Eastern Market grows with new options

Eastern Market is so much more than just a place for fresh broccoli and a bouquet of flowers. These days you'll find chef presentations, wonderful brunch specials, wine, antique shops, and some of the best pizza in town (at Supino Pizzeria).

Excerpt from the Detroit Free Press:

Now shoppers come not only for the locally grown fruits and vegetables, but also for the popular breakfast and lunch delis, the wine and antique shops, the deals on flowers and plants and the ever-changing array of new products, like the specialty pierogies introduced this month.

And many come because, well, there's an urban ambience unparalleled in metro Detroit.

Dan Carmody, president of the nonprofit Eastern Market Corp. that operates the city-owned market, said Eastern Market ranks with America's best such operations, including Seattle's Pike Place Market and Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market.

"We're one of the largest, one of the oldest, and I think we're one of the coolest," Carmody said.

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