Hamtramck ain't really the best neighborhood. Nonetheless, it's an opportunity for folks to learn…read moremore. They've got the Disneyland art installation that's def worth seeing. My GPS led me right in front of the house. Head out back. It stretches only across two backyards. You'll see lots of random things, like an old TV, the top half of a mannequin, paintings, an airplane, etc. Not sure what it all means. At the end of the day, we could invest more in neighborhoods like this.

Honestly thought this place was going to be interesting and fun but it was very small located in…read morethe heart of Hamtramck and very unique but could tell they had kind of let the place fall apart. But still a experience at least stop by and see for yourself. Does have a strong artistic vibe.

Maybe it's nostalgia, but I only still like the Red Pop best…read more Faygo had a stand in the middle of downtown in Plymouth. We tried the new sodas, green apple, forgot the red one and blue one. None of them were too good to me. The blue one tasted like bad cough medicine. I think using cane sugar in all of the Faygos might make them taste just as good. Looking back the coloring of these sodas are quite off-putting. Faygo still holds a special place in my heart, reminds me of my youth.

We were driving through Detroit and we stopped at the Faygo plant just to say we've been there…read morecause I'm a huge insane clown posse fan so I have always wanted to go to the Faygo store because I always wrap about Faygo and throw faygo at their concert so this is kind of a sentimental thing the beverage itself anytime I've gotten it is not very good to be honest but it's just kind of cool because being a fan for 25 years and actually get to see the heart of Detroit where they're from in the Faygo itself is very special for me

Right behind CCS in Peck Park, Walk in Movies provides excellent times with cult classics with your…read morefriends in downtown Detroit. this is a great "hidden" feature of the big city, and relies a lot of word-of-mouth. Definitely keep an eye on the always-current MySpace because the event is not planned very far in advance. Usually the movies start a few minutes after dusk, with the screen set up and a few blankets out at sunset. The first movie tends to be a "family friendly" feature followed by a more mature feature. The first one of this season featured cult classics "The Neverending Story" and "The Apple". Past movies include: -Shampoo -Carmen: The Hip-Hopera -Creepshow (with a different live band providing score for each chapter) -E.T. -How to Draw a Bunny -Fritz Lang's Siegfried (with Darling Imperial providing score) -Jayne Mansfield double-feature "The Girl Can't Help It" and "Dog Eat Dog"

Grab a blanket, load a picnic basket with beer and snacks and take a trip to Detroit's Peck Park to…read morecheck out Walk-In Movies. Located in the Wayne State University area, this is a must for anyone looking to experience something uniquely Detroit. I first heard about Walk-In Movies when my boyfriend's band wrote an original score and performed while Fritz Lang's Siegfred was projected onto a gigantic screen. Not always a band to play an original score, Walk-In Movies has offered some fantastic films like a Jayne Mansfield double feature. Movies start at dusk and the crowd is always friendly and willing to share their popcorn and other goodies. Check out the myspace page for more information.

Art Block is an art center in the city of Detroit sponsored by Henry Ford Hospital. Art work is…read morefound throughout inside and outside of the building. "ArtBlock, is a 3,300-square-foot community arts building brought back to life to boost the bustling arts community in the Northwest Goldberg neighborhood. Supported by a $200,000 youth and family grant from the Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation, ArtBlock is Henry Ford's most significant investment to date in public arts and arts education. Fourteen local artists working more than 150 hours over roughly 14 days created the splashy, spirited art work." The space is available to the community free of charge for non-profit organizations. My sorority has used this venue on a couple of occasions. It's bright and inviting with plenty of potential to different celebrations.

Located in the 'Bakery Loft' above Mexicantown Bakery is the guerrilla dining event: Detroit Soup…read more(a monthly dinner that funds micro-grants for creative projects in Detroit). Here's how it works: 1. A group of volunteers organize the event and prepare the soups, salads, and dessert/s using local and seasonal ingredients. 2. Prospective micro-grant funding recipients send in their project proposals; if selected they will present their project at the soup dinner and explain how the funding will go to support their noteworthy cause. 3. Attendees of Detroit Soup pay $5 (at the door) to attend. 4. The money collected goes towards one of the projects presented. 5. Attendees and volunteers, alike, vote on which project they want the micro-funding to go towards. Besides being a great collaborative effort for the community, Detroit Soup is an awesome event because it seems so underground. Love it!!! Walking up the dark mysterious staircase to the Bakery Loft (where the soup is held) you're immediately surprised by the warm cozy dimly lit space. Candles adorn each table, bright florescent decorations hang from the ceiling, chatter fills the air, and the smells of slow cooked soups soon take hold. As for the seating situation, it fills up quickly as there are only 5 tables with chairs and another 10 tables with floor seating. Feel free to bring a pillow along for the floor seating...believe me you'll need it! Onto the food: at the last soup we were served two mixed green salads with a balsamic based dressing and the other with a kiwi lime dressing. Both were very good! The two soups (1.lentil and 2.fava bean) on the other hand, were a bit underwhelming. Not to say they weren't good, but they were just okay...a three star rating in my book of soups. Overall, Detroit Soup's mission/purpose, location, food, people (volunteers, presenters, attendees) is fantastic!

