Traffic Jam & Snug Restaurant

The Traffic Jam and Snug, established 1965, is truly one of Detroit's hidden treasures. Known for our in-house bakery, microbrewery, and dairy, our curiously intimate multi-level dining rooms, and an eclectic menu.

Restaurants seem to be getting faceless, often using far
from local ingredients. They lack little identity or character. Traffic Jam and
Snug has the opposite mentality, going beyond just serving local ingredients by
actually crafting them in their in-house brewery, creamery and bakery.

“What other restaurant makes its own bread, ice cream” and cheese besides this 1965 Eclectic near Wayne State, which also features a microbrewery producing “interesting” beers, “inventive” savories including “vegetarian dishes that are as tasty as their meaty companions” and “succulent desserts”; service “can vary from prompt and attentive to slow and off-hand”, and the “cavernous”, “rustic”,...

When different owners took over a couple of years ago, they knew what a good thing founder Ben Edwards had created. And so they didn't tamper with success. The Wayne State University hangout (professors rather than students for the most part) has always been known for its fresh-baked breads (including an ever-changing bread du jour), house-made cheeses and eclectic menu that emphasizes...

In Short
Innovations over the years have included a bakery, a brewery and a dairy, all on the premises. The crowd is as eclectic as the menu, with before- and after-theater business a...

Traffic Jam and Snug, Established in 1965, is truly one of Detroit's hidden treasures. Known throughout midtown for our in-house bakery, microbrewery, and dairy, our curiously intimate multi-level dining rooms, and an eclectic menu of made-from-scratch dishes, there is simply nothing quite like the traffic jam.