NEW HERE, EXPLORING EVERYTHING
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.
Free every week. Unsubscribe anytime.
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.
Sidecar Slider Bar
Grosse Pointe
Woodpile BBQ
Madison Heights
Republica
Berkley
John Cowley & Sons Irish Pub
Farmington
Lone Light Spirits
Farmington
Taco Tequila Y Mas
Madison Heights
Como’s Ferndale
Ferndale
The Beverly
Berkley
Ima Noodles
Madison Heights
Celina’s Bar & Grill
Madison Heights
Nine Kitchen + Bar
Ferndale
Coffee & Bark — Hazel Park
Hazel Park
Pine Hall
Detroit
Prime + Proper
Detroit
San Morello
Detroit
220 Merrill
Birmingham
Margot European Spa
Birmingham
Glam Jail Med Spa
Birmingham
Urbanrest Brewing
Ferndale
Jim Brady’s
Royal OakSupport 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.