"If a woman’s place is in the kitchen, where are all the girls?'Making dinner for the family is perfectly acceptable 'women’s work,' but when it comes to heading up high-profile kitchens and overseeing dozens of employees in the high-stress restaurant industry, it seems like women are still treated like delicate flowers who can’t carry their weight in 40-qt. stock pots.'In metro Detroit, there are only a handful of females in coveted executive chef positions, but these girls gone gastronomic are making a serious impact..."Meet these women in the...
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The vineyards of Chateau Grand Traverse. All photos by Nicole Rupersburg.The car is cresting over the hills of Old Mission Peninsula, whipping around curves at 70mph. It is a clear, late summer night, 80 degrees. The air is damp, perfumed with burning wood and a hint of fall. Top down, music blaring, I look up to my right to see the stars of the Little Dipper burning white hot through ink-black sky. There are few perfect moments in life. This is...
Monday, September 26, 2011
All photos by Nicole Rupersburg.If you ask any native New Yorker (if there is such a thing), they've probably never been to the top of the Empire State Building. The thing is, when you live in a place, you tend not to look at it with the wide-eyed wonderment of your average tourist. And that's a shame, really: metro Detroiters will dump thousands of dollars on plane tickets to France, cooking classes in Burgundy, guided wine tours through Bordeaux,...
Saturday, September 24, 2011
All photos by Nicole Rupersburg.From the very beginning, it seems that 24grille inside the AAA-four-diamond Westin Book Cadillac has been plagued with issues, not that your average restaurant-goer would know that. Despite problems with partners and upper management on all conceivable levels of common-grade restaurant industry salaciousness and scandal (you've read Bourdain, no?), their initial delay in opening (a full 6 months after the hotel - and...
Friday, September 23, 2011
Vitello Piccata. All photos by Nicole Rupersburg.Words like "hidden gem" and "urban oasis" get tossed around a lot when talking about La Dolce Vita, and with good reason: located in a very unlikely spot at Woodward and McNichols in Detroit's Palmer Park neighborhood, the restaurant is surrounded by a whole lot of bleak-looking nothing (plus a strip club).If it sounds seedy ... well, a rose by any other name would surely smell as sweet as...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The bar at Roast. (photo by Nicole Rupersburg)Launched in 2009 at a time when the city needed a lift even more than usual, Detroit's Restaurant Week has grown from modest beginnings into something approaching a full-on celebration of the city's diverse and worthy dining scene. From tomorrow through Sunday, October 2, you'll be able to choose from 21 city restaurants offering special prix-fixe menus at the discounted price of $28 per person. Since...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Wild-caught Alaskan salmon, sorrel cream sauce, fingerling potatoes and haricot vertWhen Fountain Bistro first opened in June 2010, it was a great place for a quick and casual breakfast or lunch, somewhere you could drop into during one of the city's major events and get a sandwich and cup of coffee on the go. The food was outstanding, but the hours catered specifically to business and events traffic, and it really wasn't the kind of place where...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
All photos by Nicole Rupersburg.One of the new faces of this year's fall edition of Detroit Restaurant Week is Cliff Bell's, Detroit's premiere jazz and supper club - or, rather, supper and jazz club."Detroit Restaurant Week is an opportunity for us to be recognized as a restaurant, not just a jazz club that has good food," says Executive Chef Matt Baldridge. "This validates us as a restaurant. I hope this gets us out there to people who haven't...
Friday, September 16, 2011
All photos by Nicole Rupersburg.People love to joke about cops and doughnuts. Thankfully, so do the cops at Cops and Doughnuts.When the historic Clare City Bakery, a small family bakery smack dab in the middle of Michigan in the small-town-cute city of Clare, announced it would be closing in July 2009, the officers of the Clare Police Department - all nine of them - rallied together to save the bakery."I said to Bubba [one of the nine], 'You know...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
All photos by Nicole Rupersburg."Flash back to 15 years ago: before the casinos, before Comerica Park, before Campus Martius, before the Westin Book-Cadillac renovation, before the Super Bowl, before the greenways and riverwalks, before OMG SLOWS ... Detroit was a very different place. People who make 'Wild West' jokes now obviously didn't see it in the '80s and '90s before hipster artists and the New York Times 'discovered' the city. The Town Pump...
Monday, September 12, 2011
This man needs coffee and crullers, STAT!The classic American doughnut shop is a time-honored tradition, the second most crucial of the Great American Gathering Places (right behind diners). Before coffee shops got fancy and then fancier, the doughnut shop was the centralized early morning meeting place of business people and old-timers alike. There are many truly classic doughnut shops in metro Detroit; some have been around 50 years or more (and...
Friday, September 9, 2011
Under construction: COLORS-Detroit. (All photos by Nicole Rupersburg.)Sunday marks the 10-year anniversary of the single event that shook Americans' sense of security to the very foundation. While there is much to be reflected on regarding the events of 9/11 and the decade that followed, for all the media blitz and its immediate historical significance there is a real question that remains of how much actually changed as a result. It may be too hasty...
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