Gourmet market, restaurant set to open in Riverfront Towers

A market and the restaurant are planned to open soon in Riverfront Towers, and both will be accessible from West Jefferson or the Joe Louis People Mover station.

The businesses are part of Riverfront’s $10 million renovation project, which also includes upgrades such as a health and fitness center and a dry cleaner.

In June, Riverfront will open the 5,000-square-foot Signature Market. The market will carry gourmet deli items, specialty foods, wine, liquor, flowers and fresh meats and produce.

Signature Grille and Bar will open on May 25 with an American menu served in a dining room with spectacular views of the Detroit River. Located in the Riverfront Towers complex between towers 200 and 300, Signature will offer entrees such as certified Angus beef tenderloin and Chilean sea bass, appetizers such as lump meat crab cakes with citrus remoulade, dinner salads, sandwiches, wraps, and soups; simpler fare will be available at the bar. Chef Warren Thomas, who has previously worked with Opus One, Tribute, Encore and Virtuoso, it at Signature’s culinary helm.

Brothers Sam and Bert Sugayan will co-own Signature. Their mother, Chuckie Sugayan, who has been in restaurant business for 18 years and is serving as consultant to the Signature, has been interested in opening a restaurant at the Riverfront since her family lived there in the early 1990’s. “There are so many amenities, it’s an ideal situation. The views, the water, the People Mover. Plus, when you see [the restaurant], it’s incredible.”

The restaurant will be open 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and 11 a.m.- midnight, Friday and Saturday. On special occasions or for private parties, Signature will open for Sunday brunch.

Ron Rea and Roman Bonislawski of Ron and Roman LLC, known for designing Coach Insignia, coordinated the decoration and construction of the restaurant and market.

Source: Chuckie Sugayan, Consultant, Signature Grille and Bar and Theresa George, Quill Communications