I’ve never really gotten in to this show, but “No Reservations” on the Travel Channel will feature four Detroit area restaurants tonight.
Bourdain’s stops here included Polonia and the Family Donut Shop in Hamtramck, Al-Ameer in Dearborn and Detroit’s Cadieux Cafe.
The show airs on Travel Channel (Comcast Digital Channel 159 in Lansing) at 10:00 PM tonight.
The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan
I’m weird when it comes to museum’s. I don’t know why, but I like them. When my eighth grade class took a class trip to Washington DC, I was really mad we didn’t go to the history museum at the Smithsonian. The only place we went was the Air and Space Museum which was great, but not my thing.
My parents came to town and we needed something to do. Like I explained in an earlier post, our plan was to go to Canada to gamble, but they forgot theirbirth certificates. As we were walking through Target Saturday night, I asked J what the heck we were going to do to entertain them the next day. She mentioned the RE Olds Museum in Lansing and that eventually led to The Henry Ford in Dearborn. I still want to take my dad to the Olds Museum, but that’s something we can do another time.
The Henry Ford is a huge complex in Dearborn that consist of a museum, IMAX theater, the Rouge factory tour and the 90 acre Greenfield Village. That’s just the attractions open to the public. There is also a research center, the Ford convention center and probably more things I don’t know about. The complex is located on Oakwood Boulevard just a mile or so off Southfield Freeway.
We entered the complex off Oakwood Boulevard. At first, the whole thing is a little confusing. It looks like a college campus and it’s not really marked all that well. We knew we were looking to go to the museum and we never saw a sign or anything that really showed where it was. We spotted the IMAX and the Greenfield Village. I figured we could just park and start walking around. It had to be in between the two. Read the rest of this entry »
Cheli's Chili Bar & Restaurant in Dearborn.
Since moving here, I’ve been wanting to eat at Cheli’s Chili in downtown Detroit. I’ve always been a huge Chris Chelios fan and a #7 Blackhawks jersey still hangs in my closet. When I started looking at restaurants in Detroit, Cheli’s Chili on the corner of Michigan and Oakwood came up. I knew my parents would like a sports bar.
We made it to Dearborn just before noon. The building is on the corner, but the entrance is actually in the back. There’s a parking lot there with a few spaces, a public lot right next to it and street parking all along Oakwood. We parked the car and walked towards the door to find another couple standing there waiting. The restaurant didn’t open until noon. No big deal because it was 11:55. We ended up walking across the street to Westborn Market (review HERE) to kill time.
When we made it back, we walked in and saw a sign that the deck was open so we headed up there. Like the downtown location, the Dearborn location has a party deck on the roof. There’s an elevator right next to a staircase. If it’s not a nice day or you don’t like sun, there’s also a huge dining room in the bar. We didn’t really go in to far. We found a display case with autographed memorabilia and Chelios jersey’s, but that’s as far as we made it. Read the rest of this entry »
Westborn Market in downtown Dearborn.
We had no intention of shopping in downtown Dearborn on Sunday. My parents were in town and we were looking for something to do. My dad is a car fan and J thought a trip to The Henry Ford Musuem could be interesting. After a quick Google search, I remembered there was a Cheli’s Chili in Dearborn and even though Chelios is a Red Wing now, he’s a Chicago boy first, so I’ve been wanting to go to his restaurant. We got there about five minutes before the restaurant opened. My mom noticed a flower shop across the street which led us to see a Fruit Market across the street from that. So, to kill a little time, we headed across Michigan Avenue.
Westborn Market is a small group of stores in the Detroit area. Besides the one in Dearborn, there are stores in Berkely and Livonia. The Dearborn store is on Michigan Avenue at Oakwood Boulevard. From the street, it looks like any neighborhood grocery store, but that impression quickly changes you walk inside.
The first area of the store is an open air fruit market. It’s covered by a permanent structure, but there are no window or doors….at least when it’s nice like it was the day we stopped. They have a huge variety of fresh produce. When we walked in, J called it a cross between Whole Foods and Horrocks. They had the variety and nice displays of a Whole Foods, but they didn’t have the Whole Foods prices. Read the rest of this entry »
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