Not a Guide

The wine bar of The Shepherd, the Little Village church complex whose exhibition hall was converted by Brooklyn practice Peterson Rich Office. It occupies the former garage: natural wine in short, lamb-printed glasses, Negronis carbonated on tap, tinned fish and sandwiches. A glassed-in heated room serves in winter.

A cocktail bar in a converted West Village house. The kitchen is given to pop-ups, Sandos Detroit on alternate Wednesdays; in summer an ice cream window opens at the back.

Warda Bouguettaya's patisserie at The Shepherd's BridgeHouse, its space by local practice UNDECORATED. Algerian-French pastry, a baklava latte and a cardamom rose latte among the drinks; mornings have the full case.

The former Rose's Fine Food diner on East Jefferson, relaunched as a dinner restaurant by chef-owner Molly Mitchell. The relaunched menu is Polish-inspired and seasonal: a burger, a beet horseradish martini, a pickle martini.

Lisa Ludwinski's bakery on Kercheval, built on the Salted Maple Pie. The shop now runs an interlude schedule: counter service Friday and Saturday mornings until sellout, preorder boxes midweek, and its baking on the counter at Washed Up Coffee on weekdays.

New York-style pizza in Eastern Market, ordered at the counter from a chalkboard. The named pie is the Supino: roasted garlic, kalamata olives, ricotta, chili oil.

Wood-fired Spanish cooking in Brush Park, the kitchen open to the room and the bar set along it. Octopus a la plancha, salt cod croquetas, jamón served over a bag of Better Made chips, a peach conserva for the bread.

Andrew Carmellini's Southern Italian restaurant in the Shinola Hotel, the food and beverage rooms by Gachot Studios. Sheep's milk ricotta with hot honey and garlic, lamb meatballs, wood-fired pizzas; at brunch, Baba Rhum French toast.

Andy Hollyday's Midtown restaurant, built around a single wood fire; the chef's counter faces the flames. The cooking is seasonal: beef tartare, a Caesar, vegetables off the coals.

Roman pasta in Midtown, the flour milled in-house and the pasta rolled at a counter in the dining room. Carbonara, amatriciana, a crab-saffron pasta, squid-ink rigatoni. The room is loud; the tasting menu, Cucina Curata, is composed per table.

Modern Mexican in Midtown, built on masa: corn imported from Mexico and nixtamalized in the kitchen daily. Totopos and salsa, duck enchiladas, a whole snapper in verde and roja, tres leches.

The Freya team's farm-to-table room in the Park Shelton, beside the DIA. A twice-cooked egg salad; sourdough with lemon butter. Portions are composed, not large.

A tasting-menu room in Milwaukee Junction, by Doug Hewitt and Sandy Levine. Vinyl plays on the stereo. Midweek there is à la carte; otherwise five courses, chosen course by course, or a nine-course grand tasting.

Polish cooking in a Hamtramck basement, reached by a steep stair. Handmade pierogi, dill pickle soup, the Polish Plate, city chicken, strawberry pierogi when they are on.

Burundian cooking in New Center, by Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere. Mbuzi, slow-roasted goat; nyumbani, beef with plantains; mhogo on Wednesdays, ugali kuku on Tuesdays. Pili, the habanero sauce, is sold by the jar.

Argentinian live-fire cooking in Core City, by Javier Bardauil: a wood grill and an oven, no gas. The format is sharing: tartare, bone marrow, a steak finished under flaming tallow from the flambadou, Baked Alaska. The room is small.

Thai cooking in Corktown, begun as the Katoi food truck; the restaurant was torched by arson in 2017 and reopened within six months. Khanom krok, papaya salad, fried chicken, produce from the restaurant's own HiO Farm. Heat levels vary.

Sushi on Bagley, by two friends from Seoul; the Detroit room of two, after a first in Clinton Township. Orders are taken at the register. Hand rolls, torched nigiri, crispy rice; the Penguin Tray is built for groups.

