Woke up craving the phenomenal lavender latte that I enjoyed here earlier this week with my friend @mattlaverephoto before a day spent wandering around the city of Detroit. I can hardly believe how much the city has changed since I graduated from high school in Michigan. When I was a teenager, the only real reasons to visit were to see a baseball game or go to Greektown or the art museum. It just wasn’t the kind of city that you hang out in back then though it had been when my mother was growing up in SE Michigan. Now there are new boutique hotels on par with my favorites in Europe and James Beard-awarded chefs moving to the city to make their mark in a way they can’t in more saturated cities. This hip coffee shop @dessert_oasis_coffee_roasters felt like something straight out of Berlin, Brooklyn or the Arts District in Los Angeles; and the little square that it sits on had a European-style market with delicate glass structures home to people selling pottery and other products made in ...