This venue is a DREAM. We had our wedding here earlier this year, and everything was perfect from…read morestart to finish! We booked our date maybe 1.5 years in advance and started to meet with the Planterra team maybe 6 months prior. We had roughly 3-4 in person meetings and a couple of scheduled phone calls throughout the process. The planterra team was so organized and thought of everything (we did not hire a planner, and did not feel like we had to at all because the planterra team was so comprehensive!). On the day of, everything went extremely smoothly. The day of coordinator helped us stay on track and made sure we were all where we needed to be while keeping us calm and collected. We had a VIP server that focused on me and the groom (Alejandro--you're the best!!!), which was something I never knew I needed until we experienced it. He completely took care of us, making sure we always had a drink and enough food. The florals were stunning, and we had compliments on the romantic candlelit ambiance all night. The temperature was perfect (we were initially a little worried since we chose a winter wedding date), and the transition from daylight to sunset to starry sky was so beautiful. At the end of the night, the Planterra team packed everything up for us and even helped load our stuff into cars. We were then allowed to pick the rest of the stuff up the next day. Cost-wise, our wedding ended up costing a litttttle bit more than what was orginally in the proposed budget by Planterra (d/t extras such as valet parking, coat check, cake cutting and plating). But honestly, this venue was worth it--our stress levels were low to none because we trusted the Planterra team and we were completely able to enjoy the night!

My friend was married here a couple weeks ago and the venue was absolutely magical! The dimmed…read morelighting give such a charming and romantic. The trees, fountains, and stone wall give such an earthy feel, and the florals made the room feel enchanting. The wait staff were all very lovely and accommodating, and the bar staff did a wonderful job on the drinks. The plated filet and salmon dinner were delicious and the lamb chop hors d'oeuvre was absolutely divine!

I thought this was a great place to go for a nice dinner. It had a unique vibe being where it is in…read moreWest Bloomfield; they've redesigned the place to look lowkey and elegant. When I went, I think it might've been a Monday evening, so it was pretty quiet and the service was almost frighteningly quick. Our meals were delicious. I had the branzino fish and I loved it so much. I wanted to finish it there, but I made myself listen to my stomach and enjoyed it as leftovers the next day instead. My server was very kind and willing to answer my egregious questions because I was having trouble deciding what I wanted. I'm excited to try eating here for lunch! Oh and the bathroom was pretty and pink

This place was recommended to me by a friend so we decided to go for brunch. I think their brunch…read moremenu is relatively new and in my opinion, still needs some improvements. I ordered the short rib skillet and I was quite disappointed. There was mostly fat instead of short rib meat; the potatoes were not seasoned well and were undercooked. My friend ordered the French toast and had to send it back because the inside was undercooked and gooey. Our server was very helpful and took immediate action. She resubmitted our orders and both dishes were brought out without waiting too long. Even though my skillet was re-cooked it still was not flavorful or anything to remember. I definitely would not order that again. I love the ambiance and how it is decorated. It was a cute spot for our girls brunch. Large dining area and also they have a small private room for an intimate dinner party. I think I might check out their dinner menu and see what that is like because my friend stated that she only went to their dinner and it was really good.

I CANNOT say enough good things about Genitti's ..the entire process was effortless. The rooms are…read moreall so cozy and welcoming; we were in the "Gift Shop" room and it was perfect! The ENTIRE staff were friendly, extremely helpful, and provided over the top, exceptional service! Two things I must point out that make Genitti's the best place to book a shower or event: You pay for the number of guests you actually have-not a minimum number that you may or may not meet and waste both money and food You drop off all of your decorations, gifts, prizes, desserts, centerpieces etc the day before -they come out to your car and take it all inside for you. After your event they pack up and take everything back out to your car for you too. When you arrive the day of your event they have completely set up everything and add their own touches. It was so nice to walk into the room and just admire it and take some pictures-it looked amazing. If you're needing the perfect place for a special event call them up-but book early!

