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Delovely Detroit

Your Metro Detroit field guide

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Good places. Local stories. Plans worth leaving home for.

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What’s good right now

Eat Been There

Mati Taverna + Bar
Drink Been There

Santé Wine Tasting Room
Do Been There

Third Man Records

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Self-guided · Free guide · Your own pace

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Jack White’s Detroit: From Ferdinand Street to Third Man — Eleven stops, from the Southwest Detroit house where John Gillis grew up, past his ball field, his high school and the hotel from the song, to the Royal Oak room where, the story goes, Meg White poured drinks.

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Pick a craving — or pick a town

What are you in the mood for?

Eat Worth the reservation.
Drink Make it a night.
Do Get out and explore.
Rest A little room to exhale. In Season What’s good this month.
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Take the scenic route

Pick a story and follow it across the metro.

Self-guided · Free guides · Your own pace

Jack White’s Detroit: From Ferdinand Street to Third ManGuide
Made in Detroit: Still Making ItGuide Hollywood Roots: Gilda, Houdini and Lucy’s DetroitGuide
Detroit Architecture: Griswold Street, Midtown and New CenterGuide

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Places we’ve been — and would go back to

EatBeen There

Woodpile BBQ
EatBeen There

Republica
EatBeen There

John Cowley & Sons Irish Pub
EatBeen There

Taco Tequila Y Mas

Our visits. Our take. Been There means we went. On Our Radar means we did the research but haven’t been yet.