Detroit
The new-development cocktail-and-restaurant quarter. Recently restored buildings now hold the polished new-Detroit bar layer. Save this neighbourhood guide before your next night in Detroit.
Capitol Park · $$$
Cocktail bar inside the Belt alley.
Corktown · $$$
Detroit's most awarded cocktail bar.
Downtown · $$$
Heritage cocktail bar from 1952 (closed and reopened).
Greektown · $$
Cocktail bar above an Irish pub.
Downtown · $$
Live-music-and-cocktails bar that has been a Detroit institution since 2007.
You'll find Cocktail Bars, Craft Beer, Hidden Gems and Rooftop Bars here, all tightly clustered enough to walk between in a single evening. That's the value of a neighbourhood guide: pick a starting room, end up four bars in, and never get in a cab. Every recommendation below is independent — barsforKings doesn't take payment for editorial placement, ever.
The order below is a working ranking, not gospel. Read the notes, pick the room that fits the night you're planning, and treat Capitol Park like locals do — start early, walk between rooms, end somewhere quieter than you started.
A working editorial ranking. Walkable in a single evening — pick your starting room and let the neighbourhood do the rest.