The Top 89 Places to Eat Near Oak & Reel
-
Rank 1. Freya
New American
- The New York Times The Restaurant List
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Sandy Levine
-
-
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere
- Eater The Best New Restaurants in America
- Esquire #14 · The Best New Restaurants in America
-
-
Rank 5. Selden Standard
Rustic New American
- USA Today Restaurants of the Year
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Andy Hollyday
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
-
Rank 6. Warda Pâtisserie
Modern Bakery
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Winner · Outstanding Pastry Chef · Warda Bouguettaya
- Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
-
Rank 7. Vecino
Modern Mexican
- Eater Best New Restaurant
- Esquire The Best New Restaurants in America
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
-
-
-
- 50 Best One to Watch Award
- The New York Times The Restaurant List
- Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants
-
Rank 11. BARDA
Live-Fire Steakhouse
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Javier Bardauil
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Javier Bardauil
-
-
-
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Sarah Welch
- Eater The Best New Restaurants in America
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
-
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
-
Rank 16. Saffron De Twah
Moroccan Middle Eastern
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Omar Anani
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Omar Anani
-
Rank 17. Ima Izakaya
Japanese
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Michael Ransom
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Michael Ransom
-
-
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. Central
-
Detroit-style pizza done with a designer's eye: the room was put together by serious industry names, and the color palette announces that before you've ordered. This is a pizza shop with round pies, pan pies, and slices piled high with the kind of stretchy, abundant cheese that makes a mess of your shirt. The menu runs to salads and cocktails and ice cream too, and the whole mood lands somewhere between a proper night out and a very good Tuesday.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Rank 34. Prime + Proper
Modern American Steakhouse
Glass, marble, and open-flame grills fill a room that makes clear this is a steakhouse with architectural ambitions. Downtown Detroit's Prime + Proper dry-ages its USDA Prime and Japanese Miyazaki cuts in-house before the fire gets anywhere near them, which is either discipline or showmanship, and possibly both. The wine list swings between Napa and the Old World. It ranked 65th on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, for what that's worth on a Tuesday night in Michigan.
-
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bakery
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
-
-
-
-
-
Rank 40. Mabel Gray
New American
- USA Today Restaurants of the Year
- Eater The Best New Restaurants in America
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Rank 52. AlTayeb
Middle Eastern
- The New York Times The Restaurant List
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Ahmad Sanji
-
Rank 53. Shatila Bakery
Bakery
-
Rank 54. Secret Bakery
Bakery
-
-
-
-
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Detroit
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Amado Lopez
-
Detroit-style pizza comes out of the oven as a thick, airy square with a crispy, caramelized undercarriage, and Palazzo di Pizza has quietly become one of the better places in the country to eat one. It ranked tenth on 50 Top Pizza's national slice list, which for a suburban Royal Oak shop is a notable thing. The pepperoni option, layered under the cheese and sauce in true Detroit fashion, is the move.
-
-
-
-
Rank 63. Noori Chicken
Korean
-
-
-
-
Rank 67. Shatila Bakery
Bakery
-
Rank 68. Shatila Bakery
Bakery
-
-
-
-
-
-
- USA Today Restaurants of the Year
- Wine Enthusiast Forward 50 Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
-
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Ji Hye Kim
- Eater Ann Arbor’s Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Ji Hye Kim
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-