James Beard Award-winning chef Shawn McClain to open restaurant atop RenCen
Shawn McClain, a James Beard Award-winning chef known for properties in Chicago and Las Vegas, will open a new restaurant atop Detroit’s Renaissance Center.
The as-yet-unnamed restaurant will take up approximately 20,000 square feet on the building’s 71st and 72nd floors, home previously to Coach Insignia, which shuttered almost one year ago when the landlord declined to extend its lease. Back then, General Motors subsidiary and RenCen owners Riverfront Holdings, Inc. issued a statement saying the search was on for a “world-class restaurant” to replace it.
“We want to reinvent that top of the tower experience,” said McClain, founder of the McClain Camarota Hospitality group, which runs three properties in Las Vegas: the fine-dining Sage restaurant and the casual Five50 Pizza Bar in the Aria Casino, as well as the Libertine Social gastropub at Mandalay Bay.
