![]() Not all agree that Greektown, as we know it, is dead. You cannot call” a few restaurants a Greektown. “It’s no longer Greektown,” says Nafez Jadallah, owner of the Greektown Grocery store and former owner of the Laikon, a first-rate Greek restaurant that closed this year after the casino bought the building from his landlord for additional parking. Gone too are the coffee shops - except for one hidden above a bar - and the Greek grocery stores that carried foreign-language papers and the crunchy-crusted Greek breads. The Greek residents have vanished, having died or migrated to the suburbs. ![]() Today, there’s Five Guys, a hamburger chain out of Virginia Red Smoke Barbeque Cold Stone Creamery, a chain with outlets in 19 countries a steakhouse sports bars a sprawling casino and only three – yes, three - full-fledged Greek restaurants. It was almost as if you needed a passport at one time to come to Greektown in Detroit, the block teeming with Greek restaurants and Greek everything: coffee shops with card players and grocery stores with fresh feta, olives and lamb and Greek-speaking men on the sidewalk, cigarettes dangling from their mouths.
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