Take-out Tuesday: Detroit 75 Kitchen on Live in The D

two brothers in

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turned their dreams into a dining experience that's garnering national attention they're serving shrimp shawarma po boys garlic fries and more in a cool outdoor setting michelle o

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be guys this is one of the times when you want to smell-o-vision because it smells amazing right now everyone has been commenting on it. I'm here with the two Nasa brothers. This is Ama Ahmad. He knew he was going to misunderstand. I talked to him about it before anyway and this is it. Mike, you're the CEO and the creative director, and you're the executive chef.

Welcome to the program. Thank you very much, thank you for inviting us. Okay, Ahmad, how did you start? Tell us the story behind the

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at Detroit 75. You know it. Honestly, it was a fluke that my brother and I were working in southwest Detroit, our family owned a truck stop there for over 25 years and Mike just wanted to do something different and we were thinking how we were going to get the truckers They really stopped at this. truck stop and not just any other truck stop and Mike had the idea of ​​putting a food truck outside.

I told him he was crazy for a long time and then I realized he was crazy, but at first it was the truckers who came and gave us food, but quickly. To this day, we never imagined there would be people crossing state lines to get our food. We didn't envision being one of the top 100 restaurants in America, so I'm proud of my brother for that and we're grateful that people enjoy it. our food yeah I remember talking to you guys before and you guys have grown over the years and it's been wonderful to see so let's see what that food is that has attracted people from every state like you said walk us through from Mike.

What do you have? What did you bring with us today? Well, I brought just a sample of the things that we have, the star of the show, of course, the Detroit cheesesteak sandwich, uh, this is a Detroit style, it comes with sesame oil. um, third street Philly is what it is, actually its real name is the Detroit Philly cheesesteak sandwich with Detroit cheese, that's right, yeah, it's Detroit style through and through, our delicious salad, it comes with vinaigrette of pomegranate and zata, that's what The color purple is for pepperoni, yes, exactly, this is our vegetable sandwich.

It comes with smoked vegetables that we put in the smoker. Everything is made at home. We don't buy anything that comes in a jar or can, so all the sauces here, oh yeah, everything is homemade, including the ketchup, the barbecue, and all the vinaigrettes, and we pride ourselves on making everything in house every day, although you know a lot of times people get really angry, you know it comes towards the end of the day that we run out of things, but hey, you know, we like to keep it fresh, we like, yeah, keep it fresh, serve it until now you talk about the ketchup, yeah, oh, sorry, I didn't realize you were on that microphone. your cilantro garlic fries, yes, cilantro garlic fries, garlic cilantro, they are absolutely amazing, how did you come up with this?

And Jason, do you want to come try some? I'm telling you, these are one of my favorite prizes. Mike also makes the ketchup himself, yeah yeah. we actually don't even know, yeah, it's a roasted red jalapeño ketchup that we smoke in our smoker. This is one of my favorite dishes. Actually, growing up, you know I was born in Lebanon. This dish is called in Arabic. It's called batata hara, which is garlic. coriander fries these here is our version of them we soak them overnight oh that ketchup has some cake in it very good very good very good we soak them overnight but we actually fry them three times oh , well, and they are real potatoes, so the star. from the show, of course, the roasted red jalapeño ketchup is absolutely delicious with it.

Well, I'm going to have two different types of lemonades here. Can you tell me about those? From day one we always start from the beginning. a homemade strawberry lemonade and you know, for the summer, we're starting to make a cucumber lemonade, it's super, super, super fresh, thanks for Jason, I'll have one, two, super, yeah, let's all have this super fresh, um , goes with him. atmosphere of the beautiful garden that we have outside, yeah, and you know, it's just that everything goes, everything goes together, like it's perfectly combined, so let's

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a look at some of the videos that we have of their outdoor dining space and can you say it?

Tell us a little bit about how you came up with this and also where you're located so people can find you. We are located in southwest Detroit at 4800 West 4th Street, right next to the fire station and the police station, and yes, you know, that area is very industrial, it's tough, but we wanted to try to build an oasis away from that and When Mike and I were working in southwest Detroit there was nowhere to go and hang out and just have a drink. of peace, so that was our inspiration and over the years we've added more flowers, greenery and umbrellas and it's actually one of my favorite places to hang out and all the beautiful artwork too, that's what I love.

I love this place, it's just murals and perfect summer vibes, so Jason, what are you thinking? What is this here? This is central city barbecue, beef, Cork city barbecue, yes, do you recommend I try this? Yes, of course, yes, of course, Michelle, they're wrapping our ears around, yes. Thank you all very much for coming and bringing everything. Everyone should see them. It was incredible. I like that cucumber. Thanks Michelle. Thank you for inviting us.