Detroiters love a good rivalry, and what better rivalry than the debate over who does the coney dog best? (via EaterDetroit)
that can trace their lineage to the small village in Michoacan where the ubiquitous paleta was born. Or the many Bangladeshi restaurants in metro Detroit that serve “Indian” cuisine. Or the dozens of taquerias that dot southwest Detroit and Downriver whose owners all come from the many small towns of the highlands of Jalisco.
Giftos should know. His grandfather got his start in the United States working at Lafayette Coney Island. His father, James Giftos, followed that path when he bought into the National Chili Company, which supplied coney sauce to the many of the mom-and-pop shops in the region that didn’t have their own recipes. James Giftos went on to found National Coney Island in 1965 at Macomb Mall.
Speaking of Leo’s, brothers Pete and Leo Stassinopoulos founded their first restaurant, called Southfield Coney, in 1972, eventually expanding with more coneys, and moving to the name Leo’s Coney Island with the 1988 opening of its location in Troy, according to. The pair learned the ropes of the business from their cousins, who owned the chain Kerby’s Koney Island .“Are there differences? And do we take pride in our own? Yes, [but] it’s a very healthy rivalry,” Keros says.
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