- Joe Muer Seafood in Nashville will become The Detroit Cowboy on May 5th.
- The new restaurant appears to be a partnership between the Joe Muer brand and Kid Rock.
- Kid Rock alluded to the 2020 closure of his previous Detroit restaurant in an Instagram post.
- The Detroit Cowboy website promises “steaks, chops and fine dining.”
Joe Muer Seafood is transitioning.
On May 5, the Capitol View restaurant will become The Detroit Cowboy, in an apparent partnership between the Detroit-based Joe Muer and Kid Rock, who was born in Detroit as Robert James Ritchie, according to social media announcements on April 29.
The Detroit Cowboy will take over 500 11th Ave. N., the 12,000-square-foot space that’s housed Joe Muer Seafood for the past two years.
Joe Muer Seafood has been a Detroit dining mainstay for nearly a century. Joe Vicari Restaurant Group took over the brand in 2011. The Nashville location was the group’s first restaurant outside of Michigan.
Joe Muer Nashville’s website announces that the restaurant is “signing off.”
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“But we hope to see you at The Detroit Cowboy!” it says.
It links to a landing page for The Detroit Cowboy, which beckons to Kid Rock fans with the tagline, “Go where you’re celebrated, not tolerated.”
Kid Rock’s Instagram account also announces the forthcoming opening. The musician, it seems, has a bit of an axe to grind about the closure of a former Detroit restaurant.
“A small group of very bad people thought they cancelled me and my restaurant in Detroit in 2020. … All you dumb***es did was hurt the city I LOVE,” he said.
That’s a reference to backlash following a profanity-laced video of the star ranting about Oprah Winfrey at a Nashville event.
No further details are available about Kid Rock’s restaurant, aside from a promise of “steaks, chops and fine dining,” according to the restaurant’s site.
The oft-controversial star already has a looming downtown presence in the multistory Broadway honky tonk he opened in 2018.
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