The Week We Ate (The EID Week in Review)

North Korea did not have paczki for Kim Jong-il to look at.

Perkins Pickles now has a production facility in Ham-town! This along with the announcement that Rock City Pies is setting up shop there later this year. Hamtramck is making a comeback-ack-ack-ack-ack. Just you wait. [Model D]

"And that's a wrap for Detroit Prime. Already." led to one of the greatest comment threads in EID history. [Crain's / EID FB]

Mudgie's Deli has a new happy hour menu. And it is covered in beer cheese sauce. [Mudgie's FB / EID FB]

A food truck, charcuterie and crossing state lines: check out what's next for Corridor Sausage Co. in Eastern Market. (Plus you can still catch them at the market on Saturdays, and their products keep popping up on local menus at places like St. Cece's Pub and Slows to Go.) [Crain's]

New Thai place opening in the Auburn this summer. [HuffPo]

B. Nektar Meadery has several new limited release meads coming out, and mark April 20 on your calendar for their Spring Mead Day when they'll be releasing two new barrel-aged meads. [B Nektar email]

Valentine Vodka was named "Best Love Potion" by the Tasting Table. Which makes sense since there's a whole holiday named after it. [Tasting Table]

And if vodka doesn't suit you, try Valentine's new Liberator Gin instead. [Thrillist]

Royal Oak's Pizzeria Biga started serving brunch this weekend on both Saturdays AND Sundays, because, as you know, brunch is too awesome to be just one day. [PB FB]

Pop-ups! We still love them. Here Detroit Gypsy Kitchen is profiled with shout-outs to Kung-Food and Little Dove Bakeshop. [Detroit News]

Here's a nice 'lil list of metro Detroit candy makers and sweet shops. [The Detroit Hub]

Beignets are going to be A Thing. [St. Cece's / EID]

The Sunday Buffet is this new thing at GO Comedy! Improv Theatre featuring the debut of the saucy stylings of Sauced, the new solo venture from Chef Nick Schultz ("The Sauced Chef") formerly of Brew Jus. [GO! FB]

Paczki Day is a big deal 'round here. Here's a recap of what happened:

     Treat Dreams came with paczki ice cream
     The Detroit CVB gave this run-down
     Avalon celebrated "Phat Tuesday" with paczki that were baked, not fried
     This Hot List was still just as relevant
     7 Brothers went at it hard
     So did Whiskey in the Jar
     The Hamtramck Star put together this helpful guide to all paczki parties in H-town
     Pure Michigan gave us a brief history of the paczki in Michigan
     Ronin got fancy with it
     Deadline Detroit's Jeff Wattrick continued his annual traditional of photographing a prune paczki at various Detroit sites of interest, "Kim Jong-il looking at things"-style. This year, Paczki took a Detroit corruption tour of some of Kwame Kilpatrick's and Monica Conyers's most significant sites.
     The Detroit Bus Company bused people in from the 'burbs to partake in Paczki Day parties
     Zingerman's had the west side covered
     Tour de Troit made some people run first
     Pure Detroit put together their own Hamtramck paczki guide
     Small's, obvi

Eat It GR
Not much is happening here because why? Because I am in the midst of coordinating and promoting GR Beer Week, that's why. Starts Monday. Check it. [GRBW Official]

Beerie
~It's true: there IS no such thing as a perfect man. [Beer Pulse]
~Turns out the way to a beer lover's heart is through his (or her) stomach. [DRAFT]

The Week We Ate (The EID Week in Review)

New Belgium's Fat Tire. Photo courtesy of mL. in Birmingham.

After months (and really years) of whispers, it's finally official: Supino Pizzeria owner Dave Mancini has signed a lease for the space formerly occupied by Taste of Ethiopia. He won't be expanding Supino but will instead be opening a new restaurant serving tapas and braised meats and finally putting his liquor license to use. This announcement comes just in time for Supino's four-year anniversary this month. [Freep]

Ah, a Greek restaurant in Greektown. How novel. The Papases will be expanding the space and re-opening Mosaic (which closed earlier this month) as some really long Greek name no one will ever remember or correctly spell. Look for it late Sept. [Det News]

