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The scene: 100 years and three generations later, American Coney Island claims to be the oldest family-owned business in Michigan. By any measure, it is one of the nation’s most iconic ...
DETROIT, MI -- The fourth annual American Coney Island Coney Dog Eating Challenge on Thursday will have some star power. Guinness Record holder Takeru Kobayashi, one of the top competitive eaters ...
American Coney Island and Lafayette Coney Island — both started by and once owned by the Keros family — have had a lot to do with why there are now so many coney island shops in metro Detroit ...
Detroit is well-known for several culinary icons: Faygo, Vernors, Sanders... But nothing comes close to the coney dog. As Grace Keros, third-generation owner of American Coney Island ...
Coney dogs. The Semi-Official National Food of Detroit. They began here, downtown, at American Coney Island. It is, appropriately enough, a quintessentially American story, which begins in 1912 ...
For 100 years, American Coney Island has been serving up Coney Dogs in downtown Detroit. Now, it's time to celebrate. The restaurant that made its debut in 1917 on the corner of Michigan Avenue in ...
According to the Detroit Historical Society, Greek immigrant Gust Keros opened American Coney Island in 1917. In 1924, he brought his brother William to Detroit to help. William then opened ...
American Coney Island owner Grace Keros says a recent closure ... The restaurant voluntarily shut down following a recent inspection, the Detroit Health Department announced Friday afternoon ...
Thieves broke into Detroit's iconic American Coney Island Thursday morning but they didn't get much − only an empty cash register. The break-in, which may have been part of a string of break-ins ...
(CBS DETROIT) — Although a wall separates them, the owner of American Coney Island says they may as well be miles apart after the Detroit Health Department shut down neighboring restaurant ...
Which Downtown Detroit coney island serves the best coney dogs, American or Lafayette? There are a lot of us here in the Local 4 newsroom, and you can bet we don’t see eye-to-eye on everything.
DETROIT (WXYZ) — Police are investigating a break-in at American Coney Island in Detroit. Police tell us they are investigating several break-ins that took place ...