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Restaurant critic Molly Abraham has good things to say about Rock City, the restaurant that operated for two years in Hamtramck before recently moving to 4216 Woodward in Detroit's Midtown.
Chef and proprietor Nikita Sanches has created an "imaginative menus that cross many ethnic boundaries include, she writes in The Detroit News:
The imaginative menus that cross many ethnic boundaries include a number of salads that are true entrees. For instance, the salmon salad includes fresh mixed greens, rounds of green olive, halved grape tomatoes and a hefty portion of roasted salmon in a light herb dressing, and an equally solid Mediterranean mix of lentils, quinoa, pickled asparagus, roasted peppers, tomatoes and greens in sherry-date vinaigrette.
The Sanches’ touch is known for its international approach, perhaps skewed a bit toward the Mideast. Lamb with harissa, feta cheese and onion salad turns up in a lunch time burger, and in the evening, a major dish is the roasted lamb with herbs, shallots, lemon and capers. All of the dishes, from pork chops with a tamarind glaze, roasted Brussels sprouts and smoked tomatoes, to the seafood pasta with crab, scallops, shrimp and prawns, include multiple fresh ingredients used with a lavish hand.
The restaurant also now serves thin-crusted pizza.
