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Quintessential Detroit Food
If you go to detroit and all you eat is coney dogs, you really missed out IMO. Hit up Conant street in Hamtramck (city inside detroit limits) to check out three awsome bangladeshi joints, all are very inexpensive and very good. Bengal Masala would be my favorite, but Al'ladin has the best breads. Al'Amin has its great items too.
Go over to Jos Campeau and check out Yeman cafe or Sheba restauraunt for yemenese which is delicious. Also on this street is Under the Eagle polish restauraunt. Or juant over to Yemans st and check out Polonia and Polish Village, the latter two of the polish places are known as being some of the top polish in the country. On caniff there is a bosnian place.
This is just hamtramck, it is only 2.1 square miles in size surrounder by detroit 143.
Now for dearborn which borders detroit and houses the largest arabic poulation outside of the middle east. Tons of awesome arabic food here. On of my person faves is cedarland on warran. There are countless other arabic places which are delicious everyone will have a different opinion.
Whoever recommended Beans and Cornbread: the place has awesome food, I agree. It does not compare to the greatness which is bakerskeyboardlounge.com
You have to go here, it is a detroit landmark, the oldest jazz bar in the world and has the best southern food(soul food?) in the area I can find and believe me I have looked. Google the place, the best of the best have played there and still do every week. This place has been around since something like 1932 as a jazz bar and restaurant. Truely a detroit gem.
Notice I said southern food. Most northerners and trendy yuppie types refer to southern food as "soul food" because they mistakenly think it is a black thing. I grew up in the south and nearly everyone of my friends from town or school would have stuff like collard greens, black eyed peas, fried okra, porkchops, fried chicken (tcetera you get the point) and the like on the table every night. Whether you are white or black that is what people eat down there, not just a black thing. A southern thing.
