Hazel, Ravines and Downtown co-owners Beth Hussey and Executive Chef Emmele Herrold have announced a new seasonal and holiday menu inspired by the Pacific Northwest. Herrold makes the most of fall flavors in comforting dishes like Walla Walla onion soup, the wild, wild west salad, rich crab Louis and spicy mussels and sausage. This season also marks the return of Pacific Northwest crab rolls and appetizers such as classic escargot and cheesy Astoria clown bread. Diners won’t

Craft Work, a neighborhood favorite bar/eatery in Detroit’s West Village, officially closed its door in March of 2020. Around the same time, Chefs Brendon Edwards and Hailey Enszer of Corktown’s Gold Cash Gold saw their popular restaurant shutter as well. The good news is that Edwards and Enszer are back to work with the opening of Metropolitan Bar & Kitchen, located at 8047 Agnes Street, Detroit – the former home of Craft Work. “This space has been serving food to the commun

The Community House at 380 Bates Street, Birmingham plays host to hundreds of events and celebrations each year including business events, weddings, birthdays, showers, class reunions – you name it. Recently, The Community House appointed Ryan Friedrich as its new executive chef. In his new role, Friedrich oversees operations of The Community House kitchen, including food preparation, menu planning and the supervision of cooking and kitchen personnel. Friedrich is no stranger

Inn Season Kitchen is a quick-service casual offshoot of Royal Oak’s Inn Season Café, which closed during the pandemic and is now undergoing renovations. The new eatery had a soft opening this summer, but is now officially open at 32867 Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak. Plant-based food fans will remember this location as the former home of GreenSpace & Go. Inn Season Kitchen’s vegan and vegetarian menu is basically a shorter, greatest hits version of the original Inn Season Caf

Rap artist Eminem has opened a walk-up spaghetti window within the new Union Assembly, Detroit. The restaurant’s name plays a humorous homage to a lyric in “Lose Yourself,” for which the Detroit rapper won a Grammy award. The outlet is a partnership between Eminem and Union Joints restaurant group, owner of Union Assembly as well as Clarkston Union, Vinsetta Garage and several other suburban restaurants. “We’ve had a lot of fun putting this project together with the folks at

The team behind Four Man Ladder Management has announced that they have been selected by Olympia Development of Michigan to operate an all-new dining concept in the former Eddystone Hotel in Detroit. The Four Man Ladder team owns and operates Grey Ghost and Second Best on Watson Street in Midtown. The operation includes Chefs John Vermiglio and Joe Giacomino, along with Will Lee (Beverage Director) and Michael Gray (Director of Operations). Chef John Vermiglio commented on hi

As a community, we were both surprised and saddened by Norman and Bonnie LePage’s announcement that they would be closing their beloved Big Rock Chophouse at year’s end. In 1984, the LePage restaurateur team converted Birmingham’s Tudor revival style train station, which had sat vacant since 1978, into Norman’s Eton Street Station. It wasn’t until 1997, when the LePages and their partners, Ray and Mary Nicholson, officially transformed the space into Big Rock Chophouse. The r