Coney Island (restaurant)

[1] In 1914, the first Coney Island restaurant was opened by Macedonian immigrant George Todoroff in Jackson, Michigan.

Many European immigrants of the early twentieth century entered the United States through Ellis Island.

One of their first stops was often the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, along the South Shore beachfront, where hot dogs were very popular.

Coney Islands have developed a distinctive dining style that is repeated in hundreds of different restaurants throughout the metropolitan Detroit area and elsewhere in Michigan and other nearby states.

There are some regional variations though, such as the chili sauce, which is more liquid in Detroit area Coney Island restaurants compared to the drier sauce served in Coney Island restaurants in the nearby Jackson, Michigan and Flint, Michigan areas.

Unlike the Coney Island restaurants in Detroit, though, the Texas Hot is often not the dominant menu item in these establishments.

The brothers are nephews to Bill and Gust Keros who founded American and Lafayette Coney Islands.