DETROIT – A new restaurant is bringing Mexico-City-inspired cuisine to Midtown Detroit.
Vecino, a modern Mexican restaurant with an agave-forward bar, will officially open in Detroit on Friday (April 19).
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The elevated bar-restaurant located in the 4100 block of Third Street in Midtown will serve cuisine inspired by the unique gastronomic traditions of Mexico City and Oaxaca, which features an open-hearth kitchen and Michigan’s first corn nixtamalization restaurant program.
Detroit-based designer Colin Tury, along with Adrianna Jimenez and Lukasz Wietrzynski, owns Vecino, and the team hopes to bolster a sense of community through authentic Mexican flavors in the historic Midtown neighborhood.
The restaurant seats 66 people, including a 16-person bar and an outdoor patio, which will open in late spring. It will initially be open Wednesday through Sunday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., with brunch and late-night service following shortly after.
“We consciously look for ways to connect through shared experiences like unique foods, cultures, and traditions – all of which inspire the ways we eat, drink, and share stories with our friends and neighbors,” said Jimenez, who was born in Mexico City and raised in Southwest Detroit. “Vecino means neighbor, and that’s the role we want to play here in Detroit. From community-style seating to shared plates, we’re bringing that sense of community found in Mexican culture.”