The Week We Ate (The EID Week in Review)

New Yorkers visit Detroit, eat at Slows. Yep, it's this story again, only these guys failed to bow at the altar of the Most High Exalted Mac and Cheese at the Most Important Restaurant in the Country. [NY Food Journal]

Green beer. Not in a gross way like that Bud Light pumped full of green food coloring that gets served by the trough-full during St. Patrick's Day; this is about Arbor Brewing/Corner Brewery's $350,000 investment in sustainable technologies at their production facility. [Fox News]

Chez Zara opens inside the Madison Building, and it's the MADISON building, not the M@dison Building, because just because Subprime Dan got a few buildings for practically free doesn't mean he gets to run around disrespecting this city and its heritage by slapping on infantile Twitter-twatty names on historic buildings he bought at bargain basement prices after his company ruined real estate. [Drinks Business Review / Deadspin]

POUTINE IS A THING!!! [Esquire]

You ever make out with someone after they ate the death-by-garlic shawarma at Bucharest Grill and found yourself totally into it? So did Esquire. [Esquire]

Bray's Burger Bust. [Det News]

Yates Cider Mill opens August 10! Fall is coming! [Yates FB]

When hipster cred goes Etsy twee: Corktown is discovered by Martha Stewart Living. [IAYD]

Thistle Coffeehouse: Coffee Culture and Community in Midtown

Nicole Rupersburg

I first heard about Thistle Coffeehouse from Pastor Brenda Jarvis (of Riverside Community Church) and her son Kevin at a large group dinner at the Whitney in October 2009. What they told me sounded too good to be true: a third-wave coffeehouse offering free WiFi, free printing, late-night hours, student art showcases, in DETROIT. I immediately went home and wrote my then-editor at Model D, telling her how exciting it is and how we just have to cover it. This was early on in my business coverage days and I wasn't quite yet aware of the general journalism rules of thumb, which include not covering a business that has no lease, no equipment and no business license, just an enthusiastic idea and some business cards. She let me down easy, saying, "It sounds like heaven. If it ever opens."

Sometimes the truth hurts. Truth is, a lot of people have a lot of ideas. Making them a reality is something different entirely.

A year and a half later, I get a Facebook message from Kevin: "Thistle Coffeehouse now open!"

I'll be damned.

Er. Maybe I should re-phrase that...