Tacos and charcoal-grilled chicken, in the restaurant's third home after the 2022 fire destroyed the Vernor original. Al pastor with chipotle hot sauce; the grilled chicken, half or whole, with charro beans. Closed Wednesdays.

A German beer hall on John R, operating since 1933. The Kurz family ran it for 92 years; since 2025 it has been Paddy Lynch's, preservation-first: the schnitzel still fries in a 100-year-old cast-iron Dutch oven, murals and communal tables kept. Open Wednesdays to Saturdays: schnitzel, steins, piano sing-alongs.

James Rigato's restaurant in a former Hazel Park diner. The handwritten menu turns over every few weeks, tasting and à la carte, with a vegan tasting; the thirteen bar seats are held for walk-ins.

Sourdough thin-crust pizza in Hazel Park, begun as a Royal Oak pop-up named for the street it started on. Whole 18-inch pies only, cheese or pepperoni, no slices and no telephone orders; the crust is finished with a pecorino half-moon.

Ethiopian cooking in Ferndale, dinner only. Platters arrive on injera with refills, meat or vegetarian, eaten communally. Atakilt wat; honey wine and spiced tea to drink.

Anthony Lombardo's Sicilian restaurant on Selden. Its executive chef, sommelier and beverage director all came from SheWolf, Lombardo's other room. The interior is by Patrick Thompson Design.

An Alpine restaurant and wine bar on Bagley, in the room Lady of the House left behind. David Richter, ex-New York, cooks Central European mountain food.

Kreuzberg on Michigan Avenue: döner, tinned fish and cocktails. David Landrum of Two James Spirits, with chef Brendan McCall.

Javier Bardauil's South American street-food room in a converted Core City car wash. A custom sound system and DJs; four nights a week.

A butcher's brasserie built over a working meat plant in Eastern Market. Ping Ho's, of The Royce and Mink; the original West Village Marrow closed in 2026 and the operation consolidated here.

Modernised Romanian cooking on John R, doors from Mabel Gray. Chef-owners Gabriel and Gabriela Botezan came from Adelina and Bacco; the tonic is made in house.

The Book Tower's omakase: twelve courses from the team behind Philadelphia's Hiroki, the fish cut and seasoned at the counter as the meal proceeds.

Mike Ransom's izakaya and noodle bar on Michigan Avenue: ramen, udon, rice bowls and dumplings built around a robata grill. A heated atrium extends the room in winter.

George Azar's Vietnamese restaurant inside the Vernor Coney Island space: caramel chicken wings, shaky beef and whole fried fish, with a full cocktail programme. Four nights a week, Thursday to Sunday.

A scratch deli that is also a natural-wine shop: house-cured meats, the Barrett corned beef sandwich, and a deep low-intervention list by the bottle and glass. A garden patio behind, with a tiki bar in summer.

A meat-led room and cocktail bar in Brush Park, open since 2016: dry-aged strip, fried bologna and a burger. Olive oil cheesecake to finish.

A Belgian social hall since 1933, and a Prohibition speakeasy before that: the only feather bowling lanes in North America, steamed mussels, a deep Belgian beer list and a 5,000 square foot biergarten.

Nya Marshall's Spanish-inspired restaurant and wine bar in the former Norma G's space on East Jefferson: 76 seats in a teal velvet room, chef Kirby Rocha in the kitchen.

Italian seafood and house pasta on East Grand Boulevard, from Jared Gadbaw, formerly of Marea in New York. Two blocks from Freya.

Paul Grosz's contemporary French restaurant in a restored historic house on Lothrop, behind the Fisher Theatre. A New Center dining room, running for decades.

Hamtramck's Yemeni anchor on Joseph Campau: fahsah, fassolia, foul and fattah with honey for breakfast, gallaba and deboned chicken after. Open 8am to 1am.

An old-world Italian room on Woodward at the Palmer Park edge, open since 1995: full bar, live piano, and a garden patio.

