Menus for Detroit Restaurant Week Now Available Online

Detroit Restaurant Week is April 1-10 at 18 Fine Dining Restaurants, Make Reservations Today!

DETROIT, March 23, 2011—Menus for the 18 fine dining establishments participating in the fourth edition of Detroit Restaurant Week are now available at www.DetroitRestaurantWeek.com.

“The special menus developed by the restaurants for this event is the driving force behind where people decide to make their reservations,” said Director of Detroit Restaurant Week, Jason Huvaere.

As it has been for the previous editions, each restaurant prepares a terrific menu that provides diners the opportunity to selecting an appetizer, entrée, and dessert for only $28 person (excluding tax, gratuity, and beverages) April 1-10.

Detroit Restaurant Week newcomer Angelina Italian Bistro is coming out of the gate strong.  They are offering diners the opportunity to select from eight possible options for an appetizer, which includes their popular Bruschetta Trio with toasted chick pea, portobello and goat cheese and tomato basil, and their special recipe Angelina Minestrone served with garlic croutons.

For the entrée course there will be six options to choose from including Herb-encrusted Veal Milanese served with gorgonzola, chianti reduction, warm potato salad, arugula and cherry tomatoes.  Their vegetarian options will be Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli or Wild Mushroom Risotto.

And to top it all off, diners will be able to select one of three dessert options—Cannolis, Mascarpone Cheesecake, or Orange Flan.

“This event is about the food, service, and ambiance of the restaurant,” said Huvaere.  “We believe that no matter which establishment people decided to visit, they will not be disappointed.  Each one of them is a great place in their own unique way, which is why Detroit Restaurant Week continues to gain popularity.”

Visit the “Restaurants” page at www.DetroitRestaurantWeek.com and click on the restaurant of choice to see the menu options they have available for the special Detroit Restaurant Week price.  The participating restaurants are as follows:

24Grille – Westin Book Cadillac Detroit        Andiamo Detroit Riverfront – GM Ren Cen
Angelina Italian Bistro – Downtown           Atlas Global Bistro – Midtown
Caucus Club – Penobscot Building                Coach Insignia – GM Ren Cen
Cuisine – New Center                                                Da Edoardo Foxtown Grille – Foxtown
Detroit Seafood Market – Paradise Valley    Iridescence – MotorCity Casino-Hotel
Mosaic Restaurant – Greektown                   Opus One – Downtown
Rattlesnake Club – Stroh River Place                      Roast – Westin Book Cadillac Detroit
Roma Cafe – Eastern Market                                     Saltwater – MGM Grand Detroit
The Whitney – Midtown Wolfgang Puck Grille – MGM Grand Detroit

Make a Reservation for Detroit Restaurant Week Today!
Organizers for Detroit Restaurant Week note that reservations are not required; however they are strongly encouraged so that the restaurants can provide an outstanding experience for each guest. Reservations can be made by contacting the restaurants directly or visiting www.DetroitRestaurantWeek.com.

Sponsors
Detroit Restaurant Week is sponsored by Quicken Loans, DigDowntown.com, and DriveEnvy.com.

History of Detroit Restaurant Week
The Detroit Restaurant Week concept was created by the Downtown Detroit Partnership and its greater downtown partner organizations in the Downtown, Midtown, Corktown, Eastern Market, and New Center districts.  The 2011 spring edition of Detroit Restaurant Week will represent the fourth time the promotion has been offered since the fall of 2009.  The three previous promotions saw participation from more than 85,000 diners while generating nearly $1.5 million in sales for the participating restaurants.

About Paxahau Event Productions
Paxahau Event Productions with its network of alliances and resources that span the globe, is one of
metropolitan Detroit’s premier event production and promotion organizations.  Since 2006 they have produced the annual electronic music festival in Detroit and in 2009 they launched Detroit Restaurant Week.  Paxahau has also provided its services for  North American International Auto Show, Red Bull Air Races, the Westin Book Cadillac, the Downtown Detroit Partnership, Arts Beats & Eats, BravoBravo!, and the Motown Winter Blast. Visit www.paxahau.com for more information.

What 713,777 Means

by Declare Detroit on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 4:08pm

We are here. In Detroit. We live and work in Detroit. We enjoy Detroit. We see social value in cultivating our community, developing our skills, our relationships, our discourse. We see economic value in living in Detroit, in working in Detroit and in growing our businesses in Detroit. We see intrinsic value in confronting some of the nation’s most challenging social and economic issues in a passionate, tireless, asset-rich region.

A few thoughts on what the census data doesn’t mean: It doesn’t mean that 713,777 people are option-less. It also doesn’t mean that 713,777 people are urban “pioneers” willing to trade the amenities of a growing city for the “wild west” or “blank canvas” of Detroit.

While we’re in favor of making sure we’ve got the right data, the fact that the general response to this news has been a defeatist demand for a recount misses the point. No one believes that Detroit has actually grown over the past decade; so, regardless of the percentage, population decline has something to teach us. Specifically: that the policies, strategies, and culture that can grow a successful Detroit have been ignored by the city, and the state.

To the media: We are not pioneers. We are not stuck. We are residents, families, workers, community activists and business owners who have made the choice to live and work in Detroit. We are engaged in the education of our children, know our neighborhood police officer, pay our taxes, vote, walk to the grocery store or farmers’ market, run the greenways and bike the streets. We enjoy riding the bus, engaging with different people, knowing our neighbors, keeping an eye out for each other, having picnics on Belle Isle and frequenting our many, world-class cultural institutions.

To our leadership, in every sector: While we are invested in Detroit, we remain committed to a better Detroit. Too many Detroiters have been voting with their feet, leaving the city in light of petty arguing, corrupt and unresponsive leadership, low expectations, broken promises and lackluster results. Our parks are not mowed enough; our good schools closed or threatened to be closed with no good reason (and, yes, a few good schools still exist); portions of our city government remain indifferent and unwilling to change and accept the rather controversial notion of “shared sacrifice”; our services stretched too thin and our tax burden too high in relation to quality of services received.

We are committed to a better Detroit, whether that Detroit is 1,000,000 strong, 750,000 strong, 713,000 strong or 600,000 strong. We believe that the Detroit Declaration and its principles set forth the roadmap towards a better Detroit. Local, regional and state leadership—our challenge is simple: apply those principles to your decision-making process. Develop responses, policies and programs that foster density, add value to city living and reverse the core issues behind much of Detroit’s decline.

As a region, we can no longer afford to simply believe—we’ve been believing for 50 years that the same tired, out-dated, parochial strategies will somehow magically reverse the trends of disinvestment in our urban core.  It is time to embrace a new set of principles that will lift up Detroit’s 713,777.  It is time for action.

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