVID-19 pandemic that forced us to stay home more has expanded Zingerman’s reach in at least one way: mail order. Zingerman’s Mail Order co-founder Mo

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Frechette says, “We were taking between 100 and 200 percent more orders” in the first months following the March 2020 shutdown. While mail order scrambled to keep up with skyrocketing demand, though, other parts of ZCoB — Zingerman’s Delicatessen, ZingTrain (the business training arm), catering, and more — languished, forcing the managing partners to adapt. Satisfaction Guaranteed’s final section focuses on how each business under the Zingerman’s umbrella has weathered the pandemic. This lends the book a greater sense of urgency than it might otherwise have but also points to a fascinating truth: Zingerman’s survived this economic rough patch precisely because it opted to grow in numerous directions in the 1990s, rather than cloning the deli into a franchise. Zingerman’s diversity is now its saving grace. The bulk of the book, however, covers the history and unconventional evolution of Zingerman’s since the deli’s founding in 1982. Paul Saginaw, who’d managed an Ann Arbor restaurant called Maude’s, had hired U-M Russian studies student Ari Weinzweig in the 1970s, and the two men discovered a shared passion for Jewish deli food that was hard to come by locally back then.

“In the end though, Satisfaction Guaranteed will be of interest mostly to business owners and entrepreneurs who are looking to get the nitty gritty ...” After seizing upon a 1902 building, where the deli still dishes out the knishes, they considered calling their place Greenberg’s but found the name was already in use by a business in Lansing. “So they scoured a phone book,” Maynard explains, “but rather than start with A, at the top of the alphabet, they decided to choose a name starting with Z, thinking that it would stand out.” In the early days, Saginaw and Weinzweig made pre-dawn trips to a Detroit suburbs bakery to get the best bread for their sandwiches, but as the deli took off they wondered: Why don’t we make great bread for ourselves? And pastries? And cheese and coffee and candy? This drive to keep exploring new specialties — while staying local and consistently employing Zingerman’s business principles such as “open-book management,” under which employees are informed about the company’s financial well-being, and “servant leadership,” which teaches managers to treat employees as well as they treat customers — sets the conglomerate apart. In the end though, Satisfaction Guaranteed will be of interest mostly to business owners and entrepreneurs who are looking to get the nitty gritty on how Saginaw and Weinzweig built and grew Zingerman’s with integrity and how they’re navigating the pandemic. Mere foodies will be left unnourished by the book’s deep dive into Zingerman’s business principles — up to and including minutiae like what is found in a new trainee’s “passport.” And while Maynard explores some moments of indigestion along Zingerman’s road to culinary superstardom — specifically, a lawsuit with rival local deli Amer’s and a failed book promotion tie-in — hearing about additional missteps would balance out what feels too often like a protracted fan letter. In reference to Zingerman’s customers, for instance, Maynard writes, at the book’s conclusion, “During the pandemic, they considered the company a link to a life they temporarily could not lead, even if the baked goods cost tens of dollars more than a babka or a coffeecake elsewhere. That’s the kind of loyalty businesses crave — and which steers them through challenges.” The author doth kvell too much. M A RC H 2 0 2 2

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SCREAMS FROM THE HALLWAY forced Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald to stop whatever she was doing and rise from her desk in Pontiac. An assistant had just received a call from her son, an Oxford High School student, who told her another student had opened fire. The Nov. 30 massacre in Oxford, a rural burg about 15 miles north of the county seat, would soon consume national headlines — and McDonald’s public and private lives. Just a year into the job, she’d be thrust before a phalanx of cameras to provide updates and explain legal decisions that included a somewhat novel resolution to file criminal charges against the parents of the 15-year-old shooting suspect. “The Oxford case is like nothing I’ve ever encountered,” McDonald, 51, recalls two months

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after the shooting, during a Zoom interview from her Pontiac office. “There’s no roadmap, no protocol. I’m just trying to lead the office and our team in the right direction.” In public, McDonald was seen by the world as a creative, unsparing prosecutor, crusading for justice for the four students killed, seven injured, and hundreds terrorized by the event. But McDonald says she’s motivated as much by her personal perspective — she’s a former high school English and drama teacher, a mother of five, and a native of the south-central Michigan town of Portland (which is even smaller than Oxford) — as anything else. “Personally, you’re facing down some really, really dark things,” she says softly. “You’re sitting with such utter grief and sadness. The most

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difficult part for me is contemplating and sitting with the events that occurred and led up to Nov. 30, and the internal struggle of knowing how easily they could have been prevented.” Still, these moments are why she gave up a safe seat as an Oakland County judge in 2019 to challenge and defeat three-term incumbent Prosecutor Jessica Cooper in the 2020 Democratic primary. McDonald went on to be the top vote-getter in any Oakland County race in the general election. Being a judge, she says, was confining. She wanted to extend her reach beyond sentencing, to have a broader influence over the justice system. Before Oxford, in fact, her most notable action had been overturning the conviction of 50-year-old Juwan Deering, who was 15 years into a life sentence for the deaths of five children in a Royal Oak house fire in 2000. An investigation uncovered prosecutorial misconduct that cast serious doubt on his guilt. McDonald took some heat for that, but it was a product of the same instinct to do what’s right — rather than what’s convenient — that her colleagues say she’s applied to the case against suspected Oxford shooter Ethan Crumbley and his family.

“Personally, you’re facing down some really, really dark things.” —KAREN MCDONALD

In a move that’s unprecedented in Michigan and exceedingly rare nationally in such cases, McDonald charged Crumbley’s parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, after evidence emerged that they had supplied the boy his weapon while ignoring a litany of warning signs about his dangerous state of mind. “After it happened, Karen was already asking, ‘How does this happen? It doesn’t just come out of the blue,’” Chief Assistant Prosecutor David Williams says. “In her own mind, she was wondering, ‘Where were the parents?’” With sudden prominence comes criticism, and McDonald received her share. Most notably, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said police were unprepared to arrest the Crumbley parents when McDonald announced the charges against them at a press conference, a miscue that became a national debacle when the parents couldn’t be located and were eventually SCREENSHOTS CNN, ABC, MSNBC, WDIV

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The Oxford High School mass shooting turned Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald into a ubiquitous presence on both local and national news. In addition to her multiple CNN cameos, including with Anderson Cooper (top left) and Brianna Keilar (top right), she has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos (center left), WDIV Channel 4 with Devin Scillian (center right), and MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace (bottom left).

found hunkered down in an artist friend’s Detroit loft and arrested. McDonald accepts no blame for that — she told Wolf Blitzer on CNN, “I don’t know where the lack of communication was, and honestly, I don’t care” — and now says she’s past answering questions about it. “That part of the story is history to me,” she tells Hour Detroit. “It doesn’t serve anyone to do the back and forth about what happened. What I know is that the assistant prosecutors in my office were solely focused on doing the right thing in very difficult circumstances. I don’t think our office or the sheriff’s department expected Jennifer and James Crumbley, upon learning their son was a mass shooter, would get in their car and leave. Sheriff Bouchard and I have since talked and agreed we would like to move on from this. There are far more important things to focus on.” She also suffered a barrage of standard-issue sexist chatter for her clothes and appearance, including from a Reddit thread the morning after the Crumbley parents were charged titled “What’s the more egregious offense, manslaughter or prosecutor Karen McDonald’s press conference outfit?” The prosecutor says she’s been shrugging off such sexism as far back as Wayne State University Law School, when male classmates criticized her for getting pregnant during her final year. They were baffled at how she would finish the term; she had the baby on a Monday, returned to class the following Monday, and finished the term with a 4.0 GPA.

“The pushback received at a moment of badass fierceness is pushback that you wouldn’t see if it were a man at the podium,” says her twin sister, Kristen McDonald Rivet, vice president of the progressive economic think tank Michigan Future and among the first people McDonald called within an hour of the shooting. “She chose to ignore it.” Still, within a day or two, as it became evident McDonald would be making regular and highprofile media appearances, Rivet packed her car with outfit options and drove 90 miles from her Bay City home to help her sister. Rivet also told her sister that the shooting prompted her 11-year-old son to erupt in sobs at the dinner table. “They can’t keep us safe,” he told his mother. McDonald cried when she heard that story, Rivet says, and replied sadly, “He’s probably right.” For the victims’ families, though, her role is to seek justice, and that’s what she reminds herself when public pressure mounts or when she must contend with her own emotional reaction to the mass shooting. “I think I say at least five times a day, ‘I didn’t have a kid killed at school; I’m not going to use up any energy on feeling sorry for myself,’” McDonald says. “The pain these people are feeling is enormous. The goal is really peeling back [the Crumbleys’] lives and seeing what the motives were and trying to understand how this happened. How did we end up here?” M A RC H 2 0 2 2

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EDUCATION

KICKING OFF A NEW ERA

An Oregon footwear design school merges with a defunct Detroit business college to create a new and historic HBCU BY ASHLEY WINN

WHEN D’WAYNE EDWARDS STARTED OUT in footwear design in 1989, he was one of the just two Black people he knew to be working in the industry. Over time, he rose to the position of senior designer at Nike, all the while making efforts to diversify his field, before quitting in 2011 to launch Pensole Design Academy in Portland, Oregon. This spring, Edwards takes that pursuit to another level, relocating his academy to Detroit and merging it with the defunct Lewis College of Business to create the Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design. Classes will begin on May 2, making Lewis the nation's first historically Black college or university (or HBCU) ever to be reopened. The focus on design — along with the decision to revive Lewis, which closed in 2013 — makes the academy unique among the 107 HBCUs. “Not only is Detroit predominantly African American, but it also has a rich history of design and creativity, from automotives to arts and music,” Edwards says. Most HBCUs have storied pasts, and Lewis is no exception. In 1928, secretary Violet T. Lewis of Indianapolis grew frustrated with the soaring rate of unemployment among Black youths and launched the school. Equipped only with a $50 loan, and while working her full-time job, she founded a school to “provide Black women with the same secretarial skills she had acquired in college,” the Pensole Lewis website says. The Detroit branch opened in 1938 and eventually replaced the Indiana one. In 1987, it was named Michigan's only HBCU, but in 2013, after serving some 40,000 students, it closed. Although Congress wouldn't coin the HBCU designation until its 1965 passage of the Higher Education Act, the schools began popping up in the late 19th century. At the time, they were essential to provide educational opportunities to Black Americans shut out of mainstream schools. Known for their diverse faculties, many HBCUs continue operating to this day as preferred environments for students of color. The best-known include Howard, Spelman, Tuskegee, and Xavier, and prominent alumni include Vice President Kamala Harris, director Spike Lee, and Motown legend Gladys Knight. “Blacks have far more postsecondary opportunities now than in the heyday of

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HBCUs, but given the school’s focus, I think Pensole Lewis could have a major impact on Detroit’s Black community,” historian Ken Coleman says. Edwards credits metro Detroit native Allen Largin, a Pensole alum, with inspiring the move by mentioning Lewis College, a school Edwards hadn’t heard of. “I immediately fell in love with Lewis’ story and developed a vision: I could finally establish a design-focused HBCU, while marrying that with business to honor Violet Lewis’ legacy,” he says. He sought and received support from Lewis’ granddaughter, Violet Ponders, whose presidency at the school made her the third and final generation of Lewis women to helm it. Edwards also reached out to Detroit's College for Creative Studies, which agreed to share its accreditation and lend classrooms at its Taubman Center for Design Education while Pensole Lewis builds its own site. Through Largin, an executive at developer Dan Gilbert’s Rock Ventures, Edwards secured an unspecified contribution from the Gilbert Family Foundation. On Dec. 29, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation reestablishing the HBCU. The classes will run in five-to-six-week programs crafted in collaboration with design companies to meet industry needs, Edwards says. Partner brands, which for Pensole have included Nike, Asics, Adidas, and New Balance, will sponsor students, creating a “majority tuition-free” model that also guarantees a job for every graduate. While the venue may have changed, Edwards stresses, the goal hasn’t. That’s why this month, Pensole Lewis launches biweekly recruitment sessions where local high school students will learn about the industry from Black designers. As it stands, Edwards says, the major design firms still lag in diversity, with Black people making up just 5 percent of the staff. Meanwhile, the most prominent athletic shoe endorsers — LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Colin Kaepernick — tend to be Black. “It sends a message that in order to be successful in life, you have to have a ball or a microphone in your hand,” Edwards says. “I want to show kids they have options beyond what’s being fed to them on television.”

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“(My personal style is) fun, girly, flirty, sophisticated. I try to keep myself together.” —LAUREN WILSON

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WHILE CHATTING WITH Lauren Wilson, it wouldn’t come as a surprise if songs like Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman” or Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls)” began playing in your mind. Because, indeed, the 29-year-old Detroit native boasts an impressive resume of both personal and professional achievements. After moving to Atlanta post-college and working for a few years as a child-advocate paralegal and an executive assistant in the entertainment industry, Wilson came back home to Detroit in 2015 and switched gears to a career in real estate. Since then, she has become a successful real estate agent — as well as a certified life coach, a landlord, a vending machine and box truck owner, and a social media influencer. She navigates it all with her husband, Domanic, by her side, and the two now reside in Troy with their 6-month-old son. Wilson shares insights into her daily life — from motherhood to beauty and fashion faves — with her 159,000 Instagram followers. And here, she shares a bit more.

My personal style is … Fun, girly, flirty, sophisticated. I try to keep myself together. I get my makeup done professionally four times a week, and I have my hair done 100 percent of the time. If I’m getting dressed up, I wear dresses 95 percent of the time. If I am dressed down, I’m typically in a girly kind of jogging suit. Think pink: Pink is my favorite color; I have something pink on every day. Sometimes I’m dripping in pink from my head to my toes. Where I shop: Swank A Posh in Southfield. I also shop at Saks [Fifth Avenue] and Nordstrom. A lot of my dresses are from Amazon and are $25 and under. My home decorating style: Very chic. I love the bling. I love modern. I love grays. I love newer styles. In my master bathroom — which is probably my favorite place in the house — I have the clawfoot tub, the bling sink, the bling mirrors. Every home should have … An area to relax. When you go in that room, you’re happy and you feel good. For me, it will be between my bathroom and my office. I have an all-pink office with a flower wall. It’s really feminine and girly. My favorite date night spot: The Renaissance Center. [My husband and I] go there a lot. We’ll either go to Joe Muer [Seafood] or we will sit and look at the Riverwalk. A musical artist I love is … Beyoncé, hands down. No matter what noise is around her, she is not going to be that person checking the blogs and clarifying everything that’s said. And that’s something that I learned to do as well. My favorite thing about motherhood: The bonding experience. Having a child you love with the person you love — it’s just unbelievable. On entering new chapters in life: Have grace. You’re going to make mistakes along the way. ... Ask for help. Understand that if it’s something that you love and you care about, I’m sure you’re doing your absolute best. Follow Wilson on Instagram at @iamlaurenlyrics.

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WHETHER YOU’RE PICKING UP some fresh fruits and veggies at the farmers market, stocking up on new reads from the bookstore, or hitting up your favorite thrift shop, these chic totes — most of which are made with sustainable or organic materials (bonus!) — will help you carry your essentials in style and take on whatever the day brings. BAGS COURTESY OF RETAILERS AND BRANDS

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DESIGN

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Troy designer Elizabeth Peret has brought a slower-paced European lifestyle to her metro Detroit townhouse BY MEGAN SWOYER | PHOTOS BY HAYDEN STINEBAUGH

“I’M AN OLD SOUL,” says Elizabeth Peret, an interior designer who moved to Romania in her early 20s and stayed for nearly 10 years. Her parents are Romanian refugees who moved to Detroit, where Peret was born. “I wanted a Romanian experience with old-world charm, so [I] went there right after I graduated from Wayne State University.” The owner of Elizabeth Helen Design lived in Oradea and worked at her family’s companies. “It’s slow there. You see people sitting on terraces in the middle of the afternoon enjoying coffee, meeting a friend, and you wonder, ‘Do they work?’ But they do — they just take the time to socialize.” Upon her return to metro Detroit in 2020, she became reacquainted with what she calls the “American hustle.”

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“Here, driving an hour to work is the norm. You live to work. While in Romania, you work to live,” she says. Peret couldn’t wait to overhaul her new Troy townhome by installing new floors, fixtures, and millwork, while bringing her cherished, slower Romanian lifestyle into the picture. “When I first stepped inside, I saw touches of European charm … and lots of natural light,” she says. “I also noticed wood shutters on the windows. They’re accordion-style and very nostalgic looking.” Some of Peret’s slow-life philosophies were passed down from her parents. “If you have friends or family stopping over, you offer coffee, sweets, cheeses, or meats. My mother always has to have something on hand to serve when people randomly drop by.” Hospitality means plenty of conversation, so relaxed gathering areas are key, she says. “Creating these types of spaces is helpful in fostering relationships and communication. I’m not looking at a phone or watching TV when people are here.” In fact, she doesn’t own a television. Her chosen design style complements her unhurried attitude. Called Japandi, it’s a blend of modern Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics that’s rooted in minimalist design. “Part of the Japandi lifestyle is thrifting,” she says. “My dining room table and chairs are secondhand. I sanded and stained the table, and then spray-painted the chairs a matte black. What I like about the table is that it shows its imperfections.” She says that goes with Japandi’s wabi-sabi philosophy: acknowledging how beauty is found in the unusual or imperfect and viewing things and places as perfectly imperfect. The walls feature a millwork pattern, providing a “subtle but dynamic texture,” she says. “It gives a midcentury look, but it’s also Japandi. The green wall color comes from nature. It’s calming.” No doubt, a perfect spot for enjoying a cup of coffee and a sweet treat with friends. Oh, and that coffee? It’s French pressed, of course. Says Peret: “That method slows the process.”

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 Franklin Jay founder Sarah Gansenhuber (below) handmakes unique wearables for all ages. Those pictured here feature characters from Disney, Sesame Street, and more. Dress prices range between $199-250, depending on the condition, age, and rarity of the fabric.

“The No. 1 comment I get is ‘Oh my gosh! I had those sheets when I was a kid.’ ” —SARAH GANSENHUBER

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WHO KNEW THRIFTED BED LINENS with designs featuring beloved childhood characters like Mickey Mouse, ScoobyDoo, and the Sesame Street gang could be turned into clothing that people of all ages would love to wear? Well, Royal Oak-based artist and designer Sarah Gansenhuber saw the vision — and folks are obsessed. The former art teacher turned her longtime hobby of creating garments and reselling vintage goods into a full-time job with her online shop, Franklin Jay. Since 2018, Gansenhuber — aka the self-proclaimed “Bed Sheet Queen” — has sold her quirky designs on Depop. A patchwork jacket featuring Barbie and Happy Bunny, Goosebumps shorts, and a puffy-sleeved dress showcasing the Simpson family are just some of the handmade items Gansenhuber has offered. And if clothes plastered in kids’ cartoons aren’t your cup of tea, Gansenhuber sells plenty of vintage items in other fun prints and bold colors. “I think there’s such a power in nostalgia,” she says of her upcycled bedsheet creations. “People are so connected to imagery and things from

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their childhoods. Like, the No. 1 comment I get is ‘Oh my gosh! I had those sheets when I was a kid,’ or ‘I haven’t seen those since I was a kid.’” Truly, people can’t get enough of Franklin Jay. Gansenhuber says her customers hail from across the country, buying items for every occasion, from Disney vacations to their own weddings. When she did weekly drops, she says, her items sold out within minutes. Gansenhuber recently launched her website — shopfranklinjay.com — where folks can shop her monthly releases of handmade dresses and other designs. She’ll continue using Depop strictly for her vintage resales. “I’ve been so elated and humbled by just how much people seem to like my dresses,” she says. “It’s just been awesome.” M A RC H 2 0 2 2

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Aprés Gel-X Extensions

Jenessa Davis, founder of Faness Nails in Southfield, uses Aprés Gel-X extensions — a soft gel nail extension applied on nails that requires no filling and is easy to soak off — on her clients and says it’s the future of nail extensions. Other bonuses: There is no dust, odor, or damage caused to your real nails. Bea Naud, a licensed nail technician working out of Faness Nails, says she uses Aprés Gel-X because it is healthier and longer lasting than regular acrylics. “I’ve been using this system for over three years, and I believe it’s revolutionized the world of nail art by allowing the technician to save time and give clients a flawless base on which to visualize their nail art dreams,” Naud says. “I really enjoy it when a client comes in with inspiration they’ve pulled from art, photography, fashion, [or] interior design. It’s always the most fun when I can collaborate with my client to create something that hasn’t been done before, rather than trying to recreate a trendy Pintereststyle nail photo.”

Less Makeup Is More

The idea of “skinimalism” espouses minimal base makeup or the appearance of minimal base makeup. Skin care products are often used in lieu of heavy layers of makeup, producing a look that emphasizes the skin’s natural tone and texture. Licensed cosmetologist Kiara Binion, of Southfield’s A Blossomed You, says people are investing more in their natural skin and beauty. When it comes to the “skinimalist” look, Binion focuses on skin care first and foremost. The makeup process is short and quick — Binion uses primer, minimal concealer, and foundation, if necessary. Her favorite products include the Aveda Botanical Kinetics line. To add a little pop, Binion uses MAC lipsticks, including the brand’s Ruby Woo shade. “I think brands will be launching more items that include skin care benefits and also promote natural beauty and body positivity,” Binion says. “Huda Beauty’s new products align with being your true, enhanced self.” Her top picks from Huda Beauty are the Face Gloss Highlighting Dew and the Depuffing & Sculpting Roller from the Rose Quartz collection.

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The pandemic has made eyes and eyebrows the main priority, as they’re the only features visible over our masks. Deja Wharton, a makeup artist at The Beat Lounge in Ferndale, says eyebrow extensions will become more popular this year, as people strive to “create fuller and natural brows.” Wharton specializes in soft-glam makeup looks — glowy, with soft eyes and natural brows. Eyebrow extensions are achieved by gluing mink or synthetic hair to the eyebrows and the surrounding skin. This enhances the volume, thickness, and tint of the brows. “No one in Detroit is doing them now, that I know of,” Wharton says. “That’s why I think they will become popular this year. Detroit is never too far behind in getting hip to things.”

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6 Trends to Try in 2022

From 3D nail art to natural lash extensions to the return of the shag, metro Detroit beauty experts preview trends you’ll see this season and throughout the year BY MARISA KALIL-BARRINO

Lash Extensions: Keeping It Simple

Kay Bailey, founder of Winsome Beauty in Warren, says lash extensions do not always have to be bold to make a statement. Simple extensions, typically known as “classics,” can create an everyday glam look without makeup. Metro Detroit-based lash technicians Djanali Lash & Beauty, Jaiwinked Lash Extensions, and Rose Blush LLC are some of Bailey’s favorites. “I appreciate the three brands for encouraging new artists to do what’s best for their clients’ lash health,” Bailey says. “Not all [lash] trends are the safest.” Each client is different. Bailey says lash techs must consider the isolation, length, density, and dimensions of each set. When lash techs do not follow those rules, they are putting their clients at risk of premature shedding of natural eyelashes or even eyelash loss.

Mismatched Nails When it comes to nail designs, abstract and mixand-match nails continue to dominate. “It can be customized to the client’s desires,” Davis says. “It gives character by having different nail colors and designs on each individual nail, allowing clients to showcase a combination of different patterns.” So far, Davis’ favorite design she has done for a client featured a combination of patterns including alligator skin print, a lava lamp effect, and abstract floral shapes. “I love how vibrant and contrasting they are,” she says.

From Natural to Shaggy

Brandon Curtis, owner of House of B, inside of Royal Oak-based Broadway Salon Studios, says natural hair is being embraced. “As the [Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair] Act (a law that prohibits discrimination based on hairstyle and hair texture) is passed in more states — and soon hopefully, the entire country — more people are showing the beauty of their natural hair,” Curtis says. Curtis says protective styles for curly and coily hair, such as locs, twists, box braids, and Fulani braids, will trend in 2022. His go-to hair care brand for those hair types is Mizani. “All of their products are labeled with the type of hair they work best with,” Curtis says. “This makes it easy for the consumer to find their best match. The conditioning and control that they give to natural hair is incredible.” The shag haircut, which first became popular in the ‘70s, has returned in recent years. “We’ll see more modern versions of the shag in 2022,” Curtis says. “I love this cut because it can be tailored specifically to each client. The design of the fringe and face-framing layers can be changed to frame any face shape.”

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 Evan Thomas (left) and Keith Bynum take a rare break in their new retail showroom and gallery, located in Detroit’s Old Redford neighborhood.

t’s easy to miss the unassuming storefront sandwiched between a McDonald’s and an empty lot in Detroit’s Old Redford neighborhood. Behind the whitewashed façade, however, is the headquarters of the increasingly influential Nine Design + Homes, which has occupied the vintage building since October. Named after their former Ferndale location on Nine Mile Road, the 10,000-square-foot space is the latest effort of Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas of HGTV’s hit Bargain Block fame. Housing a community space/classroom, a gallery and sales floor, and offices/a workshop, the Grand River location represents an expansion of their brand as well as an ongoing commitment to their adopted city.

Who wouldn’t want to sip coffee or a glass of wine in this cozy banquette that stars in the renovated “Cottage House” kitchen featured in season one. 

Beyond the Block Wrapping up season two of their hit show Bargain Block, Detroit-based HGTV stars look to the future

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Relative newcomers, the pair (partners in business and in life, they explain) moved to the Motor City five years ago in search of abundant opportunity and cheap real estate. They met in Colorado, while Thomas was in graduate school (he’s a carpenter with a doctorate in physics; Bynum is an artist), and had been flipping houses in Denver but were increasingly frustrated by the city’s prices. Bynum had long heard about Detroit’s creative community. He took a red-eye on his birthday in January 2017 and looked at eight properties, purchasing one for just $12,000. “I didn’t actually see the inside of it,” he remembers, adding that M A RC H 2 0 2 2

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when he did “it was a disaster.” Undeterred, the pair sold their last Colorado property in August and moved east. A few years and houses later, HGTV came knocking. Working with real estate expert and Detroit resident Shea Hicks-Whitfield, the pair purchases modest city properties from sources such as the Detroit Land Bank Authority. Their goal is to buy several run-down or abandoned houses on a block and renovate them into artful yet affordable (and fully furnished) starter homes. Then they move on to another block. Bynum credits television with nurturing his design sense, adding that while growing up he admired shows such as Frasier and Will and Grace. The couple’s creativity and accessible and affordable style have been large parts of Bargain Block’s appeal, with an episode on season one, which debuted in April 2021, featuring Bynum creating free-form wall art from cedar strips. Community reaction has been positive, they say. “We are taking houses that are heavily blighted and not being lived in,” Thomas explains. “People want boarded-up houses to be fixed up. … It’s a positive thing for everyone.”

Fallen trees, plumbing problems, and dry rot have been among the challenges. “Some houses were too far gone,” Thomas explains, but more often than not they take the leap. “It’s really hard to pass up a $5,000 house, even if it’s missing a wall.” They’ve been consistently impressed by the workmanship found in even the city’s more modest residences. “The craftsmanship and quality of those houses was insane,” Bynum explains, adding that “they are a testament to the time period [in which they were built].”

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At the end of each episode in season one, the pair packed up their air mattress and other belongings in a grocery cart, moving down the street to their next challenge. That cart is now located near the entrance of the store, symbolic perhaps of how far they’ve come. Design assistant Justin Mueller, on board since July, says the retail space is a natural extension of the show and concentrates on an interesting mix of furniture and accessories from all eras that fits the brand. “We weave in vintage and new for an elevated look,” he explains. That mix is a major part of the appeal. “Money shouldn’t stop you from having a great house,” Bynum says, describing their interiors as “budget conscious, with style.” Always on the hunt for the underpriced and unexpected, they “love thrifting, Facebook Marketplace, garage sales, and, when we have time, estate sales,” says Thomas. They also haunt local Habitat for Humanity ReStore locations, especially the one in Farmington Hills. “At this point, they pull things we like.” Some finds end up on the show, others for sale in the shop. Featured during a recent visit was a sinuous curved sofa newly re-covered in sherpa and priced at $1,200. “The fabric on it was awful, but the shape drew us in,” Mueller explains. “We look for anything unique,” adds Bynum, who decorates each Bargain Block house according to a theme. “I love the ’80s, and I’m really into geometric fabrics,” he adds. Not everything is old, however. “One way to style a room is to add one new item,” Bynum says, “maybe new accent chairs or a new dining table with thrifted chairs.” Plans for the store include more artisan and home renovation workshops, says brand director Emmi Mayo. “We are trying to offer things to the community that might be missing,” Bynum says.

 Seen in episode one of the first season, the “Mod House” bedroom with its striking headboard and dark accent wall “is one of the most inexpensive rooms I’ve ever done,” Bynum explains. He adds that choosing a color tone unifies a space and makes it easy to look for both thrifted and new items that fit.

