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Your field guide to all of metro Detroit.
We’re out every week exploring it — eat, drink, do, the whole thing — and reporting back with the good stuff. Minus the 11pm start times.
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What are you in the mood for?
Pick a craving — or pick a town.
Take the scenic route
Self-guided tours
Curated routes through the city’s stories — music, art, food, and the places that made Detroit Detroit. Park once, then wander.
Been there
Places we’ve been
The spots we’ve actually visited — freshest first.
Detroit Shipping Company
Detroit
Two James Spirits
Corktown
Ima Izakaya
Corktown
Hart Plaza
Downtown
Salinair Salt Room Spa
Rochester Hills
Michigan By The Bottle Tasting Room
Auburn Hills
The Gold Dollar
Detroit
Third Man Records
Detroit
Midtown Social
Detroit
Folk Detroit
Corktown
The Heidelberg Project
Islandview
Blind Owl
Royal Oak
The Rust Belt Market
Ferndale
Michigan Central Station
Corktown
Marvin Gaye House
Detroit
The Stevie Wonder Mural
Downtown
Green Lantern Pizza
Madison Heights
Mudgie’s Deli and Wine Shop
Corktown
United Sound Systems
Detroit
Aretha Franklin House (The Rose Estate)
Palmer WoodsSupport local, on purpose
The people behind the places
The metro’s gems, sorted by the people behind them.
Black-Owned
Restaurants, shops, and studios across the metro, run by the Black Detroiters who built them.
10 places →
LGBTQ-Owned
Welcoming rooms and the people who make them. Growing all the time.
Just getting started →
Who’s behind this
We chose this place — and we’re still obsessed.
Transplants who fell hard for metro Detroit, moved in, and never looked back. We explore our own backyard the way you would a place you picked on purpose — fresh eyes, high standards, and two careers’ worth of knowing what “worth it” actually feels like.
Andrea spent nearly two decades leading luxury spas and guest experience. She clocks the service details most people never notice — and won’t let a place slide on them.
Mike produced events across the country for 25+ years (four Super Bowls among them) before turning fresh eyes on his adopted metro.
Bruce Lee, our pug, supervises the patio-and-snack research. Strictly.
Why we passed
Not everything makes the cut.
Every so often we share the places we visited and quietly decided not to feature — no names, just what keeps a spot off the list. Because if Delovely Detroit put it here, it should mean something.