The Best Hotels Near Tomato Brothers, by the Record
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The steakhouse came first, with live lobsters and a piano player, and it's still downstairs in something close to its original form. The hotel wrapping around it is a different story entirely: a genuinely modern boutique property that would raise eyebrows in a hipper city and raises them even higher in Ann Arbor. Family-owned since forever, but clearly not coasting on it.
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A portrait of Magic Johnson made entirely from shoelaces greets you at the front desk, which tells you everything you need to know about this hotel. Graduate East Lansing sits just across from the Michigan State campus, and it leans hard into that fact, from emerald green everywhere to MSU initials in the carpets to basketball wallpaper in the bathrooms. Subtlety was never the brief, and the Spartans faithful wouldn't have it any other way.
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A lobby full of playful, colorful sculpture and paintings keeps the black marble and dark wood from taking themselves too seriously at this luxury boutique hotel in Birmingham, the upscale suburb just outside Detroit. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key. It's the kind of boldly designed, art-forward property that once belonged only to bigger cities, now quietly doing its thing in a leafy Michigan suburb.
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A luxury hotel in Birmingham, Michigan that feels like it has been around forever, even though it hasn't. The Townsend pulls off a particular trick: the kind of hushed, buttoned-up grandeur that usually takes generations to accumulate. It's the sort of place where the staff remembers your name and the decor has never once considered being trendy. A solid base for exploring Detroit's suburbs without roughing it.
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Original marble fireplaces, Ford family archives, and a signed note from Walt Disney in the lobby set the tone at this historic hotel on the edge of Dearborn. Rooms are stately and well-kept, and the bar named for Ford's road-trip companions, Edison and Firestone among them, is a genuinely good excuse to stay for one more drink. It's the kind of hotel that takes its own story seriously, which turns out to be more interesting than most.