My nursing association had our Christmas party here at this venue and what a time it was! Its very…read morecozy inside and the service was fantastic! The owner came and spoke to us before the food came out, and he was very genuine and funny. The party pants cocktail was great and the food was pretty good. We had Italian wedding soup, bread, salad, parmesan butter noodles, Italian sausage, Italian seasoned chicken (which was a little dry), potatoes, Italian steak, and green beans. Everything was served family style. Ironically my favorite was the wedding soup and bread. And the made-in-house cannolis were exceptional ! After we ate and laughed for hours, we attended their Christmas show in the theater! It runs for about an hour but it didn't even seem like it. It was fun, cheesey, cute, and interactive. I would definitely recommend this venue for events and gatherings! We had a blast!

The Longacre House in Farmington Hills, Michigan is a registered local historic site. A sign is…read moreposted outside that reads: "Luman W. Goodenough (1873-1947), prominent Detroit Attorney, charter member and first president of the Detroit Rotary Club, acquired this building and land surrounding it in 1915, naming it the Longacre House. The earliest portion was erected in 1869 by Palmer Sherman. The twentieth century saw several additions here including the impressive six-foot high stone wall constructed in 1917 along the east property line. In 1969, Goodenough heirs gave this handsome Georgian manor home and five acres of land to the Farmington area to be used as a community center. This facility hosts conferences and club meetings, numerous weddings and receptions, and recreation courses in crafts and the arts. Local citizens are proud of the Longacre House, which is an area landmark." I attended my fiancee's good friend's pellikoduku at the Longacre House. (A pellikoduku is a traditional Indian pre-wedding ceremony for the groom.) This house is located about 25 miles from downtown Detroit. It takes a little over 30 minutes to get to the house from downtown Detroit without any traffic. The house is owned and operated by the City of Farmington Hills. This is a beautiful historic brick home that's been well-maintained, inside and out. The outside is picturesque with finely-manicured lawns and nicely-landscaped grounds. I made sure to get a picture with my fiancee in front of the house where there is a nice brick pathway and colorful plants and flowers. The event took place inside what I believe is the Longacre House's main event space. It looks like a living room (with fireplace) that has been converted and combined with perhaps a back porch or patio area to serve as an open event space. There were five round white tablecloth tables set up with place settings (each table seating 12 people) along with buffet-style catered food and drink. The event space had a drink and dessert station while the salad, entrees, and sides were set up in a separate room nearby. The house was simple with minimal decor - nice chandeliers, curtains, and hardwood floors. There's a small garden and gazebo outside. I believe dinner catering was provided by Longacre House's in-house catering group, Gourmet Express Catering & Event Planning Group based out of South Lyon, Michigan. We had glasses of a fruit drink with slices of strawberry, purple grapes, and Mandarin oranges. Dinner consisted of spinach salad with croutons, an herb rice risotto, asparagus, lasagna, and a potato dish with vegetables cooked-in such as chopped carrots and squash. There was a coffee and dessert station with both regular and decaf coffee plus assorted dessert bites including what looked like brownie squares and baklava. In general, I thought the food was good. I love greens and vegetables so I got seconds on the spinach and asparagus. This was a fairly straightforward event. Aside from dinner, there was a pre-dinner gathering, sort of like a cocktail hour, where people mixed and mingled. After dinner, the actual pellikoduku activities commenced. There was also a mehndi (Indian body art) artist who applied red-orange mehndi "stains" to many of the female guests. Longacre House staff were present, but they were fairly hands-off as the food and drink were self-serve. They mainly made sure the food and drink stations were in order, replenished as needed, and cleared finished dinner plates. They were professionally (formally) dressed, polite, and did a good job throughout the night. If you get a chance to check out other rooms of the house or take a look around outside at the grounds, you should. It's a neat place to explore. There's plenty of parking too which is convenient for guests.

I chose this venue for my wedding because I wanted something on the small side with vintage charm…read moreand at least one fireplace. Missy, the event coordinator, did an amazing job; she suggested vendors for us to use, all of which were great, and made sure everything looked perfect on the big day. I had bought some decorations that I wasn't certain would look the best because I was on a budget, but the staff arranged them better than i ever could've done and the wedding was more beautiful than I imagined. The food was also great, especially the salmon! Couldn't have asked for a better experience.