Detroit-style pizza in a Buddy's-lineage room on Dequindre: Chianti bottles on the walls, antipasto salad before the square pie. Unchanged for decades.

A ten-seat wine bar in the Siren Hotel, the former Wurlitzer Building. No reservations. Nick Arone cooks as well as pours: mortadella sandwiches, gildas, pistachio ice cream; the porrón is passed.

Cocktails in the lower level of a Midtown Victorian, the former Castalia space, reopened by two veterans of Kiesling. The Stadt Garten beer and wine garden occupies the grounds above.

A cocktail lounge in an 1890s Milwaukee Junction building, opened with help from Rob Wilson. The drinks menu is organized by ABV, from session strength up.

A Cass Corridor bar and grill on Selden, open 7am to 2am, the bar operating from breakfast. Chicken and waffles; a jukebox.

A two-room dive on Second Avenue. There are no servers; orders are taken at the bar, beneath a Jean Harlow painting. A burger and dill ranch; a pool table and jukeboxes in the back room.

A slim cocktail lounge behind curtains on Woodward in New Center, from the Sugar House team. Pink banquettes, a 1950s jukebox, drinks only: Peace Frog, Cut the Chase, The Sargent.

A bottle shop and bar on Michigan Avenue in Corktown. Bottles come off the retail shelves to be opened on the back patio. The patio hosts standing DJ residencies, Monday Is The New Monday among them; Wednesdays are live jazz. The house bottling is called Detroit Love.

A hi-fi listening bar on Bagley, one door from The Goblin. By day a café; at night vinyl is played in full, the evening's LPs listed by the bar.

A wine bar and kitchen in a converted Core City firehouse. John Yelinek's menu is short (the Gem salad, the sourdough, a roast dinner on Sundays) and the wine is natural.

A bookshop and wine bar in a former Core City bank: some 900 cookbooks, the vault included. Biodynamic wines and tinned fish at the bar; Barda is a few doors down Grand River.

A dive bar and live-music room in Hamtramck. Local garage and rock bills in a small, loud room; Monday is karaoke.

A 37-seat lounge in the Book Tower basement: Japanese-inflected cocktails and whisky, served omakase-style, the bartender setting the progression.

A coffee shop by day and a techno bar by night on Grand River: vinyl DJs and a basement dancefloor, open daily until 2am.

The beer and wine garden on the grounds of the Midtown mansion that houses Wet Picnic: some fifty German, Austrian and Central European wines, a dozen German beers, a service window and a fire pit. Outdoors only, and seasonal.

A sake pub in the Book Tower: a small room with a standing bar and walls of vintage Japanese advertising, by Method Studios with Stokes Architecture. Sake, Japanese whisky and cocktails against katsu sando, tamago sando and hand rolls. Evenings only.

The Detroit Optimist Society's original, opened by Dave Kwiatkowski in 2011: the bar that started the city's craft-cocktail era. A dark pre-Prohibition room, 101 classics built by hand, and a seasonal menu beside them.

Ping Ho and Angela Rutherford's wine bar and bottle shop at Grand Circus Park: 500 wines weighted to small producers and low intervention, sold at retail to drink in, with small plates.

The tasting room of Detroit's first licensed distillery since Prohibition: a circular bar inside the distillery itself, pouring only what is made on site. Catcher's Rye, Grass Widow bourbon, Old Cockney gin, Nain Rouge absinthe.

Detroit house and techno's living room since the 2000s: a low-slung lounge with a serious sound system and a large patio, the night moving from sunset on the patio to the dancefloor inside.

Detroit's jazz club since 1934: a 99-seat Streamline Moderne room with a piano-shaped bar in black-and-white porcelain. Ella, Miles, Coltrane and Tatum played here. Renovated in 2026, the piano bar preserved.

