Top 10 Takeover dining series: Tickets for Restaurant of the Year Classic on sale

Next up in the Detroit Free Press’ Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Top 10 dining series is Cuisine, New Center’s French-inspired eatery.

Cuisine is the 2024 Detroit Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Restaurant of the Year Classic. Its owner and executive chef Paul Grosz also earned the Sylvia Rector Lifetime Achievement Award for Hospitality.

On July 30, at our ninth Top 10 Takeover, Grosz, with his long-standing passion for French cooking, presents a four-course meal.

Cuisine opened in Detroit’s New Center neighborhood, across the street from the Fisher Building, in 2001. The following year, Cuisine was named the 2002 Restaurant of the Year and is the longest-standing restaurant that remains open in the program’s 24-year history.

“At Cuisine, Grosz has created a culture of fine dining rooted in French cooking,” wrote Lyndsay C. Green, Free Press dining critic. “Since it opened in 2001, the restaurant has become a special-occasion destination for locals from across the region. Located across the street from the Albert Kahn-designed Fisher Building, home of the Fisher Theatre and Broadway in Detroit, it’s a sophisticated place for showgoers to fill their bellies before a long, lively musical, or to compare interpretations of a heady play.”

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Seatings for the Cuisine Top 10 Takeover are at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at 670 Lothrop St. in Detroit. Tickets are $88 per person and include tax, gratuity and a Forgotten Harvest donation.

How to get tickets

Tickets for the Top 10 Takeover dining series go on sale every other Thursday when Free Press subscribers have first access to tickets for each event. Subscribers should check their email at noon Thursday for a link to ticket sales. Following subscriber sales, tickets for the general public go on sale noon Friday at freep.com/top10, where you will also find a schedule of upcoming dining events. Visit freep.com/top10 for more information, and see below for a sample of the menu.

Win tickets

The Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers also offer a contest for a chance for one diner to win two complimentary tickets to each dinner of the series. You can enter the contest at chevydetroit.com.

Here is the menu for the Cuisine Top 10 Takeover dinner:

First course (choice of one)

Tuna Carpaccio, foie gras mousse, toast and ponzu

or

Vegetable crudo, assorted thinly sliced summer vegetables, plum lime jus and herbs.

Second course

Summer corn velouté, lump crab, house-made oyster crackers, fried corn silk (vegetarian option available).

Main course (choice of one)

Alaskan halibut, celery root puree, red wine butter sauce, fried artichokes

or

Sous vide beef tenderloin, mushroom duxelles, potato cake, demi glaze

or

Vegetable risotto, baby vegetables, asparagus, Parmesan, summer truffles.

Dessert

Cherry tart, raspberry powder, blueberry ice cream

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