A Baltimore Sun writer visits Detroit and finds more than this empty city plastered across headlines. He saw restaurant after restaurant piled upon each other and discovered there is no food desert here.
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I went into Detroit, however, expecting to
see much worse. I wasn't expecting to see crowded museums, or rush
hour traffic in a city with such high unemployment, or restaurants of
all types filled with diners. Nevertheless, that's what I saw. ...
It
was probably the filled restaurants that surprised me the most. A lot
has been written about how Detroit is a food desert, insofar as the
city has no grocery stores. I figured a city that couldn't support
grocery stores probably couldn't support its restaurants. But I visited
restaurants throughout the city, the suburbs and the countryside. Every
place I went had decent crowds.
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