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This article got me thinking about other Detroit restaurant institutions. Any favorites having a hard time staying open?

"A lot of places around town try to create a retro atmosphere [[think every restaurant touting exposed brick and I-beams). Hygrade can't escape it.

Many of you know the story: Nate Stutz opened the Hygrade Deli some 60 years ago in what was then the Western Market. The deli got its name from the market's largest vendor, Hygrade Food Product Corp.

But after the Western Market was leveled to make way for I-75, Hygrade Food moved to Livonia, while Stutz moved the restaurant to Michigan Avenue.

And there it has sat ever since, in an unaltered state, serving some of the city's best corned beef sandwiches to an ever-shrinking customer base."



http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...roits-comeback