Belle Isle to 8 Mile: An Insider's Guide to Detroit - Second Edition

Whether in Detroit for the first time or for a lifetime, uncover and discover this great American city. The most popular printed guide to Detroit, Belle Isle to 8 Mile: An Insider's Guide to Detroit features nearly 1,500 Detroit attractions, sites, institutions, events, restaurants, bars, shops, and curiosities, from the essential to the obscure. Fully revised and expanded for 2019, this new edition includes 45 new illustrations and more than 500 new entries.

The result of thousands of hours of research, thousands of site visits, and contributions and ideas from hundreds of local residents, this streetwise guide is a key for unlocking the city.

From high art to folk art, national attractions to basement museums, haute cuisine to food trucks, cocktail bars to dive bars, farmer’s markets to urban farms, and rock ’n’ roll to blues and soul, explore the city that put America on wheels.

Written + Designed + Printed in Detroit, Michigan

Siblings and lifelong, seventh-generation Detroiters, Andy and Emily Linn founded City Bird in 2005. In their Detroit-based studio, they produce a popular house line of Detroit, Michigan, and Great Lakes-themed items.