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Username: Oldestuff
Post Number: 63
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 1:06 pm: |    |
nothing was there before in my lifetime.
The old empty building was completely gutted and renovated. Maybe you're thinking of Tito's - a bar that was a couple of doors down, nearer to LJs. But
it was not a restaurant. |
Everydayislikesunday
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Username: Everydayislikesunday
Post Number: 356
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 1:18 pm: | |
Is American Masala still open? I tried to eat there two or three weeks ago, and there was a sign on the door saying "Seized by the US Government". |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 211
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 1:32 pm: | |
The building that just went off the market a month ago that might be rumored to be lined up for a slows take out location is the one story stone structure at cass and alexandrine (north west corner). This was used as a church previously. It is a great building and adds a nice touch between the old miami and the willis village area. It will be interesting to see how a slows take out does. Many people go to slows for the see and be seen action plus the section of brews. |
Dds
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Username: Dds
Post Number: 512
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 1:38 pm: | |
I still don't know how any restaurant can claim to be a BBQ place and not serve a rib tip sandwich. |
Mackcreative
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Username: Mackcreative
Post Number: 162
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 1:46 pm: | |
American Masala SHOULD be closed. The service there is terrible, their hours are sporadic, and there is a general climate of uncleanliness. Just my opinion, I love Indian food and really tried to patronize this place. |
Michigansheik
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Username: Michigansheik
Post Number: 251
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 6:46 pm: | |
i had bad service at american masalaon both of my visits, bad operators, good riddens. Is the place on Monroe decent? sizl N Spice? |
Michigansheik
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Username: Michigansheik
Post Number: 253
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 6:46 pm: | |
i had bad service at american masala on both of my visits, bad operators, good bye! Is the place on Monroe decent? Sizl N Spice? |
Neilr
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Username: Neilr
Post Number: 638
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 6:50 pm: | |
The decor is rather plain; but I find the food to be quite good. If you go there, after dinner go next door to Happy Cream for an ice cream cone for desert! |
Texorama
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Username: Texorama
Post Number: 142
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 6:59 pm: | |
Yep, I've been happy with Sizzlin' Spice each of the several times I've gone. If you ask for the food hot, it comes exactly the way I like it, i.e., a real kick, but I'm not weeping uncontrollably. They'd get more business if they did a quick remodel. |
Reetz12
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Username: Reetz12
Post Number: 208
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 7:40 pm: | |
Is the Northern Lights the same menu/chef/food as when it was the Tandem? |
Mackcreative
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Username: Mackcreative
Post Number: 163
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 8:23 pm: | |
I second Sizzl'n'Spice. The lunch buffet is good. |
Chitaku
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Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 1781
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 11:00 pm: | |
my cwpf's close warm personal friends are telling me that the new slows in midtown will be focused more on catering. I believe they said there would be take out as well
(Message edited by chi-taku on January 14, 2008) |
Michigansheik
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Username: Michigansheik
Post Number: 255
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 11:50 pm: | |
thx i'll check out SnS soon! they did put in a new tile floor a few months ago, so i guess they are remodelling, just slowly! |
Ticub
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Username: Ticub
Post Number: 18
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 12:09 am: | |
About Slow's does anyone remember what was there before?
In the middle 50's it was a candy store that I used to ride my bike to every week to pick up a copy of The Sporting News. I don't remember it being as large as Slows is now, however. |
Detroithabitater
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Username: Detroithabitater
Post Number: 111
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 12:30 am: | |
slows is 2 storefronts.
There is one photo on the web of it while abandoned. I ran across it last year. Some father took a picture of it in 2003 or 4 and the front of the building is boarded up with red paint saying "Slows coming soon" |
Broken_main
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Username: Broken_main
Post Number: 1409
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 8:06 pm: | |
So Slows, was pretty slow in the making? |
Barnesfoto
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Username: Barnesfoto
Post Number: 4648
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 8:24 pm: | |
Before Slow's was a very dingy and rundown looking Chinese Takeout... |
Long_in_the_tooth
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Username: Long_in_the_tooth
Post Number: 82
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 10:21 am: | |
Before Slows Patio.....
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Long_in_the_tooth
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Username: Long_in_the_tooth
Post Number: 83
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 1:51 pm: | |
Old storefront with a hint of the new
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Living_in_the_d
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Username: Living_in_the_d
Post Number: 9
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 2:42 pm: | |
My coworkers and I look forward to the new location, hopefully it will be soon. |
Jerome81
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Username: Jerome81
Post Number: 1681
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 18, 2008 - 12:56 am: | |
I just hope we can get in this weekend. Coming to town for NAIAS! Always a yearly trek for me. However, I haven't been to Slows for probably 2+ years.
