Top 10 Takeover dining series: Tickets for Shelby, a Detroit speakeasy, go on sale Friday
Tickets for the next Top 10 Takeover dining series event go on sale at noon Thursday for Free Press subscribers with general ticket sales following at noon Friday. The event is June 7 at Shelby in downtown Detroit.
Shelby, a speakeasy, was ranked No. 5 on this year’s Free Press 10 Best New Restaurants list.
The Top 10 Takeover series returned this year to in-person dining after pivoting to Top 10 Takeout amid the pandemic.
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The series invites foodies in metro Detroit and beyond to experience the cuisine, service and ambiance of the Freep’s 10 Best New Restaurants, Restaurant of the Year Classic and 2022 Restaurant of the Year.
At each dining event, guests are presented with a specially curated, multiple-course menu. They also have the chance to meet and chat with new Free Press dining critic Lyndsay C. Green and other Free Press staffers.
Shelby is on Shelby Street in downtown Detroit’s financial district. Like an old-time speakeasy, it's in a hidden space. There are no signs. Guests enter through a lobby with a staircase that leads to Coffee Downunder coffee shop. Shelby is tucked behind a door at the back of the coffee shop. Part of its dining room is built into an old bank vault.
Along with an extensive list of spirits, Shelby has an inviting specialty cocktail menu.
Shelby’s small plates menu items are meant to be shared. They include a spiced nut mix, beef tartare, charcuterie, a cheese plate and shrimp cocktail. The Detroit Free Press Top 10 Takeover event will feature a five-course meal, including dessert. A vegetarian meal is available.
Seatings for the Top 10 Takeover are at 5 and 8 p.m. The cost is $88 per person and includes a donation to Forgotten Harvest.
Shelby's Top 10 Takeover menu:
First course
Amuse bouche: smoked whitefish financiers
Second course
Beef tartare with iceberg lettuce: beef mignonette, garlic aioli
Third course
"Escar-no" with snail butter bread: cremini mushrooms with parsley breadcrumbs and mushroom bouillon
Fourth course
Kale Bolognese lasagna with pecorino and bechamel
Fifth course
Dessert: Millionaire shortbread: cremeaux, sourdough caramel, caramelized sourdough, pizzelle
For more info and tickets, go to freep.com/top10.
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