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 Blue geometric art by Bynum and inviting chairs brighten up the interior of this cottage-style house featured in episode three of season one. Houses are completely furnished and are move-in ready when renovations are complete, making them perfect for first-time buyers. The pair haunts thrift stores, Facebook Marketplace, garage sales, and estate sales for unusual furnishings.

This home, known as the “White Box,” was also featured in episode three and includes a kitchen with Bynum’s nowfamous cedar slat art. Each of their homes features an inventive mix of new and old pieces. “We’re trying to make sure homes stay affordable for first-time home buyers,” says Bynum. 

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 Thomas (left) and Bynum in their Detroit workshop and studio, located at the back of Nine Design + Homes’ vintage building.

“The TV show put a spotlight ON WH AT WE WE RE DOIN G A N D D R EW IN O TH E R PAS S IO NATE P EO P LE,” —KEITH BYNUM

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 The bathroom of a “Classy Cape” in season one was given a striking interpretation with paint and tile. “I love making a bathroom moody and dramatic,” Bynum says of the space.

“It’s hard to make a lot of impact in small spaces, but a little glow-in-thedark paint and tape can go a long way,” says the ever-inventive Bynum seen here taping the wall of a bathroom featured in the first season. “Overall, Detroit is the best city I’ve lived in,” he says. “You can’t get better than the kindness of the people here.” 

That’s a Wrap

Bynum and Thomas recently wrapped up filming season two, featuring homes on Detroit’s west side; it will air this summer. You can see them now on Rock the Block, which pits them against other HGTV renovators. Along the way, they say, they’ve fallen in love with Detroit, its people, and its iconic architecture. They’ve enjoyed exploring the city’s vast architectural heritage. Bynum even admits to coveting the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Palmer Woods. “Aesthetically, that is my dream house,” he says. “The paneling, the windows … I just love it.” Both are big fans of Detroit’s historic districts, including Boston-Edison and Palmer Woods. “They’re so different than the type of renovations we do. It would be fun to do something like that,” Thomas says, adding they might in the future. “You never know.” Season two brings some changes. The couple no longer moves into every house they rehabilitate. “I don’t miss that element,” Thomas adds. Bynum agrees: “It just makes our lives so much easier.” Neither count a future move out, but it won’t be for the show. “We are always open to a better deal,” Bynum says, adding they keep their eyes on what’s available in Sherwood Forest, Boston-Edison, and Rosedale Park. In the works is a possible spin-off series and their own “moody and eclectic” furniture line. Bynum hopes to make and sell more of his original art through the store. “I’ve been blown away by the response,” he says. They’ve also begun offering athome design services, helping people get their look at home. Upgrades to the store, including a new eyecatching mural, are also on tap. They look back over the past five years with wonder. “We have felt a lot of momentum building,” Bynum says. “I sometimes can’t believe how far we’ve come.”

 Thomas, Detroit-based real estate agent Shea Hicks-Whitfield, and Bynum check out prospects during season one of Bargain Block. Bynum first came to Detroit in 2017 on his birthday and bought his first house for $12,000 without even seeing the inside.

Bynum, an artist, made the unusual fringe headboard for the “Palm House” bedroom in season one, episode two. He is looking forward to selling more of his original work through the new Detroit showroom located in the city’s Old Redford neighborhood. 

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Pristine crudos, impeccable pastas, and stunningly presented whole fish — all paired with thoughtful and intentional wines — are hallmarks of the meticulous cuisine at Oak & Reel.

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Opposite page: Pastas such as agnolotti, lumache, and gnocchi are made inhouse every day. Chef Jared Gadbaw’s goal is to make Oak & Reel the best place for pasta in the Midwest. This page: Abby Gadbaw says Jared always hoped to move back to Michigan and open a restaurant. Jared says his wife “has been my partner every step of the way,” from raising money to stepping in as a server’s assistant when they were short-staffed.

hen Abby and Jared Gadbaw were raising money for their contemporary Italian restaurant, Oak & Reel, a few years ago, Jared was feeling optimistic about its potential. He said to his wife, “This is going to be a success. There’s no way we’re going to fail unless something catastrophic happens,” Abby recalls. As the chef de cuisine at the acclaimed New York City Italian restaurant Marea — which earned two Michelin stars under his stewardship — and with stints at some of New York’s top restaurants, like the renowned Eleven Madison Park, Gadbaw had built an impressive career in the Big Apple. But that wasn’t the Garden City native’s endgame. “When I met him back in 2009, he was always very clear with me that he was going to move back to Michigan and he was going to open a restaurant,” Abby says. “That was always his dream.” In 2018, the Gadbaws moved to Michigan and began raising capital and looking for locations. Then March 2020 came, bringing with it the novel coronavirus that threatened to derail their plans. “When the [state issued shutdown orders] in March, we were about five weeks away from construction completion,” Gadbaw says. “We were out of money, so we really needed to open. I had rent [to pay]. There were expenses coming in.” There was no turning back. After an initial investor didn’t work out, he and Abby raised money among their family and friends and secured a small business loan. That plus his life savings were all in the 9,000 square feet that comprises both floors of Oak & Reel. For someone who wants every plate to be perfect, offering curbside carryout of the pristine crudos and artfully plated pastas for which Oak & Reel has become known wasn’t really an option. The Gadbaws waited it out until September 2020, when they finally had their grand opening, but business was slow for the new restaurant. They’d do 25 meals on a Sunday, “a painful thing [to see], as a business owner,” Gadbaw says.

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impeccable dishes showcasing the freshest seafood, all presented with welcoming and knowledgeable service, is the reason we’re naming Oak & Reel Hour Detroit’s Restaurant of the Year.

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Above: Several Oak & Reel dishes, such as whole fish and the bestselling octopus, are prepared using the wood-fired hearth. Gadbaw hopes to make the hearth into more of a focal point during service. Opposite page: Gadbaw sources his seafood from Motor City Seafood. “We work with them to make sure we’re getting the best product we can get, but also with sustainability in mind," he says.

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Oak & Reel had been open just a few weeks before the state issued another shutdown order, amid another wave of the virus. Another popular pandemic pivot, outdoor dining structures like igloos, was also not an option. “You can’t serve fish on anything that will stay warm enough to eat it outside. And so we just kind of hunkered down and did our best to keep the lights on,” he says. That meant turning the heat off all last winter; making pastas and sauces for provision boxes while wearing his coat in the kitchen, aided only by his general manager, Alyse Anderson, because he couldn’t afford to have more staff; and then delivering boxes himself. Since the restaurant was able to open again on Feb. 4, 2021, it has been steadily growing and putting out food closer to that of Gadbaw’s vision. The past two years have decimated the restaurant industry, and those who have managed to survive and thrive have done so through sheer determination, innovation, and strength. When debating which singular restaurant to laud in these turbulent times (we selected a Restaurateur of the Year in 2021, in lieu of honoring an establishment), we were faced with tough choices. How could we single out just one, when so many restaurateurs and chefs have gone through so much to keep providing excellent food and service? One restaurant did stand out. Oak & Reel’s resilience in the face of extreme adversity and its commitment to the vision of bringing diners

Driving down Grand Boulevard, one can see the vestiges of a rich past and signs of a rapidly developing future. For a century, Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction neighborhood had been the epicenter of commercial and industrial activity. Taking its name from two of Michigan’s earliest railways — the Detroit, the Grand Haven & Milwaukee and the Michigan Central line — the neighborhood was home to the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, where the first Model T was created. Over the years, it became known as an arts hub, with beloved spaces like the Tangent and Baltimore galleries and the Jam Handy, a former film production company turned events space, as well as techno label Submerge Records. In recent years, the neighborhood has seen an influx of development and investment, with a crop of new restaurants like Freya and bars like Kiesling setting up shop (in New Center, just west down the street, there’s another restaurant boom, with the second location of Supino Pizzeria as well as Baobab Fare and Yum Village opening in recent years). While in New York, Gadbaw would keep an eye on what was happening back home. He’d read about restaurants like Selden Standard opening up in Cass Corridor, planting seeds for the type of community-oriented restaurant he hoped to open himself someday. “I came to Detroit because I wanted to be a part of the growth of the city,” he says. “I just want to provide a product that is as good as you would find anywhere in this country.” Built in 1928, the two-story building home to Oak & Reel had been abandoned for decades, Gadbaw says. At one point it was a film development facility. But after decades of neglect, the building fell into disrepair. It would require extensive work to bring it up to good condition, much less transform it into a high-end restaurant. But Jen Childs, design director of Versa Design, who has a background in historic preservation, saw the potential in the “beautiful and large” space. “A lot of the original structure was intact, and the ceiling heights were amazing,” Childs says. “Jared wanted to maintain as much of the original fabric as possible. So he wasn’t trying to hide it. He was really thinking about, how can we enhance it?” Throughout the dining room, many of the building’s original features, such as exposed brick, columns, and beams, have been preserved. Those elements blend in seamlessly with the newer touches that Versa Design — composed of Childs and her architect husband, Nicholas Kothari — conceptualized. To compensate for the vastness of the room, which could lead to

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unpleasant noise levels, the Versa team incorporated floating ceiling elements that are functional as well as stylish. The decor itself is classic and timeless, with a color palette of blues and grays that combines with an abundance of woods to create a crisp and clean aesthetic. Two communal tables, crafted by Ferndale's Wall Woodworking, sit near the front of the restaurant and serve to add warmth to the space, Childs says. Versa was very hands-on, even helping to arrange the jars of preserves that adorn the wall shelves. While the restaurant offers the service and food of a high-end restaurant, it is designed to be welcoming and comfortable. “That was one thing that he always wanted us to keep in mind,” Childs says. “[Jared said], ‘I want people to feel like they can walk off the street and have a great meal. … I don’t want anyone to feel excluded.’”

THE TEAM Growth is a constant theme for Gadbaw. A few hours before service on a Sunday, chefs prep for dinner, plucking leaves off sprigs of herbs, chopping cauliflower, and stirring pots of sauce. Gadbaw inspects a sheet pan with four loaves of sourdough cooling atop a rack. “Jonathan!” he calls out to pastry chef Jonathan Peregrino. “Yes, sir!” Peregrino walks over from the dish pit to where Gadbaw is standing with a loaf in his hands. Peregrino says immediately, “I know,” in response to Gadbaw’s silence, which speaks his critique of the bread. He waits for Peregrino to tell him what he thinks is wrong. “Is it too light?” Peregrino asks. “You could’ve let it cook longer. But the ear is

great,” Gadbaw says, pointing to the extra-crunchy flap on the surface of the loaf. As pastry chef of Oak & Reel, Peregrino oversees the creation and execution of the decadent chocolate tarts, the sorbets that capture the flavors of fruit at peak ripeness, and the little treats of cookies and pate de fruit served at the end of the meal. Peregrino was hired on as a pastry assistant, before moving up the ranks. He says he has learned a lot from Gadbaw, in his first real restaurant job after his career switch from the corporate world. “He tries to create a culture of everyone having input,” says Peregrino, who has had a few dishes make it onto the menu, under Gadbaw’s guidance. One of those dishes fulfilled Gadbaw’s desire to feature an item that is both vegan and gluten-free on the dessert menu. Inspired by his Filipino background, Peregrino created a risotto based on ginataang, a coconut sweet rice served with jackfruit. It’s been on the menu for almost a year, prepared with different fruits and sorbets to reflect the season. “He gives me the opportunity to try [new things],” Peregrino says. “And if it doesn’t work out, then he offers his suggestions on what we can do. And he even questions me, like, ‘What do you think this means?’" “He is pushing me to develop my palate and my thinking while it still fits within his vision of what the restaurant is. And I’m very fortunate for that. He’s put a lot of faith in me.” General manager Alyse Anderson echoes that sentiment. “He wants the food to be good. But he also wants to create an environment where a chef has the ability to grow and learn. He’s always in the kitchen; they’re trying out new dishes, learning new things, talking about new techniques, and it’s just constant growth.”

This page: Gadbaw (left and above) with some of the kitchen team: From back left: Nicole Soloway, Jared Gadbaw, Blake Feuerman, Chris Dubios Bottom left: Nick Sedlon, Jonathan Peregrino Opposite page: The precise service at Oak & Reel is on par with the exquisite food. While Oak & Reel isn’t a white-tablecloth restaurant, the knowledgeable staff provide that elevated experience with attentive, welcoming, and friendly service. Pictured: Wine and service manager, Bruce Felts

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THE FOOD When it comes to the food, Gadbaw’s approach is to keep things fresh, simple, and balanced, whether it’s pasta, seafood, or poultry. If there is one thing that metro Detroit doesn’t lack, it’s Italian food. From red sauce joints to highend white tablecloth destinations, options abound for a beautifully made plate of pasta. So, it takes a lot of skill to make pasta that is memorable. But Gadbaw learned from some of the best, and when it comes to pasta, he doesn’t disappoint. Pastas are made every day in-house, and whether it’s an agnolotti filled with veal breast and wild mushroom or squid ink lumache with shrimp and crab, each dish is crafted with precision and cooked to textural perfection. While the dishes will rotate — Gadbaw admits he doesn’t like cooking the same things over and over — one pasta staple is the bucatini, a seemingly simple dish of noodles lightly sauced with pureed peppers, preserved lemons, and walnuts, with a smattering of pecorino cheese. The preserved lemons bring liveliness and brightness, while the peppers offer a little kick. It’s deceptively simple. The other part of the Oak & Reel equation is the seafood. While not necessarily a rare sight, a seafood restaurant in a meat-and-potatoes town like Detroit is still a tall order. Gadbaw says he sells a lot of steaks and chicken. But with some of the freshest fish and seafood provided by Motor City Seafood Co., Gadbaw is up to the challenge — even if it means breaking a few rules. For example, the octopus — another Oak & Reel staple — is paired with house-made stracciatella. Though considered a faux pas, Gadbaw likes the combination of seafood and cheese. And in a dish like the octopus, which blends textures and flavors masterfully, it works. The smokiness from the hearth, the unctuousness of the cheese, and the bitterness of the radicchio combine to create a symphony on a plate. Anything under “today’s specials” is not to be missed. One night, my companion and I split the Dover sole, another dish that exemplifies the skill and craft of the kitchen. It was pan-roasted whole, with a silky bagna cauda butter sauce and roasted cauliflower. We also got the langoustine cooked a la plancha. The sweet and tender New Zealand prawns were simply dressed with lemon and paired with a spicy arugula. One of the best dishes I tried was, coincidentally, not pasta or seafood but an expertly prepared duck, inspired by Eleven Madison Park’s former signature dish, Duck with Daikon and Plum. The duck is dry aged for two weeks, and then it’s rubbed with honey and roasted in a convection oven. The duck was presented tableside in all of its lacquered glory, before it was carved up into perfect portions plated with figs and endive. The skin was as crisp as a new dollar bill. The meat, tender and flavorful, was balanced perfectly with

This page: The Serpenti cocktail is a refreshing take on the margarita, with tequila reposado, passion fruit, Calabrian chili, and lime. The risotto — inspired by coconut-based Filipino dish ginataang — is served with seasonal fruits and sorbets. Opposite page: The octopus — an Oak & Reel staple — is paired with house-made stracciatella. Though considered a faux pas, Gadbaw likes combining seafood and cheese. And in a dish like the octopus, which blends textures and flavors masterfully, it works.

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Pair like a pro FLAVORFUL PAIRINGS FROM WINE DIRECTOR AND SOMMELIER BRUCE FELTS: “The bucatini pairs incredibly well with lighterbodied red wines from Sicily. Sicilian reds based off the grapes Nerello Mascalese or Frappato always show an incredible citrusy component, along with soft earthy notes and a touch of oceanic salinity. This ties the wine incredibly well to the bucatini, whereby the preserved lemon pairs great with that citrusy freshness, the nutty richness from the walnuts plays very interestingly with the more earthy components of the wine, and the salty pecorino cheese brings out the most from the juicy brightness of the fruit notes and that kiss of saline that results from the proximity of the grapes from the sea.” “We also really like Bisson’s 2019 Marea white blend from the Cinque Terre in Liguria paired with the frutti di mare and polenta appetizer. Bisson’s Marea is a white wine that has incredible texture that is the result of extremely detail-focused winemaking. In hailing from Liguria, the wine also showcases the taste of the sea that results from the vines overlooking the Gulf of Genoa. Moreover, the scruffy Mediterranean herbs that grow all across Liguria also lend a slight herbal component to the wine. The slightly salty profile of the wine perfectly complements the seafood in the dish (clam, mussel, calamari), while the richness of the texture and the slight herbaceous undertones match up perfectly with the richness of the creamy polenta and freshness of the tomato-based sauce.”

This page: The menu rotates often, based on what's in season and on which is the best fish available on any given day. Opposite page: The decor is classic and timeless. A palette of blues and grays joins wooden fixtures to create a crisp and clean aesthetic.

the sweet fruit and bitter greens. The other dish, which we enjoyed so much we ordered two, was the potatoes, prepared as a pave. While Oak & Reel is an Italian restaurant, there are an abundance of French techniques and nuances. The potatoes also came with bright little jewels of trout roe, tying in the seafood element. “It’s reminiscent of Jewish latkes,” Gadbaw says. “It plays on a lot of people’s nostalgic memories. It’s a comfort food. There are so many different regions of people’s brains that I can touch with different ingredients.” That doesn’t necessarily mean expensive ingredients. “Food can be so simple and so delicious,” he says. “I try to keep to as few components as I can. I like to buy good ingredients and treat them with respect.” Referring to Gadbaw’s commitment to sourcing only the best ingredients possible, wine director and sommelier Bruce Felts says he wants “the wine program to mirror that idea by only working with wines that are produced using progressive viticulture [sustainable, organic, biodynamic] and minimalistic winemaking [sans additives, etc.] so that wines we work with represent the best, most exciting wines you can get at each and every price point.” The wines by the glass skew Italian, with some French and West Coast options as well. Felts notes that the relationship between food and wine, as it is seen in the U.S., is vastly different from that in Europe.

“In the U.S., we often tend to focus more on drinking and less on pairing wine with food. In this way, I hope that at Oak & Reel we are slowly converting people to this appreciation of a good food and wine pairing.”

THE FUTURE Oak & Reel has come a long way since the days of slow Sundays and Gadbaw delivering provision boxes himself. But in his eyes, much remains to be done to achieve his lofty ambitions, including that of becoming “the best pasta place in the Midwest.” Later this year, Gadbaw plans to open a 25-seat cocktail bar in the basement. It's one of the projects that was shoved to the back burner when COVID-19 hit and money ran out. The bar will feature a mix of classics and more casual finger foods. There’s still room to grow as far as he’s concerned. “I’m still kind of waiting for the real opening,” Gadbaw says. “Everything has been in a state of stasis.” There’s the constant uncertainty with COVID and new variants, the never-ending staffing shortages, the barriers preventing them from achieving their full potential." “I want to expand the menu. I want people to be driving up from Ohio, coming in from Chicago. I want this place to be somewhere that is very special,” he says. “I just want to see it reach its potential. I don’t think we’re even 60 percent of what we could be.”

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Jeffrey H. DeClaire, M.D., F.A.A.O.S. Board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopeadic knee specialist Dr. Jeffrey H. DeClaire and the team at Michigan Knee Institute are committed to improving patients’ mobility and quality of life by utilizing advanced technology and the most innovative minimally invasive procedures and treatment options, performing over 1000 knee surgeries a year. For over 25 years, Dr. DeClaire has been an international leader in the advancements and innovations in outpatient partial and total knee replacement surgery. By implementing a combination of robotic technology and minimally invasive techniques, Dr. DeClaire performs most knee replacement procedures on an outpatient basis, allowing patients to recover faster and with less pain. His first goal is to preserve or restore the normal cartilage. If the degeneration of the cartilage progresses, then partial or total knee replacement can be performed using methods that minimize the trauma to the tissue for a more rapid recovery. Dr. DeClaire remains at the top of his field by working with international orthopaedic surgeons who devise new techniques and procedures for partial and total knee replacement surgery. He does this by combining robotic technology and innovation with minimally invasive techniques. Dr. DeClaire remains at the top of his field by working with international orthopaedic surgeons who devise new techniques and procedures for partial and total knee replacement surgery. His involvement in developing surgical techniques and the design of knee implants has led to advancements in orthopaedic knee surgery. Dr. DeClaire’s philosophy is to find practical solutions that use the least invasive approach to preserve or restore normal knee anatomy, personalizing each treatment plan that is specific for each patient. Michigan Knee Institute is a state-of-the-art medical facility providing patients with the best possible outcomes for injured and damaged knees. The practice offers full-service treatments, including minimally invasive partial and total knee replacements, robotic knee surgery, outpatient knee replacement, cartilage restoration, and arthroscopy to help get patients back on their feet and back to their active lives. ■

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Top Chiropractors Adeela Peer, D.C. Peer Chiropractic Wellness Center 3950 S. Rochester Rd., Ste. 2450 Rochester Hills 248-396-7426 contact@peerchiro.com peerchiro.com Derek Pehur Pehur Chiropractic Center Shelby Township Cara Phillips Porter & Clark Chiropractic Flat Rock John Pispidikis Spinal Recovery Center Warren Danielle P. Potter Canton Center Chiropractic Clinic Canton Robert E. Potter Canton Center Chiropractic Clinic Canton Lisa A. Price Dr. Lisa A. Price, D.C., P.C. Roseville Jeffrey K. Rauch Rauch Chiropractic Life Center Sterling Heights

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Upchurch Chiropractic Dr. Stephen M. Upchurch is a dedicated practitioner who graduated summa cum laude and was ranked fifth in his class at Life Chiropractic College. While submerging himself in the care of his patients, he has received numerous awards for his hard work and dedication. Dr. Upchurch is an accomplished specialist who provides a wide variety of techniques, ranging from hands-on to instrument adjusting chiropractic techniques, intersegmental traction, manual lumbar traction, and cervical traction. He uses nonsurgical spinal decompression and McKenzie repetitive motion, as well as laser and massage therapy, for patients who suffer from lumbar or cervical disc issues. If you’re looking for proven results and dedicated service for your back, neck, or nerve pain, call Upchurch Chiropractic at 248-545-8550. ■

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Peer Chiropractic Wellness Center Dr. Adeela Peer is an awardwinning chiropractic physician with more than 16 years of experience. She’s also an international advanced laser educator and trainer, corporate wellness speaker, and nutritional consultant. Dr. Peer puts her patients’ needs first, offering each patient a unique, individualized care plan. With technology constantly evolving, Dr. Peer prides herself on staying ahead of the curve with continuous learning and training. The days of aggressive cracking and popping are a thing of the past; Dr. Peer provides elite gentle chiropractic care that will make you feel better, increase mobility and range of motion, and correct posture. ■

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03.22 ARTS, CULTURE, AND OTHER THINGS TO DO

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THE MUSIC MAN The Detroit Symphony Orchestra looked from within when appointing its 18th music director p. 71

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Adult’s ninth album, Becoming Undone, released last month. 

 In his exhibit, Banana Moon Horn, legendary Detroit painter Allie McGhee explores shape, form, and abstraction.

MARCH 2022

Culture Calendar Our carefully curated guide to the month in arts and entertainment BY RYA N PATRICK HOOPE R VISUAL ARTS

Curtain Call for a Handful of Shows at Cranbrook

Last chance to see Olga de Amaral’s gorgeous To Weave a Rock at the Cranbrook Art Museum, which will also see an exhibit from Allie McGhee close on March 20. This is the popular Latin American artist’s first major museum retrospective, and her woven sculptures are some of the most mesmerizing and tactile art you’ll see this year in metro Detroit. While Amaral hails from Bogotá, Colombia, McGhee has been a pillar of Detroit’s art

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community for decades. His retrospective Banana Moon Horn is a journey through shape, form, and abstraction — a vivid journey that will bring some color to the gray landscape of the season. You can find out more about both exhibits via cranbrookartmuseum. org/current-exhibitions.

AT THE CINEMA

Big (Oscar) Shorts at the Detroit Film Theatre

Movie season can tear us apart — you want what for best picture? — but if there’s something that can heal the divide, it’s the beloved Oscarnominated shorts at the

 Catch Olga de Amaral’s woven sculptures at the Cranbrook Art Museum before her exhibit wraps up toward the end of this month.

Detroit Film Theatre. The full government name of the yearly installation of buzzworthy flicks is the Academy Award Nominated Animation Short Films and Live Action Short Films — catchy! These animated and live action short films are hard to find on the big screen, unless you swing by the DFT for one of its many showings. This is by far its most popular event of the year and for good reason. It’s usually an incredible introduction to talented filmmakers who haven’t yet had their shot at a featurelength. Animation short films are screened separately from live action short films, but we recommend indulging in both. There’s also an entire program of documentary shorts that runs close to three hours if you haven’t gotten your fill yet. A full list of showtimes through the end of the month can be found at dia.org/events. LIVE MUSIC

Spring Touring Season Arrives in Detroit

There’s such a bevy of excellent live bands making a stop in Detroit this month and into the spring that I had to round them up in one place. We’ll start with Charlotte Day Wilson at The Shelter (March 2) — a tiny venue in downtown Detroit for

the strong, sultry voice of this moody Canadian singer-songwriter. If you’re looking for something louder, weirder, and more homegrown, punkmetal-electro hybrid The Armed (from Detroit!) is returning for a homecoming show at El Club (March 5). The Toronto jazzmeets-hip-hop trio BadBadNotGood is touring behind their latest album with a stop at the Majestic Theatre (March 11). Billie Eilish lands her massive arena tour at Little Caesars Arena (March 12), while Alt-J and Portugal. The Man bring the indie rock show of the spring to the Detroit Masonic Temple (March 16). This is just the beginning of a busy tour season in Detroit as artists from all over the globe continue to get back on the road and play a show for us.

On My Playlist Adult Returns, Ready to Run Through a Brick Wall There’s nothing like the husband-and-wife duo of Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus, who make up the electronicpunk duo Adult. Their ninth album, Becoming Undone, released last month on Dais Records, features more abrasive drums courtesy of Miller on the Roland percussion pads and Kuperus’ signature singgrowl that’s become iconic in the city’s diverse music scene. “We weren’t interested in melody or harmony since we didn’t see the world having that,” Miller said in a release. If you’re feeling the same way, Adult has made a record that will fit your mood. Available to stream or buy wherever you get your music.

Ryan Patrick Hooper is the host of CultureShift on 101.9 WDET Detroit’s NPR station (weekdays from noon to 2 p.m.).

ALLIE MCGHEE COURTESY OF HILL GALLERY MUSICIANS COURTESY OF ADULT OLGA DE AMARAL COURTESY OF OLGA DE AMARAL/THE PATINOIRE ROYALE- GALERIE VALERIE BACH

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Jader Bignamini (left) and Erik Rönmark are committed to making the DSO’s music accessible to all Detroiters. 

SPOTLIGHT

PROLOGUE TO A NEW SYMPHONY Two appointments usher in 2022 at the DSO BY RYAN PATRICK HOOPER

A NEW ERA OF LEADERSHIP AND MUSICAL DIRECTION has arrived at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Former DSO vice president and general manager Erik Rönmark has been appointed to take longtime president and CEO Anne Parsons’ position at the helm, as Jader Bignamini settles in as the orchestra’s 18th music director. It’s a lot of change for any operation to undergo in a short period of time, and some of those changes are arriving earlier than expected. After 17 years, Parsons stepped down in December, to focus on her cancer treatment. She has led one of the city’s oldest cultural institutions through plenty — the appointment of two music directors, labor disputes, and navigating a pandemic that reinforced the DSO’s commitment to digital interaction with an aging audience. Rönmark will carry that torch, having worked with Parsons his entire career as he moved up the ranks. The 44-year-old started as a part-time assistant in the music library there in 2005. “She was always pushing us when we were working together,” Rönmark says. “She wanted us to think about what’s next for the orchestra, what’s next for our industry, and what is the role of an orchestra for a city like Detroit. That’s embedded in our DNA now. I’m really excited about leading it.” Rönmark is a classically trained musician and plays the saxophone (he even performed alongside Branford Marsalis at Orchestra Hall at a recent DSO fundraiser). A native of Sweden, he grew up listening to DSO recordings and holds a doctorate in musical arts from the University of Michigan. Now, he has a chance to leave his mark on the institution for decades to come. Rönmark says that begins with making it more accessible for Detroiters. ERIK RÖNMARK, JADER BIGNAMINI COURTESY OF DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/CYBELLE CODISH

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March at the DSO Experience the DSO at Orchestra Hall and throughout metro Detroit, at programs curated and performed by DSO musicians. Upcoming performances at Orchestra Hall include: Classical Roots: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis alongside the DSO, March 4 and 5, and The Best of Rodgers & Hammerstein, March 25-27. This month’s community programs take place in Ferndale, Southfield, Monroe, Beverly Hills, Plymouth, West Bloomfield, and Grosse Pointe. Go to dso. org/events-and-tickets/ list for a full schedule.