A cocktail bar inside a restored 100-year-old bank vault under Coffee Down Under in the Financial District: terrazzo floors and the vault door intact after a two-year restoration. Reached by a blue door and a word with the barista. Inventive drinks and share plates.

Ferndale's cocktail institution on Nine Mile: a rare-whiskey and private-barrel programme behind a serious, low-lit room.

Ken Schramm's meadery tasting room on Livernois: melomels from the author of The Compleat Meadmaker. Hours are short, Friday and Saturday only.

A vinyl listening lounge on Forest, running since 2016: 2,500 records, the full J Dilla catalog among them, played through analog amplification to about 50 seats and a patio.

A Vietnam veterans' dive on Cass, open since 1980. The argument is the backyard: grass, a koi pond, a bonfire and a porch stage.

A café inside a former spice-processing warehouse in Eastern Market, run since 2011 as a nonprofit arts room, with a gallery, a performance space and a record label around it; People's Records is in the same building. Vegetarian menu Wednesday to Sunday, 10 to 3: cortado with cardamom syrup, a biscuit breakfast sandwich. No laptops on weekends.

A roastery-café in Eastern Market built around a Modbar, with no counter between barista and drinker. Roasts run light; everything baked in-house is gluten free, and the pastry case follows the market's fruit.

Window-service coffee on Gratiot, from Katherine and Juan Perez of Cafe Franco. Latin-leaning drinks: the DEM latte with demerara syrup, horchata latte, café de olla.

A French café in the basement of a 19th-century mansion on Forest Avenue. Laptops are permitted until 5pm, when the room converts to a cocktail bar. The drinks include a crème brûlée latte with a torched sugar crust; jazz on Sundays.

A standing Italian coffee bar in Milwaukee Junction: no indoor seating, a counter, a few stools outside. Cardamom vanilla latte, flat white, matcha.

Detroit's first Filipino bakery, in New Center. Ube runs through it: brownie, basque cheesecake, latte; pandesal and one savory Filipino special daily. Hours are short: Wednesday to Friday from 7.45, Saturday 9 to 3.

Coffee and a bookstore in Hamtramck, fully halal throughout. Sandwiches are named for Hamtramck streets, the Holbrook spicy with jalapeño and chipotle; the signature drink is a draft latte, brown sugar, oat milk, five spice.

Sourdough bagels by Max Sussman in Core City, beside Barda. The Reuben is built on Wagyu pastrami; there is a furikake bagel with chili crisp schmear, and day-old bags by the register.

A Ferndale bakery open two mornings a week, Wednesday and Saturday, 9 to 2. Sourdough, an olive fougasse, a savory danish; the menu is posted to social media and quantities are finite.

A bakery in Oak Park run by bakers Jo Burke, Kyle Suczynski and Humna Tak, open Thursday to Saturday mornings. Croissants, a galette that changes weekly, a tahini chocolate chip cookie. Lines form; much sells out by midday.

Astro Coffee's successor in its old Corktown room, opened by Astro alumnus David Valdez. The room carried over; the egg soufflé sandwich is an homage to Astro's, and the coffee poured is Anthology's.

The Detroit outpost of Marius Pop's Portland bakery, in the former Cafe Prince space: matcha, coffee and a short pastry case of cardamom knots, canelés and lemon poppyseed scones. The full bakery follows downstairs.

A family panadería on Bagley, one block from Taqueria El Rey: self-serve pan dulce on trays, tongs in hand, plus tamales and churros. The format is the experience.

Family-owned since 1908 and Hamtramck's pączki headquarters: pączki year-round, chruściki, rye bread. Pączki Day here is a civic event.

Martell Mason's roastery cafe on East Grand Boulevard: direct-trade beans roasted in house, the roasts named for historic Black Detroit neighborhoods.

The Livernois corridor's bakery: scratch, organic and vegan baking, lemon velvet cake and a peach cobbler cookie.

