Reviewer calls Detroit MGM casino experience 'grand' even without the gaming

A reporter from the Cleveland Plain Dealer recently spent a weekend in Detroit casino-hopping without any gambling. She focused on dining and nightlife, and found much to enjoy during her stay.

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The new MGM Grand Detroit is grand, indeed. Service was impeccable, with staff offering to give us tours of the hotel and the spa, put air in our car's low tire and check on dinner reservations. (And no, they didn't know I was reviewing the property for this newspaper.)

The [MotorCity] resort's top-rated restaurant, Iridescence, meanwhile, will get a new home atop the hotel's 16th floor, also next month. It will get a new menu, though the old one worked just fine for me: My 16-ounce New York strip steak was perfect and big enough to share.

After I checked out of MotorCity, I made a quick trip to Greektown to see how construction was progressing. This is my favorite of the city's three gambling halls, the only one in an actual neighborhood (Greektown, of course), with bare brick walls and small alcoves and hallways to explore.

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