“A lot of the initiatives that we have going now are trying to really be more in the city. We are in Midtown, but Detroit is a huge city,” Rönmark says. “We want to be something for everyone in Detroit. If you can’t come to Orchestra Hall, we want to find a way to come to you.” Joining him in this mission is Music Director Jader Bignamini, who was hired in 2020 and is in the midst of his first season leading the orchestra in front of a live audience. “The music director has to convince all the musicians that we are on the right track,” laughs Bignamini, a native of Italy who has conducted for some of the most acclaimed orchestras around the world. “It’s not easy work, but here at the DSO, I think it’s easier because we have a very good team and very good leadership. [Rönmark] knows business, but he also knows music.” In May, Bignamini will conduct Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony — a marquee classical music performance that includes “Ode to Joy.” Those performances will be paired with work from 40-year-old living composer Hannah Lash — a point of focus for the DSO and other orchestras looking to embrace a wider range of contemporary work from a diverse palette of composers. Rönmark says that one-third of the works being performed this season are by living composers and that 25 percent of those composers are Black. “One thing we have focused on for many years here are neglected composers,” Rönmark says. “Such a big part of an organization like ours is not just playing the music of dead composers — because it is their works that have stood the test of time — but how can you add new works to that if you don’t explore and see what’s out there?” At the DSO, that exploration is marked by a new era under new leadership. But there’s no doubt Anne Parsons’ influence and legacy is the foundation on which Rönmark and Bignamini are building “new works.” M A RC H 2 0 2 2

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General Manager Mike Duker greets passengers at the redesigned lobby, part of the facility’s $1.5 million renovation at Oakland County International Airport. 

TRAVEL

High Class A new luxury airport terminal takes off in Waterford Township BY MEGAN SWOYER | PHOTOS BY JOSH SCOTT

METRO DETROITERS NOW have a whole new way to travel. In November, the former Oakland Air charter facility at Oakland County International Airport in Waterford Township reopened with brand-new tenants and a world-class upgrade. Premier Jet Services, a fixed-base operator owned by the Florida-based full-service air charter company Premier Private Jets, now operates out of the facility. The launch involved extensive building renovations by Rhoads and Johnson Construction that totaled about $1.5 million, including a fully redesigned lobby, a full-service aviation catering kitchen, a new pilots’ lounge, and renovated office spaces. “With private air travel increasing, our expansion is a direct response to these new industry demands and the reality that more people are choosing to avoid busy commercial airport terminals,” says Josh Birmingham, chief executive officer of Premier Private Jets. Birmingham is no stranger to the world of aviation and as an entrepreneur is actively involved with the day-to-day operations. In fact, the Linden native was a pilot for Oakland Air before he started his own pilot-training business. He then moved on to the charter-jet business, building up his fleet over time and launching Premier Private Jets in 2013. The welcoming, open space in the terminal is modern, with clean-lined appointments and pops of bright oranges complementing crisp whites. “The former facility was dated,” says Marty Hetherington, director of marketing for Premier Private Jets. “It had closed-off spaces. We took down a major wall to open it up and added a higher ceiling. This benefits pilots and passengers alike.” Travelers might also be tucked into one of three glass quiet rooms, ideal locations for a quick phone call pre-flight or checking in with family before takeoff. A door to the pilots’ lounge (there are 35 pilots total — and their numbers are growing) leads to a quiet space with special adjustable lighting and

 Chef Adam Jarvis prepares in-flight entrees with fresh ingredients (above); a Gulfstream G450, Gulfstream V, and King Air 350 in the Premier Jet Services hangar (top). Flight costs are variable depending on availability and distance. For more information and to book flights visit premierprivatejets.com.

the latest in reclining chair design for ultimate comfort. Then there are the birds themselves, which range from a Citation to a Gulfstream, which can hold up to 14 passengers. Hawkers also pull in and out regularly for, say, quick trips to Florida. The luxury continues in-flight with meals prepared by chef Adam Jarvis. “We can accommodate just about any request,” Jarvis says. He’s been in aviation catering since 1999 and has created in-flight entrees for everyone from business moguls and celebrities (yes, coq au vin is available) to families who want a tray of PB&J sandwiches. What you won’t see at this sparkling facility are jammed parking lots, long lines, grumpy travelers, stale airport food, grouchy travel agents, or slow security lines. This kind of luxury flying, of course, isn’t cheap. To book an executive jet charter, you have a few options — you can book a small plane for a short trip between cities, a large airplane that can accommodate a whole department or business team, or a well-appointed business jet for longer trips. Different options come with different price models. How much the aircraft costs to operate and the value it delivers to clients will determine the charter rate for booking an executive jet. General Manager Mike Duker, who graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in aviation management, will likely be there to see you off or greet you. Says Duker: “My favorite part of my job is interacting with all of our clients and making sure their needs are being met.”

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Forget the green beer this St. Patrick’s Day, and toast Detroit’s rich Celtic heritage with a glass of Irish whiskey BY DOROTHY HE RNANDE Z AND TAMMY COXEN

 There’s no better place than Corktown to sip (or do shots of) Irish Whiskey this St. Patrick’s Day.

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MARCH 17 MAY BE St. Patrick’s Day, but in Detroit, the real party is on the Sunday before the 17th. That’s when the St. Patrick’s Parade works its way through Corktown’s streets in celebration of the city’s rich Irish history and culture. It’s also the biggest day of the year for Nancy Whiskey in North Corktown, says co-owner Gerry Stevens. According to organizers, the parade typically attracts 80,000-100,000 people, making it one of the largest St. Patrick’s parades in the country.

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“And it seems like I get half of that through my door on that day,” Stevens says. He typically sells 800 pounds of corned beef, and the whiskey also flows. “Let’s just say you have to have cases and cases and cases of whiskey,” he says. At the Corktown institution, Tullamore Dew has been the house Irish whiskey since the days when his aunt, who owned the bar before he took over more than 16 years ago, would offer first-timers a shot of the whiskey. These days the bar’s love of the Irish whiskey is on prominent display in the back patio, where there’s a 6-foot Tullamore Dew bottle carved out of a tree Stevens chopped down. Irish immigrants first began arriving in Detroit in the early 1800s, and by the 1850s, over half the population of the city’s Eighth Ward was of Irish heritage. With most of them hailing from County Cork, the neighborhood quickly became known as Corktown. While the demographics have changed, Irish immigrants’ impact on the neighborhood has been long lasting and can be seen in its gathering places that pay homage to Corktown’s Irish culture, history, and of course, whiskey. For the most authentic Irish experience of all, look into becoming a member of the Detroit Gaelic League Irish American Club, which was founded in 1920 in Corktown. With a goal of preserving and promoting Irish culture, this Irish social center offers live music and other events, along with pints and whiskey aplenty. McShane’s Irish Pub & Whiskey Bar offers an extensive Irish whiskey selection, including many from a new crop of innovators. This includes Connemara, launched in 2012, which is the only peated Irish whiskey currently widely available. The bar has three selections from Teeling, which in 2015 became the first distillery to open in the Irish capital of Dublin in over 125 years. Another interesting offering is Concannon, which is a collaboration between the California winemaker and Cooley Distillery in Ireland, featuring Irish whiskey finished in Petite Sirah wine casks. At Nancy Whiskey, home to “Detroit’s oldest party,” Stevens says the bar carries a selection of 15 “tried and true” Irish whiskeys like Bushmills, Clontarf, Fighting 69th, and other classics. “We don’t look to just carry anything and everything. I personally have to taste it before we put it on the bar. ” When he tastes Irish whiskey to offer at his bar, he’s looking for “caramel smoky flavor. I’m looking for smoothness, meaning you can swirl it in your mouth. … You’re also tasting the burn [and how it goes down].” While Jameson seems to be the most common pick among patrons, especially among the younger crowd, Stevens is always willing to share his knowledge and love of whiskey to help people broaden their horizons. “We’ve got a lot of people come in and say they want two shots of Jameson. So I say, ‘Can I introduce you to something else? Try this or try that.’ And a lot of times I’ll say, ‘Listen, let me buy you a shot of this.’” WHISKEY ISTOCK/IGORR1

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Hustle and Rind Michigan is home to artisanal makers crafting Brie, Gouda, and other high-quality cheeses BY D O ROTHY HE RNANDE Z P H O T O BY RE BE CCA SIMONOV

 Top to bottom: Boss Mouse Cheese Montasio, Oro French Feta, Fluffy Bottom Farms Camembert, Williams Extra Sharp Pinconning Daisy Wedge

Camembert from Fluffy Bottom Farms

Each day, wheels are turned by hand, until the fuzzy white culture emerges and the cheese — made with milk from heritage breed cows — ages into a creamy Camembert. This Chelseabased farm specializes in artisanal, farmstead cheese, also making sheep’s milk Gouda, cheddar, ricotta, fromage, Chego (based on the Spanish Manchego), and feta. Find a store near you at facebook.com/ yum.fluffybottomfarms

Goat Mini Brie Cheese from Zingerman’s Creamery

This round of cheese may be small, but it packs big flavor with notes of earthy mushroom. There’s also the Classic Mini Brie, made with Calder Dairy milk. 3723 Plaza Drive, Ste. 2, Ann Arbor; 734-929-0500; zingermanscreamery.com

Montasio from Boss Mouse Cheese This northern Michigan cheese-maker combines traditional techniques

with modern recipes, such as this Alpine-style Italian recipe. Additions, driven by the seasons or by creative whim, include green peppercorn, za’atar, hot peppers with dried cherries, and more. Find it at Westborn Market; westbornmarket.com or bossmousecheese.com

Oro French Feta at The Cheese Lady

This creamy and mild cheese, made with local milk, is among three different kinds of feta

offered by this familyowned business. There’s also Greek (a firm, tangy, and sharp cheese) and Bulgarian (a double-cream cheese). 302 W. University Drive, Rochester; 248-4135758; thecheeselady.net

Summer Meadow from White Lotus Farms

This rich and creamy cow’s milk has a buttery and nutty flavor with a slight hint of tang that goes well with crackers or a baguette. Find a store near you at whitelotusfarms.com

Extra Sharp Pinconning Daisy Wedge from Williams Cheese Co.

No cheese conversation would be complete without Pinconning, the aged Colby-style cheese named after the city in mid-Michigan. This family-owned and operated business in Linwood, also makes a gourmet spread with Pinconning cheese. Find it at Westborn Market or online at williamscheese.com

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“Detroit really is the mecca of pizza. ... You get to experience so many different types of pizza at one time.” —JASON HALL

1 1 Classic Cheese Michigan and Trumbull’s classic Cheese pie is made with red sauce and a duo of mozzarella and parmesan cheeses.

2 The McLovin The McLovin typically comes with mozzarella, cheddar, iceberg lettuce, sweet onion, sesame seeds, and “awesome sauce,” but Hall likes to get it with Beyond Meat and red sauce, for a variation informally known as The Jason.

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As co-founder of Slow Roll, Jason Hall helped shine a spotlight on Detroit’s bike culture. Today, he continues to showcase the city through Ridetroit tours, including one all about the city’s best pizza joints BY DOROTHY H ER NA ND EZ | PH OT OS BY R EBECCA SI MONOV

 Jason Hall at Michigan and Trumbull in Corktown.

AS THE OLD adage goes, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Jason Hall has clearly found the right job. As the co-founder of Slow Roll Detroit, the popular weekly group bike ride that takes cyclists through all corners of the city, Hall helped advance Detroit’s bike culture. He left the organization in 2018 to found Ridetroit, an e-bike and

walking tour company. He started leading tours through Murals in the Market, showing everyone from students to international tourists work done by nationally and internationally renowned artists like Sheefy McFly, Sydney James, and others who call Detroit home. Beyond showcasing Detroit artists and street-art culture, Hall also leads tours through neighborhoods (Five Neighborhood Tour)

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and into pizza joints (Jason’s Pizza Tour). Pizza is a subject he’s passionate about. So much so that in 2017, he embarked on a yearlong journey of pizza-eating. That’s right — 365 days straight. In doing so, he realized the story of pizza was bigger than just a large cheese pie. He started talking up pizza to everyone he’d connect with and “we would get into this huge discussion,” says Hall. “So I’m like, this is bigger than eating pizza. Pizza is a lifestyle.” “Detroit really is the mecca of pizza,” he continues. “And I’m not just saying that because I live here. You get to experience so many different types of pizza at one time [in a two-hour tour],” he says. “You can have Supino’s thin crust. You can have Michigan and Trumbull, which is the new, up-and-coming square. And then you’ve got Buddy’s. You’ve got all three of those within biking distance.” The idea for the pizza tour came from his clients. “I’ve had people come from out of the state and they asked me right off, ‘Where’s Buddy’s?’ [The tour] was a no-brainer. I’m always looking for an opportunity to showcase my friends who are doing great things.”

Hall’s Pizza Tour Picks Buddy’s Any list of Detroit-style pizza needs to include Buddy’s. “You can’t forget Buddy’s. I would be remiss if I did not talk about the father of all of this,” Hall says. 1565 Broadway St., Detroit, 313-765-1500; 17125 Conant St., Detroit, 313-892-9001; more locations at buddyspizza.com Supino Pizzeria The popular pizzeria is located in Eastern Market, where Hall leads Murals in the Market tours. For his pizza tours, the story behind the pie is just as important as the pizza. He counts Dave Mancini as a friend, so chances are, “if you’re hanging out with me, you might have the opportunity to meet him” and hear his story. 2457 Russell St., Detroit, 313-567-7879; supinopizzeria.com Michigan and Trumbull According to Hall, this restaurant is part of a new-school breed of pizzeria with more creative toppings and modern flavor profiles. “You’re getting pickled onions; you’re getting different things that you wouldn’t think of. And that’s what I love about them: their dedication to staying true to Detroit-style pizza, but pushing the art forward.” Michigan and Trumbull, 1441 W. Elizabeth St., Detroit; 313-637-4992; michigantrumbull pizza.com

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drinks and such dishes as Avocado Toast, Kimchi Patatas Bravas, and the Babo Burger. 15 E. Kirby St., Ste. 115, Detroit; 313-974-6159. B,L,D daily.

Al Ameer $$ LEBANESE • This Lebanese restaurant is a recipient of the prestigious James Beard America’s Classics Award. The Al Ameer platter is perfect for sharing: two grape leaves, two fried kibbeh, chicken shawarma, tawook, kabob, kafta,and falafel. 12710 W. Warren Ave., Dearborn; 313-582-8185. 27346 Ford Road, Dearborn Heights; 313-565-9600 L,D Mon.-Sun. Amore da Roma $$ ITALIAN • Guy Pelino, Roma Café’s chef, took over the ownership reins of this restaurant on the edge of the Eastern Market. He retained the menu, adding a charcuterie board and updating the wine list, and didn’t change the character of the old-school restaurant, known for its steaks and pastas. 3401 Riopelle St., Detroit; 313-831-5940. L,D Tue.-Sat.

Baker’s Keyboard Lounge $$ SOUL FOOD • This iconic lounge serves soul food: beef short ribs with gravy, creamy mac and cheese, collard greens, and sweet cornbread muffins. 20510 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313-345-6300. L, D Tue.-Fri.

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Antonio’s Cucina Italiana $$ ITALIAN • The Rugieros have impressed restaurant guests for decades with authentic cuisine. Signature dishes include Gnocchi Rita and Chicken Antonio. There’s a full bar and a very extensive wine list. 2220 N. Canton Center Road, Canton; 734-981-9800. 26356 Ford Road, Dearborn Heights; 313-278-6000. 37646 W. 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills; 248-9944000. L,D daily. Apparatus Room $$$$ NEW AMERICAN • The Foundation Hotel’s restaurant, the Apparatus Room, once housed the Detroit Fire Department headquarters. The cooking of chef Thomas Lents, who earned two Michelin stars while at Chicago’s Sixteen, is refined and highly skilled. A separate Chef’s Table restaurant offers a pricey but delicious option. 250 W. Larned St., Detroit; 313-800-5600. D Wed.-Sun. Atwater in the Park $ GERMAN • At this casual spot, traditional Germanstyle beer is the beverage of choice. Chef Chris Franz’ noteworthy menu is compatible with such additions as a platter of local bratwurst and other sausages teamed with sauerkraut, plus Bavarian soft pretzels and pierogi. 1175 Lakepointe St., Grosse Pointe Park; 313-344-5104. L,D daily. Avalon Café and Bakery $$ ORGANIC BAKERY • The bakery’s mini-empire includes a café on Woodward Avenue in Detroit. Its bread is also the basis for dishes such as Avocado Toast with tahini, thinly curled cucumbers, lime, and chili flakes. Vegetarian fare includes a grilled veggie sandwich with portobello mushrooms, zucchini, and goat cheese. Meatier highlights include a turkey and gouda sandwich, and BLTA with cider house bacon. 1049 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-285-8006. B,L daily. Babo $ NEW AMERICAN • This café settled into the Midtown Park Shelton building in July 2019, serving elevated comfort food made from local, small-batch producers. The self-described gourmet diner offers espresso

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Baobab Fare $$ AFRICAN • With his New Center restaurant, Mamba Hamissi urges diners to venture into culinary territories they’d otherwise evade, like the Mbuzi starring a goat shank that is slow-roasted until the meat is so tender that it slides off the bone with ease. 6568 Woodward Ave., Ste. 100, Detroit; 313-265-3093. L,D Tue.-Sun. Barda $$$$ ARGENTINIAN • Barda brings a new cuisine to metro Detroit. True to Argentinian culture, the restaurant celebrates traditional meat dishes. For starters, Carne y Hueso, meaning Flesh and Bone, features a mold of finely chopped beef tartare topped with spicy horseradish alongside a dense bone filled to the brim with buttery marrow. Tira de Asado, a classic Argentinian short rib dish, arrives on a plate in a coriander-pepper crust. And Inch-thick slices of rare Bife, or strip loin steak, lie on a bed of melted butter infused with chimichurri. 4842 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313- 952-5182; bardadetroit.com. D Thurs.-Sun. Bash Original Izakaya $$ JAPANESE • From the proprietor of Canton’s popular Izakaya Sanpei comes a Japanese pub located in Woodbridge. Occupying the former home of Katsu, Bash maintains much of that eatery’s Asian-inspired décor, such as hanging lanterns and bamboo shades. Bash’s drink menu focuses on Japanese craft beer, while the food menu of small plates and sashimi includes Gyoza, Tempura Udon, and fried octopus balls called Tako Yaki. 5069 Trumbull Ave., Detroit; 313-788-7208; L Wed.-Sat. D Tue.-Sun. Besa $$$ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • This modern fine-dining eatery takes its name from Albania — where the owners trace their heritage — and means “pledge of honor.” Choose from starters such as roasted olives, fried calamari, and double-cut lamb chops. 600 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-315-3000. D Mon.-Sat.

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Bucharest Grill $ MEDITERRANEAN-AMERICAN • This bustling casual sandwich shop, now with five locations, is a cult favorite with its fresh Mediterranean fare, notably the best chicken shawarma wrap sandwiches in town. We’re serious. See bucharestgrill.com for locations and hours. Cadieux Café $$ BELGIAN • This institution was like a slice of home for early Belgian immigrants. They serve up four varieties of mussels, and a wide range of hearty dishes such as Belgian Rabbit, but there also are classic sandwiches. 4300 Cadieux Road, Detroit; 313-8828560. D daily. Café Nini $$$ ITALIAN • This intimate spot offers well-prepared food that includes eight appetizers, more than a dozen pasta dishes, and 16 main plates, notable among which are tournedos di vitello — medallions of veal filet in a fresh mushroom sauce. The wine list is impressive as well. 98 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms; 313308-3120. D daily. Cantoro Italian Market and Trattoria $$ ITALIAN • A restaurant inside the market serves great traditional Italian food. Do not miss the tagliatelle alla Bolognese: wide pasta with a meat sauce made of ground veal, beef, sausage, and pancetta. A delicious Italian feast you can conveniently pick up on your way home. 15550 N. Haggerty Road, Plymouth; 734-4201100. L,D Tues.-Sat., L Sun. Capers $$ STEAKHOUSE • This is the type of place longtime Detroit natives describe like an old friend. On Gratiot Avenue between Seven and Eight Mile roads, this place has been packing them in for nearly 40 years. There’s a massive a la carte menu, with items such as barbecue babyback ribs and potato skins, but the main draw is steak by the ounce, at market price. 14726 Gratiot Ave., Detroit; 313-527-2100. L,D daily. Caucus Club $$$ TRADITIONAL AMERICAN • The reborn spot emphasizes service and a traditional steak and seafood theme, with such tasty signature dishes as wood-grilled ribs, seared scallops, and steaks.150 W. Congress, Detroit; 313-965-4970. D daily.

Bobcat Bonnie’s $ GASTROPUB • The menu is eclectic, with fried goat cheese, fish tacos, Buddha bowls, and a barbecue bacon meatloaf. The weekend brunch with a Bloody Mary bar and all the classics is a hit. See bobcatbonnies. com for locations and hours.

Central Kitchen & Bar $$ CREATIVE COMFORT • The space facing Campus Martius is done up in gray and white under industrial light fixtures. Crowd-pleasers include buttermilk fried chicken, filet and frites, burgers, and salads. 660 Woodward Ave., Ste. 4A, Detroit; 313-963-9000. D Thu.-Sat., BR Sat.-Sun.

Brome Modern Eatery $$ BURGERS • This healthy spin on a classic serves neverfrozen, grass-fed, antibiotic-free, organic burgers. There’s beef, chicken, haddock, and vegetarian dishes — but no pork, as the restaurant is halal. There’s also a cold-pressed juice bar. 22062 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-996-5050. L,D Mon.-Sun.

Chartreuse Kitchen & Cocktails $$ NEW AMERICAN • While the menu rotates based on the season, its offerings always highlight the freshest local ingredients. Creatively prepared dishes range from cold starters to hearty entrees. But the Twice Cooked Egg is not to be missed. 15 E. Kirby St., Detroit; 313-8183915. D Tue.-Sun.

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Chili Mustard Onions $ VEGAN • This is Detroit’s only Coney Island with a vegan menu. Choose from traditional favorites including the Coney Dog, Southwest Nachos, and chili fries, complete with owner Pete LaCombe’s secret vegan “cheeze” sauce. 3411 Brush St., Detroit; 313-462-4949. L Wed.-Sat. City Kitchen $$ AMERICAN • The emphasis is on fresh fish and seafood here, but also on the locals — especially lake perch. There are also such dishes as Cajun tenderloin tips and a few good angus burgers. 16844 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe; 313-882-6667. L Mon.-Fri., D nightly. Cliff Bell’s $$ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • This restored Art Deco hotspot offers small plates such as oysters with cava granita and a salmon croquette. Large plates include sesame soy glazed shiitakes and summer stir fried vegetables with coconut rice. Jazz prevails on the bandstand. 2030 Park Ave., Detroit; 313-961-2543. D Wed.-Sun. Common Pub $ GASTROPUB • Fans of Atlas Global Bistro, which shuttered in 2013, should be happy to learn that some of the principals may be found at this spot in the Belcrest Apartments. The well-edited menu includes duck fried chicken and a burger. 5440 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-2858849. L Tue.-Sat. Coriander Kitchen and Farm $$ GASTROPUB • At this Jefferson Chalmers eatery, guests can rent fire pits and roast housemade marshmallows to make s’mores, or sip mugs of Hot Buttered Rum. By day, grab a picnic table and dip hunks of grilled flatbread into creamy fish dip made with smoked white fish and lake trout and seasoned with herbs from the farm. 14601 Riverside Blvd., Detroit; 313-822-4434. D Fri.-Sun. Cork & Gabel $$$ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • This Corktown eatery takes the form of a 4,450-square-foot renovated beer hall and is an ode to filling European staples. Try the chicken marsala, featuring a pan-seared 7-oz. chicken breast, sauteed wild mushroom blend, wild rice, seasonal grilled vegetables, cooked in a Lombardo Ambra Sweet Marsala wine sauce. Simply delicious! 2415 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-638-2261. D daily. Cuisine $$$ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • Cuisine offers a romantic, white-linen experience with the level of food, service, and ambience one might describe as timeless rather than trendy. Examples of the expertly prepared fare include the Thai snapper as well as the sea Scallops, featuring corn risotto, creamed leeks, and citrus butter. 670 Lothrop Rd., Detroit; 313-872-5110. D Tue.-Sun. (Note: not wheelchair accessible.)

Fishbone’s Rhythm Kitchen Café $$ NEW ORLEANIAN • Enjoy classic New Orleans dishes, such as jambalaya and fried catfish beignets. Come for breakfast, lunch, dinner, happy hour, or carry-out. 400 Monroe St., Detroit; 313-965-4600. 29244 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield; 248-351-2925. 23722 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-498-3000. L,D (downtown), B, L,D Southfield and St. Clair Shores. BR at all three.

did more than three decades ago. The food is excellent, as is the service. 712 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-3383222. D Wed.-Sat. Detroit Shipping Company $ FUSION • This bi-level destination, created out of shipping containers, offers a variety of food options ranging from the Caribbean-fusion dishes at Coop to Thai fare from Bangkok 96 and more. 474 Peterboro St., Detroit; 313-462-4973. L Sat.-Sun., D daily.

Flowers of Vietnam $$ VIETNAMESE • Chef and owner George Azar transformed a former Coney Island into an industrial-cool destination, but the neighborhood joint vibe remains. The menu is shaped around Azar’s appreciation of Vietnamese food, with a very personal twist. 4440 Vernor Hwy., Detroit; 313-554-2085. D Thu.-Sun.

Detroit Soul $ SOUL FOOD• A hidden gem on the city’s East Side. Detroit Soul serves its namesake with a healthy twist. Owners Sam Van Buren and Jerome Brown draw from the recipes of their grandparents, who relocated to Detroit from Alabama in the 1940s. The turkey and collard greens are savory standouts and yams are a sweet treat. This is the kind of place that every soul-food lover must visit. 2900 E. Eight Mile Road, Detroit; 313-3665600. L,D Tue.-Sun.

Folk $ NEW AMERICAN • A charming Corktown storefront dishing up an all-day brunch menu. It’s an offshoot of the Farmer’s Hand grocery and farmers market. The menu focuses on globally inspired dishes, like salads, quiche, and sandwiches — all beautifully plated and nutritious. Infused milks and frothy lattes are well sought after, too. 1701 Trumbull Ave., Detroit; 313-7422672. BR Wed-Mon.

Detroit Vegan Soul $ VEGAN • The popular spot offers your classic soul food favorites but with plant-based twists — mac and cheese, maple-glazed yams, collard greens, and interpretations of catfish and pepper steak. 8029 Agnes St., Detroit; 313-649-2759. L,D Tue.-Sat., L,D Wed.-Sat. 19614 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-766-5728.

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Ford’s Garage $$ BURGERS • Henry Ford’s legacy is celebrated on Dearborn’s main thoroughfare. There are at least 12 variations on the classic American burger here. Try the Ford’s Signature, featuring a half-pound of grilled black angus beef, aged sharp cheddar, applewood-smoked bacon, and bourbon barbecue sauce. Other appealing dishes include shrimp mac and cheese, and chicken wings. 21367 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-752-3673. L,D daily.

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Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe $$$ GASTROPUB • A jazz club with top guest musicians and an American bistro menu in a traditional interior. Starters include shrimp pico and pan-fried calamari. Main entries include a beef short rib. 97 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms; 313-882-5299. L Tue.-Fri., D Tue.-Sat. Eatori Market $-$$ SPECIALTY GROCERY • This stylish spot overlooks downtown’s Capitol Park. The menu has steamed mussels with leeks, garlic, and toasted crostini. International flourishes abound with truffle aioli for the burger. 1215 Griswold St., Detroit; 313395-3030. L,D daily. El Asador Steakhouse $$ MEXICAN • A concentrated cuisine with little modern flairs that also stays faithful to traditional Mexican cooking. Don’t miss the Camarones en Salsa de Langosta: breaded shrimp stuffed with cheese, fried to a golden dark brown, and topped with a lobster cream sauce. It’s a delicious dinner spot you don’t want to miss and an unassuming Latin-American find in Detroit’s Springwells Village. 1312 Springwells St., Detroit; 313-297-2360. L,D Tue.-Sun.

Dakota Inn Rathskeller $ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • The sausages are the kind that snap when you cut them. The combo plate features one bratwurst and one knack-wurst, served with hot German potato salad and sauerkraut. And yes, sing along with the schnitzelbank song. 17324 John R St., Detroit; 313-867-9722. D Thu.-Sat.

