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March 16 • 2017
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working, and fundraisers for the
he restaurant world is a
employees were promptly planned
dangerous place. There are
and executed. The love was palpa-
so many things you can
ble, the pain real, and the generosity
do wrong as an owner, chef or
overwhelming and heartwarming.
manager to doom your place to
I don’t know when Katoi will
closure; there’s an even wider host of
reopen, but when they do,
external forces to do so, be
ABOVE:
you should make a point of
they sanctimonious guests
A fire last month
visiting; they’re good people
or failings at the water
has temporarily
and the food is consistently
department.
shut dow n
some of the best in the city
Few of us in the industry,
Katoi.
— as their accolades show.
though, think about all
(Sure, all the comments
the ways the world might
about them being the
chance to cause us pain, and
hottest new restaurant in
fewer still would imagine
Detroit now seem in bad
that a series of seemingly
taste, but that’s hindsight
random events could lead
for you.)
to ruin.
Instead, what I’ll say to
Katoi — the Detroit
you this week is this: Make
Free Press’ choice for Best
time to visit the places you
New Restaurant of 2016
Aaron Egan
want to go. Come down to
— was the victim of such
the city and eat what there
happenstance, as many of
is to eat, whether you hit up
you will have heard by now.
well-known Downtown or
A group of thieves, likely
Midtown spots like Roast or
in the midst of a string of
Selden Standard, young and strong
break-ins targeting high-end liquor
restaurants like Gold Cash Gold or
brands and cash drawers, set a fire
Republic, or somewhere more well-
in the restaurant after breaking,
hidden like the Food Exchange or
entering, grabbing the booze, and
(depending on reports) setting off an Stache International.
Life is too short, too capricious,
alarm or trying to break into a safe.
too cosmically cruel to put off enjoy-
Regardless of the motivation, the
ing a good meal. Take your good
fire burned hot, and Katoi was no
friends and go enjoy something
more.
There have been numerous pieces together.
Leonard Nimoy, in his last tweet
written about this situation and the
— somehow, it’s been over two years
response of the Detroit restaurant
since he passed now — said, “A life is
scene. Katoi was open on Monday
like a garden. Perfect moments can
nights, unlike a lot of finer restau-
be had, but not preserved, except in
rants, and so it was popular not just
memory.”
amongst the average dining crowd,
Make memories with your friends,
but also amongst industry employ-
and do it in places that are memo-
ees who took advantage of their
rable. The first version of Katoi is no
night off to enjoy some of the best
more; we have nothing left of it but
food the city had to offer — and to
memories — and photographs to
take a selfie in the “Katoilet” mirror.
The response to the tragic fire was help us remember the good meals.
Long live Katoi.
immediate. Other chefs figured out
Zeyn gezunt un shtark — be
how to hire cooks for a known short-
healthy and strong — until we break
term employment, servers were
bread together again. Eat well. •
offered places to land and continue
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