The final numbers aren't in yet, but the organizers behind Detroit's Restaurant Week are ready to call it a success.
"I measure success by the number of happy tales from happy dinners, happy restauranteurs and sold out restaurants," says Jason Huvaere, whose
Paxahau event promotions company put on the city's inaugural Restaurant Week. "We had a lot of all three."
One concrete stat Huvaere can hang his hat on is the success The Rattlesnake Club enjoyed. The riverfront restaurant sold out each night. That means a main dining room with 200-person capacity was constantly humming. "No one had a day off," says Amy Engelbert, catering manager for
The Rattlesnake Club.
The restaurant is carrying on its Restaurant Week for the rest of October. The extended menu will be available Tuesday-Friday all month.
Huvaere plans to bring Detroit Restaurant Week back, making it twice a year event, one in the spring and another in the fall.
Source: Jason Huvaere, director of Detroit Restaurant Week, and Amy Engelbert, catering manager for The Rattlesnake Club
Writer: Jon Zemke
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