El Barzon $ MEXICAN-ITALIAN • Norberto Garita prepares Italian and Mexican cuisines alongside his wife, Silvia Rosario Garita. Authentic Mexican entrees include enchiladas with a homemade green sauce made with tomatillo, jalapeños, and roasted poblano pepper, while the Italian influence takes the form of spaghetti carbonara and zuppa di pesce (seafood soup). 3710 Junction Ave., Detroit; 313-894-2070. D Tue.-Sun.

Detroit Club $$$$ FRENCH-AMERICAN • The formerly shuttered Detroit Club was magnificently restored before reopening in 2018 — and now, the public is invited. It now operates as a boutique hotel, serving a light breakfast and full lunch and dinner. The old dining room, known as the Grille Room, looks very much as it

Evie’s Tamales $$ MEXICAN • This Mexicantown restaurant makes some of the best tamales around. Pork or chicken is jacketed with sturdy masa, a dough of ground corn, and then wrapped in a corn husk and steamed. Eat in or order a dozen for later. 3454 Bagley St., Detroit; 313843-5056. B,L daily.

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Giovanni’s Ristorante $$$ ITALIAN • This old-school Italian restaurant offers housemade pastas, including an outstanding lasagna. Elaborate veal and seafood dishes and desserts like orange Creamsicle cheesecake round out the delicious menu. 330 Oakwood Blvd., Detroit; 313-841-0122. L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat. Grandma Bob’s $ PIZZA • If you’re wondering what that psychedelic building on Corktown’s Michigan Avenue is, it’s a pizzeria known as Grandma Bob’s. Chef Dan De Wall, previously of Wright and Co., offers a small, delicious menu of pies, including sausage and pistachio with ricotta cheese and thyme. Or try the Big Mack — the vegan pizza version of the popular burger. 2135 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-315-3177. L,D Fri.-Sun. Grand Trunk Pub $ NEW AMERICAN • Breads from Avalon Bakery and meats from Eastern Market anchor the hearty fare, which pairs well with a selection of Michigan beers. Staples include a reuben with Poet Stout Kraut and the Ghettoblaster beer-battered fish and chips. 612 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-961-3043.; BR, L, D, Fri.-Sun. The Greek $ GREEK • Plaka Café was a presence on Monroe Avenue for years, and now its space is in the hands of the founders’ children. Notable dishes include spinach pie, lamb chops, and New York strip steak. 535 Monroe Ave., Detroit; 313-209-6667. L,D daily. Green Dot Stables $ NEW AMERICAN • The menu of sliders — with 20-plus eclectic bun toppings, including Cuban, Korean, and “mystery meat” — packs in fans. Local beers are spotlighted along with Chicken Paprikas soup, a nod to the

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neighborhood’s Hungarian origins. 2200 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit; 313-962-5588. L,D daily. Grey Ghost $$ NEW AMERICAN • The cuisine at this Brush Park hotspot isn’t easily defined, but the results are original and well-prepared — for example, the duck breast with cheese grits and fried shallots and pork tenderloin with gruyere spaetzle and dill pickle mojo. 47 Watson St., Detroit; 313-262-6534. D daily. BR Sun. Highlands $$$ STEAKHOUSE/NEW AMERICAN • Occupying the top two floors of the Renaissance Center, Highlands comprises three separate concepts. A steakhouse of the same name provides a high-end dining experience, while the more casual Hearth 71 serves locally sourced dishes cooked over an open fire. The third concept within the space is the appropriately named High Bar, where guests can choose from a vast collection of spirits and decadent desserts. 400 Renaissance Center, Floors 71 and 72, Detroit; 313-877-9090; D Tue.-Sat. The Hudson Cafe $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • The fresh, well-prepared fare from the kitchen of this breakfast/lunch spot has creative takes on the eggs Benedict theme, red velvet pancakes, and apple-walnut stuffed French toast, as well as lunchtime sandwiches and salads. 1241 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-237-1000. B,L daily. Hungarian Rhapsody $$ HUNGARIAN • This Downriver restaurant offers authentic Hungarian dishes, such as chicken and veal paprikas, beef goulash, and palacsinta (crêpes). 14315 Northline Road, Southgate; 734-283-9622. L & D Tue.-Sun. Ima $ JAPANESE-INSPIRED • Japanese-inspired fare with a Midwest emphasis. Ima tacos trade the traditional shell for a slice of jicama-stuffed spicy shrimp, roasted tofu, or garlic chicken. Appetizers include edamame, dumplings, and clams. 2015 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-5025959. 4870 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-883-9788. 32203 John R Road, Madison Heights; 248-781-0131. L&D Daily Ivy Kitchen and Cocktails $$$ NEW AMERICAN • This Black-owned restaurant was founded by Nya Marshall to bring fine dining to the East Jefferson Corridor where she grew up. The spot serves New American fare with international influences in a modern, elevated space bathed in neutral tones. The Mezcal Wings with pickled jalapeño and cilantro bring a Mexican kick, while dishes like the Shrimp Linguine Pomodoro contribute European flavors. 9215 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit; 313-332-0607; L Fri.-Sat., D Wed.-Sun.

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Armenian sausage — and tabbouleh made of parsley, cracked wheat, and spices. The beer and wine lists offer plenty of options to accompany any meal. 1245 Griswold St., Detroit; 313-816-8100; D Sun., L&D Mon.-Sat.

Jolly Pumpkin $$ BREWERY • Jolly Pumpkin’s brews rule the offerings, along with other Northern United Brewing Co. beverages, such as North Peak and Jolly Pumpkin artisan ales. Pizzas with creative toppings abound. 441 W. Canfield St., Detroit; 313-262-6115. 419 S. Main St., Ste. 9, Royal Oak; 248-544-6250. D daily.

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Lucy & the Wolf $$ SPANISH • This Anglo-sounding restaurant offers very good Spanish-inspired tapas dining. Standouts include a fire-roasted jalapeño cheese spread, shrimp tacos, and a grilled flank steak in chimichurri sauce. 102 E. Main St., Northville; 248-308-3057. L Sat.-Sun., D Thu.-Sun.

Karl’s $$ AMERICAN • The luncheonette is part two of the Siren Hotel’s partnership with chef Kate Williams. Inspired by the East Side bakery of the same name that Williams’ great-great grandparents once owned, the menu features diner staples. 1509 Broadway St., Detroit; 313855-2757. B,L,D daily. Karl’s Cabin $$ AMERICAN • Dishes from their currently rotating drive-through menu such as pan-seared walleye and beef tenderloin tips with Cajun spice and gravy surpass typical roadhouse food. 6005 Gotfredson Road, Plymouth; 734-455-8450. L,D daily. The Kitchen by Cooking with Que $$ VEGAN • This eatery created by Detroit-based cooking blogger Quiana Broden serves lunches of smoothies, salads, and sandwiches. Broden also often offers live cooking demonstrations. 6529 Woodward Ave., Ste. A, Detroit; 313-462-4184. L Tue.-Sat., D Fri. La Dolce Vita $$$ ITALIAN • Traditional Italian cuisine is key at this Palmer Park hideaway. Recommended is the lake perch in white wine sauce, the veal scaloppine with artichokes, and the lasagna. 17546 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313865-0331. D Tue.-Sun., BR Sun. La Lanterna $$ ITALIAN • The founder of Da Edoardo, the first Edoardo Barbieri, started it all in 1956 with a restaurant called La Lanterna. Now his grandchildren have revived it. Although the white and red pizzas — like Margherita, Liguria, and Da Edorado — dominate, there’s more, including a number of elegant pastas like the Lasagna Alla Bolognese. 1224 Griswold St., Detroit; 313-9628821. L Wed.-Sun. Le Culture Cafe $$ SOUL • Eastern Market’s Le Culture Cafe is bridging fine-dining with comfort food. Start with the Maryland crab cakes, then the Mamba Chicken Pasta or the Catfish Po-Boy. 1452 Brush St., Detroit; 313-285-8137. L Sun., D Fri.-Sun.

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Joe Muer Seafood $$$$ SEAFOOD • This reborn Detroit legend is stellar for a romantic evening or a quiet business lunch or dinner. Located on the main floor of the GMRenCen, it has sweeping views of the Detroit River and a menu that walks the line between old-time favorites and hipper Asian-influenced seafood, sushi and raw bar. There’s also a Bloomfield Hills location. There are reminders of the past as well: white-bean stew, smoked fish spread, creamed spinach, and stewed tomatoes. A true Detroit classic. 400 Renaissance Center, Ste. 1404, Detroit; 313567-6837. L, D daily, BR Sun. 39475 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills; 248-792-9609. L,D daily. Johnny Noodle King $ JAPANESE-INSPIRED • This noodle shop offers bowls

topped with pork belly, confit chicken, and tofu as well as seaweed salad and gyoza. There are several fusion bowls as well like the Southwest topped with shredded chicken and housemade crema. 2601 W. Fort St., Detroit; 313-309-7946. L,D daily.

London Chop House $$ STEAKHOUSE • The kitchen turns out classics like oysters Rockefeller, French onion soup, and sautéed perch. This is the place to come when you need to satisfy a craving for steak in elegant surroundings with hospitable service. 155 W. Congress St., Detroit; 313962-0277. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. Leila $$$ LEBANESE • The restaurant from the proprietors of Birmingham’s Phoenicia is named after the owner’s mother — just one facet of the establishment that pays homage to family traditions and heritage. The menu includes various Lebanese dishes, from falafel to Leila’s Bolognese, featuring spaghetti, pine nut, and basil. Other menu items include sujuk — a spicy

SOUTHERN COMFORT Several recipes, including a signature thin waffle, are familyowned at ex-NFL player Ron Bartell’s spot. Think comfort food kicked up a notch: fried catfish, salmon croquettes, shrimp and grits, and biscuits. Drink the Kool-Aid, too. 19345 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313-861-0229. B,L,D Tue.-Sat., B,L Sun. $

Lumen Detroit $$ NEW AMERICAN • A contemporary American menu and a Victor Saroki setting make the restaurant overlooking downtown’s Beacon Park one of the best of recent entrants onto the scene. Appetizers such as freshly made pretzels prelude main courses such as salmon with chimichurri herb sauce. 1903 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-626-5005. L Fri.-Sun., D. Wed.-Sun. Mario’s $$$ ITALIAN • This Midtown Detroit classic dates to 1948. Linen-covered tables, framed paintings on wood-paneled walls, expert waiters clad in black tie, and tableside preparation survive here. Italian dinners always begin with an antipasto tray and continue through soup, salad, pasta, and entree. 4222 Second Ave., Detroit; 313832-1616. L,D daily. Marrow $$ NEW AMERICAN • This West Village restaurant and butcher shop hybrid is an ode to meat, especially unusual cuts. Diners must walk through the butcher shop, bypassing cases of pastrami and sausage, before entering the restaurant. Offerings from a sample tasting menu include Roasted Bone Marrow and Lamb Kefta. 8044 Kercheval Ave., Detroit; 313-652-0200. D Thu.-Sun. Maty’s African Cuisine $$ WEST AFRICAN • A small storefront in the Detroit Old Redford neighborhood is decidedly Senegalese. Fataya, a deep-fried pastry with savory fillings, are reminiscent of an empanada. The star of the show is the whole chicken with yassa. 21611 Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313472-5885. L,D daily. M Cantina $ MEXICAN • Nuevo Latino street food is the premise at this surprising spot where everything from the tortilla chips to the salsas are made in-house in the open kitchen. Juices are freshly squeezed and the menu of tortas, tacos, tapas, and salads from the kitchen of Heidi and Junior Merino from Hawaii and Mexico is distinctive. 13214 Michigan Ave., Dearborn; 313-3999117. L,D Tue.-Sun. Mercury Burger & Bar $ BURGERS • This Corktown joint seats 70 around the zinc-covered bar set with Mercury (Liberty) dimes. The burger is available in a variety of iterations, such as Southwest Detroit with a chorizo slider, jalapeno, Müenster cheese, tortilla strips, and avocado. 2163 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-964-5000. L,D daily.

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Michigan & Trumbull $$ ITALIAN-AMERICAN • After a successful four-month run at Fort Street Galley, Michigan and Trumbull became one of the latest in a long line of Detroit-style pizza joints to open in the area. Not your traditional carryout joint, Michigan and Trumbull is housed in a sleek, refurbished car-repair garage. The menu features square, deep-dish pies with Detroit-inspired names, such as Packard Pepperoni and Woodward White. 1441 W. Elizabeth St., Detroit; 313-637-4992; L,D Wed-Sat.

on these iconic dishes. 25 E. Grand River Ave., Detroit; 313-774-1190. D Tues.-Sat. BR Sun. Ottava Via $$ ITALIAN • Chef Ariel Millan sends out great thin-crusted pizzas as well as interesting small plates typified by bruschetta, calamari, roasted garlic, and whipped goat cheese to be spread on paper-thin crostini. 1400 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-962-5500. L,D daily. Pao Detroit $$$ FUSION • Visit this upscale Pan-Asian fusion restaurant for Asian-themed cocktails and dishes, such as creamy rock shrimp, charred octopus, filet mignon, and orange sesame salmon. Based in the former Michigan Oriental Theater, the interior combines new and old. 114 W. Adams Ave., Ste. 200, Detroit; 313-816-0000. L Sun., D Wed.-Sun.

Mi Lindo San Blas $$$ MEXICAN • Heaping platters of seafood such as shrimp, octopus, and scallops, tell the story at this spot that brings a corner of Mexico’s seaside Nayarit region to southwest Detroit. On weekends when live music is added, the tables are often pushed back to create a dance floor. 1807 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313-789-5100. L,D daily.

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Monarch Club $$$ NEW AMERICAN • At the 14th floor of the revamped Element Detroit Hotel located at the Metropolitan is the Monarch Club. It’s one of the most recent rooftop bars to open in metro Detroit and serves a variety of delicious small plates along with classic cocktails. 33 John R St., Detroit; 313-306-2380. L Sun., D Mon.-Thurs.

Motor City Brewing Works $ BREWERY • Just 15 mostly nontraditional pizzas on excellent, chewy crust, and the option to build your own pie with various toppings. Plus, salads from locally grown greens to accompany the house-brewed beers. 470 W. Canfield St., Detroit; 19350 Livernois Ave., Detroit; 313-832-2700. L,D daily. Mudgie’s Deli $ DELI • Seats are often filled in search of the House Smoked Pastrami Reuben or the Brooklyn (beef brisket, bacon, and beer cheese). The dinner menu features meat and cheese boards as well as build-your-own sandwich options. It’s a delicious place for a meal any time. 1413 Brooklyn St., Detroit; 313-961-2000. L,D Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. Nico & Vali $$ ITALIAN • This eatery offers favorites with unexpected twists. The artichokes and chilies appetizer boasts battered and fried artichokes with Fresno and jalapeno peppers, tossed with fresh basil in white wine. Popular choices include the Whitefish Filet. It’s a classic Italian spot with an update that’s worth a visit. 744 Wing St., Plymouth; 734-207-7880. L Thu.-Sat., D Tue.-Sun. Norma G’s $ CARIBBEAN • Lester Gouvia, the Trinidadian chef who brought us the famed food truck, opened a fullservice restaurant under the same name. Stop in for a plate of Chicken Pelau: a tasty blend of rice, diced chicken, squash, peppers, and golden-brown baked chicken. 14628 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit; 313-2902938. D Tue.-Sat. Olin MEDITERRANEAN • A taste of the Mediterranean in Michigan. Starters like the potatoes and artichokes “bravas” with harissa and black garlic aioli and paellas are inspired by Spain but showcase Olin’s unique spin

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Polish Village Café $ POLISH • The “Polish plate” includes stuffed cabbage, pierogi, kielbasa, sauerkraut, and mashed potatoes and gravy. The dill pickle soup and city chicken are standouts, too. A Polish staple in Detroit, where there aren’t too many. 2990 Yemans St., Hamtramck; 313-874-5726. L,D daily. Not wheelchair accessible. Portofino $ ITALIAN • This big waterfront spot in Wyandotte is both a local hangout and a restaurant with a menu that’s surprisingly ambitious. It offers a number of fish and seafood dishes, from lake perch to coconut shrimp and fried calamari, as well as steaks. Nearly every table in the restaurant has a river view. 3455 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte; 734-281-6700. L,D Tues.-Sun.

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Parc $$$ NEW AMERICAN • Excellent food, exceptional service, and a crisp and formal but distinctly unstuffy atmosphere set this Campus Martius gem apart. Appetizer highlights include a bright and fresh tuna tartare and wood-roasted oysters. Creamy roasted garlic butter and lemon add a zippy touch to the roasted oysters. Main courses are exceptional, including an interesting blend of Italian food, wood-grilled whole fish, and organic Scottish salmon. There’s also a large selection of dryaged gourmet steaks, wood-grilled and served tableside. The wine selection is impressive and caters to a diverse set of price ranges and wine drinkers, so you won’t be disappointed with any bottle here. 800 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-922-7272. L,D daily. BR Sat.-Sun.

Mootz Pizzeria & Bar $$ ITALIAN-AMERICAN • Bruno DiFabio, a six-time World Pizza Games champ, rejects the label New York-style for his fare. “It’s authentic New York pizza,” he says. In a hurry? Grab a slice from Side Hustle, Mootz’s by-theslice counter next door. 1230 Library St., Detroit; 313243-1230. L Fri.-Sun., D Mon-Thu.

tana in Naples. Try the Margherita. Topped with mozzarella, basil, and EVOO, there’s nothing like a classic. 4458 Vernor Highway, Detroit; 313-757-4992. L Sun., D Wed.-Sun.

Park Grill $$ MEDITERRANEAN • Mediterranean fare gets a Balkan spin. The menu offers tasting plates, pita-wrapped sandwiches, and salads, as well as entrees including chicken and beef shawarma, beef and pork kafta, lemon-pepper pork tenderloin, and lamb chops. Service is friendly and informal. 15102 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Park; 313-264-1997. L,D daily. Pegasus Taverna $$ GREEK • The cry of “opa!” resounds in St. Clair Shores at the second edition of the longstanding Greektown restaurant. The resturant boasts an extensive menu, from moussaka and spinach pie to gyros and roast lamb. 24935 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-772-3200. 558 Monroe St., Detroit; 313-9646800. L,D Tue-Sun. The Peterboro $$ ASIAN-FUSION • A contemporary take on AmericanChinese fare gives new life to the cuisine with robustly spiced dishes, including an “absurdly delicious” cheeseburger spring roll and a take on almond boneless chicken. 420 Peterboro St., Detroit; 313-833-1111. D Mon.-Sat. Pho Lucky $ VIETNAMESE • This charming Midtown Vietnamese spot serves authentic fare emphasizing pho. Bowls of spicy broth with noodles, round steak, and meatballs come in several variations. Other noteworthy dishes here include summer rolls and crisp spring rolls. Look for Asian beers and robust Vietnamese coffee. 3111 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-338-3895. L,D daily except Tue. when it’s L only. PizzaPlex $ ITALIAN • This pizza isn’t just authentic, it’s certified. PizzaPlex earned the title of Vera Pizza Napoletana, or real Neapolitan pizza, from Associazione Verace Pizza Napole-

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Prime + Proper $$$$ STEAKHOUSE • Downtown Detroit dining gets a major shot of glamour with this over-the-top steak and seafood emporium on the corner of Griswold and State streets. Although red meat, from prime dry-aged Tomahawk ribeye to Wagyu strip is the focus — and yes, there’s a burger made with a dry-aged butcher’s blend — oysters, king crab, and caviar are not far behind. An elegant white and gold setting backgrounds it all. The niceties are maintained by an impeccably dressed staff. 1145 Griswold St., Detroit; 313-636-3100. D Tue-Sun., BR Sun. Rattlesnake Club $$$$ NEW AMERICAN • This restaurant on the river remains one of the most appealing spots in town. The casually elegant space offers a range of appetizers, entrees, and desserts. Dishes that typify its style include seared diver sea scallops, an 8-ounce filet, and a 16-ounce porterhouse. 300 River Place, Detroit; 313567-4400. L,D Tue.-Sat. Red Dunn Kitchen $$ NEW AMERICAN • The Trumbull and Porter hotel’s spiffy restaurant is an ambitious undertaking, offering three meals a day. Chef Jay Gundy’s style is best experienced at dinner, with a la carte offerings such as foie gras-stuffed quail, smoked and marinated salmon collars, braised lamb leg, and bacon-wrapped duck breast with polenta. 1331 Trumbull Ave., Detroit; 313-887-9477. B,L,D daily. Red Smoke Barbeque $$ BARBEQUE • At Red Smoke, hickory and applewoodsmoked ribs, pulled pork, apple-smoked, all-natural chicken, and an array of classic sides are served out of one of the most attractive two-story buildings that are still standing on Monroe Street. 573 Monroe St., Detroit; 313-962-2100. L,D daily. Rocky’s of Northville $$ NEW AMERICAN • Menu includes shrimp cocktail, salmon pate, and broiled Great Lakes whitefish. Also look for chipotle honey-glazed salmon. 41122 W. Seven Mile Road, Northville; 248-349-4434. L Mon.-Fri. Roman Village $ ITALIAN • The Rugiero family has been serving authentic Italian cuisine since 1964. They’ve launched three additional Antonio’s Cucina Italiana locations. Roman Village is the original and features their signature gnocchi Rita. 9924 Dix Ave., Dearborn; 313-8422100. L,D daily.

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Rose’s Fine Food $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • The menu is straightforward, based mainly on fresh ingredients and fromscratch preparation. Breakfast eaters can choose from a variety of egg dishes, such as the ESD (egg sandwich of the day). For lunch, there’s a selection of creative sandwiches. 10551 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit; 313-8222729. L Mon, Wed-Sun. Rusted Crow $$ ECLECTIC AMERICAN • Calamari flash fried served with caper aioli sit alongside spinach artichoke dip. Craft cocktails utilize house spirits. Try the Rosemary’s Baby, made with Detroit Steam vodka and ginger beer. 78 W. Adams Ave., Detroit; 313-782-4751. L Sat.-Sun., D Tue.-Sun. San Morello $$$ ITALIAN • This Italian gem serves pizzas, pastas, and wood-fired dishes that draw inspiration from the coastal towns of Southern Italy and Sicily out of the Shinola Hotel. Think Tartufi Pizza with fontina and black truffle, handcrafted by James Beard Award-winning chef Andrew Carmellini. 1400 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313209-4700. D daily. The Sardine Room $$$ SEAFOOD • A seafood restaurant and raw bar, The Sardine Room is fresh, fun, and energetic, with a cleanline décor and a menu full of surprises. For starters, there is a Seafood Louie featuring jumbo lump crab, shrimp, egg, avocado, tomato, and bibb lettuce. Worthwhile is a grouper sandwich that’s available seared, pan-fried, or blackened. 340 S. Main St., Plymouth; 734-416-0261. D daily, BR Sun. Savannah Blue $$ SOUL FOOD • Highlights at this upscale soul food joint include the twice-dredged fried chicken and the shrimp and grits. Shareables include perch fritters, okra fries, and a Georgian Hummus that substitutes black-eyed peas for chickpeas. There’s also a great bar. 1431 Times Square, Detroit; 313-926-0783. D Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. Savant $$$ FRENCH • In a cozy-yet-upscale interior with leather couches and an open kitchen, Jordan Whitmore and Rebecca Wurster, formerly of Apparatus Room, serve up rotating European-inspired menu items, including Champagne Chicken, an Apple and Arugula Heirloom Salad, Calamari, and — for vegan diners — Ratatouille Confit. 51 W. Forest Ave., Detroit; 313285-9294. D Fri.-Sun. Scotty Simpson’s Fish & Chips $ SEAFOOD • Head to this Brightmoor spot for perfectly prepared fish and chips. The key to Scotty’s longevity is the batter that coats the cod, perch, shrimp, chicken, onion rings, and frog legs. 22200 Fenkell St., Detroit; 313-533-0950. L,D Tue.-Sat. Second Best $ RETRO AMERICAN • The talents behind nearby Grey Ghost have unveiled a second, more casual spot with a retro spin in Brush Park. The menu of lighter dishes includes the Yogi Gyro with roasted root vegetable and coconut tzatziki, and fried chicken sandwiches that accompany drinks that were popular more than a few years back. 42 Watson St., Detroit; 313-315-3077. L Sat.Sun., D nightly.

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ations, with or without red sauce. A few dishes from the La Rondinella menu made the list as well, such as paninis, salads, and small plates such as polpette and three delicious salads. Beer, wine, and cocktails add to the appeal. 2457 Russell St., Detroit; 313-5677879; 6519 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-314-7400. L,D Tue.-Sun.

Seva Detroit $$ VEGETARIAN • Seva offers such dishes as black bean and sweet potato quesadillas, gluten-free options, and colorful stir-fries — some vegan as well as vegetarian. There’s also a full bar as well as a juice bar. 2541 Jackson Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-662-1111. 66 E. Forest Ave., Detroit; 313-974-6661. L,D Mon.-Sat.

Sweet Soul Bistro $ SOUL FOOD • The large menu includes homages to Detroit musicians, from Stevie Wonder Wonderful Wings to Aretha Franklin Catfish Bites. Also notable are the crab cakes. In the evening, the bistro transforms into a club. 13741 W. McNichols Road, Detroit; 313- 8627685. L,D daily.

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SheWolf Pastificio & Bar $$$ ITALIAN • Chef Anthony Lombardo takes fresh and housemade to a new level with this Midtown restaurant that serves only dinner from a menu inspired by Italian cooking specific to Rome. Milling all of his own flour for his pastas, breads, and polenta in house, Lombardo, well known as the former executive chef at Bacco, serves a selection of simple but elegant regional Italian dishes. 438 Selden St., Detroit; 313315-3992. L Wed. Thu., & Sun., D Wed.-Sun.

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JAPANESEINSPIRED Urban Ramen serves bowls of steaming broth filled with housemade, springy ramen noodles topped with fixings like bamboo, egg, pork chashu, and sesame seeds. The menu also includes poke, salads, and sides such as garlic edamame and Japanese fried chicken. 4206 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-285-9869. L,D Mon.-Sun. $$

Slows Bar BQ $$ BARBEQUE • The brick-and-wood original in Corktown gained a following for its pulled pork, ribs, and chicken. They expanded with a “to go” spot in Midtown, as well. This is a true Detroit classic in every sense of the term. Corktown location: 2138 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-962-9828. D Wed.-Sun. Slows To Go in Midtown: 4107 Cass Ave., Detroit; 313-309-7560. L,D Wed.-Sun. Smith & Co. $$$ NEW AMERICAN • This Cass Corridor bar and restaurant is housed in the old Smith Welding Supply & Equipment Company building — hence cement ceilings and exposed brick that evoke an industrial vibe. The menu features small plates, sandwiches, and entrees such as Mushroom Toast; Braised Lamb Shank; the Fried Chicken Bowl with sweet sesame sauce and kimchi; and the Smith Burger, soy-ginger marinated and topped with a fried egg. Beverage options include craft beer, wine, and fresh takes on classic cocktails. 644 Selden St, Detroit; 313-974-7100. D daily, B,L,&D Sun.

Takoi $$ THAI • Thai-Laotian fare might seem out of place in Corktown, but virtually everything on the menu has distinction. There’s a depth, concentration, and balance between heat and coolness, the range of spices, the delight of moving from one superb bite to the next. 2520 Michigan Ave., Detroit; 313-855-2864. D Mon.-Sat. Tap at MGM Grand $ SPORTS BAR • More than 40 HD flatscreen TVs for sports fans, plus sports memorabilia. The menu features comfort food and pub classics: burgers, wings, and house nachos. Pizza and more upscale entrees are also available, as are more than 50 beers. Bring your family and friends for a very entertaining night on the town. 1777 Third St., Detroit; 313-465-1234. D daily. Traffic Jam & Snug $ GASTROPUB • Michigan’s first officially designated brewpub is fresh and eccentric. Though limited, the menu is diverse, with options like chicken and basil egg rolls for a starter, black bean burrito, roasted and shaved spiced lamb, and deep fried fillets 511 W. Canfield St., Detroit; 313-831-9470. L Sat.-Sun., D Fri.-Sun. Trattoria Serventi $$ ITALIAN • The brick pizza oven turns out an array of thin-crust pizzas and there’s an interesting daytime menu that offers a real bargain. In the evening, such dishes as Scallopini Style veal, and Gnocchi alla Palmina, recalling chef Aldo Ottaviani — who was instrumental in setting up the original Andiamo menu — typify the style. 20930 Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods; 313-8869933. L,D daily.

Standby $$ NEW AMERICAN • The libation menu — categorized by spirit — is longer than the food menu, but both food and drinks are equally emphasized. The fare ranges from small plates of marinated olives and tamari eggs to entrees such as grilled lamb kebabs and the house cheeseburger. 225 Gratiot Ave., Detroit; 313-241-5719. D Thu.-Sun. Not wheelchair accessible.