Detroit SOUP is such a cool way to meet community and do crowdfunding in person. And is such an…read moreamazing Detroit Tradition. I'm looking forward to going to all the monthly events in 2022.

I recently had the chance to visit the Detroit Institute of Arts. The museum is a great balance…read morebetween being expansive and still manageable. You can easily spend a few hours here without feeling overwhelmed. What stood out most was the diversity of the collection. From classic European paintings to modern and contemporary works, there's something for every kind of art lover. The layout of the museum is intuitive, and I appreciated how easy it was to move between galleries without getting lost. Staff were friendly and helpful without being intrusive, and the overall atmosphere felt relaxed rather than stuffy. Overall, I'd highly recommend the Detroit Institute of Arts to anyone visiting Detroit or even locals who haven't been in a while. It's a thoughtfully curated, enriching experience that feels both accessible and inspiring.

As a lifelong dilettante of the arts, I have long held the DIA in the highest esteem. I revere the…read morecathedral hush of the galleries, the grandeur of lunching beneath the vaulted glass of the Kresge Court, the solemn historical weight of Rivera's murals, and the operatic extravagance of The Officer of the Hussars, whose horse appears perpetually moments from stealing the entire painting. I am, in short, a woman of superb taste. And then, of course, there are The Nut Gatherers. Now, it is a little-known fact that William-Adolphe Bouguereau's renowned oil painting, The Nut Gatherers, was originally conceived with adult women as its subjects. I happen to know this for a fact because, for a very brief and professionally ill-advised moment, I was one of those women. Allow me to share my personal contretemps. This was during the period in which I was actively exploring new employment opportunities following my regrettable trist with Greenfield Village, a chapter that may or may not have included an order of protection against a certain biotch ex-coworker from the tinsmith shop whose pathological lying was rivaled only by her raging case of oral herpes (see my previous review for further details). The job description for "nut gatherer" was as Delphic as they come, not to mention entirely en français. It promised "live modeling for a classical composition," "physical stamina," and "comfort with prolonged, natural poses." Experience preferred. Discretion required. Wardrobe, it noted coyly, would be "minimal and historically faithful." "Nut gatherer" was not a title I was accustomed to, but I assumed this was simply the romance of translation at work. Surely this was the literal phrasing from the French. Besides, the industry has always found new and creative ways to sanitize its nomenclature: exotic dancer, adult entertainer, webcam model, etc. My curriculum vitae was already extensively "fluffy," shall we say, so I entered the interview supremely confident in my qualifications. I reclined slightly on the wide leather casting couch, crossed one leg with intention, and cleared my throat in preparation for what I assumed would be a frank but professional discussion. Although I studied French for many years, I confess that my fluency had deteriorated into a cocktail of menu-deciphering, shampoo-label translation, and occasional Québécois profanity shouted at ice rinks. Still, I came prepared with questions. How many nuts require gathering? What is the varietal? Are they fleshy? What is the circumference of said nuts? Will I be gathering one at a time or two at a time? Will they be husked or au naturel? Should I be prepared for any crème de noisette clean-up? There was a pause. A long one. Then a polite but visibly alarmed gentleman slid a portfolio across the table. Inside were charcoal studies of hands, baskets, fabric folds, and several extremely wholesome agricultural diagrams. No bodies. No boudoir. No anything remotely resembling what I had been preparing to offer. It was at this moment, I regret to inform you, that I attempted to clarify my enthusiasm. The precise phrasing is not something I will be memorializing in print, but I will say this: it began as an inquiry about whether "full commitment to the role" was encouraged, an anxious sense that I was in danger of losing the part for not adequately demonstrating my range, and ended with a sentence that began with, "Here, it's easier if I just show you..." immediately followed by an all-out yet borderline desperate demonstration of "flexibility." The silence that followed was immediate, total, and devastating. I was escorted out with the efficiency typically reserved for museum patrons who touch the artwork. My termination was not so much delivered as performed, in the hushed, mortified tone one uses when explaining to someone that they have catastrophically misunderstood the assignment. In the end, the artist decided to use children instead of adults for the final painting. The finished work was revered by the masses. Let me tell you some other things that are revered by the masses: Marvel origin stories, compulsory monogamy, "Live, Laugh, Love" decor, and Bud Light. In my learned opinion, the end result was saccharine, jejune even, no more original than a palimpsest and twice as eager to be liked, the visual equivalent of a museum gift shop postcard that reassures rather than challenges. In other words: not fucking sexy. At all. And yet...le sigh. I will still return to the DIA. I will still linger beneath Rivera's murals. I will still lunch in the Kresge Court like a minor European despot fallen on Midwestern times. I will still bring out-of-towners and speak in reverent tones about brushwork and composition, because even when it rejects me, this institution remains magnificent.

