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Quaint little Roses Fine Food restaurant at 10551 E. Jefferson Ave. in Detroit has been named the Detroit Free Press Restaurant of the Year for 2026.
After nine years, the restaurant closed in 2023. It was known for sandwiches, brunch and house-made breads, desserts and custom cakes. It made a comeback in 2025.
Freep food critic Lyndsay C. Green writes about Roses:
The restaurant's reopening in the summer of 2025 has shown us that an establishment built with intention has the potential to soar — even in its second act.
This Roses is a dinner diner. Tapers propped in wine bottles give the place a glow from within, with wax tears cascading down the side of the bottle in shades of white and rose. Where there were once briny allusions to Mitchell’s Polish American heritage — pickles here and there, dill everywhere — the newer recipes are more personal, culled directly from the chef’s fondest memories growing up with Polish grandparents. Where there was once a side of bacon, there is now kielbasa, smoked, split and fried hard, its skin reddish and snappy. Where there were soft scrambled eggs and griddled potatoes, there are potato dumplings swimming in borscht. In place of bowls of grainy organic grits, there’s pungent dill pickle soup.
