Latest Detroit News: Food/Restaurants 
05/21/13
Special K once was just a line of cereals. Today, it's a diet food empire.
05/20/13
It's the Avenue of Fashion, once the Rodeo Drive of Detroit shopping. The district suffered in recent years, like much of Detroit, but investment dollars are starting to flow back. Today, the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. is announcing a $200,000 prize from ArtPlace, a national group of nonprofits and banks -- including the Ford Foundation and Chase bank -- to install art in the vacant storefronts and medians along Livernois Avenue from Seven Mile to West Outer Drive.
05/20/13
Detroit Soup is coming to Livernois Avenue. For the past three years, the group has been hosting a monthly dinner series as a way to help artists and community members fund their creative projects. You come, you pay $5 at the door, you eat soup (and other food), listen to the projects, and then vote for your favorite. The crowd pleaser walks away with the night's take.
05/19/13
Owners of
M1 Concourse LLC have most of the financing for a $40 million-$50 million project to redevelop a former
General Motors Corp. validation center in Pontiac into an auto event center.
05/18/13
Five Beaumont clinical chiefs asked the hospital system's board to reconsider the proposed merger with Henry Ford; Papa Joe's will bring not one, but two, gourmet markets to downtown Detroit; architectural firm Rossetti is moving to the Federal Reserve Building.
Nathan Skid
05/17/13
Inside the Renaissance Center, it will feature pizza, pasta, sushi and other prepared foods, along with a bakery and a small grocery area.
Nathan Skid
05/14/13
Workers are transforming a former Eastern Market slaughterhouse into a prohibition-themed micro-distillery. It will feature a tasting room serving gin, whiskey and vodka, to start, when it opens as early as spring 2014.
05/12/13
Wine snobs, move over – the beer snobs have arrived. That's a good thing for Michigan because the craft beer industry grew 20 percent in 2012, with an economic impact tallied at $133 million. Seventeen breweries opened last year in the state, which now ranks fifth in the number of breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs. That kind of impact and growth has garnered attention in Lansing, writes Crain's Publisher Mary Kramer.
05/11/13
Warren-based Crown Group was announced as being acquired by a group of investors; Ford will take over as title sponsor of the annual fireworks in downtown Detroit; the Lions signed "Ziggy" Ansah and eight other draft picks; and a cargo container intended to be a demonstration of a hotel lobby was dropped at Eastern Market.
Nathan Skid
05/11/13
05/10/13
The lobbyist for grocers including Kroger Co. and Safeway Inc. is calling on President Barack Obama to curtail a U.S. health law provision that mandates the companies display the calorie content of all their foods. The proposed rule also is unpopular among some restaurant chains such as Ann Arbor-based Domino's Pizza Inc., which say the cost of new signage and the diversity of their products creates a logistical nightmare.
Nathan Skid
05/10/13
Michael Symon's first Michigan
B Spot Burger restaurant will be in Rochester Hills, according to Doug Petkovic, COO of the Cleveland-based
Symon Restaurant Group.
Nathan Skid
05/09/13
Michael Symon, who is planning to bring his
B Spot Burger chain to Metro Detroit, apparently is looking at several locations in the area.
05/09/13
Consumers scooped up 10,500 jars of Miguel Cabrera's "Miggy's Salsa" last week in the condiment's first full week of retail sales, according to its manufacturer.
05/05/13
Chef Michael Symon is making plans for a Detroit burger destination called
B Spot. The project is planned partly because of the success of Symon's
Roast in the
Westin Book Cadillac, which opened in 2008, according to a news release.
05/05/13
In a memoir out next week, former
Michigan Supreme Court Justice
Elizabeth Weaver paints the bench where she served for 16 years as a politically rife "tyrannical body" where justices shrouded their dealings in secrecy and were "at each other's throats" in a war for power.
05/05/13
When Sue Kar founded
Kar Nut Products Co. in 1933, its largest revenue generator was peanuts sold at Tiger Stadium. Now, according to a 2012
Nielsen Co. survey on branded trail mixes, Kar's Sweet 'N Salty Mix is the No. 1 branded trail mix in the nation. Kar's sells more than 26 million pounds of the product a year.
Nathan Skid
05/02/13
Detroit has been good to Michael Symon since he opened Roast in the Westin Book Cadillac in 2008. So good, the Iron Chef is bringing his burger restaurant called B Spot to the Motor City.
Nathan Skid
05/02/13
After 10 years in business at 3111 Woodward Ave. in the area between Midtown and downtown Detroit,
Atlas Global Bistro is closing its doors. The restaurant will end operations after brunch service on May 26. Its lease expires May 31.
05/02/13
Kellogg Co. has a plan to get adults to eat more cereal: pile on the nutrients. The Battle Creek-based company says it's introducing Raisin Bran with omega-3 and a multigrain version of Special K later this month as it works to boost struggling cereal sales in North America.
04/28/13
Nancy Schlichting has been invited to the White House on Tuesday to meet with the Obama administration's top two health care leaders to discuss the impact of health care reform and federal budget cuts on safety net organizations.
04/28/13
Oak Park-based food rescue organization
Forgotten Harvest is getting into the farming business with its first large-scale planting this spring on about 92 acres of a Fenton farm that's been in the Moroun family for generations.
04/28/13
Business needs certainty. Detroit needs business. But business attraction and retention are taking a big hit because the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department has badly bungled efforts to recoup fees it neglected to charge property owners for years for treating "water runoff."
04/28/13
After delays and an investigation into how the company spent federal stimulus funds,
LG Chem Michigan Inc. says it is set to begin production of advanced batteries this year in Holland,
MiBiz reported last week.
04/26/13
Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera has lent his name to “Miggy's Salsa” — the latest athlete-branded food product to hit the market.
