Lafayette Coney Island Review

Lafayette Coney Island is one half of the most famous rivalry in Michigan food: it shares a wall with American Coney Island downtown, the two of them descended from a single Greek immigrant family that split into competing counters, and Detroiters have argued which is better for a hundred years. The Coney itself is the thing — a natural-casing hot dog on a steamed bun, topped with a beanless beef chili, a stripe of yellow mustard, and diced raw onions, eaten fast at a worn counter by everyone from judges to bar crowds at 2 a.m. Lafayette is the grittier, cash-only, no-frills side, and its devotees will die on that hill. It’s Detroit in a bun.