Food, drink, lively conversation, white tablecloths, floral arrangements and fine china. Who cares that people didn't dress up and it rained? Noelle Lothamer says the experience was sublime.
Our food writer gets over a fine dining hangover by volunteering for service on the food line at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, which has been helping feed the needy since 1976. Noelle Lothamer reports from the inside.
What a scene: a standing room only crowd gathered at a downtown hot spot to talk about one of the coolest regional topics of the moment -- the Detroit food economy, and how far we've come, baby, in a very short time. SimmerD columnist Noelle Lothamer reports from the packed house.
This edition of SimmerD comes to you in living color from the spring edition of Detroit Restaurant Week. Photographer Marvin Shaouni and writer Noelle Lothamer go on a whirlwind tour, taking you inside seven of the 18 participating restaurants to give you a tasty tour of the scene.
Our food and drink specialist gets a sneak preview of the next sumptuous 10 days ahead by visiting two Italian kitchens -- one classic, another a relatively newcomer to the culinary scene. We confess getting pangs of hunger seeing "zingy caponata of squash, tomatoes, olives and chunks of garlic" used in a sentence. You too? Bon appetit.
Corktown music venue P.J's Lager House breaks out white linen, candles and cut flowers for its Sunday Acoustic Dinner series. Model D food writer Noelle Lothamer and photographer Marvin Shaouni bring us the fresh, home-cooked details.
This town is having some culinary fun right now -- and we want to be in middle of every kitchen or barroom story we can. Noelle Lothamer brings you the first of what we plan as a series about feeding the insatiable belly of Detroit.
Promoter-DJs Ash Nowak and Jon Dones of monthly dance party Haute to Death have been putting a new spin on punk disco and new wave cool since 2007. Noëlle Lothamer jumped into their Temple -- Temple Bar, that is -- and went on a thrill ride into Detroit's Hauttest party.
Nearly everywhere we go this week, people are talking about food. When they're not eating it, that is, complemented by various tasty beverages. Detroit Restaurant Week, produced by our friends at Paxahau, features dozens of traditional and non-traditional eateries. Writer Noëlle Lothamer and photographer Marvin Shaouni went to one of each for this scrumptious report.
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