Things to Do in Beverly Hills Michigan This Fall: Dining & Trails

In The Detroit News, Supino Pizzeria owner Dave Mancini described the restaurant he opened this year at 31201 Southfield Road, in the same plaza where Beverly Hills residents have been grabbing groceries for decades: "We can do a beer-and-a-slice kind of thing, but we can also do special occasions."

That plaza, anchored by Market Fresh at the corner of 13 Mile and Southfield, has never been a place people planned an evening around. You went in for milk, bread, maybe a rotisserie chicken, and you left. Supino changes what that stop is for, and it lands at a moment when the village's other major gathering point, Beverly Park, has just wrapped its own busiest stretch of the year. Understanding how those two places now split the calendar tells you more about how Beverly Hills actually works than any list of what's new.

A Grocery Run Corner Learns to Keep People Around

Mancini has run Supino out of Eastern Market since 2008, building a following on East Coast-style thin crust in a city that mostly does thick and square. A New Center location followed in 2021. The Beverly Hills restaurant, opened earlier this year, is his first outside Detroit and the first Supino in Oakland County, occupying roughly 3,600 square feet at the north end of the Market Fresh plaza with seating for about 80 and a full bar.

The idea came from inside the family. Mancini's father-in-law, Johnny Karmo, owns Market Fresh, and it was Karmo who suggested the space when it opened up. For the new location, Mancini brought on chef Mike Mazzola and promoted Stephanie Schult from front-of-house general manager to director of operations, the first time in twelve years he's handed kitchen control to someone else. The menu keeps Supino's signature pizza but adds fish and other proteins, alongside a wine list built entirely around Italian bottles, a deliberate departure from a beer-and-pizza default toward something you'd choose for a Friday you actually planned.

A Dinner Option Joins a Brunch Favorite

Beverly Hills already had a restaurant people built plans around: Beverly Hills Grill on Southfield Road, walk-in only, also seating about 80, and pulling roughly 3,000 brunch guests a week according to Hour Magazine, which named it Best Brunch. Thirty-plus years in, it's still the default answer for a Sunday morning.

Beverly Hills Grill fills mornings and early afternoons. Supino adds dinner service and a full bar at the plaza at 13 Mile and Southfield. The corner that used to close down after the last grocery run now has a reason to stay lit past dark.

Beverly Park Was Already Running the Social Calendar

While the plaza sat quiet in the evenings, Beverly Park was doing most of the village's social lifting. The 34-acre park on Beverly Road carries sand volleyball courts, baseball fields, tennis and basketball courts, a disc golf course, a sled hill, an ice rink, a Little Free Library, and a Storybook Trail installed in 2017 that loops young readers past posted pages of a picture book on their way through the woods.

This year's calendar ran through it almost entirely. Concerts in the Park brought free evening music on June 6, June 26, July 24, and August 14, each with a food truck on site. Java & Jazz turned Sunday mornings into a standing appointment, with free coffee and the Ryan Bills Trio playing live at the park pavilion on May 17, June 21, July 19, August 16, and September 20. Food Truck Mondays ran from May 4 through August 31. The 42nd annual Memorial Day Parade stepped off from the east lot at Groves High School and ended with a ceremony at Beverly Park at 1 p.m., carnival running noon to 2 p.m. A movie night at dusk closed out the summer slate on August 20.

Two Anchors, Split by Season

That whole stretch of programming is now behind the village. Java & Jazz wrapped its fifth and final Sunday on September 20. The concert series ended in mid-August, while Food Truck Mondays continued through August 31. What's left on the park calendar is a single date: the Halloween Hoot, scheduled for Saturday, October 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. along the Hoot Trail, free admission, flashlights and costumes encouraged for trick-or-treating through the woods.

After that, Beverly Park's organized calendar goes quiet until spring. The sled hill and skating rink still pull people in once the snow holds, but there's no more standing Sunday morning or Friday evening built into the schedule. That's exactly where the plaza picks up. Supino's dinner service and full bar don't depend on weather or a printed calendar. As the park's outdoor season empties out, the village now has an indoor option it didn't have last winter, open on whatever night someone wants it rather than only on the dates a parks board sets months in advance.

The Trails Nobody Has to Schedule

Not every green space in the village runs on a calendar, and that's useful once the organized events stop. Douglas Evans Nature Preserve, 18 acres off Evergreen Road north of 13 Mile, has been restricted by deed to remain in its natural state since it was donated to the village in 1973. Hidden Rivers Nature Preserve, 15 acres on the south side of 14 Mile east of Evergreen, sits on a peninsula wrapped by branches of the Rouge River. Riverside Park, smaller still at about half an acre on Riverside Drive, holds a mill pond fed by that same river, quiet enough on a weekday morning to be worth the walk even without a reason attached to it.

None of these places need programming to be worth using. They're open on the days there's nothing else on the calendar, which after October 24 is most of them.

What a Fall Weekend in the Village Looks Like Now

Put it together and the shape of a fall Saturday in Beverly Hills looks different than it did a year ago. A morning walk still works the same way it always has: the nature trail through Beverly Park, past the gazebo and the pond, out toward Riverside Park if you want to add the mill pond to the loop. What's changed is what happens after dark. Where the evening used to default to a drive up Woodward into Birmingham or Ferndale, there's now a dinner option inside the village itself, at the same corner where you already stop for groceries.

For a rainy afternoon that doesn't fit a trail walk, the Seligman Performing Arts Center on the Detroit Country Day School campus runs a programming calendar that outperforms what a school-affiliated hall usually offers, and the Ethan Allen Park Gallery rotates exhibits inside the village's historic hall, a fifteen-minute stop that makes a small village feel a little less small.

The Halloween Hoot on October 24 is the last shared date on the books before winter. After that, the calendar splits the way it will all season: the outdoor spaces still open, still free, still yours to use whenever you want, and the plaza at 13 Mile and Southfield now giving the village an evening option it spent years without.

If you're weighing what a village like this actually offers day to day, not just on paper but in the small, repeatable details that make a place feel lived-in, that's the kind of read The Madelon Collective tries to give every Oakland County community we cover. Reach out if you want the same kind of ground-level view of another neighborhood on your list.