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The Washington Post shines a light on Detroit's expansive restaurant scene in a story headlined "In Detroit, Flavor Is in Heavy Rotation."
Local freelance writer Rebecca Powers, a former Detroit News reporter (1980-95) and ex-editor of Hour Magazine (1999-2012), takes readers through a breakfast, lunch and dinner:
In this city with four major pro teams, there’s another sport: trying to keep track of the dizzying number restaurant openings. National headlines have proclaimed Detroit a hot food destination. Certainly, Motor City natives can list a lifetime of favorites, many dating back generations.
The latest restaurant breed tends toward new American cuisine, dedicated to local sourcing with a splash of Michigan-made beer or Detroit-distilled spirits. In one newbie Detroit diner, where tables are so close that your neighbors’ conversations merge with yours, a fellow patron told me she and her husband were opening a wood-fired pizza place soon. Of course! Menus, it seems, are Motown’s new playlist.
And in the 313 area-code tradition, consider a nightcap at one of the proliferating bars, including one in the mural-filled Belt Alley. Later, a Coney dog is the classic Detroit fourth meal.
For breakfast, she visits the Dime Store:
Just off the atrium-lit lobby of the Chrysler House, a 1912 neoclassical downtown skyscraper formerly named the Dime Building, as locals still prefer to call it, is the Dime Store restaurant (eatdimestore.com; 719 Griswold St.; 313-962-9106).
For lunch, she writes:
Square Detroit-style pizza is a thing — and you won’t find it at Supino Pizzeria (supinopizzeria.com, 2457 Russell St., 313-567-7879), where round pies reflect owner Dave Mancini’s Italian roots in Supino, Italy, plus years of trial-and-error experimentation in his home kitchen with a KitchenAid.
And for dinner:
Take a single-story, plain building that once housed a dry-cleaning business on a forlorn stretch between downtown and Midtown, paint the cinder block, add an attractive patio with a fireplace, and you have the foundation of a restaurant that garnered immediate raves when it opened in late 2014. Selden Standard (seldenstandard.com, 3921 Second Ave., 313-438-5055) turns out meals with subtle flavors enhanced by a wood grill.