IN THE NEWS: Moonstruck Chocolate Co. has opened its first Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe in Michigan at the newly renovated Twelve Oaks Mall outside of Detroit, the Portland (Ore.) Business Journal reports. The Twelve Oaks Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe in Novi, Mich., is the company’s 10th cafe nationally and the first of two opening in the metro Detroit area this fall. The second is scheduled to open this month at the new Mall at Partridge Creek in Clinton Township. portland.bizjournals.com … Hour Detroit magazine has named Lark its 2007 Restaurant of the Year (6430 Farmington Rd., West Bloomfield Township; 248-661-4466). hourdetroit.com

The Free Press’s Sylvia Rector reports, “With only a few hours left before the opening of his new restaurant at the MGM Grand Detroit, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck was cheerfully baking pizzas for VIPs and reporters Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 2) and promising that the restaurant will bring metro area diners all the Puck classic dishes.” … Rector reports on the opening of Rocky’s Rotisserie (37337 Six Mile, Livonia. 734-462-6240 or www.rockysrotisserie.com) and a second outpost for Ann Arbor’s Café Habana (211 E. Washington, Ann Arbor, 734-332-6046 or www.cafehabanas.com). … Cassandra Spratling chats with Severo Gonzalez, co-owner of Mexican Village (2600 N. Bagley, Detroit, 313-237-0333. A second location is at 47350 Van Dyke, Utica, 586-254-2290, www.mexicanvillagefood.com). freep.com … Real Detroit Weekly’s Marc Mege reviews Ferndale’s Cajun spot Howe’s Bayou. realdetroitweekly.com …

The Detroit News’s Molly Abraham gives two and a half stars to Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup (32407 Northwestern Highway, Farmington Hills, 248-626-6767) and reports the closing of Le Steak at Fillmore East, the restaurant/jazz club on Windsor’s Pitt Street East. detnews.com … MetroTimes’s Jane Slaughter reviews Chinese spot Gourmet Garden (27626 Middlebelt Rd., Farmington Hills, 248-474-8183). metrotimes.com

Compiled by Pat Embry, WhereTheLocalsEat.com

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