The Week We Ate (The EID Week in Review)

This is on the wall of the employee bathroom at Dark Horse Brewing Co. Really.Easy Like Sundae, a new froyo shop set to open in Ferndale, would like to remind you to buy Michigan or the communists win. [Ferndale Patch]*Yawn* OLD NEWS, but let's give the rest of the world some time to catch up. MillerCoors bought the Michigan Brewing Company brand and now a week later they're officially admitting it. [Beer Pulse]Jolly Pumpkin releases Luciernaga at...

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[EID Feature] Nano Growth: Brew Jus

All photos from Brew Jus.Brew Jus is a nano-restaurant. Not sure quite what to make of that? Neither is the health department, the city of Ferndale or Oakland County.To these various governing bodies’ credit, they’re trying. Well … except for the health department, which kind of functions like that kid in high school who’d rat you out for smoking in the bathroom because they’re terrified of getting in trouble themselves just for having known about...

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Anthony Bourdain is what the foodie movement landed on when the foodie movement jumped the shark.

This is the face of a smug fuck.This week Eater reports on Anthony Bourdain's latest literary foray Get Jiro, in which Tony takes comic book likenesses of world-famous professional chefs Jiro Ono and Alice Waters and plunks them into a near-future L.A. in which the "foodie movement" has become so entirely faddish and absurd that people will wait years for a table at the hottest restaurants, there are such things as "Holy Foods" and L.A. is run by...

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[Beerie] Because We Can Can Can

Welcome to Beerie, your weekly beer.Western Michigan's Brewery Vivant uses only cans. Photo by Chad Cramblet.The Huffington Post recently ran an article on the market growth of canned beer. It was written by a Harvard graduate who is also one of HuffPo's economics reporters and whose other recent contributions have included "After Years Of Outsourcing, Small U.S. Manufacturers Bring Jobs Back To America" and "Big Bank CEO Pay Spiked An Average...

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[HOT LIST] Summer's best fests

DIY Street Fair.Summer in Michigan can mean only one thing: a whole year's worth of partying, festivals and events crammed into four months. To be fair, there's something happening somewhere around town pretty much every single weekend all year round (even in the post-holiday doldrums of January), but summer is when there are SO many events that to simply sit on a patio soaking in the sun seems passé. (Besides, that's what Mondays are for.) Now that...

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The Week We Ate (The EID Week in Review)

The Old Fenton Fire Hall. Please let someone open another upscale BBQ restaurant, please please PLEASE let someone open another upscale BBQ restaurant, pleeeeease please please ... praised be to pork, our prayers have been answered! Behold: another upscale BBQ restaurant. (This time in Chelsea.) [Concentrate]ROYAL OAK IS GETTING A NEW SPORTS BAR. In related news, there are some fruits that simply hang too low. [Royal Oak Patch]"Beaver slap"...

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[Metromode] Fests and Fundraisers Go Local

Chef/Owner Brandon Johns of the Grange Kitchen + Bar in Ann Arbor at Baconfest MichiganHere in metro Detroit we certainly have our fair share of fairs, festivals and food-centric fundraisers. But where food-centered events used to be primarily about gathering a bunch of restaurants together and serving the masses (with little regard to what exactly the masses were being served), over the last few years the nature of our local festivals has shifted...

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[EID Feature] Gimme, Gimme, Gimme the Honky Tonk Tacos: Imperial

Photo by Nicole Rupersburg. All other photos from Imperial.From the very beginning, owner Jeff King has insisted that Imperial is “a community bar with a taco truck on the back, not a Mexican restaurant.” He has insisted that people don’t think of it as a restaurant, but as a bar … with a taco truck on the back (“truck” being, you know, a kitchen). People pretty instinctively started to refer to this place as “that new Mexican restaurant in Ferndale.”...

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Monday is the new Thursday

You know how a few years back Thursday became the new Friday? It occurred to me recently that Monday is the new Thursday, which is to say Monday and Tuesday are the new weekend.This Monday a ClandesDine dinner was held. I would normally not speak of this publicly or otherwise actively promote it because it is not a "legal" event in the strictest sense of ... being legal. But since New York Mag already blew up Detroit's spot in a number of ways, not...

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[HOT LIST] Waterfront dining

Brownies on the Lake. Photo by Nicole Rupersburg."Hey look, we're located right on the water, our food sucks but no one cares!" is what almost every waterfront restaurant in metro Detroit has said ever. And admittedly, this list was a little difficult to put together because, well, ^that. But then again, the food is sort of secondary isn't it? Or is it? These places have spec-freaking-tacular waterfront views - and not like, "oh I can see the...

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The Week We Ate (The EID Week in Review)

Honi Honi. Photo from Curbed Detroit.GQ interviewed our very own Dave Mancini of Supino Pizzeria for some of his favorite spots in Detroit then proceeded to publish a story about Detroit in a national publication that doesn't suck! (And the magic leprechaun juju of Corktown strikes again, with the newly-opened Green Dot Stables already a sure "bet." [Get it?]) [GQ]...which is to say nothing of the magic leprechaun juju of Ferndale, where a rainbow...

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