Time Will Tell Review & Bathroom Guide
6408 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
A good-looking New Center room with a glowing jukebox and an Old Fashioned that didn't move me. One clean bathroom for the whole bar.
Reviewed July 2026
First-hand Shooki editorial
Shooki’s Review of Time Will Tell
By Shooki · Reviewed July 2026
A good-looking New Center room with a glowing jukebox and an Old Fashioned that didn't move me. One clean bathroom for the whole bar.
I was told to check out Time Will Tell. First impression: a little stale.
The room is good. Low light, black-and-white chevron floors, floral wallpaper against old brick, and a jukebox glowing in the corner like a relic from a better night. Somebody cared how this place looks.
The night I went, it was dead. An empty bar can feel intimate. This one felt awkward. Could have been the night, so I won't bury them for it.
I ordered an Old Fashioned. It's my measuring stick: a simple drink with nowhere to hide. This one didn't move me. Detroit has cocktail bars that send drinks out with purpose. Sugar House. Wright & Company. Bad Luck. Here the drink was average and still priced to compete with them, in a room with no energy, on a stretch of Woodward where parking fights Wayne State traffic and the QLINE.
I'm not trying to hate. Detroit has some excellent bars. It also has a few that might be surviving on hype.
Best for
- A low-lit drink in a room that looks the part
- Jukebox people
- A quiet night, if you want the bar to yourself
Less ideal for
- Anyone who judges a bar by its Old Fashioned
- Easy parking
- Groups sharing one bathroom
- Anyone who needs an accessible restroom
The Shooki Bathroom Review
First-party restroom record · Reviewed July 2026
Restroom verdict
Really clean and good-looking. But it's the only restroom in the bar, it isn't accessible, and one room can only climb so high on Shooki.
- Restroom inventory
- 1 total — 1 private gender-neutral room
- Review coverage
- Detailed observations recorded for 1 of 1 restroom areas
- Room reviewed
- The bar's one private restroom
- Reviewed room fixtures
- 1 stall/toilet · 0 urinals · 1 sink
- Why this score
- Clean and good-looking, which earns the 6. It stays there because one room serves the whole bar and I didn't find it accessible.
- Layout
- A single private room: one toilet with grab bars on two walls, a wall-hung sink under an arched mirror, and a pedal bin.
- Capacity
- One room serves the entire bar. When it fills up, everyone waits on the same door.
Observed accessibility limitations
- Grab bars are mounted by the toilet, but I didn't consider the room accessible.
These are first-party observations from the reviewed experience, not an accessibility compliance assessment.
One private restroom for the entire bar. It was really clean, and credit where it's due.
It looks like the rest of the place: dark green walls, framed prints of old cars, brass fixtures, an arched mirror over a wall-hung sink. Somebody thought about it.
But anyone who follows Shooki knows the rule. One restroom can only climb so high. When the whole bar shares one room, capacity and privacy become a problem fast. There are grab bars on the wall, but I wouldn't call it accessible.
What Google Reviewers Say
4.7 on Google · 200 reviews · Read on Google →
Reviewers describe a small, curtained room on Woodward that feels like a time warp, and the drinks are the draw: craft cocktails are named in ten reviews and creative cocktails in six, with cozy decor, art deco detail, the free jukebox and the weeknight happy hour close behind. The bartenders take the warmest praise — knowledgeable, welcoming, and happy to build something around what you like. Reviewers call it a hole in the wall and an intimate space, and mean both as compliments. Of its 200 ratings, 169 are five stars.
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