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Amen.- Is follow up to post by epsilonconjectur ...
This WAS truly the greatest restaurant and bar in all of the downriver area. Rich dark wood, soft lights, classy decor, beautiful barmaids and waitresses, a great jukebox playing Jazz and standards, the finest wine, beer, liquors and cigars, the friendliest owners and service that was second to none. (... and the best baby lambchops in all of southeastern lower michigan).
With great sadness I have to report that the South End Station has closed it's doors ... and let me be even more frank and tell you why:
The wyandotte/downriver area is primarily hillbilly. We're talking about burning trash in the back yard, dog tied to a broken air conditioner, pick-up truck with the decal of the little boy urinating on the back window ... low class redneck hillbilly. If you went there dressed up for a nice evening you could end up having to tolerate some of the locals dressed in grimey work clothes, filthy from head to foot, yelling and cursing at the sports game on tv. I frequented that restaurant and too often saw that sort of customer there in spite of the desires of the owners and management.
In the end, there were just not enough of the more urbane, classier customers and an increasingly larger part of the restaurants clientele became the tee-shirted, goateed, mullet haired, budweiser drinker with a dirty baseball cap. Folks, the lesson is that you can have a great restaurant in an area that keeps the streets clean and the curbs painted and the street lights working ... but you can't change people ... and that's the trouble with downriver (with the exception of Grosse Isle).
The closing of the South End Station made me sick. I used to go miles out of my way to stop there, it was a welcome refuge in a rather coarse area. Now, there is only really Portofino and Sibley Gardens as far as classy upscale restaurants.
If you really want a fine restaurant go to Oakland county (or a few places in Detroit or the Grosse Points).
As for the downriver area; stick a fork in it and turn it over ... it's done. -- 10/13/2003 8:00:57 PM
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