Lady of the House is back.
Kate Williams’s acclaimed restaurant is now open in its new home at 4884 Grand River Ave., Unit 1C, in Detroit’s Core City area.
Kate Williams served as sous chef for Wolfgang Puck and worked in restaurants in New York and at Restaurant Relæ in Copenhagen, before returning to Detroit to open Lady of the House in 2017. Lady of the House closed in 2021 when the Corktown building it called home was sold. That space is now the Alpino restaurant.
The new home comes with a revamped menu, which blends Irish, French, and Midwest influences and focuses on locally sourced ingredients. Signature dishes like the Steak Tartare, the Whole Roasted Chicken, and the popular Potato Donut have returned, but the menu will also change seasonally. A bar program features twelve signature cocktails named after the mothers of the restaurant’s team.
Nearly all the restaurant’s previous front of house staff have returned, according to a press release.
Williams opened the new iteration of her restaurant with her long-time business partner Jason Singer of Honigman Design Studio, who also designed the space, which is meant “to feel like an extension of Chef Kate’s home, and is a younger and more modern version of the original.” The restaurant seats 58 and features hundreds of dried flowers and plants hanging from its ceiling, which will change seasonally.
The restaurant earned critical acclaim, including being named one of GQ magazine’s Best New Restaurants of the Year and a James Beard Award nomination for Best New Restaurant. Williams was also a semifinalist from the James Beard Foundation in the Best Chef: Great Lakes category and earned honors as one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs.
