Detroit Restaurant Makes New York Times List Of 50 Best

DETROIT — The New York Times named a Detroit restaurant as one of its top 50 best places to eat across the country.

The popular list selected Freya, known for their prix fixe tasting menus, as one of its favorite restaurants in 2022. The Times' list was put together by its staff writers, editors and critics who traveled the U.S. to build the list.

Freya opened in 2021 and is located on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit's Milwaukee Junction neighborhood, which the Times called "a neighborhood where the bones of the city’s past economic might are still visible."

Freya is a multi-course dinner restaurant focused on catering to the 99 percent, according to its website. They offer a price fixed five-course menu and can accommodate multiple different diets, including Omnivore, Pescatarian and vegan. With notice, they can also modify any of the menus to be gluten-free.

Customers have to reserve a seat and pay $85 per-person in advance (plus tax and 22 percent gratuity) for the five-course meal. The meals offer numerous different options. Beverages are not included in the meal.

"Douglas Hewitt, an owner, and the chef de cuisine Phoebe Zimmerman execute the four separate prix fixe menus — the vegan one is particularly impressive — with cool confidence, producing gorgeous, skillfully balanced dishes that deserve to be sources of hometown pride," Brett Anderson of The New York Times wrote.

The news also comes after Detroit baker Warda Bouguettaya was selected as one of the ten Food & Wine Best New Chefs in America for 2022.