Our recent 50th anniversary dinner party at Cafe Cortina was PERFECTION. The food presentation was…read moreoutstanding- simply delicious food & impeccable service. The decor & atmosphere of the Garden Room & patio were flawless. Just beautiful! We appreciate the guidance provided by Rina & Kelley in planning & creating our wonderful family celebration. Cafe Cortina's excellent reputation for high quality & service is well deserved. Congratulations to all on the upcoming 50th anniversary of this masterpiece venue! Michele &Tom

My husband and I celebrated our 54th anniversary on the patio of Cafe Cortina last night. It's a…read moremagical place, especially in the evening when the lights in the trees are glowing. We were greeted at the door and wished a happy anniversary before being led to the patio where a happy anniversary card had been placed at our table. We felt pampered like this throughout our visit. The staff was very attentive. At the end of our meal, our waitress lit a special sparkler at our table and again congratulated us. This evening, we ordered vegetarian lasagna, calamari, salad and one of the specials of the day, lamb chops. Everything tasted wonderful so we were very pleased. We love celebrating special occasions like this at Cafe Cortina. The food, staff and ambiance make it the perfect place to relax and enjoy the moment.

What a cool area to visit. I attended the Motor City Irish Festival with a friend of mine. We…read morewere out and about for the day and made our way to the festival to watch a band he wanted to see. I've never heard of this festival before but we had a good time. There was a huge beer tent set up with a band and a few other tents for whiskey tasting and Irish dancing. We walked around to shop a little and enjoyed some food. Of course we had to try a burger, but the cornbeef sandwiches looked delicious. We had a great time and look forward to returning possibly next year.

motor city Irish fest 2022 June 10,11,12 gates open at 1130 this event is not to be missed! Weather…read moreyou are Irish or just trying to be, your welcome here! Take a blast from the past with amazing heritage, traditions, archery, aerial silks, bag pipes playing in the background and the smell of fresh corned beef and craft beer!

I was recently a guest at Farmington Hills Manor for a youth sports banquet and was very…read moredisappointed in the service we received. Although the facility was beautiful and spacious, the staff were less than friendly and the portions for the amount charged were terrible. Our youth attendees received chicken tenders and fries, it was 2 tenders and a handful of fries, approximately 10-12 fries. Our adults received a small chicken cutlet, half of a potato sliced, and for vegetables 5 string beans and two baby carrots. The vegetarian plate was one potato's quartered and a handful of veggies. To my dismay, when the owner was told about the dissatisfaction with the portion sizes, he was extremely rude, disrespectful, and dismissive. I would not recommend doing business with Farmington Hills Manor.

We booked this place for a youth sports banquet on 12/7/25 with approximately 250 ppl. They…read moreinitially were very accommodating and promised a great meal with a "deal" on the food. They insisted on a plated meal and at first you think wow - fancy and convenient! But they really do that to control the portions because they do not cook the food in house - it is outsourced from another vendor which I realized on the day of our event. The portions were offensive - adult plates that we charged our guests $40 for came with a small piece of chicken, 1 piece of potato cut in half, and literally 4-5 pieces of green beans and carrots. We were stunned! The kids plates - which we charged $25 for - had a meager 2 chicken tenders and 10-12 French fries. It was so few we counted them! Our vegetarian requests that we gave in advance? They simply took the chicken off the plate and served the handful of vegetables and they upped the potatoes to 4. After the event I talked to the owner to voice our dissatisfaction and the charm did a sharp turn to rude and condescending. I asked for compensation for the vegetarian dishes - he said sure I'll pack you up some veggies (as he showed me a Sams club value size of frozen mixed veggies). There were other events I had planned on booking with him - this could have been a fruitful relationship but after his response to my complaint - I told him to erase my January booking and we would not be back and he did not care. He was extremely dismissive. Other than the food - the venue was clean, nice, and the staff were friendly. Photo below of the vegetarian dish!

