(Pictured above: The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation)
Eat
Across the street from Huntington Place is the wonderful Apparatus Room run by Michelin-starred chef Thomas Lents inside the Foundation Hotel. The Town House (500 Woodward Ave.) remodeled during lockdown and reopened in Sept. with an updated and elevated menu—including a caviar-topped crispy potato dish and A5 wagyu. Prime + Proper (pictured right) is an upscale steakhouse in the Capitol Park Lofts (1145 Griswold St,) with an aging room and butcher counter.
Sleep
Downtown’s renaissance saw several boutique hotels open including the 100-room Foundation Hotel (May 2017) in the historic Detroit Fire Department headquarters, the 106-room hip Siren Hotel (Spring 2018, pictured left) in the 1926 Wurlitzer Building; the 129-room posh Shinola Hotel (Jan. 2019) and the 110-room Element Detroit at the Metropolitan Building (Dec. 2018) which is the only extended stay property in downtown. Adjacent to the CC is Fort Pontchartrain Wyndham Hotel, a 367-room, 25-story high-rise hotel that opened in 1965 and completed a $5 million renovation in 2013. It has an indoor pool and 10,000 sq.ft. of meeting space.
Play
Cars, sports, Motown, casinos and beautiful Belle Isle park—there’s something for everyone. Starting with The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, Greenfield Village, Ford Rouge Factory Tour, Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Detroit Institute of Arts Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Motown Museum, Detroit Historical Museum, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Little Caesars Arena, Comerica Park, Ford Field and the Detroit International RiverWalk (pictured right) and more!
