Cadieux Cafe: Is it the BOMB?!?!

**CapitalistPig** · May-12-09, 09:04 PM

I'm new to the whole Detroit scene. Is Cadieux Cafe sweet or just a dive bar with feather ball?

**CapitalistPig** · May-12-09, 09:06 PM

Wow ment to say BOMB... my bad

**Hamtragedy** · May-12-09, 09:15 PM

What's wrong with dive bars?

**gnome** · May-12-09, 09:38 PM

anyone with [[[[[ written on their forehead is asked to leave.

You might want to check the makeup mirror in your TransAm before going.

**CapitalistPig** · May-12-09, 10:00 PM

I like dive bars. Just wanted to know what kind of bar it was.

i think its [[[[[[, but i like it! wish i had a trans am...

**urbanoutdoors** · May-12-09, 10:17 PM

I love the Cadeiux, I wouldn't say its a dive bar... Decent food, watching the league Thursday nights is great and they can have some decent music.

**Melody** · May-12-09, 10:21 PM

Cadieux is a hangout bar, not a dive, more of a restaurant. It's not a place to pick up women, although there are young ladies there, it's more of a casual place to hang with friends. It's a Belgian hangout too, with traditional food and imported beer, and of course feather bowling. The crowd is mostly people in their late 20s and up...all kinds of people. The music leans toward rock and roll, but they have some live jazz as well. Live music 2-4 nights a week, I think they have pub quiz and karaoke too.

I really like it there, but I kind of grew up there and I'm a good Belgian girl, so I'm biased, ha. Bring friends and feather bowl.

**milesdriven** · May-13-09, 12:35 PM

It's a great place, but if you're on a budget I'd recommend Elam's on Harper and Chester.

**Patrick** · May-13-09, 01:02 PM

Cadieux is nice....not in the best location though.

**Melody** · May-13-09, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by Patrick

Cadieux is nice....not in the best location though.

Take that with a grain of salt. The Cadieux/Mack area is pretty decent.

**12468_laing** · May-13-09, 02:51 PM

Anyone out there know the name of the Belgian statue of the boy?

**Melody** · May-13-09, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by 12468_laing

Anyone out there know the name of the Belgian statue of the boy?

Mannekin Pis.

**stonechipped** · October-22-09, 07:30 AM

Originally Posted by 12468_laing

Anyone out there know the name of the Belgian statue of the boy?

Mannekin Pis.........My Grandmother told me the story of the boy being some sort of Prince who had gone missing for sometime. Somebody found him in the peeing stance, and that is what the royals wanted a statue of.

**EastsideAl** · May-13-09, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by Patrick

Cadieux is nice....not in the best location though.

Ummmm, it's on Cadieux, where should it be?

**mikeinmotown** · May-14-09, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Patrick

Cadieux is nice....not in the best location though.

the location is fine, I lived in the neighborhood. I love the Cadieux and try to get there every month or so.

**kryptonite** · May-14-09, 01:43 PM

CapPig, IMO the Cadieux Cafe is worth a visit. I have been long gone from that neighborhood but in the last year or so have gone back to CC a few times and every time my group had a very nice dinner and a very good time. I hope to go back. They have a huge selection of beer and the food is great. I don't normally care for french fries but theirs are excellent. Check it out for yourself, I think you will be impressed.

If you like mussels, Monday night is all you can eat. They have four types also.

**kathinozarks** · May-15-09, 12:51 AM

Did I read right? Did Paul and Ron finally sell the Cadieux? Does anyone know who they sold to and what the future holds for the place? I worked there in the early 1990's and still have a strong affection for the place.

stinkbug · October-22-09, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by Patrick

Cadieux is nice....not in the best location though.

Seriously?? Cadieux/Mack isn't exactly deep hood. So it's not fucking West Bloomfield, but where do you hang out? Jesus Christ, just because someplace has "Detroit" in its address, and the suburbanites get their panties in a bunch.

Oh yeah, I love Cadieux Cafe.

**Detroitej72** · July-05-10, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by Patrick

Cadieux is nice....not in the best location though.

Ignore this post by a typical,[[paranoid)ex-Detroitier who is now a suburbanite.

Cadieux Café is in a fine, working class neighborhood, and there is nothing to fear by eating there.

I say this as someone who has actually lived in that "hood" for many years, and throughout Detroit Proper, the area is safe and quite charming.

**fryar** · July-06-10, 12:11 AM

I wonder if Patrick meant something along the lines of that not being an area where you would end up just discovering it by chance in the course of bar hopping throughout the neighborhood. I don't really know that area, and am generally pretty downtown-centric, so maybe there's a great little strip there, for all I know, but upon stumbling over this thread, I went from cool, I'll have to check it out, to whoa, that's out there. It seems like a nice sit-down bar with good food and good drink that would do well anywhere...[[here I go, suggesting they move to Woodward

).

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading about the Belgian Detroit lifestyle of years past and checking out those old-time photos and comments about growing vegetables in your yard and the narrow walkway and such. Shows you how much Detroit, as whole, once had to offer.

**ronaldj** · May-13-09, 07:26 PM

Mannekin Pis. Thank you. When I was in Brussels, I bought two miniatures, one for each of our boys. However, they both grew up.

**ronaldj** · May-13-09, 07:29 PM

Sorry. Not the miniatures.

**skyl4rk** · October-22-09, 09:00 AM

hutferdehutfer!

**Jimaz** · October-22-09, 05:05 PM

A Cadieux Cafe video

**MikeM** · October-22-09, 08:12 PM

I agree with Toolbox; the food is mediocre and a loud band at dinner time sucks. Beer and feather bowling is the only reason to go, and then only if you're acting as a tour guide.

Oladub - the Silver Leaf Cafe was at 10214 Mack, corner of Hurlbut.