Republic Restaurant in the Cool G.A.R. Building To Open Next Week

Restaurant openings downtown Detroit are becoming more commonplace.

But this one is opening in a not so common place.

Sylvia Rector of the Detroit Free Press writes that the Republic restaurant will open sometime next week in one of the cooler buildings in the city: The historic G.A.R. Building  (Grand Army of the Republic)— the tall, castle-like triangular building set in the intersection of Cass, Grand River and Adams.

Executive chef Kate Williams tells the Free Press she plans to hold invitation-only practice dinners this weekend and then decide which day next week she'll open to the public.

The G.A.R. building was built in the late 1890s.