Patch Coney Tour Offers Tasty Bites of History
Bloomfield Township's Joe Grimm and co-author Katherine Yung lead a guided bus tour Saturday across metropolitan Detroit, visiting Coney Island restaurants in conjunction with their new book 'Coney Detroit.'
A steady diet of hot dogs and history was served up Saturday afternoon as a group of about a dozen people embarked on the first-ever Patch Coney Detroit Bus Tour. Tour participants had a chance to travel across metropolitan Detroit tasting coney dogs and learning how the region has become the world’s coney capital. Led by Joe Grimm and Katherine Yung, authors of the book Coney Detroit, the tour bus left from downtown Detroit and along the way stopped at Joe’s Top Dog Coney Island in Dearborn, Athens Coney Island in Royal Oak and Western Coney Island in Eastpointe. At each spot, members of the tour received samples of coney dogs and had a chance to hear from each of the establishment’s owners about the history of their businesses. …
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