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You'll think you're in Chicago," friends promise. "It doesn't feel like Detroit," they'll say.
I've heard that more than once about the beautiful Seldom Blues jazz and supper club, the 2006 Detroit Free Press Restaurant of the Year.
But this time, the other-city crowd is wrong.
Seldom Blues doesn't feel like somewhere else. It feels like Detroit.
Symbols of the city are everywhere there. Outside the windows are the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit River. Its address is the Renaissance Center, the city's most recognizable building complex; its central tower even displays the logo of General Motors, the world's biggest car company. Jazz plays on the restaurant's stage.
How much more Detroit could any restaurant get?
Increasingly, "somewhere else" is here.
When it comes to restaurants, maybe it's time to update your definition of what Detroit feels like.
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