What is a "Coney Dog?", you ask. "Definitely not a chili dog" is what has been told to me. A real Michigan Coney Dog has an all-beef casing hot dog grilled to perfection and placed in a steamed bun. This hot dog is topped with, and this is where it gets the distinction from a chili dog, an all meat chili, onions and mustard.
Since I LOVE to try the most I can in one order... I ordered a "Combo Coney Dog". This is the Coney dog I described above (I got my onions grilled) with "Loose" meat on top of the hot dog. What's "loose meat"? Well, that's just grilled ground beef crumbled up... They put the loose meat on top of the hot dog and then put the all meat chili on top of that. Just dang delicious. I really liked the taste of the hot dog itself.
Not to be out done by the hot dog, the fries here are fantastic. I litterally watched the chef cut the potato and put the curly fries in the fryer. The fries are just that fresh. Oh, by the way, they grind their own meat daily for their hamburgers.
I stopped in Coney Grill to have a Faygo pop and to try the hot dog. I grew up drinking Faygo pops when I was a kid. Grape being my favorite flavor. Detroit Coney Grill has Faygo pops in the bottle. There is something about the taste of a soda out of a bottle that makes it taste 1000 times better. I savored every cold, sweet sip.
I like this place. I'm going back. I'm taking some of my ex-Detroit family when they come in town.
Yummy. This place is great! Get there early, they close a little bit early.