The Best Places in Downtown & East Necklace
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- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar Program
- Eater Detroit’s Best Hidden Bars and Speakeasies
- Eater Downtown Detroit’s Best Places to Eat and Drink
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Rank 7. Chenin
Wine Bar
Chenin is a tiny wine bar tucked inside The Siren Hotel, pouring natural and biodynamic bottles to a room lit softly enough to forgive anyone's skin-contact experiments. Salty snacks and a mortadella sandwich piled onto focaccia keep the evening going longer than planned. Seats are scarce, so arrive when the doors open. It was a James Beard Award nominee for Best New Bar.
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- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2026 · Nominee · Best New Bar
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants In Detroit
- Eater Eater: Downtown Detroit’s Best Places to Eat and Drink
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best New Bar
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Detroit
- Eater Downtown Detroit’s Best Places to Eat and Drink
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Rank 10. 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.
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- World's 101 Best #65 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Eater Downtown Detroit’s Best Places to Eat and Drink
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- Midwest Living Midwest Living: 2023 · Best of the Midwest
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Rank 26. Leila
Middle Eastern Dessert
A Lebanese restaurant on Capitol Park named for the family matriarch, Leila leans into home-cooking warmth rather than white-tablecloth formality. The New York Times called out the Lebanese Sundae among the best dishes eaten across the country in 2024: rose ice cream with orange blossom water hidden under a cloud of fairy floss, the whole thing buried in pistachios, arriving at the table looking like it has somewhere to be.
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- Eater The Best Restaurant Desserts in Metro Detroit
- The New York Times 2024 · Lebanese Sundae · The 26 Best Dishes We Ate Across the U.S. in 2024
- Eater Downtown Detroit’s Best Places to Eat and Drink