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More Detroit hotspots

The NYTimes seems to be promoting Detroit as a tourist destination these days and why not. Here’s some suggestions from their latest travel piece on the Motor City:

– Roast – “Detroit’s most talked about restaurant”…..

– Rub BBQ Pub – with a sandwich named after local boy gone rocker Ted Nugent

– Detroit Beer Company – behind the Opera House beer. And my favorite beer name “People Mover Porter” – with chocolate tones.

– Westin Book Cadillac Hotel. Take off the first name and it feels like the good old days. or the bad old days. take your pick but nice to see this place open again after a $200 million renovation. What’s next – the downtown Hudson’s???

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Detroit’s new cool…

It’s not often that I read a story that makes me want to rush back to my old hometown of Detroit but one in the NYTimes food section yesterday did. It was about a young Detroiter, a former male model no less, who has a bunch of entrepreneurial projects going on downtown including a barbecue place called Slows Bar B Q, in the Corktown neighborhood.

(Slows was also named by Budget Travel as one of the ten best bbq spots in the nation this year – and had good company, including two other places I’ve been to –  Abe’s in Clarksdale, Ms. and Arthur Bryant’s in, of course, Kansas City.)

Other groovy new places in Detroit mentioned by the Times include Supino Pizzeria, serving artisanal pie near Eastern Market, and Roast, a restaurant in a luxury hotel downtown. Soon to open – SLOWS TO GO,  at the corner of Alexandrine and Cass Avenue in Detroit’s  Midtown district and Sugar House, a classic cocktail bar opening next to Slows.

see: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/dining/20Detroit.html?pagewanted=1

 



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