Last week, the owner of Sister Pie, the iconic Detroit bakery, announced it would be taking a hiatus due to a financial crisis after a decade of serving treats.
A sad story, and one that we’re all too familiar with: Restaurants, bars, and cafes are a tough business, after all—so many places didn’t come back after Covid. Five years on, it’s hard to even remember some of our beloved haunts.
One of the places I reminisce about most is Bangkok Crossing, a Thai restaurant on Woodward right near Campus Martius that had old cracked booths and was almost always empty. My wife and I would always leave with leftovers after paying only $30 for a night out.
Now the storefront will soon become a Cava, and next door are a Chipotle and Shake Shack—the locus of new-wave fast food in downtown Detroit. I weep for those crab rangoons each time I pass by.
Send me an email (mark@enjoyer.com) with a story about your favorite long-gone joint and any photos you have of it. We’ll put them together in a list so we can reminisce about great meals and drinks shared, and good times gone by.
Mark Naida is editor of Michigan Enjoyer.