1 Up Arcade Bar is a blast!! Booze and video games...need I say more!! I've been to several arcade…read morebars including Ready Player One, Pop + Offworld, and Pinball Pete's and 1 Up is probably my favorite!!! It's great that it's local and easy to get to. It's located in Downtown Farmington above Basement Burger Bar. The entrance is behind the building and there's plenty of parking behind the building too. I also like that it's not as tight, compact, and crowded as Ready Player One can get. I also had less problems with machines eating quarters or games getting stuck. The barcade itself is super cute and themed perfectly. The bar area has a giant light-up Pac-Man backdrop and all of the drinks on the menu are themed after old school video games. There's the Pac-Man old fashioned and Ms. Pac-Man cosmopolitan, a Ginball Wizard G&T, and a Diddy Kong banana flavored cocktail made with Screwball peanut butter whiskey. The craft cocktails are $9. They also have super delicious frozen cocktails! My favorite cocktail here is the frozen Donkey Kong! Do yourself a favor and order this! You will thank me later lol. It's a frozen banana cocktail with dark rum, cinnamon and vanilla. The best part: they actually flambé a banana and top the cocktail with the caramelized banana....yum!! The frozen cocktails are huuugee!! 23 oz for only $11. It's so large, it's the only drink you'll probably need for the night. I thought I had ordered the big one by mistake but apparently the big one is 51 oz and looks like a giant fish bowl to share for $22. They also have frozen Pac-Man cocktails called Blinky (raspberry), Inky (blue curaçao spin on a pina colada), Pinky (watermelon colada), and Clyde (whisky peach smash), and also a Kirby froze. They also have some craft beers on tap, some tasty $4 shots, and some bar snacks including chips, popsicles, Fun Dip and candy cigarettes for $1-$2. There's plenty of seating at the bar and also 1-2 tables throughout the barcade. Service was great! Bao was our bartender and he was super helpful, friendly, fast, efficient, and knowledgeable. Cocktails ordered come with 4 tokens for a game, and beers come with two tokens for a game. You can use tokens or regular quarters on all of the games and they have a couple change machines throughout the barcade. Most games require about two quarters/tokens and bigger games require four. I would say about $8-$10 is what you would need for tokens/quarters here to enjoy between two people for a fun night. They also have little tables by every video game to set your drink and drink holders at the pinball machines. They have about 5-6 pinball machines. I played the Pirates of the Caribbean one and it was super fun! I like how the pirate ship came to life. They have lots of nostalgic video games like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter vs. X-Men. They have some of my faves like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They have some driving games like Mario Kart and a game where you shoot zombies and of course an air hockey table which is always a blast. I've been here a couple times recently and before the pandemic, they even had a DJ spinning on the weekends. It's a fun spot to start your night with friends and maybe head to karaoke at BBB after or Swing Dancing in the park/pavilion. It also makes a great date night too!! I came here for a date and started the evening with tacos across the street at Masa and it was a lot of fun! They're closed on Mondays and Tuesdays but are open Wednesday & Thursday from 5pm to 12am, Friday from 5pm to 2am, Saturday from 12pm to 2am, and Sunday  5pm to 10pm. I highly recommend stopping in! Feels like you're at Chuck-E-Cheese minus the scary animatronic singing robots plus now I can have cocktails, yay! You will have a blast guaranteed!

Drinks were good, service was nice Honestly wish I had…read morerealized how disrespectful my chicken tender order looked before I left with tObviously old oil, should not have been served

Came in for a relaxing dinner, couldn't have been more impressed. Absolutely loved the table side…read moreCaesar and the restaraunt was BEAUTIFUL Can't wait to be back!!

We came here with family to celebrate an anniversary. I haven't been to this spot since it was Big…read moreDaddy's. It looks very different as Aurora. The ambience and decor was really nice. The servers were helpful and attentive in the right amounts. We enjoyed the dishes we ordered. I hot a squid pasta with clams, mussels, shrimp and calamari plus an espresso martini. There were also Brussels and corn for everyone to share. The pasta dish was flavorful. I liked it a lot. The Brussels were decent, but not necessarily better than I make at home or have had elsewhere. The corn dish was crisp and fresh. Solid 4 star meal.

The event held by AKA Alpha Gamma Omicron Omega Chapter was elegant, amazing, beautiful, and…read moremoving! The ladies of course were the highlight! Truly, the event venue provided the ambiance and the staff under the leadership of Ms. Elizabeth was professional and outstanding!

I've been here for weareimpact Detroit church service with Pastor David & Grace John this is a…read morereally nice place I'm so happy that you're welcoming weareimpact Detroit church!! I can't wait to tell others about this facility