Depending on where in Metro Detroit you are, most everything is roughly 20 minutes from the center of the city.

The restaurants are good. Detroit’s variety of eats is impressive. Giovanni’s on the west side was Frank Sinatra’s favourite Italian with Roma Cafe the oldest continuously running restaurant in Eastern Market a near second. Mexican Town has several great mexican places. Greektown downtown is also good. Dearborn has the Arabic restaurants and on Telegraph just south of Michigan Ave is a Great Thai place, Bangkok 96, they made all the food for Clint Eastwood’s movie Grand Tourino.

Things to see.

Museums:
Detroit Institute of Arts – World Class Art Museum
Detroit Science Center is currently having a great Star Trek exhibit.
Detroit Zoo currently has robotic dinosaurs on display.
Dossins Maritime Museum on Belle Isle (public island park was the trial run for the New York Central Park)
The Henry Ford ( AKA Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum) has historic homes, running steam locomotives, reenactments plus large collections of autos plains and early industrialization history. They are currently running a Cars and Guitars exhibit if you are into Rock and Roll related hardware. i would tell you to take the Rouge Plant tour from there but we are on July Shutdown for the moment.

I’ve typed enough.

A few suggestions:

Motor City Brewing Works: http://www.motorcitybeer.com/index.html
Slow’s: http://www.slowsbarbq.com/
Avalon Bakery: http://detroit.citysearch.com/…..akery.html
MOCAD: http://www.mocadetroit.org/
Cliff Bell’s: http://www.cliffbells.com/

If you’re there through the weekend, Artist Village for jazz and D’Mongos downtown.

Go to a meeting of the Detroit City Council.

That’s a really good idea. I want to see how it compares to the Ninewa Provincial Council, whose budget meeting I attended in March 2007 in Mosul.