The Joe Muer’s seafood restaurant on Gratiot Avenue in Detroit before it was closed and torn down.
When Vicari first got in partnership with Muer, part of the deal, he said, was that for the first five years Muer would come to the Joe Muer’s Seafood at Detroit’s Renaissance Center restaurant on weekends to greet and talk to people.
“The first two years it was like a rock star coming into the restaurant… people were just falling all over him and just had so many fond memories of the original Joe Muer’s,” Vicari said. “It was eye-opening to me that after so many years, people still appreciated the Joe Muer brand. People were just thrilled to see him.”
A Joe Muer Seafood in Bloomfield Hills opened in 2017 and, more recently, the restaurant group expanded the brand out-of-state in 2023, opening a Nashville, Tennessee location.
Owner Joe Muer Jr. and waiter Melvin Fields check an order before it leaves the kitchen at Joe Muer’s in 1988.
More recently, Muer is featured in the trailer of the under-production documentary film, Detroit: City of Chefs. The documentary, produced by film producer and chef, Keith Famie due out later this year, reflects on metro Detroit chefs, restaurant owners and operators who have impacted or played a major role Detroit’s culinary scene.
The Muer name has been part of Detroit and metro Detroit’s culinary lineage for decades
Muer’s brother Chuck Muer was also a prominent restaurateur who founded the C. A. Muer Restaurant Group, which was bought by Landry’s, a multi-brand hospitality company, in the early 2000s. Chuck Muer was lost at sea during a March 1993 storm along with his wife, Betty, and friends George and Lynn Drummey while sailing in the Bahamas.
According to his online obituary from Staffan-Mitchell Funeral Home in Chelsea, Joe Muer Jr. is survived by his wife of 53 years, Jane Sielaff Muer; his three children, Joseph W. Muer III, Molly Ann (Dennis) Baran, Hans Thomas (Victoria) Muer; grandchildren, Hans Dennis (Melissa) Baran, Christopher Joseph Baran, and Corbin Edward (Halle) Baran; great-granddaughter, Rollin Claire Baran; and great-grandson, Beau Edward Baran.
A private celebration of Muer’s life will take place at a later date, according to the obituary.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Famed Detroit restauranteur Joe Muer Jr. dies at 88
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