Molly Abraham Cause of Death, Obituary, and Funeral Details

Once the ‘glamorous’ and prolific restaurant critic for the Detroit News, Molly Abraham has passed away.

Molly Abraham, a restaurant critic for the Detroit Free Press, was a kind, modest, and encouraging person who helped thousands of people find great food in the Metro Detroit area over the years course of her career.

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Her son Jimmy Doom confirmed to The Detroit News on Thursday that the 92-year-old writer and restaurant critic had passed away of natural causes. During his seven decade long career, Abraham wrote thousands of essays and reviews for the Detroit News and Free Press.

Molly Abraham, restaurant critic for the Detroit News in 2016.
Throughout the 1970s, 2000s, and 2010s, Abraham was the restaurant reviewer and columnist for The News. Many restaurant owners liked Abraham because she was genuine and not pretentious, and because a positive review from her may boost revenue.

Sue Whitall, a former coworker and the music critic for the Detroit News, recalls Molly as “so effervescent and glamorous.”

“Molly was one of the most welcoming reporters I ever ran into at The Detroit News,” Whitall remarked. She was always full of interesting stories and discussion, and she often took groups of us out to lunch in the city. She gave you the whole Molly treatment if you happened to be with her when she reviewed a restaurant. They obviously adored her, because they kept surprising her with off-menu dishes.

She also had a deep appreciation for the work of other authors. Abraham worked for the Detroit Times, the Detroit Free Press, and The Detroit News, so she was something of a human link between the three. After she began freelancing for us from home, she would send me emails about specific stories, complementing me on things, said Whitall.

House ad for Molly Abraham’s dining columns in the Detroit News, 1972.
Abraham’s byline first appeared in print in The Detroit Times in the 1950s, when she profiled notable women of the era. In the late 1960s, she covered the arts and restaurants for the Tempo weekend section of The Detroit News. She later became known as a “amusement writer” and a “feature writer.”

Abraham provided information in her restaurant essays and reviews that was beneficial to both foodies and others who rarely ate out.

Abraham, according to a house ad published in The Detroit News in 1972, was born and raised in the city, went to school there (she graduated from the University of Detroit), and later became a food critic for New York and San Francisco publications.

“My job is to reveal the exciting places to go, good places to eat,” she is quoted as saying in the advertisement. Every week, I feature a different restaurant in my column. I don’t pretend to be a Cordon Bleu-level master who can name every single ingredient in every single sauce. I tried imagining life as a housewife who doesn’t go out often.

Even though Abraham was a working mother at the time (1975), she let her son Jimmy write a column. The “big 3” of fast food at the time were Burger King, McDonald’s, and Burger Chef, and he discussed his experiences at each.

Picture of Molly Abraham, columnist for the Detroit News, from 2001.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Abraham reviewed restaurants for the Detroit Free Press. There, she published many runs of the paperback guide “Molly Abraham’s Restaurants of Detroit,” which features 500 different restaurant reviews.

She retired in late 2018 after having reviewed eateries for The Detroit News again in the 2000s and 2010s.Abraham’s four grandkids and sons Doom and Robert Graham all resided in Grosse Pointe with her after she passed away.

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