26 fantastic restaurants along the QLine route in Detroit

By Metro Times editorial staff on Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 8:44 pm

Detroit's QLine runs along a 3-mile loop in Midtown and Downtown, taking ridings to some of the best spots in the city. This guide covers a slew of the bars and restaurants you'll find up and down that route.

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Pho Lucky
3111 Woodward; 313-338-3895
If you’ve never heard of it, pho is a popular vietnamese dish. A generous clear broth with Asian herbs, noodles, and thinly sliced beef. This comfort food is making it home in Midtown with all the sad college students slithering around it seems like a good fit. Customize the dish with some sriracha, lime, or hoisin sauce. Add on some spring or summer rolls served with Vietnamese garlic sauce if you’re still feeling sad. The Vietnamese coffee will also pick you up (just like the QLine).
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Midtown Zef’s
4160 Woodward Ave, 313-831-1210
Whether its an early bird craving that needs satisfying or you specialize in Instagram food photography and haven’t posted anything in awhile, the place to be is Midtown Zef’s. And lucky for you, you won’t need a filter to make this food look good. Imagine the slow motion syrup splashing on your waffles, filling up each squared off section of the pastry. You might want to try visualizing the steam misting off your eggs and bacon when your order is presented to you at your table. Next time you’re walking down Woodward look for the black and white sign, that is if you don’t catch some of the breakfast aromas Zef’s has wafting your way before.
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Parc
800 Woodward Ave.; 313-922-7272
The glass walls of this tiny fortress lend itself to an ultimate experience while dining in the middle of Campus Martius. The modern contemporary design will make you feel like a million bucks. Their menu is mouthwatering to boot with French and Mediterranean influence for lunch or dinner. Recently winning the 2018 Hour magazine restaurant of the year for their combination of aesthetic and carefully crafted dishes.
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Atomic Chicken
6500 Woodward Ave.; 313-782-4810
This fried chicken spot closed its doors for three weeks to renovate and rethink their menu this winter. Reopened in January, Atomic Chicken is back and now joined by Buffy’s Mexi-Casian Grill, which adds some non-chicken options for customers. Don’t worry — their mouth-watering fried chicken is still being served.
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Texas de Brazil
1000 Woodward Ave, 313-964-4333
This meat-centric restaurant will have guachos delivering chicken breasts wrapped in bacon, parmesan-crusted pork loin, braised beef ribs, and Brazilian sausage right to your table. It gets even better when you find out the meat is cooked over an open flame with natural wood charcoal. Mouth watering yet? That’s what we thought.
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Shake Shack
660 Woodward Ave, 313-672-0501
This joint started out as a hot dog cart in Madison Square Park in Manhattan. It grew into a kiosk establishment that wrote the book on the modern day roadside burger. And vegetarians need not fret either, as this burger joint offers a crisp-fried 'shroom burger to go along with their rich creamy custard. They even have alcohol options on the menu as well, because wine not?
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Maccabees Trader
5057 Woodward Ave.; 313-831-9311
What happens when the robust, arduous culture of Detroit blends itself with the foreign spicy zest that Asian flavorful food has tapped into? Well now you can find out for yourself at Maccabees Traders. Try dishes like the Vietnamese-inspired chicken wings and spring rolls, tiger shrimp cooked in a chili and lime glaze, and pork belly bathed in hoisin sauce. Where else are you going to find a combination as authentic as that?
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Hockeytown Cafe
2301 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-471-3400
This classic American sports bar has a menu plied with burgers, chicken fingers, and plenty of craft beer options. The long-standing joint is connected to City Theater and directly across the street from Comerica Park and Ford Field. Close by you'll find the Fox Theatre, Fillmore, and Little Caesars Arena.

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