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Eater
7 days ago
- Business
- Eater
7 Recent Metro Detroit Restaurant Shutters to Know
The once mighty Bobcat Bonnie's has only one location left. At one point, the chain operated seven locations. Meanwhile, a food truck known for its bulgogi cheesesteaks won't be out and about this summer. Belly It's owners have called it quits. Read about those two shutters and more below. The Shutter , a regular roundup of Detroit and metro Detroit's restaurant closures, is your resource to find out what's on its way out . The list is by no means comprehensive. Have information on another closing? Send all tips to detroit@ . ANN ARBOR — In Ann Arbor, Red Hawk Bar & Grill, which lasted over three decades, closed on May 2. An Instagram post blamed rising food costs and the scars left by the pandemic. The restaurant, 316 S. State Street, had been around for 33 years. AROUND TOWN — Fans of bulogi cheesesteaks mourned the loss of the Belly It food truck earlier this year. An Instagram post announced the shutter, with the owner admitting that summers in the truck were exhausting and that they just wanted to enjoy the season. DOWNTOWN — Coffee Down Under has closed after four years in downtown Detroit, according to a Facebook post. The shop struggled and was barely surviving with only one worker at 607 Shelby Street. BLOOMFIELD HILLS — After a quarter century around Detroit, the last Little Daddy's Family Restaurant has closed at 39500 Woodward Avenue in Bloomfield Hills, according to a Facebook post. The Greek diner's original location closed in September 2023 in Southfield, and there were outposts in Royal Oak and Taylor. CLAWSON — Zeoli's Modern Italian, which had been around for nearly seven years, closed on March 14 at 110 East 14 Mile Road. The Detroit News reports the chef wants to remain in the industry. FERNDALE — The Ferndale location of Bobcat Bonnie's closed on Monday, June 3, at 240 W. Nine Mile Road. The chain now has only one remaining location, in Lansing. A Facebook post teased that an unnamed tenant is already lined up. At one point, the chain had seven locations. Last year, the gastropub chain faced allegations of not paying its workers. LIVONIA — Bahama Breeze, one of the many restaurants in the Darden empire, has closed its Livonia location at 19600 Haggerty, according to the Detroit News . The chain has seen several shutters in recent months, including a Troy outpost. Sign up for our newsletter.
Yahoo
09-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Zeoli's in Clawson, known for modern Italian fare, announces planned closure
A Clawson restaurant noted for its modern twist on Italian cuisine and Italian motorsport's theme announced it will close. Zeoli's Modern Italian message on its Facebook page was simple, and started by stating: 'We are closing here at Zeoli's.' '(Our) last day will be Friday the 14th.' Located on the south side of E. 14 Mile Road and East of Main in Clawson, Zeoli's is across the street from Noble Fish. Noted for its take on modern Italian fare amid a neighborhood vibe, Scott Brown opened Zeoli's, after his wife's maiden name, more than a half dozen years ago. Previously Brown was an executive chef at Lily's Seafood and worked at D'Amato's in Royal Oak. More: Clawson's Knights of Columbus announces Lenten fish fry will not take place 'I have read so many posts of restaurants closing over the last 6.5 years and I've always wondered what I may say when the time comes,' Brown wrote. And the answer was keeping it simple. Brown and family thanked the amazing staff, family, friends, and customers for patronizing and supporting Zeoli's. 'You have all made Zeoli's a success story instead of just another restaurant closing,' Brown wrote. Brown, reached by phone Sunday morning ahead of brunch service, said the closing was not just one thing but a combination that included debt restructuring more than a year and a half ago with a Chapter 11 filing. 'With the new economic struggles, sales have been down,' he said. 'The new labor law was not in our plan.' Brown said the other part is that with twin 3 ½ year old daughters and a 7-year-old son, it seemed like the right time. 'I've put everything into this place, but mostly my time,' Brown told the Free Press. 'It was a hard decision in one way and an easy decision because I will have more time with my family." As the restaurant prepares for its closing, they will not be open Tuesday or for lunches, the post stated, 'so our staff can continue to look for new work.' Brown said Zeoli's employs 22 people. Open daily for lunch and dinner, according to its website, Zeoli's menu includes an array of Italian specialties from appetizers to soups and salads, pizzas, entrees and desserts. Zeoli's was also noted for its Saturday and Sunday brunch service that included an array of Benedict's, omelets, French toast and Nutella Grilled cheese. Its overall menu also offered vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options. 