We had a Coney Island restaurant back in Maryland where I grew up. I only ate there once, though it figured large in family lore. Here in South-East Michigan, Coney's are an important cultural tradition like Cheese Steaks in Philadelphia. We wanted to eat and get to a movie one midday out together, so we looked at the restaurants that were very close to the theater. It was a bit of a question, but Uptown Coney won in the end.
I'm so glad it did. I chose to order their patty melt. It's close enough to standard diner food to be fair, but enough of a frump on the back page that it demonstrates range. It also just sounded good. It was great. Both slices of bread were perfectly toasted and crisp. The patty was meaty and the gravy and onions made you lick your palette twice in case you missed something. I have since ordered the Rueben and found it equally excellent.
The best judge of how we like a restaurant is when we can't wait to take the kids, and Kurt and I were both looking for an excuse to introduce our brood to this fine diner food at Uptown Coney. Every plate was clean and both the crispy battered french fries and the perfect onion rings were hailed as extraordinary.
If you are in Ann Arbor, and you like fine diner food, this is a must eat restaurant.
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