Openings Include Forest Grill, Nico & Vali, Bar

IN THE NEWS: The Free Press’s Sylvia Rector features the new Good Girls Go to Paris crepe shop in downtown Detroit and details the openings the Bar (224 S. Main, Milford) and Birmingham’s Forest Grill (735 Forest). www.freep.com … The Detroit News’s Molly Abraham reviews Jon Marx (23 S. Washington St., Oxford) and details the […]

Critics Consider Crepes, De Santo Latin American Bistro

IN THE NEWS: The St. Pete Times’s Laura Reiley rounds up crepes spots and details the opening of Grillside Central (site of the defunct Tedesco’s at 437 Central Avenue). tampabay.com … The Tampa Tribune’s Kurt Loft reviews De Santo Latin American Bistro (128 Third St. S., St. Petersburg). tampatribune.com
Compiled by Pat Embry, WhereTheLocalsEat.com

Capital Grille Steakhouse Opens First West Coast Outpost

IN THE NEWS: The Puget Sound Business Journal details the opening of Capital Grille in downtown Seattle’s Cobb Building, the Orlando, Fla.-based steakhouse chain’s first restaurant on the West Coast. seattle.bizjournals.com … Seattle Weekly’s Jonathan Kauffman reviews Ethiopian spot Habesha (1809 Minor Ave., 624-0801) and reports the opening of New Orleans-style restaurant Marcela’s Cookery (106 […]

Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe Opens at Natick Collection

IN THE NEWS: The Boston Herald’s Mat Schaffer gives a C to Salvatore’s (225 Northern Ave.,Seaport District; 617-737-7257; www.salvatoresboston.com), spotlights chef/owner Tim Wiechmann’s new T.W. Food (377 Walden St., Cambridge; 617-864-4745), and reports that the Taj Boston hotel’s new executive chef is Franck Steigerwald, late of the Ritz-Carlton Naples (Fla.) Golf Resort. … Kerry Byrne […]