So I have to say that driving to this place makes you feel like you're in the wrong area but it's…read moreexactly where it says it is. The inside of this place looks amazing and the outside patio is even nicer, this is a very romantic looking restaurant. We went here for my wife's birthday and thought I would treat her to a nice restaurant for dinner and that's exactly what it was. Now the way their ordering process goes is a little confusing, I don't know if it was our waitress or it's just how things go but we ordered our drinks and then after they came Out with our drinks then they asked if we wanted an appetizer then after that came out they asked if we wanted a meal, so like I said I don't know if that's how they do it or it was just our waitress. So we ordered our drinks and I had a Smoked Old Fashioned, anywhere I go if I see that cocktail on the menu I order it, when it came out they had the smoke infuser on it and when they took it off the smoke just bellowed out, it tasted amazing, I have to say that it was a really good old fashioned. For an appetizer I had the Caesar Salad which tasted fresh, crunchy and just refreshing, the cheese was delicious and the dressing was really good. Next I ordered the Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken added and it was very delicious, the noodles were soft, the chicken was delectable and the sauce was very flavorful. Everything from the ambience to the food here was flawless with the exception of some older gentleman that didn't stop talking the WHOLE time we were there, nothing we could do about that but everything was perfect and I would love to come back and try other meals. So a few things to point out is they offer valet parking for $12, they offer brunch & Breakfast every Saturday & Sunday and on the bill they add Gratuity (20%) on there already just so you know before heading there, most people freak out about not knowing this and I am here to tell you it is added, however, the food was worth every bit of it.

Food: 3.5/5 Service: 3.5/5…read moreAmbiance: 4/5 Drinks: 3/5 It was a decent experience that I would give another shot, but definitely not as advertised. We were there for a special occasion (I added that to the reservation note); not the biggest deal, but we weren't asked about that at all. The drinks were decent, but not the best, and the same was true for the food. Some dishes were pretty good, including my husband's chicken parmesan, but others could have been better. We also tried the crème brûlée cheesecake for dessert, which was pretty good, but the brûlée top was gummy rather than crackable. Additionally, the plates themselves were somewhat hard to eat from as aesthetics seemed to come before functionality. No spoons set with the flatware, either, which should be standard for an Italian restaurant. The atmosphere was good, and server was friendly, but service was a bit spotty for a relatively slow night. However, food and drinks arrived quickly. Our water glasses were not ever topped off, and when the busser did come by, the wrong plates were taken away; bread and oil were removed and our dirty/empty dishes left behind at the table. So, it was decent, but not quite the fine dining experience it purports to be. Hopefully it will get there, because it is a cool spot.

Buddy's pizza, a Detroit original: located on Conant and 6 mile in the D…read more Stopped in to celebrate Buddy's 80th birthday, since they were giving 8$ off. Who can pass that type of deal up? Not this guy. I ordered a meat deluxe pizza, 8 square, and it was as always, crispy, cheesy, meaty and delicious. This pizza is by far the best Detroit has to offer. I love coming to Buddy's when we I'm in town, and every time I come, it is consistently delicious. If you've never had a Buddy's pizza, do yourself a favor, go get one. Or two even, they heat up well in an air fryer. Another home run pizza for Buddy's. And happy anniversary. Here's to another 80.

I absolutely love Detroit Style Pizza, and I had dreamt about coming to Buddy's for decades! I was…read morefinally in Detroit, and made it here right after they opened for lunch on Tuesday. Buddy's is the OG Detroit pizza spot. The inventor! Was so stoked I was finally here! I went with a 4 corner, half cheese, half pepperoni, well done and a Vernor's to drink. My friendly waitress let me know it would be 15-20 minutes. My pizza arrived. How was it? Everything I had dreamt of and more! The pizza was so delicious! The cheese, the crust, the cheese skirt. Everything about it was great! Crunchy, cheesy, piping hot! Such a good pizza. I only ate 2 slices, since I was going to other spots during the day. (I did eat the leftover 2 slices after the Tigers game that night. Delicious cold, too!) Check that off the bucket list. Would definitely come back. So glad I finally had a chance to try out the original! Soooooo good!

I've been a supporter for a long time and really appreciate being included to return to see where…read morethe magic happens Rebel Nell is everything we hope the world can be- wonderful event as expected Fun to make our own graffiti!

Thank you Yelp & Rebel Nell! I would've never appreciated the mission & jewelry of Rebel Nell…read morewithout this event. I love that it's woman owned and the mission to support those in need of employment in a creative environment that gives skills and makes pretty jewelry is just awesome. I will say this event didn't have too much activity other than creating a mural (colored markers on a fun white board) but it was enjoyable getting to see the headquarters and learning about a local business. I definitely think more jewelry (more rings!) could've been on display to better tempt me to purchase something I loved. I did thoroughly enjoy looking at the jewelry collaborations with the Detroit Lions and Detroit Zoo though! It's beautifully made and I definitely want to support this business after this event. Thank you!