Jacoby’s is a bar located in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The bar is one of the city’s oldest, having opened in 1904 and is widely recognised as one of Detroit’s best German Restaurants and Biergarten.

The bar was originally called Jake’s Tavern until it was renamed Jacoby’s after being taken over by Mina and Albert Jacoby. After immigrating from Luxembourg, Albert Jacoby had taken over the bar after a successful stint as a bartender at the Old Pontchartrain Hotel. Several generations of the Jacoby family would go on to run the bar for almost 100 years when it changed hands in the 1990s.

The bar occupies a modest building on Brush Street, situated between an alleyway and a parking lot, looking exactly like a bar you would expect to see in a movie set in the motor city. Although technically a German restaurant, the lower-level bar contains all the elements one would expect from an American saloon style bar. From the tin ceiling to the row of stools surrounding the length of the bar, Jacoby’s is American bar through and through.