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| - Woo-hoo! They're open! Now I can get my Detroit food fix in Arizona!
First thing you see when you walk in is the decor and employees are all in Detroit colors, orange and blue. You can buy the t-shirts too I think. The menu is pretty simple, burgers and dogs. Pita sandwiches and salads, fries, chips and drinks. They have several flavors of Faygo soda pop for $2.25 and bags of Better Made Potato Chips. There is no Sanders Hot Fudge or ice cream of any kind. No desserts that I saw at all.
I ordered the regular Coney Dog, $3.95 which came with Chili and onions, an order of the hand cut French fries to split, and Faygo ("Which way diddee go!?") Root Beer. My daughter got a Breaded Chicken Tenderloin "Hani" Pita Sandwich and also a root beer. The minute I bit into a French fry and tasted how delicious it was, I walked up to the counter, told the guy, "I'm not sharing those so we'd better get another order!". They tasted like my Mother's homemade ones!
The Coney Dog looked a little small on first view, but I bit into the hot dog and it almost audibly popped! Scrumptious juices exuded from it. This is no ordinary hot dog. Warning: It's messy.
The root beer bottle was kind of tepid, not ice cold, maybe just because they had such a rush of business on Opening Day that they couldn't keep up with the demand? I took my water glass, filled with ice and poured the drink over it, solving the problem.
The owner is very nice. He and all the employees are all from various parts of Michigan. I'm from Livonia, suburb of Detroit, myself. I had heard about this Grand Opening at another Detroit themed place, Sunshine Motor City Cafe, and I think it is great that we ex-Michiganders have more than one place now to go get that back-home feeling, even if it is 113° outside!
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