2 new bars, 1 underground, now open in downtown Detroit

Easy Peasy and Lowkey are two new bars officially open on Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit.

Billed as a neighborhood bar, Easy Peasy is on the corner of Woodward Avenue and John R Street. Easy Peasy is at 1456 Woodward and not far from downtown concert and event venues. The space formerly housed the Cornerstone Barrel House. Open at noon daily, Easy Peasy offers its sushi menu for lunch and late-night service.

The bar is from the same team that operates the nearby Huddle Soft Serve ice cream window, Collect Beer Bar in Eastern Market, Two Birds and another Huddle Soft ice cream window in Detroit's West Village neighborhood.

Sushi options for lunch include spicy shrimp or tuna rolls, veggie rolls, and a rotating daily roll. The rolls are $11 each. Also on the lunch menu are ginger or seaweed salads at $6 each. Dinner is served from 4-11 p.m. from the team behind No Sauce BBQ, a black-owned collaboration of three Detroit chefs and industry veterans. No Sauce BBQ will offer cheeseburgers, rotating tacos (changes weekly) with smoked meats, chicken club panini, rice bowls, fries, onion rings, and other options. Easy Peasy brunch is noon to 3 p.m. on Saturdays and is also offered by No Sauce BBQ. The No Sauce BBQ trio also operates a mobile BBQ smoker and is well known for "The Egg Hunt" a breakfast and brunch food truck.

Lowkey is the underground sister bar of Easy Peasy. It's open from 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays featuring a rotation of Detroit bartenders. The space was the former home of Whisky Disco and before that the Oslo Nightclub. For information: easypeasydetroit.com.

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