Sunny’s Coney Island
31290 Ecorse RoadWhat a morning.
L had been invited to spend a week in Florida with one of her friends. They went down last week to spend Christmas with family and L was going to join them this week for the second part of winter break.
We decided to put L on a plane out of Detroit because we could get a non-stop to Orlando where her friend’s mom would be waiting at the gate to pick her up.
We spent the night in Detroit Sunday night so we’d be close to the airport in the morning. We took the kids in to the city and had dinner at Mom’s Spaghetti before heading to a hotel in Southgate.
We got up Monday morning and we all headed to Detroit Metro Airport. I dropped J and L off at the McNamara Terminal then B and I went back to the hotel until L was on her flight.
J and L had to go to an “Agent Assist” desk to fill out the paperwork for the unaccompanied minor and to get J a pass to get in to the terminal. It. Took. Forever. We got to the airport over two hours early and it took almost an hour and forty minutes to get through the line. They now had about a half hour to get to the gate.
They rushed to TSA…where they got stopped again. Something in L’s backpack caused the agents to want to look more. They finally got through and had about fifteen minutes…but of course, the gate was the very last gate in the terminal….the farthest away from the security checkpoint.
J handed L the packet and told her to get to the gate. J would follow and get there as quickly as she could be get there and let the gate agents know that you were there. L got there, with J just a few steps behind with just enough time. There were five people in line waiting to get on. L was the last person on and they closed the door behind her. An absolutely stressful morning for J and L but they somehow succeeded in getting L on the plane and getting her off to Florida for the week.
Once I heard they got on the plane, B and I checked out of the hotel and we headed back to the airport. I found a park and ride lot to wait because J had to wait until L’s plane was in the air before she left the secured area. It took about another hour because it was so windy they couldn’t deice the plane. They finally got that done and L was on her way to Florida at about 9:30 AM.
I headed up to the terminal to pick J up. We were all hungry and didn’t really want to head home yet. There was a snow storm hitting West Michigan that morning and we wanted to give it a little time to clear up before we made the trek.
I did a search for breakfast places and came up with a few options in the area. We’ve really come to like finding Coney Islands when we travel and there was one not too far away.
Sunny’s Coney Island is near the corner of Ecorse Road and Merriman Road in Romulus. The small diner is in a small shopping plaza it shares with a liquor store. The restaurant is on the east side of the building. There’s a pretty good size parking lot between the building the restaurant is in and another building that make up the shopping plaza.
We walked into the restaurant just before 10:00 AM. We kind of waited at the door until a waitress saw us and said to sit wherever.
The restaurant is a pretty classic diner layout with rows of booths. The middle of the store has what are essentially two person booths with a divider down the middle so there are two rows of that. There are four person booths along the outside and much larger six person booths near the back. There’s also the classic lunch counter near the kitchen area. The grey tile floors and paneling give the restaurant a bright, clean appearance. We actually headed to the bigger booths in the back just to give us more space. A waitress followed with menus.
J and B were both in a lunch mood. Breakfast is always a solid option but J really likes a diner grilled cheese so she ordered that. It’s a really simple grilled cheese. White bread and American cheese. There’s just no way to get that diner griddle taste anywhere other than a diner.
Her sandwich came with fries and they are what you’d expect. They’re just frozen food service fries that really benefit from a lot of ketchup. They came on a separate plate. She ate about half of those and shared some with me. There was some A1 Steak Sauce on the table (spoiler alert) and I used to love dipping fries in A1 when I was kid. Guess what I did? I dipped those cheap fries in to some A1 and it tasted like the 90’s.
B noticed a cheeseburger on the kid’s menu. He’s been on a tear recently with cheeseburgers. It’s all he wants to eat. This is a really simple diner cheeseburger. It comes on a sesame seed bun and is topped with a slice of American cheese. He had this thing gone in a matter of minutes. His sandwich also came with fries. He’s not a big fry person but he was still hungry so he ate a few while he waited for J and I to finish our meals.
I was the only one who did breakfast because I saw the Two Eggs and 6 oz. Steak on the menu. This plate is a classic steak and eggs. I got the eggs over medium and the steak medium. The steak is not a great cut of meat but that’s what I like from diner’s. They also had a NY Strip option on the menu but it was a lot more expensive. I love the cheap, kind of tough, salty steaks diners use for steak and eggs. It looks like the kind of steak you want to slather in sauce to make it edible but there’s is such a good flavor from the seasoning and the crispy bits from the griddle.
The plate also came with choice of potatoes or grits. I chose the hash browns. The top half of these has browns were amazingly good. They were super crispy and had that crunch on the top with the softness underneath. Most of the stack of potatoes under that top layer though were all soft and a little under done. That didn’t stop me from eating them though. I polished off the whole plate plus a couple triangles of toast that came with it (and a few of J’s fries in that A1 sauce).
Our bill for breakfast/lunch was right around $40. Like most diners you pay at a register that near the entrance.
Sunny’s Coney Island was exactly what we needed after a stressful day at the airport. It gave us a tasty meal and about an hour to relax and unwind from the airport stress before getting in the car and dealing with the snow and wind stress we were about the drive in to.
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