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Shinola Hotel Preview Tours Accompany San Morello Restaurant Opening Today

December 18, 2018, 9:21 AM

Local journalists get to walk through the nearly ready Shinola Hotel in downtown Detroit on Tuesday.

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The Italian restaurant serves dinner daily, starting today. (Instagram by Don Hammond, Shinola Hotel executive chef)

"The hotel will be showcased to media in the afternoon ahead of the opening of San Morello, the new Italian restaurant which will begin serving dinner Tuesday night," posts Matthew Smith of WXYZ.

Bedrock’s Dan Gilbert and Shinola Founder Tom Kartsotis will speak about their partnership to make the hotel become a reality.

The hotel at 1400 Woodward Ave. near Grand River Avenue opens to guests Jan. 2, with nightly room rates of $195 to $485.

Original article, Dec. 15: 

Considering how tough it is to get a reservation at some high-end Detroit restaurants like SheWolf and Selden Standard, there appears to be room for new entries.

The latest is San Morello, a Southern Italian-style restaurant that starts serving Tuesday in the Shinola Hotel in downtown Detroit, just north of Grand River Avenue. The restaurant will open daily for dinner.

Erin Podolsky writes in the Detroit Free Press:

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San Morello chef Cory Barbeiro  at the wood-burning oven. (Facebook photo)

Detroit has yet another chef with a James Beard Award pedigree planting roots here. Andrew Carmellini, the New York-based chef whose empire includes Locanda Verde, the Dutch and Bar Primi, opens the new San Morello for dinner service at the Shinola Hotel on Tuesday.

San Morello, a gorgeous space with prime frontage on Woodward and Grand River, will serve the upscale Southern Italian-style fare on which the chef has made his considerable reputation to a city that has shown no shortage of appetite for food from the boot, if the nightly packed house at nearby SheWolf is any indication.

It’s the first of four concepts that Carmellini and his partners in NoHo Hospitality Group, Luke Ostrom and Huntington Woods native Josh Pickard, plan to open at the hotel by spring. The others include cocktail spot Evening Bar (late December/early January), fried chicken walk-up Penny Red’s (spring) and the Brakeman, a beer hall (spring).


Photo by Don Hammond, Shinola Hotel executive chef

Check it out:

  • Website
  • Location: 1400 Woodward Ave., abiut two blocks north of Campus Martius
  • Hours: 5-10 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday; 5-11 p.m. Thuursday through Saturday.
  • Reservations
  • Email


Read more:  WXYZ


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