Vertical Detroit $$$ WINE BAR • This wine-centric restaurant puts the focus on pairing Chef Alex Knezevic’s innovative cuisine with owners James and Rémy Lutfy’s nationally recognized wine program. The menu emphasizes locally sourced protein, seafood, and produce. A must-try for any wine enthusiast. 1538 Centre St., Detroit; 313-7329463. D Wed.-Sat. Not wheelchair accessible.

Street Beet $ VEGAN • The popular vegan pop-up Street Beet has landed a permanent spot at Midtown’s 3rd Street Bar, serving up plant-based riffs on quintessential fast foods. Try the Kentucky Fake Chicken sandwich, with fried tofu, pickles, and spicy mayo, or the Taco Hell Crunchywrap, with walnut chorizo and cashew nacho cheese. These faves and additions like the BBQ Fake Chicken are available via counter service, carryout, and online ordering. 4626 Third Ave., Detroit; 313-6381480; D Wed.-Sun.

Vicente’s Cuban Cuisine $$ CUBAN • An evening at this lively spot is more than just Cuban and Spanish dining. Appetizers and tapas include the outstanding Tapa de la Casa, pork leg marinated in mojo; a Spanish chorizo and fresh mushrooms concoction with garlic lemon sauce; and empanadas, a Cuban turnover filled with ground beef or chicken. 1250 Library St., Detroit; 313-962-8800. L,D daily.

2016

Selden Standard $$$ NEW AMERICAN • What sets Selden Standard apart is that it is moving Detroit into a new era in which upper-

end dining with starched linen and tuxedoed waiters doesn’t hold much interest anymore. Chef Andy Hollyday, a multiple James Beard semifinalist, does farm-totable scratch cooking with ideas borrowed from around the world. A key to his cooking is the wood-fired grill. This spot has garnered national attention. 3921 Second Ave., Detroit; 313-438-5055. D Thurs.-Sun.

Supino Pizzeria $$ ITALIAN • Relax with one of the town’s best thincrust pizzas — they come in more than a dozen vari-

Vivio’s Food & Spirits $ SANDWICH/DELI • This Eastern Market classic has been run by the Vivio family for more than 40 years. Sandwiches and burgers are mainstays, but diners also appreciate the steamed mussels. 2460 Market St., Detroit; 313-393-1711. L,D Mon.-Fri., BR,L,D Sat.,L Sun.

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The Whitney $$$$ NEW AMERICAN • The historic 1890s mansion is still going strong. The menu is typified by classic beef Wellington, wrapped in spinach, prosciutto, and pastry; and pan-roasted Scottish salmon. Tableside cooking, by reservation only, is an optional feature. Don’t forget The Katherine McGregor Dessert Parlor for a sweet treat.4421 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-832-5700. D Thu.-Sun and high tea Sat.-Sun.

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Savory pepperoni, fresh basil, and hot honey give rise to a well-balanced pie RE CIP E F ROM M OOTZ PIZZER I A A ND BA R PHOT O BY K AILEY HOW E LL

Ingredients:

1 14-oz. package pizza dough 4 oz. pizza sauce 50 pieces of pepperoni 8 oz. fresh mozzarella 20 basil leaves Hot honey

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Stretch pizza dough into a 14-inch round and place on a pizza stone or cookie sheet. Spread pizza sauce on the dough, leaving about a ½-inch crust around the edges. Top with pepperoni. Pinch off pieces of mozzarella and place around the pizza. Cook until golden brown, or about 8 minutes. Cut into slices. Drizzle with hot honey, and place basil leaves on pizza.

Wine Dotte Bistro $$ WINE BAR • This interesting wine bar and restaurant offers a view of the Detroit River. The menu includes coconut shrimp, lobster tails, tenderloin medallions, and lamb chops. The wine is displayed in a cabinet across one wall and it’s the main focus. 2910 Van Alstyne St., Wyandotte; 734-556-3195. L,D Tue.-Sun. Wright & Co. $$ NEW AMERICAN • The collaboration between chef Marc Djozlija and Dave Kwiatkowski of the popular Corktown craft cocktail bar Sugar House gives new life to the second-floor space in the Wright Kay building. Small plates such as tuna tartare with pickled pears, and pork belly sliders with tomato jam and sriracha aioli are the focus. 1500 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313962-7711. D Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. Yum Village $ AFRO-CARIBBEAN • The former food truck opened a full-service restaurant in the North End in 2019. The space is bright and fun with wooden tables, mismatched chairs, and a colorful, geometric paint job. And the food is just as bold. The restaurant serves up piquant dishes like Lemon Pepper Jerk Chicken. 6500 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-3346099. L,D Mon.-Sat.

Oakland 168 Crab & Karaoke $$ PAN-ASIAN • Don’t judge by 168 Crab & Karaoke’s unassuming strip mall location. It’s a unique experience that meshes food, karaoke, and pop party culture into a one-stop destination. The dining room offers dishes blurring the lines. Standouts include stir-fried snow pea leaves with garlic and stir-fried udon. The traditional Korean noodle dish chap chae is a strong option. 32415 John R Road, Madison Heights; 248-616-0168. D daily. 220 Merrill $$$ NEW AMERICAN • The menu includes apps and small plates as well as Wagyu beef carpaccio, ahi tuna tartare, and classic roasted oysters. There are heartier entrees as well, like the braised beef short ribs. 220 Merrill St., Birmingham; 248-646-2220. L,D Mon.-Sat. BR Sun. Adachi $$$ JAPANESE-INSPIRED • Heading the kitchen is Lloyd Roberts, who has trained in the kitchens of celebrity chefs such as Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Nobu Matsuhisa. Here, soy truffle broth is ladled over pork dumplings reminiscent of coin purses, and miniature tacos are filled with lobster, tuna, or vegetable pickings. 325 S. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham. D daily, L Mon.-Fri. Andiamo Restaurants $$ ITALIAN • Steak and Italian pasta are the focus, but dessert is also impeccable. The more casual but as just delicious spots are known as Trattorias. See website for hours and locations; andiamoitalia.com

Anita’s Kitchen $ LEBANESE • With pita pizzas and lamb chops, the Lebanese food here is some of the best around. And there’s vegetarian and gluten-free fare, too. Healthy, nutritious, and delicious. See website for locations; anitaskitchen.com Assaggi Bistro $$$ ITALIAN • Seasonal offers encompassing rustic Italian, country French, and authentic Lebanese are all created in the open kitchen. Standouts include Moroccan duck legs, porcini-dusted day boat sea scallops, and cioppino (seafood stew). 330 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248584-3499 D Tue.-Sun.

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Bacco Restaurante $$$ ITALIAN • Chef-owner Luciano Del Signore’s pastas are like pure art. Try the Strozzapreti Norcina: Italian sausage, truffles, tomato, and white wine, tossed in hand-rolled pasta. From local grass-fed beef to sustainably farm-raised sea bass to a fresh caprese, the ingredients are top-end. Based in the heart of Southfield, Bacco is a true Italian gem in the suburbs. And the desserts, are not to be missed. 29410 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield; 248-356-6600.L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. Beans & Cornbread $$ SOUL • Upscale soul food is the premise at Beans & Cornbread: fried chicken, salmon croquettes, catfish, and a gravy-smothered pork chop. Tempura-battered fried shrimp comes with a choice of cocktail or spicy BBQ sauce, and there’s a notable Louisiana-style gumbo to boot. 29508 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield; 248208-1680. L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat.-Sun. BR Sun. Bella Piatti $$ ITALIAN • The location right across from the Townsend Hotel has inspired a number of visiting celebrities, professional athletes, and film crews who stay there to check out the Italian fare at this restaurant. The menu of such dishes as Gemelli pasta with fresh tomato sauce, salmon baked with spinach, kalamata olives, white wine, and tomatoes, and tagliatelle Bolognese stands on its own. It’s one of our true favorites in the area in terms of Italian restaurants. 167 Townsend St., Birmingham; 248-494-7110. L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat. Beverly Hills Grill $$$ NEW AMERICAN • This Beverly Hills institution has built a loyal following over the years with its California vibe and dawn-to-dark schedule. These days they’re serving only dinner but still features the fresh and innovative fare that put it on the map. 31471 Southfield Road, Beverly Hills; 248-642-2355. D daily. Bi Bim Bab $$ KOREAN • Though sushi and a small selection of Japanese entrees share the bill here, it’s Korean food at center stage — on barbecue grills, on which meat and seafood are grilled to order. Or come for the restaurant’s namesake. 43155 Main St., Novi; 248-3486800. L,D daily. Bigalora: Wood Fired Cucina $$ ITALIAN • The pizza concept from chef Luciano Del Signore, a four-time James Beard Award nominee, features small plates, fresh pastas, wood-roasted meats, and a range of distinctive Neopolitan pizzas. See website for locations; bigalora.com Bistro Joe’s $$$ GLOBAL • Part of Papa Joe’s Gourmet Market, Bistro Joe’s is in a mezzanine overlooking the open kitchen

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and market. There is an eclectic list of dishes like Spicy Tuna “tacushi,” steamed mussels, and tasty flatbread pizzas. 34244 Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-5940984. L,D Tue.-Sun., BR Sat.-Sun.

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yourself establishment is named after an herb that is often used in traditional Peruvian cooking. An especially notable dish is the Pollo a la Brasa, marinated chicken served with French fries, rice, and a variety of dipping sauces. 22939 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-632-1055. L,D daily.

2003 Diamond’s Steak & Seafood $$$ STEAKHOUSE • This Howell restaurant is the perfect location for ribeye, fresh gulf shrimp, or a classic cheeseburger. Plus, weekends boast a buffet-style brunch. 101 W. Grand River Ave., Howell; 517-548-5500. D daily.

Café Cortina $$$ ITALIAN • Selections include prosciutto di Parma stuffed with greens and mozzarella; squid sautéed with fresh pomodori; gnocchi with porcini mushrooms; and meaty prawns finished with lemon, white wine, and herbs. For dessert, try the crepes 30715 W. 10 Mile Road, Farmington Hills; 248-474-3033. L,D Mon.-Fri., D Sat.

Eddie’s Gourmet $$ NEW AMERICAN • Chef Eddie Hanna’s gourmet diner is a simple concept that works to perfection. The menu offers standard selection of breakfast items, burgers, sandwiches, and lunch specials, but the real draw is the counter-side gourmet and pasta specials. Offerings include Veal Marsala and Chicken Milano 25920 Greenfield Road, Oak Park; 248-9684060. L,D Mon-Sat.

Café ML $$ NEW AMERICAN • Café ML is contemporary in décor and its “globally inspired food.” Such dishes as short rib steamed buns, Chinese chicken salad, Singapore street noodles, and Korean fried chicken share the menu with burgers, steak frites, and fresh seafood. Garage door-style windows open onto the patio on warm days. 3607 W. Maple Road, Bloomfield Township; 248-642-4000. D daily. Capital Grille $$$ STEAKHOUSE • Hand-cut, dry-aged steaks and fresh seafood dishes are the stars at Capital Grille. The restaurant’s outstanding wine list features over 350 labels. The setting is appropriate for both business lunches and social events and includes well-appointed private dining rooms. 2800 W. Big Beaver Road, Troy; 248-6495300. L,D Mon.-Sat., D Sun. Casa Pernoi $$$$ ITALIAN • Three months after its grand opening, what once was a multi-hyphenate concept, blending French, Asian, and Italian cuisine, soon defaulted simply to a cuisine most familiar to chef Luciano DelSignore: Italian. Housemade pastas rolled by hand, chicken parmesan, and a meaty branzino typify the menu. A cannoli cake layers sweet ricotta atop a spongy cake and a base of dark chocolate reminiscent of a Nestle Crunch Bar. 310 E. Maple Road, Birmingham; 248-940-0000 Churchill’s Bistro & Cigar Bar $$$ TRADITIONAL • You can buy your cigar and smoke it, too. Plus, there are dry-aged steaks, pan-roasted sea bass, seasonal East Coast oysters, and lamb chops, among other options. A full bar boasts a large selection of whiskey, scotch, and bourbon — and plenty of wine. 116 S. Old Woodward, Birmingham; 248-647-4555. L Mon.-Sat. D daily. Como’s $$ NEW AMERICAN • This Ferndale favorite reopened in May 2019 under the ownership of Peas & Carrots Hospitality with a trendier, fresher look. The warm, homey feel is still intact, but it’s ditched the old menu for — among other things — chef Zack Sklar’s square, deep-dish, Detroit-style pizza that’s leavened from a sourdough starter as opposed to commercial yeast. 22812 Woodward Ave., Unit 100., Ferndale; 248-677-4439. L,D daily. Crispelli’s Bakery Pizzeria $ ITALIAN-INSPIRED • This hybrid offers artisanal pizzas from a brick oven, salads, paninis, and soups. A bakery offers crusty breads, desserts, and meals to go. Two patios add to the appeal. See website for locations; crispellis.com Culantro $$ PERUVIAN • Native Peruvian Betty Shuell brings a taste of her home to Ferndale. The casual, homey, seat-

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MEXICANINSPIRED The menu offers California-style tacos on soft tortillas, including lime-grilled chicken, carnitas, and marinated pork, as well as slow-roasted pork tortas, and guacamole. 22828 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, 248-8508060. L,D daily, BR Sun. $

between 4 p.m.-6 p.m. daily. 2950 Rochester Road, Troy; 248-278-7777. D Mon-Sun. Hazel, Ravines & Downtown $$ ECLECTIC • This is an inventive, casual and fine-dining eatery, grab-and-go market, and bar all in a 10,000-square-foot space in downtown Birmingham. The restaurant itself offers three menus. Hazel focuses on comfort food. Ravines is for the seasoned traveler. While Downtown appeals to food-trend-followers. HRD is the ultimate neighborhood hangout. 1 Peabody St., Birmingham; 248-671-1714. B,L,D daily. Honcho $ LATIN FUSION • From the owners of Vinsetta Garage and Union Woodshop, this restaurant can be described as “Latin food that speaks with an Asian accent.” Menu items include a chicken burrito fried and tossed in a soy fish sauce and Korean pork tacos, featuring Woodshop pulled pork tossed in Korean BBQ sauce and topped with toasted sesame seeds and Malay radish slaw. 3 E. Church St., Clarkston; 248-707-3793. L,D daily.

Elie’s Mediterranean Grill/Bar $$ LEBANESE • The lamb and chicken shawarma, shish kafta, kibbee nyeh, and other Lebanese dishes are emphasized by the décor, including photomurals of old Beirut and strings of blue beads cascading from the ceiling. A fun place to frequent for a quick lunch or a night out with friends. 263 Pierce St., Birmingham; 248647-2420. L,D Mon.-Sat.

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The Fed $$ GASTROPUB • An attractive restaurant with great food and a delightfully refreshing atmosphere. The menu crosses boundaries, from shareables, like Spanish Octopus and Wild Mushroom Crostini, to heartier fare, like Braised Lamb Pappardelle and Steak and Frites. Plus, the bright and airy bohemian-chic interior is highly Instagrammable. 15 S. Main St., Clarkston; 248-2975833. D daily, BR Sat.-Sun.

Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse $$$$ STEAKHOUSE • This plush modern steakhouse offers dry-aged prime and Kobe-style wagyu beef in a fun, clubby setting. An extensive wine list accompanies the restaurant menu that also features platters of chilled fresh seafood. 201 S. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-594-4369. D daily. 17107 Haggerty Road, Northville Twp.; 248-679-0007. D Tue.-Sat.

The Fly Trap $ ECLECTIC AMERICAN • This “finer diner” typifies trendy Ferndale with its tin ceiling, red-topped tables, and counter with swivel stools. It offers sandwiches, salads, pastas, and omelets. 22950 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-399-5150. B,L Tue.-Sun., D Tue.-Fri.

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2009

Forest $$$ EUROPEAN-INSPIRED • The menu is brief but designed to let the kitchen assemble sharp flavors from various farm and market ingredients. Try the delightful pastas, like the Bolognese and the agnolotti, as well as the understated Farm Egg. 735 Forest Ave., Birmingham; 248-258-9400. D Mon.-Sat. BR Sat. Garage Grill & Fuel Bar $$ NEW AMERICAN • The car-themed rooms of a former 1940s gas station are as fresh and appealing as the dishes themselves. The kitchen serves up a variety of seafood starters and “full-size sedan” entrees, as well as pizzas. 202 W. Main St., Northville, 248-9243367. L,D nightly, BR Sat.-Sun. Gran Castor $$ LATIN STREET • From the duo behind hit spots like Vinsetta Garage and Union Woodshop comes this vibrant Latin-American café and restaurant.Diners can choose to sit behind one of the two bars, a cozy café, or in the 245-seat dining room all decked in colorful textiles. At Gran Castor, the dining room is equally as decadent as the food and drinks served. Grab a $5 margarita

2002

Hong Hua $ CHINESE • One of the best area restaurants dedicated to Asian food offers some rare delicacies — shark’s fin and bird’s nest soups, fresh abalone — as well as more customary items. One signature dish is stir-fried yellow grouper fillet with vegetables. 27925 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills; 248-489-2280. L,D daily.

J-Bird Smoked Meats $$ BARBEQUE • Offering wood-smoked meats served with the traditional sides of cornbread, buttermilk slaw, and mac and cheese, popular dishes include the Three Meat Sampler and JBird Gumbo, as well as St. Louis Ribs and old-fashioned JBurgers. If you love meat, this is your place. 1978 Cass Lake Road, Keego Harbor; 248681-2124. D daily. BR Sat.-Sun. Kaizen Ramen $ JAPANESE • A downtown Royal Oak space with exposed ductwork, orange booths, and a lively, floor-to-ceiling, black-and-white robot mural may not seem like the obvious choice for authentic Asian noodles. But this casual spot offers a variety of vegan and meat-based ramen dishes, as well as gyoza, poke, spring rolls, and karaage — Japanese-style fried chicken. Don’t skip out on desserts like mochi ice cream and cheesecake tempura. 411 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak; 248-677-1236. L,D Mon.-Sat. Lao Pot $$$ CHINESE • In 2019, the owners of Madison Heights’ international market 168 Asian Mart opened Lao Pot, which specializes in Chinese Hot Pot cuisine. Hot Pot is a traditional method of cooking, using a pot of simmering broth, which sits in the center of the dining table. Lao Pot allows diners to customize and cook their meals right at their tables, combining great food and a memorable experience. 32707 John R. Road, Madison Heights; 248-689-9888. L,D daily. La Strada Dolci e Caffé $ ITALIAN • A slice of European elegance offers an impeccable little menu of Italian dishes and rich coffees

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and espresso. Paninis, delicious fresh green salads, hearty minestrone soup, pastas, pizzas, and decadent and artistically crafted pastries are prettily served and very tasty. 243 E. Merrill St., Birmingham; 248-4800492. B,L,D Tue.-Sat., L,D Sun.

cult-favorite classics, with a serious kitchen that offers traditional American dishes as well as hints of global influences. 474 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-712-4953. L,D daily. The Meeting House $$ ECLECTIC AMERICAN • This eclectic American menu includes Gulf Shrimp Gratin, steak frites remarkably close to those at Paris bistros, and a housemade soft pretzel with roasted jalapeno-goat cheese dip. Or, try the beef short rib with shawarma spices, pistachio basmati, and pickled vegetables. 301 S. Main St., Rochester; 248-759-4825. D daily, BR Sat.-Sun.

Lelli’s Inn $$ ITALIAN • Dinners begin with an antipasto tray, creamy minestrone, salad, side dish of spaghetti, and then — nine times out of 10 — a filet mignon with zip sauce. 885 N. Opdyke Road, Auburn Hills; 248-373-4440. L Mon.-Fri. D daily. Loccino Italian Grill $$ ITALIAN • Loccino is a “family-friendly” yet upscale Italian restaurant. Choose from fresh seafood, steak, chicken, and veal dishes, plus traditional pastas, pizzas, salads, and more. They also offer happy hour specials from 3-7 p.m. weekdays. A great special occassion place or delicious workday lunch spot for whevener you need a break from the office. 5600 Crooks Road, Troy; 248-813-0700. L Mon.-Fri., D daily. Lockhart’s BBQ $$ BARBEQUE • The heart of this joint’s authentic barbecue is the dry-rubbed meat smoker, which can smoke up to 800 pounds of meat at a time. Choices such as pork ribs, pulled pork, beef brisket, burnt ends, and chicken are served atop butcher paper on metal trays for the true experience. 202 E. Third St., Royal Oak; 248584-4227. L,D daily. BR Sun. Loui’s Pizza $ ITALIAN • Sure, you can now get a Michigan craft beer, but not much else has changed. And that’s a good thing. Parties dine on square pizzas with crisp crust that’s faintly charred around the edges. Hailed by food critics and Detroiters alike as arguably one of the most classic Detroit style pizzas in the city — so it’s well worth a trip. 23141 Dequindre Road, Hazel Park; 248547-1711. L, D Wed.-Sun. Luxe Bar & Grill $$ NEW AMERICAN • The simple menu at this Grosse Pointe Farms joint offers burgers on brioche buns and interesting salads and sides, as well as entrees typified by wild-caught salmon, prime filet, and Greek-style lamb chops. 525 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-792-6051. 115 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms; 313-924-5459. L,D daily. Mabel Gray $$$ NEW AMERICAN • Chef James Rigato produces some masterful dishes on this tiny menu, which does not miss a beat. The menu includes a multi-course tasting option, as well as a daily listing of changing items that never disappoint. It’s a fine dining experience that is certainly worth a visit. 23825 John R Road, Hazel Park; 248-398-4300. D Tue.-Sat. Mad Hatter Bistro, Bar & Tea Room $$ ECLECTIC AMERICAN • The whimsical setting inspired by Alice in Wonderland welcomes far more than the tea-sipping set with burgers and sandwiches, rabbit Porchetta, truffle risotto bites, and baked brie with pistachio, honey, and pomegranate. There are also pastries, of course. 185 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-540-0000. L,D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. Tea by reservation. Lower level not wheelchair accessible. Market North End $$ AMERICAN • Joe and Kristin Bongiovanni opened this eatery just across the street from the family’s existing restaurants, Salvatore Scallopini and Luxe Bar & Grill. It represents a younger, more casual alternative to the

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BURGERS The half-pound choice beef hamburger is always atop the list of local favorites. But a low-fat, high-flavor Piedmontese beef one is tastier than the original. This is the place for your burger craving. 31542 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-5490300. 6745 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield Township; 248-865-0500. L,D Mon.-Sat. $

Mesa Tacos And Tequila $ MEXICAN-AMERICAN • The two-story setting includes balcony seating in a big, open room where the bar gets equal time with the kitchen. The pop-Mexican menu — which includes guacamole, nachos, and the titular tacos — is backed up with an array of tequilas. 312 S. Main St., Royal Oak; 248-545-1940. L & D daily.

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Mon Jin Lau $$ ASIAN-FUSION • Explore such dishes as Singapore noodles, combining chicken, shrimp, chilies, and curry with angel-hair pasta; Mongolian beef; or seared scallops with lemongrass-basil Thai curry sauce. The patio opens up and the dining room transforms into a dance floor for weekly events. 1515 E. Maple Road, Troy; 248689-2332. L Mon.-Fri., D daily. The Morrie $$ NEW AMERICAN • Music and munchies can be a great combination when served in the right proportions. Such offerings as the smoked chicken wings, smoked apple burnt ends and Detroit style pizza, as well as the requisite burger and steak, appeal to a wide demographic. The rock’n’roll-themed eatery also brought its muchloved American dishes and cocktails to Birmingham in 2019. 511 S. Main St., Royal Oak; 248-216-1112. D daily. 260 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248-9403260. L,D Mon.-Fri., B,L,D Sat.-Sun. BR Sat.-Sun.

delightful food, superb service, and one wild look. The menu offers main courses and shared plates, as well as pizza and sandwiches. Can’t-miss: The housemade Bolognese with ground lamb and Italian sausage. There’s also a concert venue called The Parliament Room. 345 E. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248-291-6160. D Mon.-Sat. O.W.L. $ MEXICAN-AMERICAN • This Royal Oak spot offers 24 hours of sustenance. Step up to the counter and order from the letterboard menu before grabbing a stool at the counter or along the window ledge. Dishes here include such diner musts as eggs, sausage and potato hash, burgers, and chicken wings as well as tacos and nachos served from the open kitchen. 27302 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-808-6244. B, L,D daily. Phoenicia $$$ LEBANESE • This long-standing upscale Lebanese eatery has clean, contemporary lines that complement the French door-style windows. Don’t miss the morel mushrooms or roasted garlic cloves with tomato and basil as an appetizer. The menu expands to unexpected items such as baby back ribs and single-serving-sized local whitefish. 588 S. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham; 248644-3122. L Mon.-Fri., D daily. Polka Restaurant & Beer Café $$ POLISH • Servers in traditional garb greet you near original murals, and light woodwork is enhanced with painted floral panels. Try the dill pickle soup, city chicken, and beef short rib, plus other favorites like pierogis, schnitzel, stuffed cabbages, and several kielbasa styles. 2908 E. Maple Road, Troy; 248-8172601. D Tue.-Sun. Pop’s For Italian $$ ITALIAN • It doesn’t sound fancy, but this Ferndale restaurant serves well-prepared, Italian dishes paired with an ambitious wine program. The fairly brief menu starts with a list of Neapolitan pizzas, then moves to pastas, but has all the classics to hit the spot. There are charcuterie boards and Italian desserts, too. 280 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248-268-4806. D Tue.-Sun.

Oak City Grille $ NEW AMERICAN • This downtown Royal Oak spot bridges the gap between bar food and upscale dining. Order a dressed-up sandwich or burger, or elevate your dining experience with an 8-ounce filet mignon or lamb chops. The friendly price range makes anything possible. 212 W. Sixth St., Royal Oak; 248-5560947. D daily.

Prime29 Steakhouse $$$$ STEAKHOUSE • The 29-day aged prime beef, including the 24-ounce tomahawk bone-in rib-eye, still stars here. There’s also Chilean sea bass, Loch Duart salmon, and lamb chops with lobster fried rice. The service is notable, as is the Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator. 6545 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield; 248737-7463. D daily.

Ocean Prime $$$$ SEAFOOD • An upper-end steak-and-fish place and a popular business lunch site. The menu features naturally harvested fresh fish and prime aged beef. Don’t miss the chocolate peanut butter pie or the carrot cake. A tried-and-true metro Detroit spot. 2915 Coolidge Hwy., Troy; 248-458-0500. L Mon.-Fri., D daily.

Public House $$ NEW AMERICAN/VEGAN • This Ferndale spot reopened under new ownership and with a refreshed look in late 2021. Standout selections include its burgers, sharable plates like barbecued carrots, and craft cocktails and mocktails. It also features a special vegan menu and carries plenty of gluten-free options. 241 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248-8507420. L,D Mon.-Fri, B,L,D Sat.-Sun.

