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☑  EAT Detroit is June 18 — add it to your calendar

☑  Get familiar with the schedule

5 - 6:15 p.m. VIP party at Shinola Hotel Birdy Room
5:30 - 9:30 p.m. Dining at all restaurants (*8:30 end time for The Whitney)
5:30 - 10 p.m. Shuttles running
9 - 10 p.m. VIP dessert at The Whitney

☑    Learn the EAT Detroit basics

  • Wear your wristband, visit a restaurant, eat and drink and repeat at the next stop of your choosing until you’re full or dining ends.
  • Restaurants are located in 3 walkable clusters: Downtown, Corktown, and Midtown.
  • Two shuttle lines transport you between clusters. Read more about shuttles here.
  • Restaurants are numbered the same on the printed map provided at check-in, on our website, on the digital map, and on the menu.

☑  Have your tickets ready

  • Your starting time and location are printed on your ticket, which each attendee must bring to the starting location. Your ticket will be scanned to check you in and you will get a wristband. If you ordered tickets for a group arriving separately, hand them out to your guests in advance.
  • Your order confirmation includes 2 types of tickets: a print-at-home version that you can print before you arrive and mobile tickets you display on your phone. Tickets may only be scanned once. What your tickets look like.
  • Can’t find your tickets? Check your email for the confirmation (don’t forget the SPAM folder), or access at Freshtix.com. How to retrieve your tickets.

☑  Plan a basic route for the night, beginning with your starting restaurant

  • Most attendees visit 6 – 10 restaurants, comfortably.
  • Dine first where you check in, whether that’s at the VIP reception or the starting restaurant printed on your ticket.
  • The distribution of tickets at starting locations helps ensure that your first dining experience is not overcrowded, and then helps guide the rest of your travel path.
  • Factor parking into where you start/end. Here are some options.
  • Be prepared to go with the flow. Map out your journey between clusters, but if you find a restaurant on your list is crowded when you get there, head to another nearby and try again before leaving that cluster. Great minds think alike, so it can happen.
  • Use the “My List” tool on our website, synced with the newly updated mobile app (seriously, make sure you update it to the latest and improved version, and enable push notifications) to build out your schedule.

☑  Missing anything?

  • Your night is independent but you’re never on your own. Our wonderful volunteers will be wearing official aprons so you can spot them easily. They’re there to help!
  • The help desk — for check-ins after 6:30 p.m., lost and found, general inquiry — is staffed from 4 – 10 p.m. in the lobby of Shinola Hotel’s event entrance (1435 Farmer St., next to Madcap Coffee.)
  • The FAQ has pretty much everything you need to know. If we missed anything, email us eat@saydetroit.org.