On today’s episode, hear firsthand what it’s like to bite into a coney pasty.
That’s a pasty, the traditional U.P. pastry, filled with a Detroit-style coney that’s meant to dip into yellow mustard. They’re from Ackroyd’s Scottish Bakery in Redford Township and are available for the month of April.
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In other news, Amtrak wants to restore passenger rail service between Detroit and Toronto in 2020. That hasn’t been available since the pre-Amtrak late ’60s. [Curbed]
Elsewhere, late-night Detroit TV legend The Ghoul has died. During the 1970s and ’80s, Ron Sweed played the crazed host of eccentric late-night programming, inserting random sound bytes into bad horror movies and blowing things up with M-80s. The Ghoul represents an era and genre of local programming that mostly no longer exists.
Also:
- Union Joints, the hospitality group that operates restaurants like Vinsetta Garage and Clarkston Union, plans to open its newest eatery inside the expanded Little Caesars headquarters in Detroit.
- Motor City Casino wants to add more parking, but in this case it’s probably not worth the outrage it’s receiving in some quarters of the interwebs.
- And the city of Sterling Heights has released renderings for a new Culver’s and LA Fitness Signature Club, which people out that way really seem to care a lot about. If you wanna see them, they’re below.