The time has come. Any food enthusiasts who have not had an opportunity to join the Detroit Free Press for this year’s Top 10 Takeover dining series, this is your last chance.
Concluding the 13-stop restaurant tour is a stop at The Dixboro Project, which landed at No. 3 on the 2022 10 Best New Restaurants list.
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The Dixboro Project is an ambitious concept from The Pulpo Group, helmed by veteran restaurateur Sava Farah and Michelin-star chef Louis Maldonado. With three contiguous restaurants in the quaint Ann Arbor-adjacent village it’s named after, The Dixboro Project boasts a full range of dining styles.
At The Boro To Go, the restaurant’s most casual entity, there are decadent pastries and wood-fired pizzas, while The Boro Dining Room and Bar offers a more elevated but approachable menu of share plates, refined pastas and a minimalist range of entrees. The Dixboro House, the light-filled, refurbished barn overlooking lush woodlands and a live creek, offers a tasting menu experience with a fine-dining feel.
Tickets for the Sept. 27 dinner at The Dixboro Project go on sale at noon Thursday, Sept. 8, for Free Press subscribers, with general ticket sales following at noon Friday.
Diners will have an opportunity to experience a taste of Maldonado’s range with four courses of fresh seafood, inventive pastas and flavorful meat dishes. They’ll also have the chance to finish the evening with dessert from his wife, executive pastry chef Annemarie Maldonado.
The Dixboro Project’s Top 10 Takeover dinner menu
Tomato ponzu, lime and daikon
Crispy eggplant, walnut, green garlic and spring onion
Third Course: Dry Aged Duck
Corn, blackberry, radish, duck confit wrapped in pastry and curry
Fourth Course: Double Chocolate Tart
Toasted marshmallow, caramel and cocoa nib
First Course: Goat Cheese Tart
Cherry tomato, fava bean and watermelon radish
Crispy eggplant, walnut, green garlic and spring onion
Pain perdu, hen of the wood mushroom and beet bordelaise
Fourth Course: Double Chocolate Tart
Toasted marshmallow, caramel and cocoa nib
For more information and tickets, visit freep.com/top10
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