While on strike at The Detroit News in 1996, I did substitute teaching at Hazel Park High School. Some students certainly were hip, but Hazel Park wasn't -- not by a long shot.
Things are changing, as the nationally praised restaurant Mabel Gray shows. Here's the latest sign:
One of Chicago's most respected coffee roasters is launching a new location outside the Windy City for the first time, and it'll be in Hazel Park, Mark Kurlyandchik writes at the Detroit Free Press:
For its next location, Dark Matter Coffee has instead chosen the reviving stretch of John R between 9 Mile and 10 Mile in what might be called downtown Hazel Park.
The as-yet-unnamed coffeehouse will be located inside Joebar, which, in addition to being a bar with dip sandwiches, also houses a restaurant-within-a-restaurant called Frame. It will add a third element to its identity when the co-branded Dark Matter concept opens June 2.
-- Allan Lengel
