Slows Bar-B-Q on Michigan Avenue in Detroit.
My biggest complaint about the food here in Mid-Michigan is that there’s no good BBQ. After a rant one day, I was told by more than one person to eat at Slows Bar-B-Q the next time I was in Detroit. That was probably six months ago, but we’ve only been to Detroit once. J and I were in town for the North American International Auto Show and we wanted to do both lunch and dinner in the Detroit area. We were too early for lunch at Slows, so we settled on BBQ for dinner.
Slows Bar-B-Q is on Michigan Avenue in the shadow of what’s left of Tiger Stadium. There’s no parking lot that we could see, but we were able to find street parking around the corner. The area looks a little rundown and not some place I would really want to be at night, but Slows stood out as a diamond in that rough.
Our first challenge was getting in the place. We couldn’t find the door! There are two doors that actually look like doors, but both are looked and not an actual entrance. We stood looking at the store front trying to figure out how to get in! Fortunately, someone came out. The door is blended in to the facade. It’s has the same wooden slats the cover the building. No windows or even a handle. There’s a hole cut out of the wood to pull the door open. It’s actually a really cool look and once we figured out how to get in, we had a little chuckle and could appreciate the design.
We made it to Slows just after three o’clock. Not a prime dinner time. We thought we’d be ok, but when we got in, there’s was actually a wait. There were two large groups in front of us as well as a couple normal size parties. We gave our name to the host who told us it would be about twenty minutes. A twenty minute wait at three in the afternoon! Again, that’s usually a good sign, so we stuck it out. Turns out, the wait was about ten to fifteen. Read the rest of this entry »
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