Detroit Restaurant Makes New York Times 'Restaurants List'

DETROIT — One Detroit restaurant made the list on the New York Times' "The Restaurant List."

The list highlights the "50 places in the United States that we’re most excited about right now," according to the Times.

This year's list is the third ever by the storied publication.

"It wasn’t easy to narrow it down, but here are the 50 restaurants that excite us most right now," the Times wrote.

Ladder 4 Wine Bar, located at 3396 Vinewood St. opened in 2022 and focuses on the complexity and culture of wine. The bar is the Michigan restaurant to make the list.

"We celebrate simple human values: gathering around a table or at the bar for food and wine to sustain and delight, music to move your feet, conversations to connect and humor because we are fun and not fussy," according to the bar's website.

Here's what the Times' Brett Anderson says about the bar:

When it opened, Ladder 4 was so focused on serving natural wine that John Yelinek, one of Detroit’s gifted young chefs, took a job pouring drinks, never expecting to cook. His move to the kitchen, later last year, is when the erudite bar, built in a converted firehouse by the brothers James and Patrick Cadariu, became an alluring restaurant as well. You’ll leave raving about charred leeks crowned with gribiche and trout roe, or pork schnitzel escorted by a salad of fresh peas and mint, in the same breath as Sipon, the Slovene skin-contact wine recommended for its "funky-kampucha-dried-apricot vibes."

See the full list from the New York Times online here.