A Woodward donut shop open since 1947, reopened in 2024 by Paddy Lynch to the Timmer family recipes. A second counter on East Grand Boulevard opened in 2026, supplied from here.

A Belgian chocolatier on Troy Street: some 40 praline flavours made in store, and a beer and wine licence beside the case.

Destination food retail on Joseph Campau since 1981: house kielbasa and smoked meats, and more than 30 kinds of pierogi.

A specialist cheese, bean-to-bar chocolate and charcuterie shop on Twelve Mile, with its wine-and-cheese restaurant, The Rind, adjoining.

Rachel Comey, Jesse Kamm, Lauren Manoogian and St. Agni, in a West Village storefront: labels the Midwest rarely stocks, chosen for fabric and construction.

Angela Wisniewski-Cobbina's shop in the Lantern Building, where she pulls pieces for clients herself. Eckhaus Latta, MM6, Collina Strada, alongside books, beauty and gifts.

The flagship's past seasons, in a Core City space: Rachel Comey, Lauren Manoogian, 7115 by Szeki. Walk-ins Saturdays, 11 to 6; other days by appointment. Discounted pieces are final sale.

A home store upstairs at Cadillac Arts Centre, run by Erik Johnson and Grace Morency, a weaver. The stock leads with rugs (vintage Turkish, Moroccan, Afghan, 1920s Chinese Nichols), then restored furniture, pottery, glassware. Thursday to Sunday, 12 to 6.

The gallery of Jim Schatz and Peter Souza Jr. for their collaborative work in clay and wood, presented as a domestic interior at Cadillac Arts Centre: functional ceramics, one-off objects, lighting. Exhibitions rotate through the year. Saturday and Sunday, 12 to 6.

Detroit's deepest stock of soul, jazz and R&B 45s, in Eastern Market, with gospel alongside. New stock arrives from local artists rather than distributors; the rest is secondhand.

A record shop with a wine bar, in its own storefront on Broadway. More than 1,200 records, roughly half of them Detroit techno and house, the rest soul, jazz and international pressings. Open Wednesday to Sunday.

Jack White's label shop and pressing plant on Canfield. Stock is Third Man's own catalogue only; the presses run behind glass, plant tours are on Fridays, and a recording booth is open to visitors.

Techno and house vinyl in Hamtramck since 1998. Two turntables for listening before buying, sealed classics from Detroit labels, used racks beyond; vintage clothing at the back.

A working letterpress shop in the Lantern Building on Kercheval, Thursday to Sunday, 12 to 6. Posters are printed on Vandercook presses in the open workshop; workshops teach the process.

Used books and records at Cadillac Arts Centre, the entrance on St. Paul. The listings are written like a dealer's notebook, condition notes and all.

A million used books across four floors of a former glove factory. There is no computer index; visitors navigate by a hand-drawn map issued at the door. The rare-book room, the only catalogued stock, sits in the adjacent building, by appointment.

A Midtown bookshop dealing exclusively in nonfiction: history, culture, health, books by and about women. Owner Janet Jones handsells local authors; Saturday mornings bring free Tai Chi and Qigong classes at 10.

A Southwest Detroit bookshop with Ginkgo Records inside, Shelley Salant's counter for Michigan underground tapes and LPs (Tyvek, XV). A games shop fills the basement; the room hosts readings and shows.

A cooperatively owned bookstore inside Bank Suey, a 1920s bank turned community space on Joseph Campau: new and used books, graphic novels, zines, book clubs and poetry nights. The hours are short, evenings and weekend afternoons.

A curated record shop on Woodward: used vinyl, ultrasonically cleaned, plus new releases, music books and vintage hi-fi.

A former Romanesque church in Little Village: an exhibition hall converted by Peterson Rich Office, a sculpture garden of Charles McGee's work, a pocket skate park that Tony Hawk helped imagine, and the Black Art Library in a former confessional.

A working pottery founded in 1903, now a National Historic Landmark. Tiles and vessels are made on site; the museum is upstairs and the glaze library, a wall of colors, downstairs. The seconds sale runs members Saturday, public Sunday.

