You missed the last day at Le Petit Zinc, a continental-style Midtown cafe, unless you were there Saturday.
The French-inspired cafe originally opened in 2009 on Trumbull in Corktown.
(Photo: Facebook)
The coffee and crepe shop at 70 W. Alexandrine is closed, though a Facebook post hints cryptically (perhaps wishfully) at "exciting changes in the making."
Crain's Detroit Business reports briefly on the abrupt departure:
The cafe, owned by Karima Sorel, moved to the Alexandrine Street storefront in the Strathmore Apartments building [in March 2018] after closing the Corktown location it had occupied for nearly a decade.
Sorel could not immediately be reached for comment. Her former business partner in the cafe, Dine Drink Detroit owner Scott Rutterbush, said Saturday that he is no longer affiliated with the cafe.
The space on Alexandrine, right around the corner from Woodward Avenue, had been occupied earlier by Dangerously Delicious Pies.
Zinc was founded in 2009 at 1055 Trumbull and abruptly closed in September 2017 after a landlord-tenant dispute.