The owners of Russell Street Deli will open Topsoil this fall in the Auburn, a new mixed-use building in Midtown. This new venture will offer fast vegetarian and vegan cuisine and will carry on the same sustainable traditions of the Deli. Also, things I didn't see coming: veganism becoming A Thing in Detroit. [HuffPo Detroit]

Like, so much of A Thing there is yet another vegan concept that made the top 10 semifinalists for this season of Hatch Detroit. Which is all well and good but I am putting the entirety of my almighty vote-persuading force behind Rock City Pies, and not just because Nikita Santches looks like Justin Timberlake. [Hatch]

Famous person does something; public reacts. [WXYZ]

The Whitney axes half of their staff and debuts a new menu and new hours in an effort to reclaim their once-iconic position as the grande dame of Detroit's dining scene now that everyone loves Detroit so much. [Crain's]

Here's a fun game: next time you're in public yell, "Belle Isle winery!" and listen to everyone go "RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!!!" [MLive]

A Whole Foods Detroit update: there is concrete. [WFD FB]

Stella is getting a facelift courtesy of Reclaim Detroit. [Model D]

More on the drama around Mudgie's would-be liquor license and also a Chekhov's Gun FAIL. (Maybe don't lead with "Mudge would just as soon let people bring in their own beer and wine. But he found out it was illegal." bit unless the MLCC's prohibitive liquor laws were the focus of the story because it implies an in-depth, researched look at the reasons WHY it is illegal, then never delivers. Besides, it's not exactly a secret and many other Detroit restaurants have been busted for allowing BYOB when they shouldn't have, so if anything this just makes Mudge sound oblivious.) [MLive]

Matt Prentice's latest impulse-opening venture Detroit Prime is now open and he plans on making it a chain. [Thrillist / EID]

The team behind Jolly Pumpkin -- aka my heroes -- debuted Lena and the new Cafe Habana in Ann Arbor this week. [AnnArbor.com]

The biggest thing to happen in beer this week: New Belgium Brewing Co. hit Michigan shelves. [Oakland Press]

The second biggest thing to happen in beer this week: Brewery Vivant's collaboration with New Belgium, Escoffier, hit shelves in extremely limited release. (Thankfully, I have beer friends). [MLive]

The third biggest thing to happen in beer this week: oh hey, did you guys know I write for the New York Post? Because I totally do. And I took my fawning over Jolly Pumpkin's Sobrehumano to that much larger platform. [New York Post]

The fourth biggest thing to happen in beer this week: Fox News drank every single beer in THE WORLD and named Jolly Pumpkin's Bam Bierre one of the 10 best. [Fox News]

The fifth biggest news to happen in beer this week: the completion of the installation of nearly $345,000 worth of energy-efficient equipment at Arbor Brewing Company and Corner Brewery was completed this week, making these Michigan's first solar breweries. [AnnArbor.com]

Okay, so this was really just A Very Beerie Week. The Michigan Brewers Guild U.P. Fall Beer Festival is next weekend. BTW, it's all about the U.P. right now, in case you didn't know. [UP Second Wave]

Beards Brewery has opened in Petoskey. And yes, this is the best name for a brewery ever in the history of brewing. [NW MI Second Wave]

According to Imbibe, the world's most cultish beers include Founders' KBS and CBS. Also I have a bottle of 2012 KBS I will sell to you for $50, because I am very generous. [Imbibe]

Another "media outlet" re-hashes Mario Batali's list of favorite places in the Traverse City/Leelanau area. I hope he's getting royalties on these. [Zagat]

Speaking of Batali, earlier this week he ate at Mani Osteria in Ann Arbor and Tweeted that he, like, totally loved it. Just after the latest issue of Travel + Leisure, in which they call Mani Osteria one of the "20 best Italian restaurants in America," hit shelves. Coincidence? [AnnArbor.com]

Stats! We love stats. Here are more of the same stats as to why beer is good for the local economy. These are all numbers you've seen before. [Click on Detroit]

All Meijer stores are accepting donations for their Simply Give program, which aims to replenish the shelves of nearly 200 food pantries in their five-state region during each campaign. It runs through Oct. 6 in support of National Hunger Action Month with Meijer matching all $10 donations, but during the Simply Give Week Sept. 2-8 Meijer is double-matching all $10 donations - so your $10 will mean $30 for local food pantries. Sometimes I'm not snarky. [Macomb Patch]