Top Pick, Best Classic Restaurant

Detroit is the tenth U.S. city to be covered by the brand-new Michelin Green Guide and the publication has named The Whitney, Detroit as a “top pick” of places worth visiting in the city. Other top picks included the Detroit Riverwalk, the Fox and Fisher theaters, Eastern Market and the city’s growing collection of artistic wall murals. The Michelin Green Guide referred to Detroit as “a hidden gem booming with culture, art and atmosphere.” Meanwhile, in its recently released 2024 survey of “the best classic restaurants in every state,” Food & Wine Magazine named The Whitney as one of Michigan’s “most extravagant special occasion spots…with fantastic Beef Wellington” and “one of Detroit’s deepest wine lists.” Now celebrating its 39th year as an elegant and welcoming fine dining restaurant in an historic Woodward Avenue mansion, The Whitney offers dinner service each evening, afternoon tea service Friday and Saturday, an elegant buffet brunch Sunday, all accompanied by live piano music. The Whitney also offers champagne tours of the mansion, monthly paranormal dinners, unique craft cocktails and assorted beverages in the Ghostbar and summertime garden parties with live music. “We treasure this beautiful place and are proud to keep it open to the public. We love to see out-of-towners but our primary goal has always been to keep the mansion open for metro Detroiters, kind of as a way to add to their civic pride,” said Bud Liebler, owner of the restaurant. “A hundred years ago Woodward Avenue was lined with homes like The Whitney but we’re one of the very few left, and the only one really open to the public. We’re proud to be part of Detroit’s heritage and we’re especially proud to be recognized by these major publications.” 4421 Woodward Avenue, Detroit thewhitney.com