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Yes, Detroit is a good place for foodies.
The Washington Post notes that the city is flush with new, creative restaurants in an article headlined: "One of the country’s poorest cities is suddenly becoming a food mecca."
In a comprehensive, 1,660-word overview, Chicago freelancer Mark Guarino writes:
Veteran Detroiters always knew their city was a meat-and-potatoes town. To find more-eclectic cuisine meant doing what most people downtown did after work: Leave.
No more. Detroit is in the midst of a culinary transformation. Rock-bottom housing stock and an emerging generation of young restaurateurs and chefs settling in to experiment have brought new restaurants, breweries, tasting rooms, cocktail bars, pop-up events and quirky lunch spots promising nutritious food — in neighborhoods where the only option to eat had previously been fast food. Keeping up with launches is now a sport in this rebounding city, which over the past decade survived a government bailout of two of its three major car companies, the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history and the shuttling of a recent mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, to federal prison.
Reference is made about "one of the poorest cities," which it is. However, the restaurants aren't popping up in the poorest areas, rather the emerging ones like Downtown, Midtown and Corktown.
The author mentions popular newcomers like Selden Standard in Midtown and Gold Cash Gold in Corktown, and writes:
Many of the new restaurants feature chefs lured away from other cities to jump-start new ventures. They include Brion Wong and Jestin James Feggan, recruited from New York to create the modern French cuisine at Antietam, and John Vermiglio and Josef Giacomino, Detroit natives who created flagships in Chicago before returning home this past fall to start work on Grey Ghost Detroit in the Midtown neighborhood; it will open in the spring.
The author covers a lot of ground, but slips when he refers to Parks & Rec Diner being in West Village, when in fact it's downtown at Grand River and Cass.
