[NEWS BITES] Several Detroit businesses vying for Chase Mission Main Street Grant

The Chase Mission Main Street Grants are $250,000 grants awarded to small businesses that have been open and operating for at least two years prior to the program launch and employ fewer than 100 people. The businesses have until November 15 to get 250 votes from the public via Facebook to go on to the next round, which is a panel deliberation among top professionals from some of the largest corporations and business organizations in the country. 12 grants total are available for businesses from all over the country, and winners will be announced in January 2014.

40 area businesses are in the running (type "Detroit" in the search field to see the full list, though that does not include anything in the suburbs that doesn't have "Detroit" in its name - the search functions for this leave a lot to be desired), including automotive, advertising, arts and entertainment, construction, finance, education, and healthcare. Food-based businesses Hacienda Mexican Foods and foodjunky are also on there. Also Aba Market, which looks to be a liquor store, and Detroit Mini Donut (in Garden City). And a Subway. So.

You have to vote using your Facebook account. Vote for your favorites here.

The Week(s) We Ate (The EID Week in Review Double-Header pt. 1)

I had to take some time for myself that week so this week is a double-header highlight reel.

ICYMI:
~Rubbed is opening in Corktown serving fancy European meats and sammiches. [Model D]
~All of the Hatch-ness. Here. Then here. [Model D x2]
~Hey, if we can take something and make it a MOTHERFUCKING THING, then damnit that's what we're going to fucking do. So now single-item food festivals are a thing. [EID]

And more about Hatch contestants Batch here. [Crain's]

Detroit is a kinder, gentler Brooklyn. [Crain's]

Mark Wahlberg was in town. [EID FB]

Speaking of single-item food fests, One-Eyed Betty's won the second-annual Burger Brawl. [Freep]

Midtown has a lot going on. So does downtown. [Crain's / Freep]

Check it out, a Detroit restaurant not in MidCorkDown. [Freep]

A Greek news outlet reports Greektown is doing well. Seems super-reliable. [Greek Reporter]

WE REALLY LOVE POP-UPS, FOR REAL. (And here.) [Crain's / Freep]

Ottava Via might not suck after all. [Thrillist]

St. Cece's has a rad new patio. [St. Cece's FB]

And Rodin has a pretty cool happy hour. [Rodin FB]

FoodJunky: for all your no-pants-wearing delivery needs. [Model D]

Metro Detroiters reserve the enthusiasm that the opening of a new Wal-Mart anywhere in the South is typically met with for places like IKEA, Whole Foods and the Cheesecake Factory. I suppose that puts us somewhere ahead. But really I'm not sure. (Also here. And just take a looky-loo at the opening day line here.) [My Fox News / Crain's / EID]

Bees: we need them. You can raise them. [Model D]

Another plus one for Lafayette (while American got snubbed). [Daily Meal]

Vice took meta hipster bullshit to whole new levels. [Vice]

But despite all the snarkery, Whole Foods in Midtown is doing pretty damn well. [MLive]

Plus Coolist says we're a city on the rise and picked seven businesses to highlight that, so there's that. [The Coolist]

Another Detroit bartender wins the best something at a national competition for something. [Hell Yeah Detroit]

The Whitney is donating 9 percent of its a la carte proceeds back to retired DPD policemen and firefighters for the month of August. Which, if they're lucky, 9 percent of their pensions is what they'll be left with once this bankruptcy is over. [Detroit 2020]

Vegan news: The Lunch Room in Kerrytown is now open. [AnnArbor.com]

Moo Cluck Moo is playing the David v. Goliath hand well. [Daily Meal]

News from Grosse Pointe: the City Kitchen expansion is almost complete and Marais is getting close to opening. [Metromode]

Souptastik: where the Soup Nazi might eat if the Soup Nazi were Russian. [Detroit News]

YAY northern Michigan! [Tampa Bay]

Just when you thought Taco Bell had nowhere else they could go, they went to the waffacle. [Death + Taxes]

Some people find the presence of children more offensive than the presence of dogs in restaurants. [Death + Taxes]

Beerie
~Is the craft beer bubble about to burst? Or have brewers just run out of things to talk about despite the constant demand for more stories about the uber-hot industry? [MLive]

~Badass Beer is back. [Detroit News]

~Atwater has that Deeeeeee-troit pride. [BuzzFeed]

~More on the new Upper Hand Brewery from Bell's. And how you can't have any. [ABC 10]

~And Wal-Mart is trying once again to control everything. [Business Week]

~Oh hey, people grow hops in Michigan now, it's sort of a thing. [Bloomberg]