One-Eyed Betty’s $$ ECLECTIC AMERICAN • Picnic-style tables and blackboards lettered with scores of brew choices add a beer-hall sensibility to this popular spot. The kitchen delivers New Orleans-themed dishes such as Chicken Tchoupitoulas with tasso ham and bearnaise sauce, as well as a mouth-watering bacon burger. Weekend brunch features delicious housemade doughnuts. 175 W. Troy St., Ferndale; 248-8086633. D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. Otus Supply NEW AMERICAN • This Ferndale stunner has

Quán Ngon Vietnamese Bistro $ VIETNAMESE • This gem of a bistro in a hand-some space adds to the local Vietnamese offerings. Dishes such as cha gio (elegant little eggrolls), bun bo nuong sa (grilled steak atop angel-hair rice noodles), and banh mi made with fresh ingredients. 30701 Dequindre Road, Madison Heights; 248-268-4310. L,D daily. Rochester Chop House $$ NEW AMERICAN • Two restaurants in one; Kabin Kruser’s and the Chop House. There’s a throwback

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roadhouse-style feeling about the Chop House, which has a menu divided between red meat and fresh fish and seafood. Signature dishes include calamari, Maryland jumbo lump crabcakes, and a large selection of aged steaks, rack of lamb, and steak/seafood combinations. 306 S. Main St., Rochester; 248-651-2266. L Mon.-Fri., D daily Ronin $$ JAPANESE • The sushi menu, ranging from spicy tuna rolls to yellowtail and salmon eggs and well beyond, is augmented by a concise menu of cooked fare. Front windows open onto the sidewalk, making the cocktail lounge open-air during the warm months. 326 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-546-0888. D daily. Silver Spoon $$ ITALIAN • This quintessential slice of Italy features excellent food, knowledgeable staff, and friendly service. Try the bucatini made with pancetta, onion, red wine, and fresh tomato sauce. Also worth trying: saltimbocca alla Romana, or veal scaloppini sautéed in white wine. A truly delicious place for any kind of outing. 543 N. Main St., Rochester; 248-652-4500. D daily. Social Kitchen & Bar $$$ NEW AMERICAN • The energetic Birmingham spot allows guests a view of the kitchen action. It has a creative and varied menu typified by falafel lettuce wraps, fried chicken sandwiches, crispy Brussels sprouts, and salmon with braised lentils, crispy kale, and a mustard vinagrette. 225 E. Maple Road, Birmingham; 248-5944200. L Mon.-Fri., D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. Sozai JAPANESE • To truly experience Sozai, you have to reserve a seat at the custom-built sushi bar where chef Hajime Sato will curate a unique sustainable sushi dining experience called omakase. There’s also a menu offering crowd pleasures like chicken karaage and rolls featuring familiar ingredients with tuna, jalapeno and avocado. 449 W. 14 Mile Road, Clawson; 248-677-3232. D Tues.-Sat. Streetside Seafood $$ SEAFOOD • Small and cozy yet sophisticated, the restaurant has a pared-down menu of fresh fish and seafood on a seasonal menu. There are always two soups: a bisque and a chowder. Favorites include the oysters and bouillabaisse. A delicious restaurant for all palates to enjoy and feel comfortable in. 273 Pierce St.Birmingham; 248-645-9123. L Mon.-Fri., D daily. Take Sushi $$ JAPANESE • Crisp salads, miso soup garnished with the tiniest dice of tofu, sashimi and sushi, oversize bowls of soba or udon noodles, and all the familiar — and some not-so-familiar — entrees, combine together to make this spot special. 1366 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills; 248-652-7800. L Mon.-Sat., D daily. Tallulah Wine Bar & Bistro $$ WINE BAR • Understated décor and a pared-down menu of seasonal dishes make this spot a Birmingham classic. The kitchen turns out dishes like Lamb Belly Ragu with housemade pasta; and whole branzino with charred zucchini and romesco. Wine is served by the glass, the pitcher, or bottle. 155 S. Bates St., Birmingham; 248-731-7066. D Mon.-Sat. Three Cats Restaurant $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • Formerly a small café serving customers of the boutique Leon & Lulu, Three Cats is now a full-fledged restaurant and bar. Located in the former Clawson movie theater next door to the shop, the spot serves small, simple plates, including vegetari-

the crowds offering an upbeat modern twist to traditional Italian dining. 49521 Van Dyke Ave., Shelby Township; 586-731-7544. L,D Tue.-Fri., D Sat., L,D Sun.

an and vegan options for brunch, lunch, and dinner. The beverage menu features local selections, such as vodka from Ferndale’s Valentine’s Distilling Co. and wines from grapes grown on the Leelanau Peninsula. Patrons can even take home the colorful, quirky chairs or tables they’re dining at, as most of the furniture at Three Cats Restaurant is available for purchase. 116 W. 14 Mile Road, Clawson; 248-288-4858. L,D Mon.-Fri., B,L,D Sat.-Sun. Toast, A Breakfast & Lunch Joint $ BREAKFAST/BRUNCH • It’s fun, it’s breezy, and the food at Toast, A Breakfast & Lunch Joint is very, very good. The house specialty smothered burrito has plenty of fans, as does huevos rancheros: fried eggs upon corn tortillas, pintos, and cheese. Toast, a Neighborhood Joint, the spinoff of the Ferndale original has a more elaborate setting pairing ’50s retro with sleek contemporary in a pair of rooms. The new menu features twists to comfort food. 23144 Woodward Ave., Ferndale; 248-398-0444. L daily, B Sat.-Sun. 203 Pierce St., Birmingham; 248-258-6278. B,L Mon.-Sat., B,L Sun. Toasted Oak $$$ BRASSERIE • The menu revolves around the charcuterie sold in the market next door and a list of hot grill items, such as grilled steaks with béarnaise sauce. In 2019, the restaurant earned a Wine Spectator magazine award for its outstanding wine program. Plus, just across the lot is Twelve Oaks Mall, should you fancy an evening of shopping and dinner. 27790 Novi Road, Novi; 248-277-6000. B,D daily, L Mon.-Fri. Townhouse $$$ NEW AMERICAN • This popular Birmingham spot for comforting New American dishes has several exceptional offerings on its menu, such as the specialty 10 ounces of 28-day dry-aged beef hamburger on brioche. 180 Pierce St., Birmingham; 248-792-5241. L,D daily, BR Sat.-Sun. 500 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-723-1000. L,D Mon.-Sun. BR Sun. Union Woodshop $$ BARBEQUE • Part of the ever-growing Union Joints restaurant group, this is a self-described wood-fired joint, where pulled pork, ribs, chicken, and beef brisket come from the smoker, and Neapolitan-style crispcrusted pizzas from the wood-burning oven. And definitely check out the mac and cheese. There’s also a delicious kid’s menu for any youngsters in your party. 18 S. Main St., Clarkston; 248-625-5660. D Mon.-Fri., L,D Sat.-Sun. Voyager $$ SEAFOOD • Fresh seafood with emphasis on oysters is the premise in this hard-to-find location. The space entails convivially close quarters for such dishes as peel-n’-eat shrimp, chili crab spaghetti and grilled swordfish. The premium bar offers short but notable lists of beer and wine as well as craft cocktails. 600 Vester St., Ferndale; 248-658-4999. D Tue.-Sat.

Macomb Butter Run Saloon $ GASTROPUB • Solid American fare that’s beyond bar food (although their burgers are certainly noteworthy). There’s escargot, perch, steaks, and a huge whiskey selection — 900 at last count. 27626 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-675-2115. L,D daily. Da Francesco’s Ristorante & Bar $$ ITALIAN • Da Francesco’s has been around for more than 15 years, but its massive new facility is packing in

Detroit Fish House $$ SEAFOOD • This restaurant feels like a true coastal eatery, serving an extensive menu of fresh fish and seafood in a well-designed setting. Choose from a wide variety of fresh fish and meaty seafood, ranging from salmon to Lake Superior whitefish. 51195 Schoenherr Road, Shelby Charter Township; 586-7395400. L,D Mon.-Sat., D Sun. Gaudino’s $$ ITALIAN • The trend toward combining a food market with a restaurant has a good example at this spot. It offers imported pastas and sauces, plus a butcher counter with sausages and a wine assortment. The menu offers pasta and pizza, salads, and entrees, including a Chicken Milanese. 27919 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-879-6764. L,D Tue.-Sun.

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Vinsetta Garage

NEW AMERICAN This restaurant, which is housed in a vintage carrepair shop, offers well-prepared comfort-food classics such as burgers served on pretzel buns, macaroni and cheese, the Chef Bowl with spaghetti and tomato basil sauce, pizzas, and brown sugarglazed salmon. A restaurant that pays true homage to the city of Detroit. 27799 Woodward Ave., Berkley; 248-548-7711. L,D daily. $$

Isla $$ FILIPINO • Dishes at this Filipino restaurant, formerly sheltered at Fort Street Galley, are reflective of the culinary traditions of the founders’ Iloilo City hometown. Annatto is used to punch up the color of Chicken Adobo, the unofficial dish of the Philippines, and juicy mangoes complement sweet and savory dishes. 2496 Metro Pkwy, Sterling Heights; 586-883-7526. D Tue.-Sat., BR Sun. J. Baldwin’s Restaurant $$$ NEW AMERICAN • The menu showcases talented chef Jeff Baldwin’s contemporary American food: cedar-planked salmon, chicken fettuccini alfredo with pesto, and herb-crusted chicken, with housemade breads. The desserts include chocolate bumpy cake, spiced carrot cake, apple cobbler, chocolate mousse layer cake, and banana foster bread pudding. 16981 18 Mile Road, Clinton Township; 586-416-3500. L,D daily, BR Sun. Mr. Paul’s Chophouse $$$ STEAKHOUSE • This bastion of red meat as well as classic dishes is still going strong. Try old-school tableside presentations such as Chateaubriand and Caesar salad. There’s a solid selection of fresh seafood and pasta, too. The founding family still runs the place and emphasizes great hospitality and a heckuva good time. 29850 Groesbeck Hwy., Roseville; 586777-7770. L,D Mon.-Fri., D Sat. Sherwood Brewing Co. $ GASTROPUB • Quality local ingredients raise Sherwood’s fare to well above “elevated pub grub.” Some notable choices include the hearty House Beer Chili, savory Better Made-crusted fish and chips, and spicy Buffalo Mac. Homemade extends to dessert, including Cashew Outside Cookies. This isn’t just bar food,it’s elevated bar food. 45689 Hayes Road, Shelby Township; 586-532-9669. L,D daily. Steakhouse 22 $$ STEAKHOUSE • The late Nick Andreopoulos once spent time as a “broiler man” at London Chop House. His family stays true to those roots at this American steakhouse with a casual, neighborhood feel. They offer an array of well-prepared angus steaks, plus seafood and pasta dishes. With the sizable lunch and portions offered at Steakhouse 22, good luck saving room for dessert! 48900 Van Dyke Ave., Shelby Township; 586-731-3900. L,D daily. Testa Barra $$ ITALIAN • The newest spot from talented chef and res-

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taurateur Jeffrey Baldwin and his wife, RoseMarie, offers modern Italian fare in a lively, upbeat setting. Pastas are made in-house. 48824 Romeo Plank Road, Macomb Township; 586-434-0100. D nightly D Tue.-Sun. dessert! 48900 Van Dyke Ave., Shelby Township; 586731-3900. L,D daily.

Sun.545 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale; 248-547-6699. D daily. Cardamom $$ INDIAN • Check out the Hyderabadi Biryani —chicken, goat, and vegetable dishes, in which the rice is first cooked then baked. All the Indian favorites are available at Cardamom, such as Chicken Tikka Masala, Lamb Rogan Josh, and warm, fluffy, made-fresh garlic naan. It’s the ideal spot for when you’re craving the classics. 1739 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor; 734-662-2877. L,D Tue.-Sun.

Twisted Rooster $$ SPORTS BAR • This “Michigan-centric” chain (Chesterfield Township, Grand Rapids, and Belleville) has takes on classics, with mac & cheese variations and steaks with “zip” sauce. 45225 Marketplace Blvd., Chesterfield; 586-949-1470. L,D daily.

The Common Grill $$ SEAFOOD • Owner and chef Craig Common’s skilled work has drawn the attention of the now shuttered Gourmet magazine and the James Beard House — as well as the Purple Rose Theatre crowd. This mainstay is best known for fresh oysters and seafood, but all the fare at The Common Grill is expertly prepared. A triedand-true foodie destination with a range of desserts, including coconut cream pie, lemon pudding cake, and cherry cobbler. 112 S. Main St.,Chelsea; 734-475-0470. L,D Tue.-Sun., BR Sun.

Vast Kitchen and Bar $$ NEW AMERICAN • Chef Nicole Justman heads the kitchen at this fresh spot that brings a touch of Birmingham to Shelby Township. A contemporary menu at Vast Kitchen and Bar includes pan-seared salmon and sous vide pork shank. 52969 Van Dyke Ave., Shelby Township; 586-991-6104. L,D Mon.-Sat. Waves $$ SEAFOOD • Seafood covers most of the menu at this Nautical Mile favorite. It’s a tough task choosing between such popular appetizers as coconut shrimp, crispy grouper nuggets, and plump steamed mussels. Entrees include al dente pastas and several choices from “over the wave,” such as lamb chops and New York strip steak, plus lump crab cakes, and beer-battered cod. 24223 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-7733279. L,D daily.

KouZina Greek Steet Food $ GREEK • The Greek “street food” at this Ann Arbor spot comes in lamb and beef, and chicken. Try the lentil soup for a delicious lunch or go for something more filling like falafel. Either way, you can’t go wrong with this excellent spot. 332 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-9975155. L,D daily.

Washtenaw Bellflower $$$ NEW AMERICAN • A restaurant housed in a former exchange of the Michigan Bell Telephone Company, Bellflower answers Ypsilanti’s call for fine dining with an adventurous flair. Boudin sausage with roasted okra, baked oysters, and ginger ale or Coca-Cola-roasted beets showed up on early menus as chef Dan Klenotic’s way of straddling the line of creole tradition and an imaginative style that is entirely his own. 209 Pearl St., Ypsilanti. L,D Mon.-Sat., L Sun. Black Pearl $$ SEAFOOD • This seafood and martini bar is especially popular during patio season. But step inside for a host of craft cocktails, then stay for dinner. A seafood-dominated menu includes a notable roasted scallop dish. Non-seafood options include the eponymous burger, roasted butternut squash salad, and filet mignon. And make sure to order dessert. 302 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-222-0400. D daily. Blue LLama Jazz Club $$ CREATIVE AMERICAN • Come to this swanky jazz club for the music, which includes headliners such as the Grammy-nominated Ravi Coltrane Quartet, but stay for Chef Louis Goral’s delicious food. Try the crispy foie gras PB&J with Marcona almonds and strawberry jam. There is also a delicious Sunday brunch with decadent orange blossom beignets and strawberry pancakes. 314 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734372-3200. D Wed.-Sat., BR Sun. The Blue Nile $$ ETHIOPIAN • The real treat of the meal at this quaint Ferndale restaurant is that it’s scooped up with a spongy bread called injera, and all the lentils, often seasoned with an Ethiopian spice mixture known as Berber, and vegetables are equally delicious. 221 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor; 734-998-4746. D Tue.-

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Paesano

ITALIAN With a friendly waitstaff and decked in vibrant colors, this lively restaurant is not to be missed. The innovative menu changes seasonally. Must-tries have included the pasta carbonara, featuring shrimp, duck bacon, and Italian greens, as well as beet and ricotta gnocchi with brown butter. 3411 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-9710484. L,D daily. $$

Mani Osteria & Bar $$ ITALIAN • This popular casual restaurant infuses freshness with lower prices than most osterias in the area. It’s a well-rounded blend of modern, eclectic Italian with classic standbys. The pizzas are hot, fresh and perfectly executed to suit your tastes. 341 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor; 734-769-6700. L Tue.-Fri., D Tue.Sun., BR Sun. Miss Kim $$ KOREAN • This spinoff from the Zingerman’s mini empire comes courtesy of chef Ji Hye Kim and is a goto spot for healthy Asian eats. Kim often incorporates ancient Korean culinary traditions, such as rice syrup and plum extracts, into her dishes. Standouts here include the Korean fried chicken and Street-Style Tteokbokki — just to name a few of them. 415 N. Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-275-0099. L,D Tue.-Sun. Seva Ann Arbor $$ VEGAN • Seva offers such dishes as black bean and sweet potato quesadillas, gluten-free options, and colorful stir-fries — some vegan as well as vegetarian. There’s also a full bar as well as a juice bar serving creamy smoothies and dense shakes, freshsqueezed juices, and craft mocktails. Choose from one of the most extensive vegetarian menus in the Detroit area. 2541 Jackson Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-6621111. L,D daily.

and duck-fat fried chicken. But the star at Slurping Turtle is the noodle (Yagihashi’s “soul food”), which is made in-house daily on a machine imported from Japan. 608 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor; 734-887-6868. L,D daily. The Boro Dining Room and Bar $$$$ NEW AMERICAN • Much like the restaurant’s ambience, the cuisine at The Boro is both refined and relaxed. The Grilled Bone-In Pork Loin typifies the vibe. In flavor, the pork is reminiscent of a slab of tender brisket at a family barbecue. The loin is sweetened with a smattering of St. Louis-style barbecue glaze. In presentation and accoutrements, though, the dish is worthy of white-tablecloth status. 5400 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor; 734-669-3310. B,L,D daily. Vinology $$$ ECLECTIC • Natural brick walls blended with darkwood booths and tables lend warmth to the dining room at Vinology, while tall ceilings contribute to the restaurant’s spacious feel. The menu draws on assorted cuisines to produce dishes such as Campeche Flautas, Argentinian Deep Dish Pizza, and lamb chops with chimichurri. As implied by the name of the venue, the wine list here is incredible. Try a bottle off of its New or Old World Cellared Collection. 110 S. Main St., Ann Arbor; 734-222-9841.L Mon.-Fri. D daily. Yotsuba Japanese Restaurant & Bar $$ JAPANESE • The semi-circular sushi bar is the center of this restaurant. Sushi chef Bobby Suzuki has a loyal following for his precise nigiri rolls. There are also tatami rooms and conventional seating. 7365 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield Township; 248737-8282. 2222 Hogback Road, Ann Arbor; 734-9715168. L,D daily. Zingerman’s Delicatessen $ SANDWICH/DELI • Zingerman’s Delicatessen is a household name for Michiganians, and a must-try staple in Ann Arbor. The temptations at Zingerman’s are endless: fresh breads and a menu of filling sandwiches, olive oils and housemade balsamic vinegars, chilies, and mustards. 422 Detroit St., Ann Arbor; 734663-3354. B,L,D daily. Zingerman’s Roadhouse $$$ CLASSIC COMFORT • This eatery celebrates American food from various cities. From fresh Maryland crab cakes to the delicious delicacies of New Orleans, every last bite of the country is represented here. The buttermilk biscuits are beyond-this-world. 2501 Jackson Ave., Ann Arbor; 734-663-3663. B,L,D daily.

Shalimar $$ INDIAN • Offering North Indian, Tandoori, and Mughlai dishes, Shalimar is suitable for carnivores and herbivores alike. Standouts include the Tandoori Lamb Chops marinated in creamy yogurt, spicy ginger, and fresh garlic, which is best eaten with the restaurant’s flavorful, chewy garlic naan served fresh and hot. 307 S. Main St., Ann Arbor;734-663-1500. L, D daily. Slurping Turtle $ JAPANESE • This fun, casual Ann Arbor restaurant, owned by celebrity chef Takashi Yagihashi, offers plenty of shareable dishes, such as hamachi tacos

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thought that would change my trajectory. I also wrote for the school paper when I was in law school, and I ghostwrote a column for an attorney in Massachusetts in the local paper. I was still always doing it. I was telling myself what I wanted to do, but I wasn’t listening to myself.

How quickly did you know, when you started your law career, that it wasn’t forever? Straight out of the gate I was doing everything I wanted, which was to be a litigator, go to court, have my own caseload. But I still did not feel fulfilled, and I wondered how I could do this for two more years, let alone 20. That just let me know: All right, this is not the profession for me.

How did your parents react?

Oh, they wanted me to be a lawyer. And I can understand that. I’m the youngest of six, and my parents did sacrifice a lot for all of us, so we could succeed, so we could get good educations and go on to have good careers. I’m the first lawyer in my family, and my parents had been immensely proud of me. I felt really guilty. In fact, the essay I wrote for my journalism graduate school application began with something like, “I’m about to break my mother’s heart.” But they wanted me to do the work that I was meant to do. And ever since I’ve been on MSNBC, I feel like that sort of made up for it. My mom can brag about that.

Are there things about your upbringing in metro Detroit that helped make you successful?

Yeah. I do think having an understanding of what it is like to grow up in a Midwestern, middle-class, suburban place with hardworking parents is important. Journalists, particularly East Coast journalists, have a not-unearned reputation as elites with no understanding of what real America is like. Certainly, that’s not true in my case. My background has given me an understanding of employment and labor issues, being that my father spent his whole career in that field, and an early understanding of politics, because again, he was very politically active. I remember going to fundraisers for James Blanchard and being at events and giving John Conyers a ride home. I was in touch with that world in a way that demystified it when it was time for me to cover politics. And so, yeah, it has certainly helped to be able to explain to people here [on the East Coast] what a Coney should look like.

How did the MSNBC thing start?

That began with C-SPAN. I was on Washington Journal, as a guest, and the executive producers asked if I’d want to guest host when their full-time host couldn’t do a show. I thought, “Sure, why not?” Then I was asked onto Fox News, first as a political commentator on Shepard Smith’s show

and on the weekend news shows. Then I started getting calls from CNN and MSNBC as well and eventually, in 2017, got a contributor contract with MSNBC.

We’re talking the day before the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in Washington. How different does that day look a year later from how it looked to you on, say, Jan. 7, 2021? I didn’t think it was the end of Republicans or of Trump’s world, but I did think it would be a wakeup call for America that it did not turn out to be. I thought that was the bottom — watching as the Capitol was being stormed. It wasn’t. There doesn’t seem to be a full understanding of how fragile our democracy is. The fact that we’re a year out and there’s still not that crystallized understanding is really shocking.

You are a Black woman who went to law school 20 years ago. Recent data shows law schools and the profession itself are among the least diverse sectors of American society. Was it the same back then?

Yes. In an incoming class of 400 students at Boston University, there were seven of us. That felt so strange to me, because I had just graduated from Wayne State. My first summer during law school, I came back to Michigan and I interned at a labor law firm in Southfield. Just doing my job and coming across other lawyers, I found the profession was extremely white. You would rarely ever see a Black person — even in a city like Detroit — in the professional buildings, except for the folks on the janitorial staff.

Explain to our readers why this matters.

The people in the legal profession — judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys — are the folks through which the system of justice is administered. If they don’t have an understanding and a background of the real, lived experience of most Americans, then the justice system is skewed against those who have that lived experience. That makes a big difference. It is imperative that everyone from the civil litigators to prosecutors to judges to administrators be diverse, not to check a box but to ensure that everyone is seen and understood.

On your podcast, you and Barbara McQuade, the former U.S. attorney from Michigan, disagreed about the prospective political impact of the Supreme Court reversing Roe v. Wade this year. She thinks it would energize Democratic voters and alter the course of the 2022 elections. You don’t.

legislation. Didn’t happen. We expected a backlash after George Floyd was killed, demanding police reform at the state and federal level. Didn’t happen. So, at this point, the idea that striking down Roe v. Wade would result in some big backlash is defied by political conventional wisdom and history. If the shooting deaths of elementary school children don’t do it, I don’t think lack of abortion access is going to. We’re just going to end up with a bifurcated country, where abortion is legal in some places and illegal in others.

But what about in Michigan, where a full abortion ban still on the books from before Roe would again become the law. Wouldn’t that shock people here?

Again, there was a plot to capture and kidnap the governor of the state and we didn’t see that shift the political paradigm in Michigan.

Speaking of Barb McQuade, did you know her before you became podcasters together? And what’s your take on her?

She’s fantastic. I met her first through MSNBC, but I didn’t really know her that well before the podcast. She is someone who has a very astute understanding both legally and politically of what’s happening right now, but she’s also someone who helps you understand things, regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum. She is whip smart, she’s very funny, she’s just a really cool individual. The last time I saw her, I told her, “I didn’t have any professors like you in law school. None of my professors were cool, funny people who I would want to hang out with outside of the classroom.” And she’s at the center of everything! I was working on a column recently about whether charges of seditious conspiracy should be brought against the Jan. 6 folks, and I looked into the last time a federal prosecutor had charged someone with that crime, and guess who it was? It was Barb McQuade in the Eastern District of Michigan!

What’s the most surreal thing that’s happened to you since you’ve been on TV all the time?

Well, in my household, one of the coolest things that has happened recently was having Paula Poundstone tweet about us. My husband is a huge Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me fan, and so am I. For me, it’s not usually the Hollywood types, but rather legal giants like [NAACP Legal Defense Fund President] Sherrilyn Ifill posting tweets about my commentary on voting rights. You had to pick me up off the floor.

I don’t think so at all. We expected a big paradigm shift on gun control after Sandy Hook — that people would vote to demand gun control

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AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF THE WOMEN LAWYERS WHO RANKED TOP OF THE LIST IN THE 2021 MICHIGAN SUPER LAWYERS NOMINATION, RESEARCH AND BLUE RIBBON REVIEW PROCESS.

Aaron, Jody L., McKeen & Associates, Detroit Alli, Margaret Carroll, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, Birmingham Almonrode, Sharon S., The Miller Law Firm, Rochester Andreou, D. Jennifer, Plunkett Cooney, Detroit Bogas, Kathleen L., Bogas & Koncius, Bingham Farms Breitmeyer, Carol F., Breitmeyer Cushman, Detroit Chandler, Cheryl L., Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, Ann Arbor Chartier, Mary, Chartier & Nyamfukudza, Okemos

Hardy, Elizabeth P., Kienbaum Hardy Viviano Pelton Forrest, Birmingham

Prescott, Sarah S., Salvatore Prescott Porter & Porter, Northville

Hickey, Kathleen O'Callaghan, Bodman, Detroit

Quadrozzi, Jaye, Young Garcia & Quadrozzi, Farmington Hills

Howard, Sarah Riley, Pinsky Smith Fayette & Kennedy, Grand Rapids

Rosati, Carol A., Rosati Schultz Joppich & Amtsbuechler, Farmington Hills

Jackson, Angela L., Hooper Hathaway, Ann Arbor

Rubin, Jorin G., Rubin Frampton, Birmingham

Johnston, Amy M., Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Detroit

Salvatore, Jennifer, Salvatore Prescott Porter & Porter, Northville

Klaus, Kathleen H., Maddin Hauser Roth & Heller, Southfield Kornfield, Susan M., Bodman, Ann Arbor Larson, Mary Jo, Warner Norcross + Judd, Detroit

Smith, Shannon M., Smith Lehman, Bloomfield Hills Speaker, Liisa R., Speaker Law Firm, Lansing Stout, Kimberly W., Kimberly W. Stout, Birmingham

Cohen, Susan E., Law Office of Susan E. Cohen, Bloomfield Hills

Luckenbach, Elizabeth L., Dickinson Wright, Troy

Czapski, Michelle Thurber, Bodman, Troy

MacKenzie, Donna M., Olsman MacKenzie Peacock & Wallace, Berkley

Eisenberg, Laura E., Eisenberg & Spilman, Birmingham

MacWilliams, Sara K., MacWIlliams Law, Bloomfield Hills

Eisenberg, Sue Ellen, Sue Ellen Eisenberg & Associates, Bloomfield Hills

Massaron, Mary, Plunkett Cooney, Bloomfield Hills

Fershtman, Julie I., Foster Swift Collins & Smith, Southfield

McGehee, Cary S., Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers, Royal Oak

Fish, Deborah L., Allard & Fish, Detroit

Murphy, Lauretta K., Miller Johnson, Grand Rapids

Forbush, Audrey J., Plunkett Cooney, Flint

Nemeth, Patricia, Nemeth Law, Detroit

Wittmann, Beth A., Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook, Detroit

Gordon, Deborah L., Deborah Gordon Law, Bloomfield Hills

Norris, Megan P., Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Detroit

Woods, Sharon M., Barris Sott Denn & Driker, Detroit

Grieco, Jennifer M., Altior Law, Birmingham

Olijnyk, Martha J., The Miller Law Firm, Rochester

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MICHIGAN TOP WOMEN SELECTED 2021 Alternative Dispute Resolution ..................................S-3 Antitrust Litigation ......................................................S-3 Appellate .....................................................................S-3 Banking........................................................................S-3 Bankruptcy: Business ..................................................S-3 Bankruptcy: Consumer................................................S-3 Business Litigation ......................................................S-3

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Hillary, Kim K., Schafer and Weiner, Bloomfield Hills

BY PRIMARY AREA OF PRACTICE

Teicher, Julie B., Maddin Hauser Roth & Heller, Southfield Pg. S-2

The list was finalized as of February 12, 2021. Only attorneys who data verified with Super Lawyers for the current year are included on the list that follows. All current selections and any updates to the list (e.g., status changes or disqualifying events) will be reflected on superlawyers.com.

Toby, Sheryl L., Dykema Gossett, Bloomfield Hills

Names and page numbers in RED indicate a profile on the speciﬁed page. Phone numbers are included only for attorneys with paid Super Lawyers or Rising Stars print advertisements.

