The Chef’s Table at Detroit Foundation Hotel is Once Again Set

For Detroit Foundation Hotel, the return of Chef’s Table is less about nostalgia and more about relevance. It’s a reminder that the dining room can still function as a place of experimentation and community.

For the month of March, Chef Craig Lieckfelt takes over the communal table upstairs at Apparatus Room, bringing his Guns + Butter perspective back home. A seventh-generation Detroit native, Lieckfelt built his reputation on pop-up dinners rooted in Michigan’s bounty and the people who have shaped Detroit’s story. What began as intimate gatherings here quickly gained momentum, eventually expanding to major food destinations including SoHo, Brooklyn, Tribeca, and the East Village in New York, along with international stops. In the process, Guns + Butter helped shape Detroit’s modern dining scene.

Now he’s back in Detroit, cooking at home.

Chef’s Table was built for residencies like this one. Twenty seats gathered around a shared table, the kitchen fully in view, no real separation between guest and chef. 

Lieckfelt’s Guns + Butter dinners are known for reworking comfort dishes with precision food that feels familiar at first glance, then unfolds with unexpected detail. Michigan ingredients take the lead, techniques wows and the experience moves at his tempo.

There’s something fitting about this series unfolding inside a former firehouse. Detroit has always been a city that carries its history forward rather than sealing it off, and this dinner feels like an extension of that mindset.

Seat count remains limited to twenty guests, with two evening seatings throughout March

Reservations are open through Detroit Foundation Hotel.