Thursday, March 18, 2010

Real Detroit Weekly: Table 5

"Table 5, opened in September 2008 and owned by John and Mishelle Lussiel, is a quintessential Northville restaurant. Michelle's brainchild grew over several years before taking form in the former McKinnon’s location, a Northville icon for 25 years. When they acquired the space, they gutted it and started from scratch: an epic undertaking for two people.

'But this is Northville. People from the community — friends, neighbors, even passers-by — would stop in and help carry out wheelbarrows full of refuse. They had so many people help that they put names on the barstools of all the people who gave a hand. 'There’s always a fight over the bar stools,' Mishelle laughs. 'They say "it takes a village," and it took a village to get this place running!'...

Read the rest of the article here.