Business/Corporate ....................................................S-4 Cannabis Law ..............................................................S-4 Civil Litigation: Defense ..............................................S-4

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Civil Litigation: Plaintiff ...............................................S-4

SUPER LAWYERS Allen, Tracy Lee, Global Resolutions, Grosse Pointe Farms

Civil Rights ...................................................................S-4

Baggett-Hayes, Earlene R., The Law & Mediation Center, Pontiac

Class Action/Mass Torts .............................................S-4

Cataldo, Sheri B., Sullivan Ward Patton Gleeson & Felty, Southfield

Construction Litigation ...............................................S-4 Consumer Law.............................................................S-4 Creditor Debtor Rights ................................................S-4

Enslen, Pamela C., Warner Norcross + Judd, Kalamazoo Iverson, Dale Ann, JustMediation, Grand Rapids

Criminal Defense .........................................................S-5

Raheem, Antoinette R., Law & Mediation Offices of Antoinette Raheem, Bloomfield Hills

Criminal Defense: White Collar ..................................S-5

Raimi, Diana, Diana Raimi Law & Mediation, Ann Arbor

Elder Law .....................................................................S-5 Employee Benefits.......................................................S-5 Employment & Labor ..................................................S-5 Employment Litigation: Defense ................................S-6 Employment Litigation: Plaintiff ................................S-6 Energy & Natural Resources .......................................S-6 Environmental .............................................................S-6 Estate & Trust Litigation .............................................S-6 Estate Planning & Probate .........................................S-6 Family Law...................................................................S-7 General Litigation........................................................S-8 Government Finance ...................................................S-8

Stein, Leslie, Leslie Stein and Associates, West Bloomfield

RISING STARS Genovich, Laura J., Foster Swift Collins & Smith, Grand Rapids Vintevoghel, Amanda C., The Dragich Law Firm, Grosse Pointe Von Eitzen, Elisabeth M., Warner Norcross + Judd, Kalamazoo

BANKRUPTCY: CONSUMER SUPER LAWYERS Bedigian, Kimberly, Stevenson & Bullock, Southfield Clark, Tracy M., Steinberg Shapiro & Clark, Southfield Evangelista, Karen E., Karen E. Evangelista, Rochester Hart, Erika D., The Taunt Law Firm, Birmingham RISING STARS Bass, Michelle H., Wolfson Bolton, Troy O’Connor, Sandra L., Sandra O’Connor Law, Walled Lake Sikorski, Katherine, The Sikorski Law Firm, Garden City Sokana, Mandi L., Frego & Associates, Dearborn Heights

ANTITRUST LITIGATION RISING STARS Gjonaj, Diana, Weitz & Luxenberg, Detroit Wahl, Suzanne L., Schiff Hardin, Ann Arbor

BUSINESS LITIGATION SUPER LAWYERS Boardman, Mischa M., Zausmer, Farmington Hills Brown, Lisa A., Dykema Gossett, Detroit

APPELLATE SUPER LAWYERS Argiroff, Anne L., Anne Argiroff, Farmington Hills Filipovich, Cynthia M., Clark Hill, Detroit Garbarino, Linda M., Tanoury Nauts McKinney & Dwaihy, Livonia

Czapski, Michelle Thurber, Bodman, Troy Pg. S-2 Eisenstein, Kathryn, Mantese Honigman, Troy Grieco, Jennifer M., Altior Law, Birmingham Pg. S-2 Haffey, Cynthia J., Butzel Long, Detroit Jackson, Angela L., Hooper Hathaway, Ann Arbor Pg. S-2 Johnston, Amy M., Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Detroit Pg. S-2

Health Care..................................................................S-8

Ginter, Christina A., Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook, Detroit

Immigration .................................................................S-8

Howard, Ramona C., Sommers Schwartz, Southfield

Insurance Coverage.....................................................S-8

Massaron, Mary, Plunkett Cooney, Bloomfield Hills Pg. S-2

Intellectual Property ...................................................S-8

Nemeth, Mary T., Mary T. Nemeth, Brighton

Intellectual Property Litigation...................................S-8

Osgood, Terry Milne, Mantese Honigman, Troy

International ................................................................S-8

Rochkind, Rosalind H., Garan Lucow Miller, Detroit

Mithani, Sonal Hope, Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Ann Arbor

Land Use/Zoning ........................................................S-8

Sokol, Elizabeth L., Kostopoulos Rodriguez, Birmingham

Olijnyk, Martha J., The Miller Law Firm, Rochester Pg. S-2

Speaker, Liisa R., Speaker Law Firm, Lansing Pg. S-2

Porter, Tracey L., Erskine Law, Rochester

Wheaton, Jill M., Dykema Gossett, Ann Arbor Pg. S-2

Quadrozzi, Jaye, Young Garcia & Quadrozzi, Farmington Hills Pg. S-2

Media and Advertising ................................................S-8 Mergers & Acquisitions ...............................................S-8 Military/Veterans Law.................................................S-8 Nonprofit Organizations ............................................S-8

Wittmann, Beth A., Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook, Detroit Pg. S-2

Personal Injury General: Defense ...............................S-8

RISING STARS Frank, Amanda, Bodman, Troy

Personal Injury General: Plaintiff................................S-8

Ruttkofsky, Kathrine A., Foster Swift Collins & Smith, Southfield

Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Defense .....................................................................S-8 Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff ......................................................................S-9

BANKING

Personal Injury Products: Defense .............................S-9

SUPER LAWYERS Hickey, Kathleen O’Callaghan, Bodman, Detroit Pg. S-2

Professional Liability: Defense ...................................S-9

Shevnock, Colleen M., Dickinson Wright, Ann Arbor

Real Estate ..................................................................S-9

RISING STARS Stawasz, Bethany G., Clark Hill, Detroit

Schools & Education ...................................................S-9 Securities Litigation.....................................................S-9 Social Security Disability .............................................S-9

BANKRUPTCY: BUSINESS

Kosovec, Julie Lyons, Brooks Wilkins Sharkey & Turco, Birmingham MacWilliams, Sara K., MacWIlliams Law, Bloomfield Hills Pg. S-2 Miller, Ann L., The Miller Law Firm, Rochester

Taylor, Maureen T., Brooks Wilkins Sharkey & Turco, Birmingham Urlaub, Barbara D., Gasiorek Morgan Greco McCauley & Kotzian, Farmington Hills Watson, Linda M., Clark Hill, Birmingham Wilson, Frances Belzer, Dawda Mann Mulcahy & Sadler, Bloomfield Hills Woods, Sharon M., Barris Sott Denn & Driker, Detroit Pg. S-2 RISING STARS Abdallah, Macy R., Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, Detroit Araya, Kristina M., Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids Baiardi, Kristen L., Abbott Nicholson, Troy Bolyea, Fatima M., Mantese Honigman, Troy Catania, Emily Kathryn, Morganroth & Morganroth, Birmingham Champane, Michelle D., Howard & Howard, Royal Oak

SUPER LAWYERS Bach, Allison R., Dickinson Wright, Detroit

Chilson, Jennifer Boueri, Dykema Gossett, Detroit

Tax................................................................................S-9 Technology Transactions ............................................S-9

Cook, Susan M., Warner Norcross + Judd, Midland

Cylkowski, Sarah L., Bodman, Detroit

Utilities .........................................................................S-9

Fish, Deborah L., Allard & Fish, Detroit Pg. S-2

Fields, Emily S., Mantese Honigman, Troy

State, Local & Municipal .............................................S-9

Hall, Paula A., Brooks Wilkins Sharkey & Turco, Birmingham

Cupples, Jennifer A., Altior Law, Birmingham

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Giordano, Caroline B., Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Ann Arbor Gonzalez, Lena M., Bush Seyferth, Troy Hamilton, Salina M., Dickinson Wright, Detroit Mayer, Emily M., Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, Southfield Mistry, Armeen F., Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, Southfield

RISING STARS Adams, Alari K., A|Squared Legal Group, Detroit

RISING STARS Gettler, Nicole, Zausmer, Farmington Hills

Burneski, Pamela, Morganroth & Morganroth, Birmingham

Murphy, Frances G., Fran Murphy Law, Eastpointe

Cantor, Emily E., Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids

Reed, Shaina, Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, Lansing

Crump-Gibson, Jehan G., Great Lakes Legal Group, Southfield

Seibert, Kimberly K., Plunkett Cooney, Detroit

Garcia Pickman, Nola, Honigman, Detroit

Tompkin, Stephanie, Erskine Law, Rochester

Griffor, Beverly M., Collis Griffor & Hendra, Ypsilanti Kaltz-Coulombe, Jacqueline, KaltzCoulombe, Lakeville

Narvaes, Amanda P., Drew Cooper & Anding, Grand Rapids

Lipp, Anne Cubera, Lippitt O’Keefe, Birmingham

Palombit, Elyse E., Rossman, Troy

Meisner, Nicole M., Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, Southfield

Ramin, Nasseem, Dykema Gossett, Detroit

Salari, Sogoal A., Gunderson Dettmer, Ann Arbor

Rosenbach, Nina, Kopka Pinkus Dolin, Farmington Hills

Sprague, Corinne N., Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids

Rucker, Emily, Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids

Watkins, Natalie A., Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, Southfield

Sossi, Pamela M., Law Office of Pamela M. Sossi, Detroit Szymanski, Paige M., Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, Southfield

SUPER LAWYERS Scott, Patricia J., Foster Swift Collins & Smith, Lansing RISING STARS Clough, Haley, Kotz Sangster Wysocki, Rockford Lotarski, Nina M., Aloia Law, Mount Clemens

Serra, Lisa, Saretsky Hart Michaels + Gould, Birmingham Sobo, Alma, Dickinson Wright, Troy

CIVIL LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF

Payne, Erica N., Kendricks Bordeau Keefe Seavoy & Larsen, Marquette

CANNABIS LAW RISING STARS Gilbert, Julia A., Cannabis Counsel Law Firm, Detroit

Stewart, Jamie K., Cooper & Riesterer, Brighton

Walls, Samantha L., Dykema Gossett, Detroit Yono, Candace V., Cohen Lerner & Rabinovitz, Royal Oak You, Laura N., Warner Norcross + Judd, Detroit

BUSINESS/CORPORATE SUPER LAWYERS Banas, C. Leslie, Kemp Klein Law Firm, Troy Donahue, Marguerite M., Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, Southfield

CIVIL RIGHTS

CIVIL LITIGATION: DEFENSE SUPER LAWYERS Barron, Jeanne V., Raftery & Barron, Farmington Hills

SUPER LAWYERS Chaney, Nakisha N., Salvatore Prescott Porter & Porter, Northville

Dangl, Lindsay N., Murphy & Spagnuolo, Okemos, 517-351-2020 Pg. S-10

Hurwitz, Julie H., Goodman Hurwitz & James, Detroit

Dembinski, Nancy Vayda, Landry Mazzeo & Dembinski, Farmington Hills

Labelle, Deborah A., Law Offices of Deborah A. LaBelle, Ann Arbor

Leahy, Carrie, Bodman, Ann Arbor

Fershtman, Julie I., Foster Swift Collins & Smith, Southfield Pg. S-2

RISING STARS DeRouin, Amy J., Christopher J. Trainor & Associates, White Lake

Moss, Leigh Dones, Moss Law, Bloomfield Hills

Swanson, Joanne Geha, Kerr Russell and Weber, Detroit

Filipovic, Milica, Fieger Law, Southfield

Myers, Kelly A., Myers & Myers, Howell

Wright, Nicole M., Zausmer, Farmington Hills

Henderson, Kali, Seward Henderson, Royal Oak

CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS SUPER LAWYERS Almonrode, Sharon S., The Miller Law Firm, Rochester Pg. S-2 Douglas, Stephanie A., Bush Seyferth, Troy McAllister, Lori, Dykema Gossett, Lansing Shecter, Lynn H., Roy Shecter & Vocht, Birmingham Thomson, Elizabeth (Liz) C., Hertz Schram, Bloomfield Hills

CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION SUPER LAWYERS Leipprandt, Aileen M., Hilger Hammond, Grand Rapids

CONSUMER LAW SUPER LAWYERS Liblang, Dani K., The Liblang Law Firm, Birmingham RISING STARS Springstead, Kathy, Springstead Bartish Borgula & Lynch, Fremont Williams, Dawn N., Dykema Gossett, Grand Rapids

CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS SUPER LAWYERS Giunta, Rozanne M., Warner Norcross + Judd, Midland Kress, Kay Standridge, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, Southfield RISING STARS Butler, Elizabeth K., Butler Rowse-Oberle, St. Clair Shores Neumann, Chantelle R., Hirzel Law, Farmington

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MICHIGAN TOP WOMEN SELECTED 2021 CRIMINAL DEFENSE SUPER LAWYERS Chartier, Mary, Chartier & Nyamfukudza, Okemos Pg. S-2 Cobb, Britt, Willey & Chamberlain, Grand Rapids

Mysliwiec, Melisa M.W., Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, Grand Rapids

Eisenberg, Sue Ellen, Sue Ellen Eisenberg & Associates, Bloomfield Hills Pg. S-2

Ramdayal, Farrah, SSR Law Office, Clinton Township

Gafkay, Julie A., Gafkay Law, Frankenmuth

Schimke, Sara A., Chalgian & Tripp Law Offices, Southfield

Hardy, Elizabeth P., Kienbaum Hardy Viviano Pelton Forrest, Birmingham Pg. S-2

Solaiman, Erin, SSR Law Office, Clinton Township

Dwyer, Lisa, Law Office of Lisa Dwyer, Royal Oak Kelley, Deanna L., Deanna L. Kelley, Milford Kirsch-Satawa, Lisa, Kirsch Daskas Law Group, Bloomfield Hills Raben, Margaret Sind, Gurewitz & Raben, Detroit Silver, Gabi D., Cripps & Silver Law, Detroit Smith, Shannon M., Smith Lehman, Bloomfield Hills Pg. S-2 Stout, Kimberly W., Kimberly W. Stout, Birmingham Pg. S-2 RISING STARS Alcendor, Ayanna, Great Lakes Legal Group, Lathrup Village Babi, Carly H., The Boss Attorney, Warren Belcher, Leanna, Belcher Law, Southgate Blanchard, Keeley, Blanchard Law, Greenville Covington, Alycia Penn, Abood Law Firm, Birmingham Duplessis, Ashlee, Duplessis Law, Livonia

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS SUPER LAWYERS Cantarella, Eva T., Hertz Schram, Bloomfield Hills

Gabbara, Suzan, Eaman & Gabbara, Troy

Norris, Megan P., Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Detroit Pg. S-2

Larson, Mary Jo, Warner Norcross + Judd, Detroit Pg. S-2 Moore, Cynthia A., Dickinson Wright, Troy

Rivers, Beth M., Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers, Royal Oak

O’Reilly, Rebecca D., Bodman, Detroit

Roebuck, Marlo Johnson, Jackson Lewis, Southfield

Soubly, Diane M., Butzel Long, Ann Arbor

Rosen, Miriam L., McDonald Hopkins, Bloomfield Hills

Zimmer, Lisa B., Warner Norcross + Judd, Detroit

Sabourin, Jennifer L., Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Detroit

RISING STARS Gorman, Katina K., Novara Tesija Catenacci McDonald & Baas, Troy

Salvatore, Jennifer, Salvatore Prescott Porter & Porter, Northville Pg. S-2

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR

Horvath, Dena, Dena R. Horvath, Traverse City

Brault, Darcie R., McKnight Canzano Smith Radtke & Brault, Royal Oak

Krause, Sarah, Cripps & Silver Law, Detroit Kriger, Allison, LaRene & Kriger, Detroit

Linderman, Marla A., Linderman Law, Ann Arbor

Lanyon, Janet E., Dean & Fulkerson, Troy

Giuliani, Alexandra M., Law Offices of Raymond A. Cassar, Farmington Hills

Kennedy, Robyn M., Kennedy Law Office, Shelby charter Township

Laughren, Sheryl A., Berry Moorman, Detroit Lloyd, Theresa Smith, Lloyd Law, Waterford

SUPER LAWYERS Bogas, Kathleen L., Bogas & Koncius, Bingham Farms Pg. S-2

Joseph, Kristina, Joseph Law Offices, Plymouth

Laughbaum, Carol A., Sterling, Bloomfield Hills

Grace, Deborah L., Dickinson Wright, Troy

Franulic, Kiana, K.F. Legal Consulting, Southfield Freeman, Melissa, Blanchard Law, Greenville

Kienbaum, Karen S., The Kienbaum Law Group, Grosse Pointe Farms

Brodeur-McGeorge, Laura A., Brodeur-McGeorge Legal, St. Clair Shores Buckley-Norwood, Tiffany, Jackson Lewis, Southfield Burwell, Linda G., National Investigation Counsel, Pleasant Ridge

Sashital, Gouri G., Keller Thoma, Southfield Smith Kennedy, Katherine, Pinsky Smith Fayette & Kennedy, Grand Rapids Walker, Angela L., Blanchard & Walker, Ann Arbor Wasserman, Cristine, Law Office of Cris Wasserman, Flint Welch, Anne-Marie Vercruysse, Clark Hill, Birmingham RISING STARS Brown, Kaitlin Abplanalp, Maddin Hauser Roth & Heller, Southfield Chinonis, Nancy K., Cline Cline & Griffin, Flint Dornbos, Erin, Pinsky Smith Fayette & Kennedy, Grand Rapids CONTINUED ON PAGE S-6

Lehman, Mariell R., Smith Lehman, Bloomfield Hills Loebl, Rachel M., Law Office of Rachel M. Loebl, Huntington Woods Lucaj, Valentina, The Lucaj Law Firm, Troy McCormick, Alyssa, Law Offices of Michael Komorn, Farmington Hills Paladino, Jessica M., Paladino Law, Monroe Rushing, Sydney E. F., Rushing Law, Detroit Taylor, Alexandria J., Taylor Law Firm, Detroit Wolfe, Rachel, Wolfe Law, Hazel Park Yermalenka, Olga, The Law Office of Olga Yermalenka, Plymouth

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITE COLLAR SUPER LAWYERS Belveal, Jennifer Zbytowski, Foley & Lardner, Detroit RISING STARS Lane, Madelaine C., Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids

ELDER LAW SUPER LAWYERS Buhl, Rosemary Howley, Buhl Little Lynwood & Harris, East Lansing Huff, Diane K., Anderson & Huff, Traverse City Schmitt Smith, Mary T., Lipson Neilson, Bloomfield Hills, 248-593-5000

MARY T. SCHMITT SMITH

LIPSON NEILSON, PC Bloomfield Hills • 248-593-5000

www.lipsonneilson.com

Tripp, Amy R., Chalgian & Tripp Law Offices, Jackson Pg. S-2 RISING STARS Chalgian, Susan L., Chalgian & Tripp Law Offices, East Lansing Murray, Amanda N., Bassett Law, Ann Arbor

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EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF

Down, Chelsea S., The Williams Firm, Grand Blanc Lintemuth, Elisa J., Dykema Gossett, Grand Rapids Machasic, Carly O., Clark Hill, Detroit Mills, Helen E. R, Fahey Schultz Burzych Rhodes, Okemos Muse, Jennifer L., Honigman, Detroit Raymond, Lindsay J., Danbrook Adams Raymond, Traverse City Vanderkolk, Tiffany R., Scholten Fant, Grand Haven

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: DEFENSE SUPER LAWYERS

SUPER LAWYERS Croson, Charlotte, Croson Taub & Michaels, Ann Arbor Danieleski, Manda L., Manda L. Danieleski, Saginaw Freid, Debra A., Freid Gallagher Taylor & Associates, Saginaw Gordon, Deborah L., Deborah Gordon Law, Bloomfield Hills Pg. S-2 Howard, Sarah Riley, Pinsky Smith Fayette & Kennedy, Grand Rapids Pg. S-2 Lord, Jennifer L., Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers, Royal Oak

Alli, Margaret Carroll, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, Birmingham Pg. S-2

McGehee, Cary S., Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers, Royal Oak Pg. S-2

Amtsbuechler, Laura S., Rosati Schultz Joppich & Amtsbuechler, Farmington Hills

Prescott, Sarah S., Salvatore Prescott Porter & Porter, Northville Pg. S-2

Berkery, Karen B., Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook, Detroit

Sharp, Heidi T., The Sharp Firm, Clinton Township

Bernard, Andrea J., Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids Brouwer, Deborah L., Nemeth Law, Detroit Koval, Susan D., Nemeth Law, Detroit Mayfield, Bonnie, Dykema Gossett, Bloomfield Hills Nemeth, Patricia, Nemeth Law, Detroit Pg. S-2 Wood, Kathryn S., Dickinson Wright, Detroit RISING STARS

Stamler, Patricia A., Hertz Schram, Bloomfield Hills

ENVIRONMENTAL SUPER LAWYERS Newlon, Sharon R., Dickinson Wright, Detroit Sadler, Susan J., Dawda Mann Mulcahy & Sadler, Bloomfield Hills RISING STARS Stalker, Margaret C., Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids

ESTATE & TRUST LITIGATION SUPER LAWYERS Glazier, Sandra D., Lipson Neilson, Bloomfield Hills, 248-593-5000

SANDRA D. GLAZIER

LIPSON NEILSON, PC Bloomfield Hills • 248-593-5000

www.lipsonneilson.com

Luckenbach, Elizabeth L., Dickinson Wright, Troy Pg. S-2 RISING STARS Duffy, Alison F., Dickinson Wright, Troy Morris, Laura E., Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids

RISING STARS Malhiot, Caitlin Elizabeth, Gold Star Law, Troy Mannarino, Angela M., Gasiorek Morgan Greco McCauley & Kotzian, Farmington Hills

ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES

ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE SUPER LAWYERS Deveney, Marie R., Dykema Gossett, Ann Arbor Fuller, Michele P., Michigan Law Center, Macomb Hartmann, Amy B., Hartmann & Nihem, Grosse Pointe

Jones, Kathryn E., Keller Thoma, Southfield

SUPER LAWYERS

Hentkowski, Angela M., Steward & Sheridan, Ishpeming

Kingston, Jessica, Littler Mendelson, Detroit

Hlywa Topp, Susan, Topp Law, Gaylord

Lentz, Marguerite Munson, Bodman, Troy Little, Nancy L., Buhl Little Lynwood & Harris, East Lansing Meyers, Susan G., Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids Murphy, Lauretta K., Miller Johnson, Grand Rapids Pg. S-2 Schluter, Dawn M., Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Troy Teahan, Marlaine C., Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, Lansing Pg. S-2 Tucker, Rachel H., Joelson Rosenberg Moss Cohen Warren & Drasnin, Farmington Hills Welber, Nancy H., Nancy H. Welber, Farmington Hills Westerman, Susan S., Westerman & Morrissey, Ann Arbor RISING STARS Arnold, Rebecca, Marcoux Allen Bower & Kendall, Jackson Browning, Kimberly C., Great Lakes Family Probate & Estates, Bloomfield Hills Canan, Lindsay N., Gielow Groom Terpstra & McEvoy, Norton Shores Davis, Patricia E., Kendricks Bordeau Keefe Seavoy & Larsen, Marquette Fraim, Anne, Henneke Fraim & Dawes, Flint Gaines, Macie Dru Tuiasosopo, Gaines & Gaines, Grosse Pointe Hertzberg, Nicole A., Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, Southfield King-Penner, Kelli, Mannor Law Group, Grand Blanc Kroll, Pamela M., Caputo Brosnan, Warren Lawrence, Gabrielle C., Loomis Ewert Parsley Davis & Gotting, Lansing Lynwood, Katie, Buhl Little Lynwood & Harris, East Lansing Massaro, Julia, Bodman, Detroit Miracle, Meaghan, Miracle Law, Byron Center Ostahowski, Sarah L., Sarah’s Law Firm, Clare Remondino, Jennifer L., Warner Norcross + Judd, Holland Rubin, Michelle A., Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, Southfield Trimpe, Carrie E., Bodman, Grand Rapids Welton, Christine L., Phelps Law Office, Rockford

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MICHIGAN TOP WOMEN SELECTED 2021 Werbling, Jennifer Y., Schwartz Law Firm, Farmington Hills

Thacker, Connie R., Thacker Sleight, Grand Rapids

Kelly, Ryan M., Kelly & Kelly, Northville

Willis, Mariko C., Willis Law, Kalamazoo

Tooman, Rebecca, Innovative Law Services, Novi

Kern, Erika, Law Offices of Erika L. Kern, Port Huron

Wrock, Rebecca K., Varnum, Ann Arbor

Vogt, Kathy J., Garton & Vogt, Clinton Township

Kizy-White, Channelle, Kizy Law, Southfield

Wikander, Erica L., Johnsen Wikander, Grand Rapids

FAMILY LAW SUPER LAWYERS Abbatt, Candyce Ewing, Abbatt Zurawski, Franklin Becker, Lori D., Becker Legal, Rochester Benson, Annette J., Annette Benson Law, Bingham Farms Black, Julia L., J. Black & Associates, Grand Blanc Bransdorfer, Elizabeth K., Mika Meyers, Grand Rapids

Woll, Jessica R., Woll & Woll, Birmingham Wolock, Miriam Z., Law Offices of Miriam Z. Wolock, Bloomfield Hills Yu, Amy A., Amy Yu, Farmington Zopf, Katherine L., Law Offices of Katherine L. Zopf, Westland RISING STARS Aretakis German, Sara, Woll & Woll, Birmingham

Korr, Allison Greenlee, Stancati Hencken & Greenlee, Kalamazoo Krysak Frampton, Katherine A., Rubin Frampton, Birmingham, 248-799-9100 Pg. S-9 Lashier, Jessica M., Lashier Law Firm, Utica Love, Alison, Musser Love, Ann Arbor Mash, Erin C., Mash Law, Bloomfield Hills Medley, Angela, Polizzi & Medley Law, Mount Clemens

Baluha, Katherine, Katie Marie Law, Freeland

Meeker, Alicia, Meeker Law, Mount Clemens

Bryan, Jennie Boldish, McShane & Bowie, Grand Rapids

Boase, Jamie, The Law Office of Jamie L. Boase, Orion charter Township

Miller, Delia, Delia A. Miller, Bloomfield Hills

Buiteweg, Lori A., Nichols Sacks Slank Sendelbach Buiteweg & Solomon, Ann Arbor

Bono, Sherri L., Law Office of Michael A. Robbins, Bloomfield Hills, 248-646-7980 Pg. S-10

Cohen, Susan E., Law Office of Susan E. Cohen, Bloomfield Hills Pg. S-2

Cheltenham, Colline, Cheltenham Law, East Lansing, 517-588-6286 Pg. S-7

Cole, Kathleen L., Cole Family Law, Livonia

Constand, Dana M., Family Focus Law, Grosse Pointe Farms

Breitmeyer, Carol F., Breitmeyer Cushman, Detroit Pg. S-2

Cook, Shon Anne, Shon Cook Law, Muskegon Cronin, Sabrina Shaheen, Cronin Law Firm, Bloomfield Hills

Draper, Roquia K., Warner Norcross + Judd, Bloomfield Hills

Polizzi, Laura E., Polizzi & Medley Law, Mount Clemens Riggs, Sarah Dinsmore, Law Office of Sarah Dinsmore Riggs, Plymouth Schaffer, Katelyn, Bank Rifkin, Birmingham Schalte, Kelly M., Mellin Robinson, Troy, 248-614-9005 Pg. S-5 Schmidt, Lisa, Schmidt Law Services, Ferndale

Cushman, Kathryn M., Breitmeyer Cushman, Detroit

Flynn, Erin C., Nichols Sacks Slank Sendelbach Buiteweg & Solomon, Ann Arbor

Duffy, Jill, Friedman Law Firm, Royal Oak

Ghannam, Angela J., Steslicki & Ghannam, Plymouth

Sleight, Allison E., Thacker Sleight, Grand Rapids

Eisenberg, Laura E., Eisenberg & Spilman, Birmingham, 248-358-8880 Pg. S-2, S-4

Giordano, Michele M., Giordano Law, Grand Rapids Goldner, Ruth, Goldner Deeg, Royal Oak

Solomon, Elizabeth, Nichols Sacks Slank Sendelbach Buiteweg & Solomon, Ann Arbor

Grover, Kimberly A., Kimberly A. Grover, Allen Park

Spresser, Lise M., McGinnis Chiappelli Spresser, Troy

Finazzo, Lori J., Lori J. Finazzo, Mount Clemens

Heltsley, Jessica, Pospiech Family Law & Mediation, Bloomfield Hills

Wagenaar, Renee Lynn, WN Law, Grand Rapids

Frazee, Jeanne M., Law Office of Jeanne M. Frazee, Livonia

Hermiz, Madana M., Hermiz Law, Troy

Giske, Staci D., Staci D. Giske, Berkley

Hoebeke, Maria L., Taylor Butterfield Howell Churchill & Garner, Lapeer

Elkouri, Susan L., Elkouri Heath, Novi Farrugia, Catrina, Domstein & Farrugia, Bloomfield Hills

Gucciardo, Renée K., The Gucciardo Law Firm, Bingham Farms

Sharkey, Katherine M., Kitchen Sharkey, Ann Arbor

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Haas, Trish Oleksa, Haas | Prokopec, Grosse Pointe Farms Heath, Symantha, Elkouri Heath, Novi, 248-344-9700 Pg. S-10 Hohauser, Elizabeth A., Elizabeth A. Hohauser, Troy Lichterman, Susan S., Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, Southfield Long, Emily E., Long Law, Royal Oak Mellin, Irika N., Mellin Robinson, Troy, 248-614-9005 Pg. S-5 Middleditch Wigod, Keri, Middleditch Law Firm, Birmingham, 248-621-3030

