Detroit Coney Dogs Go Hollywood
From BuyMichiganNow.com
It’s ten o’clock on a Sunday, and the regular crowd shuffles in. There’s a young man sitting next to me sipping Faygo instead of tonic and gin. There’s no piano man in sight, just plenty of people in Honolulu Blue glued to flatscreen TVs. That’s ten o’clock in the morning, by the way, a frequent start time for watching a Lions game when you live in sunny, southern California.
They’ve been drawn together in this place out of a love not just for the Lions, but for Detroit. The magnet that has pulled them in is a tiny diner aptly named, Coney Dog in West Hollywood. It may be a long way from Woodward Ave to the Sunset Strip, but it appears there may be something Detroiters and Angelinos have in common…craving a decadent, Detroit-style, coney hot dog.
The restaurant’s location on Sunset Boulevard is ideal, amidst some infamous neighbors like Whiskey a Go Go, the Viper Room, the Roxy, and many other notorious staples of Hollywood nightlife. As any Detroit coney owner will likely tell you, being near busy bars and staying open late, will definitely NOT hurt your business. The same is true here, where the owners say the weekday crowd is chiefly composed of native Angelinos with no real connection to Detroit, just a junk food craving.
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