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Lifestyle
Aug 22, 2013
The Weekend Playbook: The Oakland's birthday party and disc golf tourneys galore
Freebie of the WeekEmpty out your stomach for all the wine & cheese you can handle at the “You & Whose Army?” opening, Friday at the old Furniture Factory space in Midtown.
Lifestyle
Aug 15, 2013
The Weekend Playbook: Boozy movies and bikes & dogs
Freebie of the WeekBailout Productions is swinging by the Shinola store in Midtown on Friday with tons o' free craft cocktails like the Cinchona Shinola Cola (rye whiskey, cynar, cherry heering, xocolatle mole bittlers, fresh lemon, and Shinola cola).
Drink
Aug 14, 2013
A wine cyborg (??) comes to Corktown
Appropriately relocating from downtown to Cork(!)town, Motor City Wine is an adult grape juice retreat (just across the street from Sugar House and Slows) that's half reasonable retail wine shop and half wine bar.
Lifestyle
Aug 8, 2013
The Weekend Playbook: Burger brawls, tiki punches, and an R&B(BQ)
Event of the WeekOn Saturday, the no-buns barred world of burger battling comes to Detroit with the first annual Burger Brawl with heavy hitters like Mt.
Eat
Aug 7, 2013
Corktown’s Ottava Via has the meatballs to do rustic Italian
Set in the historic Dime Savings Bank building on Eighth, Corktown’s Ottava Via is a rustic Italian standard-bearer helmed by the same chef who opened Seva, and is co-owned by one of the dudes behind Mercury Burger & Bar, with boot country staples like wine, bocce ball (!), and, you know, PIZZA.
Drink
Aug 1, 2013
The Weekend Playbook: A need for mead, and how to tell your bourbon & rye apart
Event of the WeekOne of the largest meaderies in the country (yes, we're talking about you, B. Nektar Meadery!) is celebrating its 5yr anniversary party in Ferndale this Saturday.
Eat
Jul 31, 2013
This restaurant has a 25yr-old chef who's smoking BBQ sauce & whiskey tableside
Run by one of Detroit's up-and-coming-est chefs (literally, this dude has been cooking for 13 years even though HE'S ONLY 25 YEARS OLD), The Jefferson House is the latest addition to the newly renovated Crowne Plaza downtown, and home to one of the most forward-thinking menus in Detroit (starting with the tempura braised short rib sushi roll above...).
Drink
Jul 18, 2013
The Weekend Playbook: A tour of historic dives that serve whiskey & more (whiskey)
Event of the WeekThe almighty celebration of all drinkable things born in a barrel (read: whiskey) and all living things raised in a pen (read: pigs), Pig & Whiskey returns to downtown Ferndale for another round of culinary debauchery.
Eat
Jul 17, 2013
Michelin-starred sliders, now available above a grocery store
Chef'd by Michelin-magnet Jacques Van Staden, Bistro Joe's is the first-ever sit-down effort from Papa Joe’s, which's carved out of a second floor mezzanine above its Birmingham market, and dropped in an accessible, knick-knack-filled restaurant-cum-bar where you can down dress-it-yourself Angus sliders w/ truffle fries and vodka cocktails with chocolate pearls in them (!!).
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