Iridescence has opened atop the Motor City Casino Hotel, with expansive 40-foot-high windows affording diners an unparalleled view of the Detroit skyline. The restaurant will be open for dinner service Tuesday through Sunday and features a unique open kitchen that seeks to engage guests in their dining experience.
Chef Adam Hightower, a Detroit-area native who most recently worked at the AAA Four Diamond restaurant Bali by the Sea in Waikiki, Hawaii, has been named fine dining chef. His menu will focus on local and organic cuisine; specialty entrees include cinnamon lavender pheasant, green peppercorn crusted filet of prime beef and apple wood wrapped Cornish game hen.
Motor City has taken an all-local tack that contrasts with MGM's Vegas
stylings. This is intentional, says spokesperson Jennifer Kulczycki.
"Our celebrity chef is here everyday preparing the meals," she says.
"He's garnishing, saucing, prepping ingredients -- he's actively part
of the kitchen, he's on site."
Patricia Nash is the casino and hotel's executive pastry chef and Greg Carroll the executive chef. Both will be involved in Iridescence, but also with the complex's other restaurants as well as hotel room service.
Kulczycki says the restaurant itself, with its sandstone tables, exquisite china, extensive wine selection and of course, the view, must be seen to be believed. "The presentation alone of the dishes is like nothing you've ever seen before," she says. "And the actual restaurant itself and the view are out of this world."
Call 313-237-6732 for reservations or more information.
Source: Jennifer Kulczycki, Motor City Casino
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh
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