Crain’s Detroit Business provided me with a list of new things to try this week in an article about Midtown. Dangerously Delicious Pies stood out in the list for a few reasons. One, I’ve never head of a restaurant dedicated to pie. Two, I LOVE pie. Three, the founder is currently competing on The Next … More Dangerously Delicious Pies
Hamtramck is a small city inside of Detroit, known for it’s traditionally Polish population. Over the years I have heard good things about Hamtramck; however, I always assumed it was like the other city inside Detroit – Highland Park. Highland Park looks like the apocalypse happened. Thankfully, Hamtramck does not. It’s a cute little city. … More Hamtramck
I really admire entrepreneurs. Investing time and money into an endeavor that may or may not work out is a risk I can’t imagine taking. I don’t even buy a lotto ticket when there is a $300 million dollar prize. Good People Popcorn is a family business operating in downtown Detroit. I read about the … More Good People Popcorn
Detroit’s having a hard time right now. The reality of a 60 year decline finally hit home. Bankruptcy is never good but I hope Detroit comes out better for it. In the meantime, I hope and pray the pensioners aren’t penalized too badly and the DIA, Belle Isle and other city assets remain intact. Thankfully, … More Detroit Update
I discovered the Bean a couple years ago. At the time it was a small shop that didn’t appear to get a lot of foot traffic. The apparent owner was always very nice but I had no idea how she stayed in business. I was always waiting for the announcement that they were closed but … More Coffee and Cocktails
March couldn’t end quick enough and April won’t slow down. I decided to bust out some fun money this week for a coffee break at one of the many new stores popping up downtown. The Roasting Plant is a NYC company and definitely adds an urban flare to the D. They promote themselves as … More Roasting Plant
We held out to the very end of the month before going on our date night. In order to go somewhere nice we decided to do a date lunch. Danny selected the restaurant and the Detroit Seafood Market in Paradise Valley downtown was the winner. Neither of us had been before and didn’t know what … More A Good Friday
Placemaking is the word of the day here in the D. Our billionaire patron, Dan Gilbert, had a pep rally to reveal his long term plans for downtown. I watched about 30 minutes of the event as it streamed this afternoon and was impressed. He’s working hard to make Detroit a great place. He’s carved out … More Placemaking in Detroit
I was never a Girl Scout as a kid. My sister did it for a year but it never really appealed to us. Nevertheless, like most people in this country we certainly enjoyed the cookies – no box of Samoas was safe around me. Surprisingly, as I’ve gotten older I find that I don’t actually like cookies … More Cookie Gala
This weeks edition of Model D introduced me to Canopi. It’s a start up company that recently relocated to Detroit. I signed up and poked around. It’s layout is similar to Pinterest (ascetically pleasing tiles that link to more information) and it functions as Google Reader (you can link to your favorite blogs and monitor … More Pinterest meets Google Reader
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