My time in Detroit ended as it began: on a Monday night at Selden Standard, sitting at the bar with a Negroni in my hand.
If I could leave readers with one great restaurant recommendation, it would be to go to Selden on a Monday, sit at the bar, and order a Negroni, steak tartare, and a seasonal pasta dish. Then, let your paltry anxieties wash away.
I came to Detroit in April 2024. Over the past two years, I learned much about this city by observing its eating habits. To the rest of the world, Detroit is a Rust Belt town rebuilding; it’s a cute narrative. But Detroit is much more than the sum of its working-class history, more than its factories and manual laborers. Detroit is a city of dreamers…