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Metropolitan Variety, a restaurant-slash-cocktail bar-slash-market, is finally preparing to open in Detroit’s West Village. The three-in-one project, at the former home of small plates and cocktail bar Craft Work, has been in the works for a while.
The restaurant side of the space will feature a veggie-centric Cal-Mex menu, a fusion of California cuisine and traditional Mexican cooking. For meat-eaters, burgers are on the menu, too. Reservations will be required at the restaurant, with the bar available for walk-ins. As for the market, that side of the space will be heavily focused on beer, wine, and liquor, but will also sell snacks and grab-and-go items.
The reimagined spot, at 8047 Agnes St., is the brainchild of Rick Stanza and Jonathan Hartzell of Detroit Rising Development; Ashley Price, former alcohol buyer at Royal Oak’s Holiday Market, and Brendon Edwards, former executive chef of the former Corktown hotspot Gold Cash Gold. They’ve hosted pop-ups in the vacant spot since Gold Cash Gold closed in February 2020.
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The space will not only draw on the design of the previous restaurant but also fixtures from businesses that lived in the space before it: a 100-year-old chandelier and cabinetry from a prior apothecary have been retrieved from storage.
Metropolitan Variety is scheduled to open in November 2021.