  Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 5868 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.242.213.167 |
BY SYLVIA RECTOR FREE PRESS FOOD WRITER Downtown Detroit's oldest saloon and restaurant, the colorful Jacoby's German Biergarten Since 1904, has been sold, but the change won't mean the end of the Jacoby name, the vintage interior or the 313.jac live music club upstairs, says previous owner Dick Bell. "People keep coming in here 'for the last time,' and I keep telling them it's not going away. It's going to be better than ever," Bell said. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20060510/ENT 08/605100418 | ||
Funkycarrie Member Username: Funkycarrie Post Number: 215 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 69.208.117.53 |
if they take away brunch and the avacado and 3 cheese sandwich I'm going to riot. bring back the roasted garlic! | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 640 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.42.176.123 |
Jacoby's German hertitage is one of its unique aspects that separates it from everything else. The new owners should embrace it rather than shun it. A lot of suburbanites and white collar workers feel comfortable going there because of the place broadcasts its German heritage. The new owners should realize that they can just as easily expand the new menu as alter it. | ||
Commodore64 Member Username: Commodore64 Post Number: 205 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 66.73.225.162 |
First Athens Bar and now this! Oh the HUMANITY! | ||
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria Post Number: 196 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 216.223.168.132 |
Hope they still have the rahm schnitzel. | ||
Shark Member Username: Shark Post Number: 226 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 65.43.32.139 |
Probably doesn't qualify as a "comfort food". *rolls eyes* | ||
Funkycarrie Member Username: Funkycarrie Post Number: 221 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 69.208.117.53 |
I hope the food isn't sub-par and overpriced like Small Plates is. | ||
Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus Post Number: 22 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 68.43.117.118 |
Keep the German dinners!!! | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2077 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.6.193 |
Rolladen, Schnitzel, Sauerbraten.... wiping the drool off my keyboard..... | ||
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria Post Number: 198 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 205.188.116.137 |
And it seems to me that the German food is one of the top reasons Jacoby's is always packed. IMO, no need to fix something that isn't broken ... I want my potato pancakes with sour cream and applesauce ... NOW!!! | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 649 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
Face it. Detroit's no M'waukee with a large German population and its several ethnic restaurants. While in high school, Vic, the son of the owner of Mader's was in my German classes. So once or twice a year, our class will get special treatment there. Unfortunately, we didn't get into Karl Ratzsch's at bargain-basement prices. Unfortunately, two others bit the dust: Grenadier's and the John Ernst Cafe. But probably the best sausage maker Usinger's is still in business right across the street from Mader's downtown, on the Milwaukee River. If ever in Milwaukee, here are some other places to hit. The owner of the George Webb's Hamburger chain that always beat out MacDonald's in taste polls (no big deal) lived next door to my parents when they lived in Brookfield during and after my schoolyears. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1055 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.204 |
You can still get your German food in Detroit, at the Dakota Inn Rathskeller. http://www.dakota-inn.com/web/ pages/home/ | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 648 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.42.176.123 |
I loooovvvveeeee the Dakota Inn. That place is awesome. |
