Southwest Detroit
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Vernor Highway Is the Best Food Street in the Region. Calamansi Just Made It More Interesting.
The Mexican-built corridor that already had no equal just gained its most unexpected addition. What happens to a food street's identity when it stops being about one cuisine?
West Vernor Highway has been the strongest single-street food corridor in the region for decades, built on Mexican cooking and deepened by Vietnamese and Middle Eastern restaurants. Calamansi's April opening added Filipino-inspired food to that mix. The question worth asking: what does a food corridor become when it outgrows its origin story?
Calamansi Is Doing Something Detroit Didn't Have Before
A month in, Marcee Sobredilla's Filipino kitchen on West Vernor is already the restaurant that needs to be on your list.
Calamansi opened in April on West Vernor Highway in Southwest Detroit with Filipino-inspired food and a serious cocktail program. First visit: the chicken adobo and the calamansi daiquiri.
Calamansi Opens on Vernor Highway
Detroit's first Filipino-focused bar and restaurant is here, in a 40-seat room in Southwest Detroit.
Calamansi opened at 4458 W Vernor Hwy in Southwest Detroit with Filipino-inspired cocktails and dishes from Tyler Olivier and Marcee Sobredilla. Forty seats, big ambitions.
Where to Eat in Southwest Detroit
Vernor Highway and the Mexicantown corridor: the most flavorful stretch of road in the metro area.
Southwest Detroit's Vernor Highway corridor has the best concentration of taco shops, Vietnamese cooking, and bakeries in Michigan. A guide to eating your way through it.
Flowers of Vietnam Started as a Sunday Pop-Up. Now It's One of Detroit's Best Restaurants.
In Southwest Detroit, Palestinian-American chef George Azar cooks Vietnamese food that doesn't explain itself. It doesn't need to.
George Azar's Flowers of Vietnam in Southwest Detroit started as a Sundays-only pop-up inside a coney island. Now it's a full-service restaurant where a Palestinian-American chef cooks some of the best Vietnamese food in Michigan.