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"FacebookPinterest\n\nThink Motor City&amp;amp;#x2019;s just corrupt mayors and crime rates? One of Detroit&amp;amp;#x2019;s favorite chefs, Aaron Cozadd, makes a case for the city&amp;amp;#x2019;s under-the-radar grub.\n\n Detroit has a lot to thank Aaron Cozadd, the chef of restaurant Vinsetta Garage, for. In the outskirts of a city that&amp;amp;#x2019;s shaking its bad rap, Cozadd breathed life into metro Detroit with killer chili-cheese dogs and burgers in one of the coolest restaurant set-ups in the city: a renovated auto garage. What feeds his spirit for the city? He gave us the low-down on where to dine, drink and visit while you&amp;amp;#x2019;re in the big D.\n\n\n\nTry Michigan&amp;amp;#x2019;s Mac &amp;amp; Cheese\n\n Union Woodshop\n\n 18 S Main St., Clarkston, MI 48346; (248) 625-5660\n\nYou think you know mac and cheese, but Union&amp;amp;#x2019;s is unlike anything you&amp;amp;#x2019;ve had before: It&amp;amp;#x2019;s super creamy on the inside and made with Michigan&amp;amp;#x2019;s own Pinconning Parmesan, sharp white cheddar, and a made-from-scratch b\u00E9chamel sauce. When something that&amp;amp;#x2019;s traditionally a side dish becomes entr\u00E9e-worthy, that&amp;amp;#x2019;s reinvention at its finest.\n\nThe Celeb Chef Crowd Pleaser \n\n Roast \n\n 1128 Washington Blvd., Detroit, MI; (313) 961-2500\n\n Michael Symon does an awesome job of making a menu that seems like it&amp;amp;#x2019;s for other chefs &amp;amp;#x2013; bone marrow, sweet breads, and beef heart &amp;amp;#x2013; but at the same time, they have nice steaks and chops that are just simply grilled with some kind of house-picked item on it. There&amp;amp;#x2019;s something for everyone there.\n\nEat Adventurously\n\n Kitchen Hanzo\n\n 6073 Haggerty Rd., West Bloomfield, MI; (248) 624-8666\n\n As a chef, I tend to probably gravitate toward the odd, the things that I haven&amp;amp;#x2019;t had before. So at Kitchen Hanzo it&amp;amp;#x2019;d be the chicken gizzards in vinegar with long beans. I just thought it was so odd. I would have to get it every time. They&amp;amp;#x2019;re fried and they&amp;amp;#x2019;re crispy, yet they&amp;amp;#x2019;re chewy and oddly cartilage-y, but in a satisfying way. Then the beans are very normal in comparison and the vinegar just kind of spikes it all. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s this really interesting experience, and one that stayed with me because I&amp;amp;#x2019;d never had anything like it.\n\nPay Respect to a Detroit Classic\n\n Lafayette Coney Island\n\n 118 W Lafayette Blvd., Detroit, MI; (313) 964-8198\n\n I always send people to Lafayette to get hot dogs. The same guys have been there for as long as I can remember. They stack these franks up their arm, like eight or nine high, and hand them out to you at the table. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s amazing. I&amp;amp;#x2019;ve been going there my whole life.\n\nThe Best Sushi in Michigan\n\n Sharaku \n\n 6159 Haggerty Rd., West Bloomfield, MI; (248) 960-1888\n\n It&amp;amp;#x2019;s a very unassuming place; it&amp;amp;#x2019;s in a little strip mall. You&amp;amp;#x2019;d never think that some of the best Japanese food you&amp;amp;#x2019;re going to find in Michigan is there. I brought my friend who lived in Japan for two years and is fluent and really understands the culture, and we went there and just told the chefs, &amp;amp;#x2018;Do whatever you want.&amp;amp;#x2019; And they blew us away, and blew him away. He said, &amp;amp;#x2018;This is as authentic as you&amp;amp;#x2019;re going to get anywhere.