A contemporary gallery downtown, entered through The Belt by way of Snarkitecture's portal. Full-scale exhibitions of Detroit and national artists, turning over through the year.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, reopened in 2026 after its first full renovation: a new roof, a window cut onto Woodward, air conditioning for the first time. The Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead, out back, runs an artist residency.

A kunsthalle-format gallery in a 1917 fire-department repair building in Eastern Market. Shows run about three months and are built to museum scale; the program adds music and conversation around them. Open Wednesday to Saturday, 12 to 5.

Designer vintage and consignment on Bagley in Corktown, the racks arranged by color. Vintage Bottega and its peers, for sale or two-day rental.

Simone DeSousa's gallery, renamed and moved to a Fisher Freeway space in Eastern Market in 2026: contemporary art with a design and editions programme, after 120 exhibitions under the old name. Open Saturdays and by appointment.

A contemporary gallery and project space in The Belt, the alley Library Street Collective made: emerging and mid-career artists, with limited-edition prints and artist editions sold as retail.

George N'Namdi's gallery, founded in 1981 and now a complex of exhibition spaces on Forest.

A contemporary gallery with a national roster, long in Detroit and Birmingham, now on Livernois in Ferndale, on the same strip as Secret Bakery.

Yvonne Montero's vintage boutique behind El Central Bakery on Vernor, run like a gallery: every piece hand-selected and priced by condition, material and rarity. Genuine designer vintage beside local designers' work, and an upcycling label, Heaven in Motion, of her own.

Nikki Neuzil's vintage store inside a renovated 100-year-old Art Deco department store on Vernor: clothing from the 1920s to the 1990s, organised by decade. Film productions shop it for period pieces. A mile and a half from LiTO, the two make a run.

The workwear specialist of Trumbull's vintage row: old shirts, denim and workwear, tightly curated, with vintage Ralph Lauren and sterling silver in the cases. Short hours, Friday to Sunday.

An artist-run contemporary gallery in a Vernor storefront, run by Daniel Sperry and Alivia Zivich since 2013, showing Pope.L alongside artists from Berlin, Chicago and Los Angeles, and exhibited at Paris Internationale.

Olayami Dabls' bead museum and sculpture garden on Grand River, nearly a city block: 18 outdoor installations and thousands of African beads for sale, the founder on site. Matéria Gallery is showing his work this autumn.

A nonprofit gallery and studios in Hamtramck's former police station, where a jail cell is one of the exhibition spaces. Twenty years running.

Mies van der Rohe, 1958–63. The largest collection of his buildings in the world, set in a landscaped park and still residential.

Gunnar Birkerts, 1964. A concrete tower beside the Mies buildings, giant numerals on the roof. Private residences; seen from the street.

Isamu Noguchi, 1978. A steel ring over black granite. Restored, running again since 2024.

Minoru Yamasaki, 1962. His first skyscraper, the rehearsal for the World Trade Center.

Albert Kahn Associates, 1959. A white marble checkerboard on Woodward. Best read from Campus Martius.

Harley, Ellington & Day, 1951–55. Two marble slabs, and the Spirit of Detroit out front.

Yamasaki, 1958. Travertine on a podium, a reflecting pool you can walk around.

Yamasaki, 1964. An auditorium set in a sunken court, paired with McGregor on the Wayne State campus.

Marcel Breuer, 1953. Gropius’s protégé and former partner. A working library, with a Calder mobile in the reading room.

SOM, Gordon Bunshaft, 1956. A glass slab in a park, Lever House's Michigan descendant. Ford vacated it in November 2025; demolition is expected in 2027.

Eero Saarinen, 1956. The dome and the water tower from Van Dyke Ave. The campus is closed.

Yamasaki, 1959. A glass box wrapped in a gold aluminum grille. Vacant; street view only.