'It's a different take on an Italian restaurant,' Brown said. 'Most have a Tuscan mural or a photo of the Rat Pack, and this was an Italian motorsport's theme in a relaxed setting.' Brown's post garnered nearly 200 comments, most expressing sadness and offering kudos and thanks for the restaurant's food, service and atmosphere over its half dozen years in business, and congratulating Brown. 'I am looking forward to the next chapter but most of all more time with my beautiful wife and amazing kids,' Brown wrote. Brown told the Free Press he expects to stay in the industry. Contact Detroit Free Press food and restaurant writer Susan Selasky and send food and restaurant news and tips to: sselasky@ Follow @SusanMariecooks on Twitter. Subscribe to the Free Press. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Zeoli's Modern Italian set to close its doors Friday
New European
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New European
London's visionaries and fascists
A bright pink sign contrasts with the dull grey of north London in January. It sits outside a converted Grade II-listed Georgian house, home of the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, and announces the exhibition Breaking Lines: Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry . On their honeymoon in 1947, the American collector Eric Estorick and his wife, Salome, visited the modernist Mario Sironi in Milan and bought hundreds of his drawings and pictures. Their collection is housed in the UK's only gallery devoted to modern Italian art. Although better known today for its contribution to the visual arts, futurism was founded and led by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Marinetti demanded that futurists reject classical art, destroy museums and libraries, prohibit pasta and sing the love of danger. His Futurist Manifesto was inspired by the exhilaration of a car crash and contained the infamous lines, 'We want to glorify war – the only cure for the world – militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman'. The works are displayed as pieces of visual art. There are no translations, but even so, the exhibits have their strange effect. Displayed side by side they seem like extraterrestrial instruction manuals on how to build an alien society. Gallery No 2 sets out the influence of the futurists on Concrete Poetry in postwar Britain, in particular on Dom Sylvester Houédard. Concrete Poetry's credo was that the form or structure of a poem could carry as much meaning as its words. Houédard was a military intelligence officer in the second world war before becoming a Benedictine monk, and his work employs typewritten characters in spiral or grid-like patterns. They are puzzles to solve, again visual, as much as written works, exploring themes of transcendence and contemplation. The upper galleries contain the permanent collection, including the work of futurist painters, such as Luigi Russlo's Music , where sounds emanating from a silhouetted composer are 'seen' in kaleidoscopic colour. Marinetti saw fascism as offering the possibility of realising futurist dreams and in 1919 he co-authored the Fascist Manifesto . The exhibition says that he briefly recoiled from the movement. There was always going to be tension between the futurists and fascist conservatism, Roman Catholicism and emulation of the glories of Rome. Marinetti is credited with defending artistic freedom against attempts to import Nazism's campaign against 'degenerate art', but his overall attitude was of collaboration. After Mussolini was deposed, he supported the Nazi-established puppet regime. He died in 1944, his dreams unfulfilled. Gallery No 5 contains paintings by Zoran Mušič, who was tortured by the Gestapo when they suspected that his artistic activities were a cover for espionage. He was sent to Dachau. His painting, Black Mountain , has an ominous, foreboding air. During the 1970s, he created a series called We Are Not the Last , after the landscape around Siena triggered memories of the piles of corpses from Dachau. A conservatory extends the Italian cafe (pasta dishes available) into a tranquil garden. It provides a welcome contrast with the speed and violence of the futurist vision. It's ironic that the ones who wanted to destroy museums have themselves become museum pieces. Their euphoria over what the age of mechanisation could bring now feels naive and old-fashioned, analogue in our digital age. Yet their artistic influence survived the death of the ideologies they espoused. The alignment of the futurists with fascism does have a modern parallel – across the Atlantic another unstable alliance has formed, of a retrograde politician, whose conservative supporters look back towards an unspecified time of greatness, and a forward-looking techno-utopian, united by a desire to sweep away existing norms. As this exhibition in a north London house shows us, such alliances don't last. Andy Owen is an author and former intelligence officer in the British Army
