Detroit, MIFrench

Le Suprême channels the rhythm of a French brasserie through oysters, onion soup, steak frites, and carefully constructed pastries. The expansive downtown room works from breakfast through dinner, with a long zinc bar and attentive service giving each part of the day its own pace.

Bar Pigalle pairs a concise French influenced menu with one of Brush Park's most polished cocktail programs. Seasonal plates, careful seafood preparations, and thoughtful sauces suit the intimate room, while the bar gives diners a natural way to approach the restaurant for a drink and a few dishes.

Cuisine occupies a converted New Center mansion near the Fisher Theatre, serving French American dishes in a series of elegant dining rooms. The menu emphasizes composed seafood, meat, and seasonal vegetable plates, making the restaurant particularly suited to a measured dinner before or after a performance.

A downtown French pastry shop on West Grand River Avenue. The display brings together croissants, macarons, éclairs, tarts, cakes and breads, with coffee for a morning stop. Pick a croissant or éclair to see the French baking that gave the Detroit branch its place in the city's pastry scene.

A Midtown pastry shop that works with French technique and flavors drawn from North Africa and beyond. Its tarts, cakes and cookies share the case with pastries such as financiers and madeleines. A past Paris-Brest variation folded black sesame and peanut into the French classic; for an everyday visit, choose a current tart or financier from the case.