Tag: Bar Gabi

• New Hazel Park restaurant Bar Gabi raises the bar with authentic, homemade Romanian cuisine

  

  Hazel Park, MI — Near the tail-end of October, the new occupants of the former FRAME Bar in Hazel Park debuted a chef-driven restaurant featuring cuisine from their homeland, with an embrace of old and new world culinary traditions. For months, I’d been looking forward to this foodie adventure to check out Hazel Park’s newest…

  Jeff Popovich

  January 27, 2026

  Food Blog, Italian cuisine, New Restaurants, Pasta Series

  Adventure, Bar Gabi, Food, Foodie, FRAME Bar, Gabriel Botezan, Gabriela Botezan, goulash, Hazel Park, Metro Detroit, Michigan, restaurant, Romania, Romanian cuisine, Transylvania

• Smoked Lotus BBQ was a remarkable hidden gem in Hazel Park — it will be missed

  

  Hazel Park, MI — On Friday, I was finally able to stop by an exemplary establishment serving up some top-tier barbecue right down the street from where I live in Hazel Park. Smoked Lotus BBQ had been on my foodie radar for nearly two years, and like many places on my never-ending restaurant list, it…

  Jeff Popovich

  December 23, 2025

  Barbecue Series, Food Blog, New Restaurants

  Adventure, Bar Gabi, barbecue, blog, Eastside Roasterz, Food, Food Blog, food blogger, Foodie, foodie adventure, Hazel Park, Mabel Gray, Metro Detroit, MI Foodie Adventures, Michigan, restaurant, Sister Pie, small business, smoked lotus barbecue, Smokehaus Ferndale