I suspect its just gonna be too busy this weekend. Maybe we'll have to do Xochimilco or Roma Cafe. X's has been probably 3 years since I've been. Never been to Roma. |
Dannaroo
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Username: Dannaroo
Post Number: 181
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 11:47 am: | |
There is a partial story on ModelDMedia (with next week's date?) saying Slows has purchased a building at Cass and Alexandrine:
http://modeldmedia.com/develop mentnews/slowsexpands12708.asp x |
Brandon48202
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Username: Brandon48202
Post Number: 210
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 12:24 pm: | |
Hmmm.... Could this be the building that they purchased?
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Rugbyman
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Username: Rugbyman
Post Number: 211
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 12:25 pm: | |
I can't get the link to open, but that's going to be a pretty hot location once the South University Village opens. ALMOST too far to hike to for lunch from the Law School on Palmer. Maybe for a special occasion or staving off productivity. |
Jonnyfive
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Username: Jonnyfive
Post Number: 101
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 1:47 pm: | |
Isn't there a crappy building on the opposite corner there currently undergoing a facade overhaul (bricks all over the sidewalk?) |
Jsmyers
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Username: Jsmyers
Post Number: 1948
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 2:01 pm: | |
When I lived on that block, that building was a church. |
Dannaroo
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Username: Dannaroo
Post Number: 182
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 2:25 pm: | |
That picture is the building that was listed in the short-lived article.
Here is a screen shot of the article from earlier:
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Monahan568
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Username: Monahan568
Post Number: 266
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 2:29 am: | |
oh bother! that is hilarious about American Masala...did anyone find out what happened?! I went there a few times right when it first opened but it progressively got weirder and weirder each time. The last time it was completely dead during dinner time, and the waiter sat at the table next to me and my girlfriend and just stared at us while we ate. ahahah terrible! |
Detroitfats
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Username: Detroitfats
Post Number: 20
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 12:16 pm: | |
Monahan--
I had a similar experience. My girlfriend and I met another couple for dinner at American Masala. We were the only ones in the restaurant(it was about 7:30)and the silence was deafening. After about 15 minutes of being stared at by the waiter and cook, we mentioned that perhaps a little music would make the atmosphere a bit nicer. Our waiter told us he did not own a radio or CD player, and that music was too "distracting" anyway. We bolted our food and got out of there. One of my stranger dining experiences . . . |
Sec106
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Username: Sec106
Post Number: 16
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:02 pm: | |
Any growth in the D is great, but I refuse to wait to eat at Slow's. I am thrilled they are doing well but it isn't worth the kind of waits you encounter there. |
Toolbox
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Username: Toolbox
Post Number: 1124
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:10 pm: | |
quote:Sec106
Any growth in the D is great, but I refuse to wait to eat at Slow's. I am thrilled they are doing well but it isn't worth the kind of waits you encounter there.
Last night we were seated as soon as we walked in the door. Stop crying and go at a non peak time and the wait is minimal. |
Rax
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Username: Rax
Post Number: 112
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:17 pm: | |
Everyone seems to want Detroit to become this bustling city of yesteryear, yet they are too impatient to wait a half hour for a table. Good point TBox. |
Rjlj
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Username: Rjlj
Post Number: 450
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:24 pm: | |
Or everyone wants a bustling city of the tomorrow but I pretty much just see complaints and non support and then you loose places like this and Carl's. But you will wait in line at Applebee's |
Matt
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Username: Matt
Post Number: 1241
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:43 pm: | |
Well hopefully at this carry out location you'll be able to actually call in and place your carry out order instead of having to come in, place your order, then wait. :P |
Rax
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Username: Rax
Post Number: 113
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 2:34 pm: | |
quote:Or everyone wants a bustling city of the tomorrow but I pretty much just see complaints and non support
That and a lot of armchair experts. |
Dabirch
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Username: Dabirch
Post Number: 2505
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 2:46 pm: | |
quote:It is a great building and adds a nice touch between the old miami and the willis village area
What exactly is the "Willis Village Area?" I mean, I know I have been gone for a year - and only been back to Detroit about a dozen times in the past year - so maybe I missed it. |
Rax
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Username: Rax
Post Number: 114
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 3:10 pm: | |
A low income apartment complex. You aren't missing anything. |
Monahan568
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Username: Monahan568
Post Number: 267
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 3:47 pm: | |
Detroitfats- thats hilarious!! same kind of weirdness we had! lol its funny to laugh at now. i forgot to mention that after our dinner in bizarro world we both got so sick to our stomachs we threw up hahaha. ewe. |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 212
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 4:00 pm: | |
The area on willis at cass has been labeled in multiple city and promotional documents as the West Willis Village. It currently contains Avalon Bakery, Flo clothing Boutique, Goodwells grocier and deli, Revolutionary books, and the spiral collective gallery.
It really is quite a nice little collection |
Dabirch
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Username: Dabirch
Post Number: 2506
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 5:10 pm: | |
I am actually more fond of West Selden Village.
Although East Temple Village is pretty nice.
And I am really starting to dig Central Forest Village. |
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