September 5, 2013 | Detroit Free Press

Bistro 82 and Sabrage, its upstairs ultra-lounge, are being billed as show-stoppers.

The expansive project will be “a boutique cosmopolitan dining and nightlife destination” designed to appeal to a slightly older, more sophisticated crowd than other Royal Oak venues, says owner Aaron F. Belen, 30, a Bloomfield Hills commercial real estate developer. “It will look very different from everything else in the market. … My whole goal was to bring something to southeast Michigan that didn’t exist before,” he says.