A few of the spots we hit in Detroit:
Miller’s Bar for burgers
Louisiana Creole Gumbo
Feather Bowling at Cadieux Cafe
Russell Street Deli for enormous, delicious sandwiches
Eastern Market
Lou Anna’s Bakery
Driving around Indian Village
Cocktails at the Rattlesnake Club
MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit)
DIA (Detroit Institute of Art)
Supino’s pizzeria
Town Pump to see DJ next-door-neighbor Todd
Toast in Ferndale, MI
Heidelberg Project
Vietnamese sandwiches in madison heights, mi
Taqueria Lupitas
Gaelic League Irish American Club
A fascinating city with lots of desolate spots, and gasps of trying to stay alive while half the population has left in recent years. Businesses are few and far between with a huge number of vacant homes, schools, office buildings and businesses. Sidewalks were often empty, or riddled with those asking for money in the evening and we never encountered a really crowded spot the whole weekend. It’s jarring relative to the traffic on even quiet New York streets where you are hardly ever alone. We spent a lot of time driving around neighborhoods, examining houses, especially areas with a high percentage of boarded up (presumably foreclosed or abandoned) homes as well as standing homes where neighboring properties have collapsed or burned, devaluing all the homes around it. Detroit is a curious city now, in need of massive overhaul of its schools, roads, treatment of crime, etc., and I suspect will continue to be one as the economy either worsens or gets better in the next few years.
