Everyone Should Try This Dearborn Restaurant: Bon Appetit
DEARBORN MI — Metro Detroit’s food scene is exploding so to help guide local diners and foodies in the right direction, Bon Appetit just released their own list of where everyone should be eating in and around Detroit. It features swanky downtown spots like Selden Standard all the way to Hamtramck’s more humble Yemen Cafe, but it also directs readers to a staple around Dearborn.
No, it’s not James Beard Award-winner Al-Ameer or Cedarland, a favorite spot of the late artist Mike Kelly. It’s Hamido, located in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, which the author calls “the zenith of Detroit-metro Lebanese food.”
Here’s what they had to say about the must-eat restaurant:
Expect long lines for carryout; orders written, unaccountably, on cigarette cartons; and a family-style dining room that’s at capacity every sundown of Ramadan. The chicken shawarma, layered with bits of lemon zest, is part dark meat and becomes al-pastor-level crispy; the foul (a fava bean breakfast bowl) is bathed in olive oil and comes with tomato, onion, and bright pink pickled turnips.
The list also gave three foods that everyone should be eating in Detroit: its pizza, its chili and its toum. The author noted Kanun Grill, in Dearborn Heights, as his favorite new place for the garlic dip, but gave the “Best in Show” award to Redford’s Beirut Bakery.
Do you agree? Where would you recommend in Dearborn? Tell us in the comments below.
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