Amusing the Palate

From Visit Detroit's October – December 2002 Issue

Just a loonie’s toss (the loon is the Canadian dollar coin) from the tunnel exit, Plunkett’s offers a “great kitchen and cool bar,” as the menu says.

The 24-year-old restaurant started out as Chez Vin, one of the earliest wine bars in the area when it opened in 1978, says co-owner Mike Plunkett, a transplanted Dubliner. Immediate success led to bigger projects, and eventually Plunkett opened Plunkett’s Bar and Grill, which became Plunkett’s Bistro Bar, a hybrid of all of the above.

As pioneers of the Windsor food scene, Plunkett and his wife Karen have benefited from their border location and increasingly sophisticated, well-traveled customers, who, pun intended, expect the world. And they’ll get it at Plunkett’s, whose menu sports contemporary and traditional fare from the four corners. For a taste of native Ireland, try the Irish soup, a vegetarian version prepared with the couple’s locally made Walkerville beer.