Vecino, new Detroit restaurant inspired by Mexico City, set to open Friday

A new restaurant that was to open last fall is set to open Friday, bringing the essence and traditional flavors of Mexico City and Oaxaca to Midtown Detroit. Called Vecino, which means neighbor in Spanish, the new Modern Mexican Midtown eatery will offer an "agave-forward bar" and open-hearth kitchen while also touting Michigan's first corn nixtamalization program, a traditional kernel-to-masa preparation process. Owned by Adriana Jimenez, Lukasz Wietrzynski, and Colin Tury, a Detroit-based designer, Vecino is the first project from Midwest Hospitality. Jimenez founded the Detroit-based hospitality company. “We consciously...