‘Essential Restaurants’ List Features 1 Michigan Spot

DEARBORN, MI — One Michigan restaurant landed on Eater’s list of essential restaurants in America: Al-Ameer in Dearborn.

Here's what they had to say about the staple in the city:

Among Dearborn’s cache of Lebanese restaurants, this is the paragon. Kahlil Ammar and Zaki Hashem’s family business includes an in-house butcher facility, so the unrivaled stuffed lamb (and also lamb liver, a traditional breakfast dish) exhibits exceptional freshness.

The list is curated by the publication’s national critic, Bill Addison, who writes that he traveled across 36 cities in 34 weeks to compile the list.

Addison says the restaurants on the “essential” list are the kinds of places that become indispensable to their neighborhoods.

The list released on Tuesday is the fifth edition in Eater’s series and includes 17 restaurants appearing for the first time. Five restaurants on the list have been included in the compilations five consecutive times. Overall, 38 restaurants in America made it on the list.

Read more about the featured restaurants via Eater.

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