KERI MIDDLEDITCH WIGOD MIDDLEDITCH LAW FIRM, PLLC Birmingham • 248-621-3030

Moore, Phoebe J., Phoebe J. Moore, Caro, 989-672-4255 Pg. S-6 Nacy, Elizabeth J., Bowyer Midtgard & Nacy, Southfield O’Brien, Deborah F., Ihrie O’Brien, St. Clair Shores Papista, Anthea E., Papista & Papista, Detroit Peskin-Shepherd, Alisa A., Transitions Legal - Law Offices of Alisa Peskin-Shepherd, Bloomfield Hills Prokopec, Dawn M., Haas | Prokopec, Grosse Pointe Farms Raczkowski, Annette T., Raczkowski & Associates, Franklin Robinson, Kristen L., Mellin Robinson, Troy, 248-614-9005 Pg. S-5 Rotter, Harriet B., Rotter & Stone, Franklin Rubin, Jorin G., Rubin Frampton, Birmingham, 248-799-9100 Pg. S-2, S-9, S-10 Sater, Nazli G., Warner Norcross + Judd, Bloomfield Hills Selleck, Stacey L., Selleck Legal, Plymouth Sendelbach, Karen S., Nichols Sacks Slank Sendelbach Buiteweg & Solomon, Ann Arbor Spilman, Amy M., Eisenberg & Spilman, Birmingham, 248-358-8880 Pg. S-4 Stawski, Amy A., Kemp Klein Law Firm, Troy Stephens, Christine H., Stephens Family Law, Oxford Stern, Lisa D., Hertz Schram, Bloomfield Hills Stypula, Elaine, Law Offices of Elaine Stypula, Novi

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MICHIGAN TOP WOMEN SELECTED 2021 GENERAL LITIGATION SUPER LAWYERS Bos, Carole D., Bos & Glazier, Grand Rapids RISING STARS Hansmann, Leigh A., Oade Stroud & Kleiman, East Lansing Morin, Kaitlyn A., Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids Schepers Wilson, Ariel, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila, Ann Arbor Swindlehurst, Cara, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, Detroit

GOVERNMENT FINANCE

Paletta, Jacklyn Pasquale, Cummings McClorey Davis & Acho, Livonia Shamoun, Chanel R., Garan Lucow Miller, Grand Blanc Zagaroli, Carly, Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS SUPER LAWYERS Oertel, Jennifer M., Bodman, Ann Arbor

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: DEFENSE

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SUPER LAWYERS Basile, Marjory G., Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Detroit

SUPER LAWYERS Lujan, Deborah, Collins Einhorn Farrell, Southfield

Coakley, Lisabeth H., Harness IP, Troy

Melkonian, Kari L., Collins Einhorn Farrell, Southfield

Kennedy, Linda D., Panagos Kennedy, Troy

Plonka, Cinnamon A., Zausmer, Farmington Hills, 248-851-4111 Pg. S-10

Kornfield, Susan M., Bodman, Ann Arbor Pg. S-2

Zachary, Nicolette S., Ward Anderson Porritt & Bryant, Bloomfield Hills

SUPER LAWYERS Van Dusen, Amanda, Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Detroit

Nesti, Francine B., Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, Troy

RISING STARS Desmond, Katrina Piligian, Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Detroit

Pursley, Kristen, The Dobrusin Law Firm, Pontiac

RISING STARS Bond, Jessica J., The Plato Law Firm, Farmington Hills

Wilson, Rebecca L., The Dobrusin Law Firm, Pontiac

David, Javon R., Butzel Long, Troy

HEALTH CARE

O’Donnell, Mary Margaret L., Blue Filament Law, Birmingham

RISING STARS DeRegnaucourt, Staci R., Varnum, Ann Arbor

DeVos, Cristy M., Zausmer, Farmington Hills Druzinski, Julie, Garan Lucow Miller, Detroit

Farina, Stacie, Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, Troy

Heilmann, Maureen M., Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, Detroit

SUPER LAWYERS Geroux, Debra A., Butzel Long, Troy

Hill, Amanda E., Bodman, Troy

Mezin, Melissa N., Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook, Mount Clemens

Mantese, Theresamarie, Mantese Honigman, Troy

Mustafa, Nadine N., Darrow Mustafa, Northville

Rickard, Lori-Ann, Rickard & Associates, St. Clair Shores

Osorio, Amanda, Revision Legal, Grand Rapids

Williamson, Deborah J., Williamson Health Law, St. Clair Shores

Pacynski, Katherine, The Dobrusin Law Firm, Pontiac

Roberts, Elizabeth P., Kirk Huth Lange & Badalamenti, Clinton Township

RISING STARS Benkoff, Reesa N., Benkoff Health Law, Bloomfield Township

Pasquali, Chelsea E., Brooks Kushman, Southfield

Sterrett, Lauren A., Secrest Wardle, Troy

Smith, Shannon K., Reising Ethington, Troy

Tzafaroglou, Stephanie, Vandeveer Garzia, Troy

Gross, Jennifer L., Cooper & Riesterer, Brighton Suleiman, Wedad, Chapman Law Group, Troy

IMMIGRATION SUPER LAWYERS DeMatteis Mager, Clara, Butzel Long, Detroit Pastor, Caridad (Carrie), Pastor & Associates, Troy Wise, Dawn Welk, Irani & Wise, Ann Arbor RISING STARS De Armas, Marva, De Armas Law, Detroit Farida, Lauren, Bajoka Law Group, Detroit Gjezi, Kreuza, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, Southfield Hobballah, Farah, Hobballah Legal Group, Dearborn Mancini, Rebecca, Clark Hill, Detroit

Klug, Erin, The Dobrusin Law Firm, Pontiac

Nasr, Catherine, Clark Hill, Detroit Orduno Rincon, Miroslava, Kerr Russell and Weber, Detroit

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION SUPER LAWYERS Dobrowitsky, Catherine T., Rivenoak Law Group, Troy

INSURANCE COVERAGE SUPER LAWYERS Chapnick, Michele A., Gregory Meyer & Chapnick, Troy Hebert, Deborah A., Collins Einhorn Farrell, Southfield Mayer, Julie C., Maddin Hauser Roth & Heller, Southfield Wilinski, Nicole E., Collins Einhorn Farrell, Southfield RISING STARS Bodwin, Theresa A., Zausmer, Farmington Hills Cramer, Kaitlyn A., Novara Tesija Catenacci McDonald & Baas, Troy Earls, Ann-Marie E., Melamed Levitt Milanowski & Earls, Huntington Woods Fopma, Amanda B., Secrest Wardle, Grand Rapids Kaskorkis, Lina, Marcus Evangelista, West Bloomfield

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SUPER LAWYERS Atnip, Heather J., Atnip & Associates, Rochester Kalka, Suzanne Marie, Kalka Law Firm, Sterling Heights

Mandell, Barbara L., Fishman Stewart, Troy

Kuchon, Sarah E., Hohauser Kuchon, Troy, 248-619-0700 Pg. S-10

Ramsey, Janet L., Warner Norcross + Judd, Grand Rapids

Lipton, Jody B., Lipton Law, Southfield

Scott, Kimberly L., Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Ann Arbor

Peacock, Emily M., Olsman MacKenzie Peacock & Wallace, Berkley Silver, Franci B., Lee B. Steinberg, Southfield Stempky Kime, Sarah S., Christensen Law, Southfield

INTERNATIONAL

Winston, Nicole M., Rowling Partipilo & Winston, Port Huron

RISING STARS Xu, Evonne, Dinsmore & Shohl, Troy

RISING STARS Bahri, Ronita, Goodman Acker, Southfield Doss, Krystina, Christopher J. Trainor & Associates, White Lake

LAND USE/ZONING

Draugelis, Sam, Draugelis & Draugelis, St. Clair Shores

SUPER LAWYERS Friedlaender, Susan K., Friedlaender Nykanen & Rogowski, Troy

Saleh, Carine R., Attorney at Law, Detroit Terebelo, Michal D., Fakhoury Global Immigration USA, Troy

Penrod, Lauren, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, Detroit

Walters, Daniela, The Dobrusin Law Firm, Pontiac

Medina, Krystle-Marie, K-M Law, Lincoln Park Mosko, Ellie, Mosko Law, Huntington Woods

Orvis, Samantha J., Garan Lucow Miller, Grand Blanc

DuRoss, Leah, Merry Farnen & Ryan, St. Clair Shores Ellis, Tiffany R., Weitz & Luxenberg, Detroit Gill, Manpreet, Seva Law Firm, Troy Hanna, Nora, Fieger Law, Southfield

MEDIA AND ADVERTISING SUPER LAWYERS Luce-Herrmann, Robin, Butzel Long, Troy

Huang, Charissa C., Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, Grand Rapids Rice-Campbell, Pamela, Rice Law, Eastpointe Schanta, Samantha E., Padilla Law Group, Birmingham Schlinker, Loryn, West Michigan Injury Lawyers, Muskegon

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS SUPER LAWYERS Paullin-Hebden, Linda, Warner Norcross + Judd, Detroit RISING STARS Bailey, Vanessa L., Kostopoulos Rodriguez, Birmingham Silfen, Whitney Aidenbaum, Bodman, Detroit

Sikora, Lindsay F., Sikora Law Firm, Farmington Hills Tucker, Catherine E., Sinas Dramis Law Firm, Lansing Warner, Amanda B., Goodman Acker, Southfield

PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: DEFENSE SUPER LAWYERS Andreou, D. Jennifer, Plunkett Cooney, Detroit Pg. S-2

MILITARY/VETERANS LAW RISING STARS Kelly, Mandy L., Disability Law Group, Troy

Barker, Lori A., Abbott Nicholson, Troy Bowerman, Cathy R., Foley Baron Metzger & Juip, Livonia

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MICHIGAN TOP WOMEN SELECTED 2021 Chandler, Cheryl L., Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, Ann Arbor Pg. S-2 Matson, Marcy R., Hall Matson, East Lansing Merry, Cynthia E., Merry Farnen & Ryan, St. Clair Shores Selzer, Laura H., Janes Moffatt & Selzer, Mount Clemens

Hamameh, Lisa J., Rosati Schultz Joppich & Amtsbuechler, Farmington Hills

SCHOOLS & EDUCATION

Rosati, Carol A., Rosati Schultz Joppich & Amtsbuechler, Farmington Hills Pg. S-2

RISING STARS Kyprianos, Elizabeth A., Shifman & Carlson, Farmington Hills

Sieler, Jean Ann S., Robison Curphey & O’Connell, Tecumseh Warren, Heidi E., Abbott Nicholson, Troy RISING STARS Carley, Amanda T., Tanoury Nauts McKinney & Dwaihy, Livonia Cicotte, Marisa A., Tanoury Nauts McKinney & Dwaihy, Livonia

SECURITIES LITIGATION TAX

SUPER LAWYERS Lucas, Janine M., Saretsky Hart Michaels + Gould, Birmingham

Kennedy, Alyssa C., Abbott Nicholson, Troy Mansoor, Silvia Alexandria, Foley Baron Metzger & Juip, Livonia

PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: PLAINTIFF SUPER LAWYERS Aaron, Jody L., McKeen & Associates, Detroit Pg. S-2 Engelhardt, Jennifer A., Goethel Engelhardt, Ann Arbor Little, Ronda M., Olsman MacKenzie Peacock & Wallace, Berkley MacKenzie, Donna M., Olsman MacKenzie Peacock & Wallace, Berkley Pg. S-2 Meyers, Mary Pat (Rosen), Sommers Schwartz, Southfield Randall, Anne L., Reiter & Walsh, Bloomfield HIlls

SUPER LAWYERS Faycurry, Joanne B., Schiff Hardin, Ann Arbor Hallahan, Laura M., Hallahan & Associates, Bloomfield Hills

SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY

RISING STARS Rebeck, Chelsea, Rebeck & Allen, Southfield

SUPER LAWYERS Hamm, Andrea L., Miller Cohen, Detroit

TECHNOLOGY TRANSACTIONS

RISING STARS

SUPER LAWYERS Ossian, Kathryn L., Schuster Law, Melvin

Boersma, Sasha, Conybeare Law Office, St. Joseph Bui, Crystal, Bui Law, Grand Rapids

Rast, Claudia, Butzel Long, Ann Arbor

Riggs, Erika A., Disability Law Group, Troy

RISING STARS Razdolsky Rothstein, Katherine, Bodman, Troy Whalen, Jeanne M., Dykema Gossett, Bloomfield Hills

STATE, LOCAL & MUNICIPAL

Susskind, Judith A., Sommers Schwartz, Southfield Pg. S-2

SUPER LAWYERS

Walsh, Rebecca S., Reiter & Walsh, Bloomfield HIlls Pg. S-2

Battersby, Holly S., Rosati Schultz Joppich & Amtsbuechler, Farmington Hills

RISING STARS Culaj, Ardiana, Thurswell Law, Southfield

RISING STARS Zdarsky, Amanda Marie, McGraw Morris, Grand Rapids

UTILITIES

Esser-Weidenfeller, Lisa M., Sommers Schwartz, Southfield

Debler, Margaret T., Rosati Schultz Joppich & Amtsbuechler, Farmington Hills

Secorski, Jennifer L., Reiter & Walsh, Bloomfield HIlls

Forbush, Audrey J., Plunkett Cooney, Flint Pg. S-2

SUPER LAWYERS Heston, Jennifer Utter, Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, Lansing Humphrey, Kathryn J., Dykema Gossett, Detroitvv

Yaldo, Fallon, Hertz Schram, Bloomfield Hills Zalewski, Dina M., Sommers Schwartz, Southfield

PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS: DEFENSE SUPER LAWYERS Bush, Cheryl A., Bush Seyferth, Troy

PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: DEFENSE SUPER LAWYERS Asoklis, Theresa M., Collins Einhorn Farrell, Southfield Klaus, Kathleen H., Maddin Hauser Roth & Heller, Southfield Pg. S-2

REAL ESTATE Katherine A. Krysak Frampton

SUPER LAWYERS Anderson, Gail A., McClelland & Anderson, Lansing Labe, Monica J., Dickinson Wright, Troy Lewis, Leslee M., Dickinson Wright, Grand Rapids Shierk, C. Kim, Williams Williams Rattner & Plunkett, Birmingham

Rising Stars Honoree

Jorin G. Rubin

Super Lawyers Honoree

600 S. Adams Road, Suite 300 Birmingham, MI 48009 PH: (248) 799-9100 FX: (248) 799-7913

rubinframpton.com

Zelenock, Katheryne L., Dickinson Wright, Troy RISING STARS Dieck, Alexandra E., Bodman, Ann Arbor Hicks, Alysia K., Lumberg Freeman Gleeson Hicks & Khalil, Bloomfield Hills Johnson, Erin, Dickinson Wright, Troy Lockman, Kelly M., Bodman, Detroit Long, Kayleigh, Hirzel Law, Farmington Nesimova, Nargiz, Nargiz Nesimova, Southfield Sambare, Reshma, Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, Troy Welch, Erin Bowen, Dawda Mann Mulcahy & Sadler, Bloomfield Hills

Rubin Frampton provides a personalized approach to client representation. Jorin G. Rubin and Katherine A. Krysak Frampton are experienced, proven fighters who aggressively champion the rights of their clients. Together, Jorin and Katherine collectively offer 30 years of experience in family and criminal law. Their practice offers experienced counsel in family law, including divorce, child custody, child support, parenting time, spousal support, change in domicile, postjudgment issues and personal protection orders. Jorin has extensive litigation experience as a former prosecutor, focusing her criminal defense practice on criminal forfeiture matters. The attorneys at Rubin Frampton have an understanding of when to litigate and when to settle an action. Their compassionate yet aggressive representation achieves the best result for clients.

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MICHIGAN TOP WOMEN SELECTED 2021 Selected to Rising Stars

SORTED ALPHABETICALLY

Selected to Super Lawyers

SHERRI L. BONO

LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL A. ROBBINS

Selected to Super Lawyers

LINDSAY N. DANGL

SYMANTHA HEATH

2123 University Park Drive Suite 130 Okemos, MI 48864 Tel: 517-351-2020 Fax: 517-351-4420 ldangl@mbspclaw.com www.mbspclaw.com

39555 Orchard Hill Place Suite 215 Novi, MI 48375 Tel: 248-344-9700 sheath@elkouriheath.com www.elkouriheath.com

MURPHY & SPAGNUOLO, P.C.

3910 Telegraph Road Suite 200 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302 Tel: 248-646-7980 Fax: 248-646-7989 sbono@michaelarobbins.com www.michaelarobbins.com

ELKOURI HEATH, PLC

FAMILY LAW

CIVIL LITIGATION: DEFENSE

FAMILY LAW

Ms. Bono has over 31 years of legal experience in handling complex family law cases both as a paralegal and as a distinguished attorney. Ms. Bono has been associated with several prominent family law firms in the Metro-Detroit area where she has represented both men and women in every socioeconomic class, including stay-at-home parents, blue-collar workers, business owners and other professionals. Ms. Bono also has extensive experience representing professional athletes, professional entertainers and other high-profile members of the community. At the same time, Ms. Bono gives back to the community by donating time to organizations in need of legal services. Ms. Bono earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from Western Michigan University – Thomas M. Cooley Law School, graduating cum laude.

Lindsay Dangl is the managing shareholder of Murphy & Spagnuolo, P.C. Ms. Dangl has experience in the areas of family law, workers’ compensation, insurance defense litigation, municipal law, and civil litigation. Ms. Dangl obtained an AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest peer rating standard, and has been selected to Super Lawyers for a high-degree of professional achievement. Ms. Dangl currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Ingham County Bar Association. She also a member of the Lansing Torch Club, Women Lawyers Association of Mid-Michigan, Michigan Defense Trial Counsel, and Junior League of Lansing. Ms. Dangl is a trial attorney who takes pride in helping clients achieve outcomes for each case with diligent effort and honest, practical advice.

Symantha Heath has practiced law for over 27 years and is co-founder of the Elkouri Heath, PLC law firm in Novi, Michigan. She was named a Michigan Super Lawyers honoree for 2019-2021. She was also named 10 Best Female attorneys in Michigan for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 by the American Institute of Family Law attorney’s. Ms. Heath is a respected attorney concentrating her practice on complex family law matters including divorce, custody and parenting time and is also certified as both a collaborative attorney and mediator. Ms. Heath is past president of the Wayne County Family Law Bar Association, a member of the Michigan State Bar Association and Oakland County Bar Associations. Symantha Heath represents clients throughout the greater Detroit area.

BUSINESS/CORPORATE INSURANCE COVERAGE

Selected to Super Lawyers

SARAH E. KUCHON

CINNAMON A. PLONKA

JORIN G. RUBIN

363 West Big Beaver Road Suite 250 Troy, MI 48084 Tel: 248-619-0700 Fax: 248-619-0709 sarah@hohauserkuchon.com www.hohauserkuchon.com

32255 Northwestern Highway Suite 225 Farmington Hills, MI 48334 Tel: 248-851-4111 Fax: 248-851-0100 crice@zacfirm.com www.zausmer.com

600 South Adams Road Suite 300 Birmingham, MI 48009 Tel: 248-799-9100 Fax: 248-799-7913 jorin@rubinframpton.com www.rubinframpton.com

HOHAUSER KUCHON

ZAUSMER, P.C.

RUBIN FRAMPTON

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: DEFENSE

FAMILY LAW

Sarah Kuchon is a shareholder of Hohauser Kuchon, concentrating her practice on personal injury law. She teaches Auto Law at Oakland University. A Commissioner of the State Bar of Michigan, former member of the Representative Assembly of the State Bar of Michigan and active in bar associations at both the state and local levels, she sits as Secretary on the Oakland County Bar Association Board of Directors. From trial court to appellate practice, Sarah has distinguished herself in the panoply of varied injury practices from automobile negligence to dog bite. Sarah exemplifies the firm’s motto: strength and honor.

Cinnamon Plonka is an accomplished litigator who handles a wide array of civil litigation matters including first-party no-fault and third-party automobile negligence claims, premises liability, employment litigation, fraud, and insurance coverage disputes, both at the trial level and before appellate courts. Cinnamon has an impressive track record and extensive trial experience. In 2017, Michigan Lawyers Weekly named her to its prestigious list of “Women in the Law.” Cinnamon was selected to Super Lawyers for 2021. She is dedicated to serving the community through mentoring youths and various organizations including serving as a Trustee for Eastern Michigan University Foundation. Cinnamon Plonka has over 20 years of experience and is a Shareholder at Zausmer, PC.

Attorney Jorin Rubin is based in Birmingham, specializing in family law and criminal asset forfeiture defense. As a federal prosecutor for 10 years prior to going into private practice, Jorin forcefully pursued justice. There she specialized in finding assets that criminals had hidden, secreted, or held in the name of a third party. Her skill and initiative resulted in the forfeiture of millions of illegally-gained dollars in cash, jewelry, cars and boats to the United States Government. Since opening her firm in 2002, Jorin has applied her prosecutorial skills and investigatory abilities on family law matters, as well as criminal asset forfeiture defense. This is Ms. Rubin’s 11th consecutive year as a Michigan Super Lawyers honoree.

CRIMINAL DEFENSE

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BEYOND BASICS | COMING TOGETHER FOR CHILDREN

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On Friday, March 25, Beyond Basics will celebrate National Reading Month at the Detroit Athletic Club. Please join us at our annual event, Coming Together for Children, in support of literacy programs. The evening festivities kick off at 5:30 p.m. and conclude by 9 p.m. Guests will enjoy cocktails and dinner as well as a program that highlights the positive impact of literacy. Our organization recognizes that teaching literacy is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor. Through diligent work, a model was created that has students reading at grade level in an average of six weeks. These personalized one-on-one interventions give each individual the resources needed to succeed in school and most importantly, life. For more than 20 years, the intensive literacy interventions have changed thousands of lives. To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, kindly email nienstedt@ beyondbasics.org. Tickets are available via beyondbasics.org/annualevent2022. Please visit kidsgala.org for admission, attire, and sponsorship details.

Birmingham-based Eton Academy invites you to attend Roaring into the Twenties, a semiformal gala and auction. Please join us on Saturday, March 5, at our impressive campus in support of students with learning differences. The soiree commences at 6 p.m. with drinks and a strolling dinner for guests to enjoy. There will be raffle drawings, student programs/speakers, and a live silent auction. A dedicated giving paddle raise, where attendees can donate money directly to the scholarship fund, will conclude all festivities at 10 p.m. This is the school’s largest fundraising event and ultimately a celebration of Eton students and community. Proceeds benefit assistive technology needs for classrooms and essential specialized training for teachers, on top of educational aid. Tickets are $150 and can be purchased online or by calling Kelly Dewald at 248-642-1150, ext. 117. For more information, visit etonacademy.org.

Learn about local non-profits, the work they are doing in our community, and ways you can help their causes in the digital edition of Give.

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elcome to Liberty House Recovery Center, where their mission is to offer a fresh perspective on alcohol and substance use treatment. Of the 21 million Americans suffering from addiction, fewer than 10 percent will receive adequate treatment. The team at Liberty House is dedicated to addressing the many factors that contribute to addiction by tailoring their evidence-based, multifaceted program to each unique individual who enters their care. The journey of recovery is different for every individual but the liberty experience, once freed from the struggles of addiction, is one of the greatest accomplishments a person can achieve. A fulfilling life without the burdens of alcohol and substance use is possible, and it begins at the Liberty House Recovery Center, where excellence and elegance combine to provide a comprehensive and personalized path to recovery. Their state-ofthe-art facility, located on a beautiful and serene 34-acre property, offers expertise from a variety of specialists including doctors, therapists, counselors, nurses, coaches, and case managers. Personal chefs, housekeepers, and drivers are available to cater to the specific needs of every client, minimizing distractions and allowing one to heal. Each staff member is dedicated to transforming lives by delivering confidential, effective, and compassionate care with integrity and accountability. The Liberty House campus was specifically designed to provide a peaceful and tranquil safe haven, allowing each client to focus solely on their path to sustainable recovery. From the lush greenery and flowing waterfalls to the private walking paths, Liberty House offers a comfortable atmo-

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sphere where treatment can flourish. Clients are able to get through the first few days of subacute detox in a comfortable and safe environment with roundthe-clock care provided by clinical and medical personnel. The recently renovated 12-bed residential home features many luxury amenities including a fully-equipped fitness center and indoor gym; spa quarters with sauna, steam, and massage rooms; spacious lounges with flat-screen TVs; and a private workspace with internet capabilities. A private on-site chef caters each meal to personal preferences and dietary needs. Each client’s treatment team works to conquer all aspects of addiction with a mind, body, and lifestyle approach. Liberty House founder Dr. Susan Abed set out to ensure that commitment to excellence was reflected in all aspects of service and treatment. Her personal investment in this project has resulted in welcoming a nationally-acclaimed and effective recovery treatment center right in the heart of Michigan. “Our treatment team comprised of both medical and therapeutic practitioners recruited for their recognized expertise, combined with the very human qualities of empathy and compassion,” Dr. Abed says. “We recruited special people who are able to embrace and exemplify the values and standards of our exceptional clinic. We provide a comprehensive program in a gentle and effective environment where patients and their families are guided toward change and sustainable recovery.” Liberty House’s medical director and psychiatrist, Dr. Wisam Salman, M.D., has done extensive work in areas of community public health, substance abuse, mood disorder, depression, and schizophre-

nia. Evidence-based practices that encompass a mind-body-lifestyle approach have been an instrumental part in the development of the clinical program. “Substance-use disorder is a complicated illness in which the individual loses control over the use of alcohol or a substance, which in turn not only effects the individual involved, but their families,” Dr. Salman says. “As a psychiatrist who has been practicing in this field since 2009, I’m committed to using my knowledge and expertise to guide individuals toward a sober and fulfilling life that isn’t plagued by the constant struggle with alcohol and substance use. A life without the reliance on alcohol or other substances is possible, and I’ll do my best to guide our patients through their journey to a better, sober life.” By bringing the latest and most advanced evidence-based therapies to Michigan, Dr. Abed not only wants every client to achieve happiness through long-lasting sobriety; she also wants to reduce the stigma associated with addiction and other mental health problems. “Everything we do is fully tailored to each individual’s needs in a secluded and beautifully designed environment. We focus on what really matters — you.”

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DESIGN CONNECT — A LOCAL NONPROFIT dedicated to connecting Detroit and Pontiac students to careers in art and design — held its gala on Nov. 13 at College for Creative Studies’ Taubman Center. Guests were asked to dress in futuristic fashion or cocktail attire, and the event featured a strolling dinner, open bar, fashion contest, DJ, auctions, raffles, and live entertainment. The event, which benefited Detroit youth, also highlighted the work of local high school students who participate in Design Connect’s programs.

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THE PARADE CO.’S ANNUAL FUNDRAISER took place on Nov. 19, at Ford Field. Presented by Ford Motor Co., the event included live performances by Outkast’s Big Boi and local group Your Generation in Concert, carnival and parade characters, food trucks, and more.

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THE NONPROFIT CRIME STOPPERS of Michigan held its holiday party at The Parade Co. in Detroit on Dec. 11. Fox 2 anchors Jay Towers and Deena Centofanti were the emcee and host of the event, respectively. The party included games, gift bags, face painting, special guests, and a tour of the Thanksgiving Day parade floats. Sponsorship of the event supported Crime Stoppers’ annual operating budget. M A RC H 2 0 2 2

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WHEN ARCHITECT VICTOR GRUEN was designing Southfield’s sprawling new Northland Center in the early ’50s, he wanted it to be an experience, not merely a collection of retailers. To that end, he added landscaping and fountains and enlisted the talents of six sculptors to inject visual flair into the outdoor space (Northland didn’t become an enclosed mall until the 1970s). The most popular sculpture, at least with children, was Marshall Fredericks’ “The Boy and Bear.” Kids found the limestone bear irresistible to touch or clamber over. Another favorite was the towering “Birds of Flight” by Gwen Lux, above, circa 1955, situated outside the Hudson’s store. The enameled copper mobile sculpture affixed to a painted wood column was instantly recognizable. According to Gerald E. Naftaly’s 2016 book Northland Mall, Lux’s work provided a relaxing background for busy shoppers taking a break. Lux, a Chicago native, studied with Pewabic Pottery co-founder Mary Chase Perry Stratton. She created other artworks at Northland: “Totem Pole” (including a separate smaller version) and “Peacock Sculpture,” a collaboration with sculptor Arthur Kraft. Northland Center, at the time the world’s largest shopping center, opened to great acclaim 68 years ago, on March 22, 1954. Life magazine even devoted several pages to it. At West Eight Mile and Greenfield, the site was conveniently located near the Lodge Freeway. Hudson’s was the hub, accompanied by 80 other tenants, though not all were completed at the time of the 1954 opening. Eventually, newer malls and changing shopping habits dimmed Northland’s luster, and it closed in 2015. Instead of being razed and forgotten, the area will become Northland City Center, containing apartments, restaurants, retail, and a movie theater. The Hudson’s store will be spared, being repurposed as Hudson’s City Market, a shopping, entertainment, and dining space. The plans are being undertaken by Bloomfield Hills-based Contour Development Group, and the chief architect is Bruce Allen Kopytek, whose affection for Detroit retailers is evident in books he’s written on Crowley’s and Jacobson’s. He also has a book in the works about Hudson’s. —George Bulanda

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