&amp;amp;#x2019;\n\nThe Farm Where Pigs Eat Ice Cream\n\n Cooks Farm Dairy\n\n 2950 E Seymour Lake Rd., Ortonville, MI; (248) 627-3329\n\n I grew up in Clarkston, and right up the road from Clarkston on a back road is Cooks Farm Dairy. They raise all their own cows, they raise all their own pigs\u2014all that stuff. And they make their ice cream on site. They have this amazing ice cream and then when they change flavors, they pump the new flavor through the filler tubes, and there&amp;amp;#x2019;s this mixture of the old flavor and the new flavor that they can&amp;amp;#x2019;t do anything with. So that goes out and they feed pigs with it. So these pigs are fed the best ice cream I&amp;amp;#x2019;ve ever had for their entire life, and it just makes for this awesome, delicious pork.\n\nDetroit&amp;amp;#x2019;s Answer to New York\u2019s Chelsea Market\n\n Eastern Market\n\n 2934 Russell St., Detroit, MI; (313) 833-9300\n\n The thing I like about Eastern Market is you never know what it&amp;amp;#x2019;s going to be. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s just a cool experience because it&amp;amp;#x2019;s that unscripted experience that you just can&amp;amp;#x2019;t have outside of that environment. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s like a weekend street festival that happens on a time schedule every weekend, but it&amp;amp;#x2019;s always different. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s not just a farmer&amp;amp;#x2019;s market. I think that&amp;amp;#x2019;s part of the spirit of Detroit, you really don&amp;amp;#x2019;t know what&amp;amp;#x2019;s going to happen.\n\nGet Homemade Hooch\n\n Valentine Vodka\n\n 161 Vester Ave., Ferndale, MI; (248) 629-9951\n\n Valentine has a speakeasy vibe and a really good craft cocktail menu. Craft beer has been around for a while, but craft liquor is an emerging art in Detroit, and Valentine distills all their vodkas themselves.\n\nThe Place for a Beer and a Bellowed Tune\n\n The Dakota Inn Rathskeller\n\n 17324 John R St., Detroit, MI; (313) 867-9722\n\n At 7 p.m., pretty much nightly, there&amp;amp;#x2019;s this giant sing-along. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s akin to The Man Show with all the &amp;amp;#x201C;Ziggy Zaggy&amp;amp;#x201D; and all that. Everybody&amp;amp;#x2019;s up and cheering and singing and you can&amp;amp;#x2019;t believe that you&amp;amp;#x2019;re in the middle of Detroit. A lot of times I think 7 p.m. books up, so you want to get your name in, because it&amp;amp;#x2019;s well known that that&amp;amp;#x2019;s the sing-along and you want to be there for that. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s kind of cool also if you don&amp;amp;#x2019;t tell someone there&amp;amp;#x2019;s a sing-along, you just send them a little early and make them a reservation, then all of a sudden it just happens. So it&amp;amp;#x2019;s also a good prank. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s a good night out and a really fun trick to play on your friends.\n\nVisit the Coolest New Shop in Town\n\n Shinola\n\n 441 W Canfield St., Detroit, MI; (313) 285-2390\n\n Shinola&amp;amp;#x2019;s products, watches and bikes handmade in Detroit, speak for themselves\u2014it&amp;amp;#x2019;s not about pomp, it&amp;amp;#x2019;s about quality. Even if you&amp;amp;#x2019;re not interested in purchasing anything, the store alone is worth a trip. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s beautiful and unorthodox with an industrial chicness that accentuates all the goods.\n\nThe Comic Lover&amp;amp;#x2019;s Paradise\n\n Time Travelers\n\n 3277 12 Mile Rd., Berkley, MI; (248) 556-2695\n\n Time Travelers is a nerd oasis. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s packed wall-to-wall\u2014literally floor-to-ceiling\u2014with comics, cards, collectibles, and toys. There&amp;amp;#x2019;s a guy in there that literally knows where every comic is. I was in New York at a comic book shop looking for something and I happened to mention that I was from this area and the guy was like &amp;amp;#x2018;Oh, do you know Time Travelers? I don&amp;amp;#x2019;t know how that guy gets the stuff he gets.&amp;amp;#x2019;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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