Gunnar Birkerts, late 1970s. A steel tower in a metallic skin, its windows sloping inward.

Eliel Saarinen, 1925–42. A whole campus by one hand. The Saarinen House is the prize; tours May to Oct.

Gunnar Birkerts, 1981. A law library buried underground, lit by a glass trench 56 ft deep.

Eero Saarinen, 1964. A brick music school above a pond, the sober end of Saarinen.

Designed as a pair with the DeRoy Auditorium and listed with it on the National Register in 2011: Yamasaki's upper floors hover on pillars over an open ground floor at Wayne State.

Yamasaki, Leinweber and Associates, 1958: a glass-walled pavilion behind a perforated red-brick screen wall, the wall enclosing a garden courtyard. Now the College for Creative Studies' Yamasaki Building, two blocks from the DIA.

Yamasaki, Leinweber and Associates, 1958: a showcase for the material itself on West Seven Mile, with a zigzag folded-plate roof and perforated side walls, lit from within at night. Yamasaki called the commission a turning point. Private offices; seen from the street.

Yamasaki, 1973: a sanctuary modelled on the biblical Tent of Meeting, a tapering concrete frame clad in aluminium panels with windows at the vault's base, so the ceiling floats. It seats 1,800; an International Style school wing adjoins.

Percival Goodman with Albert Kahn Associates, 1962: a diamond-plan sanctuary rising to a point over Northwestern Highway, its steep roof floated on a band of stained glass. The sanctuary expands from 1,200 to 3,500 seats; the ark is 40 feet of marble.

The one-storey wood and buff-brick office Eero Saarinen built for his own practice in 1953, rehabilitated in 2005 after near-demolition. Roche, Pelli, Venturi and Birkerts all worked for the practice. Private offices; seen from Long Lake Road.

Birkerts, 1963-64: a Brutalist church on East Huron, counted by the Bentley Historical Library among his ten Michigan landmarks.

Records in Oak Park since 1993: deep soul and jazz stock, LPs and 45s.

Art and photography books, floor to ceiling, since 1982. Next door to Street Corner Music.

25,000 square feet of mid-century furniture. A museum you can buy from.

The Ann Arbor benchmark. Auralee, Our Legacy, Kapital, Needles.

Three floors of new books. A public typewriter in the basement.

70,000 used and rare books, five minutes from Literati.

Fifty years of used records, now in Kerrytown.

The region’s listening rooms. Wilson, McIntosh, dCS.

Dow's combined house and studio, built in sections from 1934 to 1941 and set into a pond: 20,000 square feet of his own Unit Blocks. A National Historic Landmark, toured by reservation. Midland holds more than 400 mid-century buildings, many of them his.

Noble Fish, a sushi counter in Clawson trading since the 1980s, is the reason to come; under the same ownership it has grown a small complex around itself: a market, a patisserie (White Wolf) and a ramen bar announced. Order at the counter.

Metro Detroit's Filipino reference point: JP Garcia and Jacqueline Diño-Garcia's Iloilo cooking in Sterling Heights. Adobo, pancit palabok, lechon kawali, ube desserts.

An independent camera store and film lab in Birmingham, open since 1969: developing and scanning, used gear, classes. The last full-service film lab in the metro with a retail floor.

The DIA's repertory cinema, running since 1974 in its own theatre inside the museum: classics, restorations and director series, programmed months ahead.

A 1928 movie palace run by volunteers of the Motor City Theatre Organ Society: 35mm screenings of classic Hollywood and silents, the original Barton organ played before them.

Detroit's last historic bathhouse, from 1930: steam rooms, a cold plunge and a dining room, with men-only, women-only and co-ed hours across the week. Paddy Lynch's, of the Dakota Inn.

Underground Resistance's headquarters on East Grand Boulevard: Somewhere in Detroit, an electronic-only record shop, and Exhibit 3000, a techno museum, in the same building. Tours and the museum run by appointment.