Ratings and Honors of
America's Top-Rated Restaurant

4-Star Rating for Excellence
– Exxon Mobil Travel Guide, 2007

The Award of Ultimate Distinction
– Wine Enthusiast Highest Award
(one of 29 restaurants in North America)

The Best Restaurant for General Excellence
Best French Restaurant
Best Restaurant Ambience
Best Wine List
Best Maitre 'd (Jim Lark)
Best Service (Attentive)
– HOUR Detroit Magazine's Annual "Best of Detroit" Poll, 2006

Michigan's First 4-Diamond restaurant.
– AAA National Rating Critics. AAA Link

"...billions of things make (The Lark) Detroit's
food gods."
– Absolutely Essential Guide to Detroit.

The only Michigan restaurant included in this prestigious book.
– America's Elite 1000.

"European style, Midwestern substance and enlightened innovation add up to perfection... a restaurant that seamlessly blends the best of the Mediterranean and Middle America." One of America's 10 best special occasion restaurants.
– Bon Appétit Magazine.

Rated best restaurant in the United States in its last Readers' Poll.
– Condé Nast Traveler Magazine.

"A four-star rating almost doesn't do justice to Jim and Mary Lark's world-class French country inn."
– Detroit Free Press Restaurant Review.

Four stars. Outstanding. "Perhaps no other Detroit-area restaurant has a more exalted reputation or loyal following."
– Detroit News.

One of the first two Michigan DiRona Award winners.
– Distinguished Restaurants of North America.

Detroit Vicinity four-time repeat Top Table Award Winner.
– Gourmet Magazine.

Detroit Restaurant of the Year "...stands above the rest... it's reaching legendary status."
– Hour Magazine.

**** Michigan's first Four-Star restaurant.
– Mobil Travel Guide.

Michigan's first inductee into The Nation's Restaurant News' Fine Dining Hall of Fame.

"The Lark would be as chock full of patrons in New York and L.A., as it is just north of Detroit. On either of the dream coasts, it would be an enchanting relief, like a warm rain after a good movie."
– Novelist, Essayist and Screenwriter, Jim Harrison.

"I could hardly write about Detroit in the 1990's without including a reference to The Lark. It's become as essential to the area as the Uniroyal Tire (sign), and a good deal more memorable."
– Novelist Loren D. Estelman.

Best Award of Excellence. Yearly recipient.
– Wine Spectator.