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What Gin Gin’s is

Gin Gin’s Food & Spirits sits on Summer Avenue NW on Grand Rapids’ west side, and it is built as much around the room as the food — an open kitchen, leather booths, sapele wood paneling, moody lighting and a courtyard out back.

Sapele is a West African hardwood related to mahogany, and paneling a dining room in it is an expensive, deliberate choice. It signals what the place is going for: a bar you would happily spend an evening in, that also serves a real steak.

The food

The menu is American classics done properly — premium steaks, fresh seafood and handmade pasta. The cocktail program leans vintage, with handcrafted and classic drinks rather than a modern mixology exercise.

The combination of a steak menu and a genuine bar program is less common than it should be. Most steakhouses treat the bar as a waiting room.

Prices

Gin Gin’s does not publish its menu in machine-readable form, so SteakMap has no verified cuts, weights or prices to quote. Grade and aging are not published either, and we make no claim about either.

Grand Rapids and west Michigan have a real steak scene — read the guide to the best steakhouses in Michigan.