Top 10 Takeover dining series: Tickets on sale Thursday for Noori Pocha

A family-owned gastropub offering authentic Korean dishes along with Korean beers, wines and spirits, is next up for the popular Detroit Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Top 10 Takeover Dinner series.

On July 2, the series visits Noori Pocha in Clawson, which landed at No. 2 on the Detroit Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Top 10 New Restaurants & Dining Experiences list.

In March, the Free Press unveiled the 2024 Restaurant of the Year, Restaurant of the Year Classic and 10 Best New Restaurants and Dining Experiences.

Noori Pocha, on Main Street in Clawson, is attached to Noori Chicken, a fast-growing Korean fried chicken chain with several Michigan locations and others in the U.S.  

The Kwon family owns both places and saw the potential for recreating the "pocha" trend, known in Korea where street food is served out of small, tented outdoor areas, to metro Detroit. Among the items on the Noori Pocha are rice cakes served in red gravy along with spicy kimchi fried rice dish, sweet and savory bulgogi and stir-fried chicken gizzards with roasted garlic, scallions and a sprinkling of toasted sesame seeds.

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"They sought to re-create the essence of the pocha, where neon lights illuminate tables and crammed spaces foster conversation among strangers," Lyndsay c. Green, Detroit Free Press dining critic wrote.

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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 at noon Friday at freep.com/top10, where you will also find a schedule of upcoming dining events.

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.

Seatings for Noori Pocha are 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $55.99 per person and include tax, gratuity and a donation to Forgotten Harvest.

Here is the Noori Pocha Top 10 Takeover menu:

Starter

Hobak Soup (Creamy Sweet Pumpkin Soup)

Main dish

Yangnyeom Oodae Galbi (Korean-style marinated beef rib plate)

Side dishes (Banchan)

Corn Cheese

Tteokbbokki (rice cake)

Kimchi Fried Rice Kimbab

Korean Fried Chicken with Soy Garlic Dumpling

Sogogi Moogook (beef soup with Asian radish)

Vegetarian

Mattang (candied sweet potato - vegetarian)

Pickled Onion

Coleslaw and Kimchi Coleslaw

Carrots and Cucumber with Ssamjang Mayo

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