Baconfest Michigan Returns to the Royal Oak Farmers Market on Saturday, June 1

Last year’s sold-out smash hit Baconfest Michigan returns on Saturday, June 1, 2013 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Royal Oak Farmers Market, and we only have two words for you: MORE BACON!What started as just a spark in the eyes of two serious lovers of salted and smoked pork has turned into a full-blown phenomenon. It probably goes without saying, but it turns out people really like bacon. “Baconfest 2012 was an overwhelming success for us and our participating...

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[Real Detroit] Super Bowls for the Super Bowl

There are two requirements that must be met to make for ideal football-watching foods: they have to be easy to make and they have to be easy to eat. Pizza, burgers and brats are always good go-tos because, (a) easy to make (or order and have delivered), and (b) easy to eat. But doesn't that get a little stale, year after year after year serving the same-old, same-old? Just because you're a football fan doesn't mean you're a savage. This Super Sunday,...

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[Real Detroit] Buffalo Wild Wings

Photo by Nicole Rupersburg.You guys. We just went to the new Buffalo Wild Wings in Greektown. It is the largest Buffalo Wild Wings in the world.IN THE WORLD.It is everything you have come to expect from your local BW3: beer, wings and sports. Baskets of crispy-fried wings smothered in luscious spicy garlic sauce served piping hot with a 22-ounce glass of Michigan craft on draft, while "the game" plays on overheard flatscreen TVs.So many games! So...

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[Real Detroit] Buddy's Restaurant + Pizzeria

Photo by Nicole Rupersburg.Buddy's Restaurant + Pizzeria is Detroit's original original. This is where "Detroit-style deep dish" was born over 65 years ago, and it is Detroit's most famous pizza. How famous is Buddy's famous pizza? Well, it's been covered by the New York Times and New York Post and Food Network and Food + Wine and GQ and Oprah Magazine and Parade Magazine and Zagat. That famous.If you don't know what Detroit-style deep dish is, you...

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[Model D] Greektown Casino opens Brizola and new Market District food court

Greektown Casino hasn't had a proper fine dining establishment since the Alley Grille closed in 2009, and they've never had one located on the main gaming level. Enter the newly-opened Brizola.Located on the main floor of the casino, Brizola was formerly the nightclub Eclipz Lounge (sidenote: we’re not sure what the thing is with the "z" either).Read mo...

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[Model D] Maccabees at Midtown opens quietly, gains buzz fast

There aren’t many new restaurants in the Midtown/Corktown/Downtown neighborhoods that open nowadays without a whole lot of fanfare, often months in advance starting from the day the concept is announced. But Maccabees at Midtown, which officially opened on Dec. 30, opened like a phantom; without any major announcements or media coverage it sprang forth into existence and started serving what the locals already seem to agree is some pretty phenomenal food.Read mo...

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[HOT LIST] Valentine's Day

Because it's never too early to start planning (and also and also and also FIRST), here is a preliminary list of events and other points of interest for celebrating (or actively anti-celebrating) this Valentine's Day.#1 Clubhouse BFD V-Day B-Day, Feb. 14Don't have it in you to face down yet another Valentine's Day alone? So don't. Join all of your beeriest of friends for a BIRTHDAY celebration at Clubhouse BFD ... a b-day that juuuuuuust so...

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The Week We Ate (The EID Week in Review)

YOU GUYS. Takashi. Back in Michigan. One night only, at Bacco, cooking the classic hits of Tribute. (Plus he plans on opening a second location of his Chicago casual noodle shop Slurping Turtle in Ann Arbor. It's a far cry from Tribute but I'll take it.) [Freep]MUDGIE'S NOW SERVES ALCOHOL. Michigan beer and wine, specifically. (Also don't miss their five-year anniversary party on February 9, where everyone is going to be.) [Thrillist]You've...

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To restaurants banning food porn phone photography: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

So apparently now restaurants are starting to ban customers from taking pictures of their food with their phones. This is of course happening in New York City, because if New York chefs weren't flapping their arms and stamping their feet over something they would probably be working somewhere in the Rust Belt where the chefs don't act like pampered princesses* and instead focus on their jobs, which is to put food on a fucking plate.They're citing...

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[HOT LIST] The 'Other' Corktown

Not Slows. Photo by Nicole Rupersburg.This post authored by EID Co-Conspirator Stefanie Cobb. It should come as no surprise to anyone that white people love Corktown. If the mention of this neighborhood immediately prompted thoughts of Slows or really anything marinated, deep fried, and heavily seasoned with hipster, STOP. STOP NOW. It’s time to take a moment to commemorate our elders. Places that have yet to receive any hype from Martha Stewart...

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The Week We Ate (The EID Week in Review)

Ice Cream Paflor.Mudgie's is celebrating five years in business with a shiny new liquor license. [Det News]Maccabee's in Midtown also received their liquor license this week. [Macabee's FB]The Falling Down Beer Company and Ice Cream Paflor now has a sign. [FDBC FB]Chef Adam Hightower is no longer with Gastronomy. There is no real word on what happened, where he's headed to next ... or what this means for Gastronomy. [Crain's]"With credit to Eat It...

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