These 2 MI Restaurants 'Define Dining,' New Top 100 Ranking Says

Two Michigan restaurants have been named to a ranking of 100 nationwide that “delight their communities and make them better.”

Resy, an online restaurant reservation service, said “The Resy 100” is a “curation of restaurants that thrill us, that serve exceptional food that alternately might be comforting or daring, traditional or completely new.”

“These are places that make us want to return again and again, and define the best of our dining culture today,” the company, which represents some 10,000 eateries nationwide, said with the release of the rankings.

“... They don’t have to be new,” the company said of the 100 restaurants on the list. “They don’t have to have a famous chef at the helm. They could be absolutely anywhere — as we’ve learned, a great meal can find you where you least expect it, whether you’ve traversed the country or just headed down the block. They are, simply, excellent and cherished. They delight their communities, and make them better.”

Restaurants from Michigan in the ranking include:

No. 76 Mink

Mink, located in Detroit's corktown neighborhood, is best known for its sustainably sourced seafood menu. The shifting menu includes several popular dishes, such as oysters and a curry-spiced gazpacho with pickled shrimp, a bacalao stew, and scallops with maitake mushrooms and tomato jam.

No. 78 Leila

Leila is a popular Lebanese restaurant in downtown Detroit. Their menu includes traditional middle eastern food, such as classic meze (hummus, labneh), but also a version of lemon-pepper wings and sujuk, a fiery Armenian-style sausage and baby back ribs sitting aside a shish kebab on the menu.