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Facebook photo from restaurant.
Some how it never felt like it was going to make it in a spot that had little success with other restautants.
Last month, Asian-inspired Maccabees Traders at 5057 Woodward Avenue, in the Wayne State University area in Midtown, quitely closed last month, reports Mark Kurlyandchik of the Detroit Free Press.
“I just think we had a bad fit," Maccabees Traders operating partner David Kraus tells the Freep. "I think we had a bad fit with the name and what kind of restaurant I wanted to open.”
Kurlyandchik reports:
Maccabees at Midtown, as the restaurant was originally called, was among the first wave of new restaurants to open in the resurgent neighborhood in 2012, serving sandwiches, salads and other gastropub fare. It unsuccessfully rebranded in 2016 as the Italian concept 5057 Viale and then briefly flirted with soul food before Kraus came in with his Southeast Asian-inspired concept in 2017.
