When your nickname is Motor City, and your restaurant game is this strong, it doesn't take much to imagine that the food truck scene in Detroit would be pretty great... and it certainly is.

“Detroit?

Michigan may be the best state in the country, but we certainly don’t have the best winters, which means you don’t have much time left to get in your sweet Saturn three-door coupe and go somewhere cool.

After a frustrating summer of Tigers baseball, a meaningless preseason of Lions football, and a lively but bittersweet off-season for the Wings, it’s finally here.

Earth, Wind & Fire once famously asked if “you remember the 21st night of September?” and while that’s kind of a silly question, we’ve got a pretty easy way you can make the whole month memorable: do everything on our list of the 11 best things to do in Detroit...

The Detroit of today is the great underdog, and most of the time when out-of-towners, world travelers, and even Detroit suburbanites are in town for longer than a Tigers game, they leave saying something like, "Wow!

You probably already know a lot about Michigan’s beloved coney dog: you may know, for example, that after tackling a would-be cell phone thief outside of American Coney Island in Detroit, Fox 2’s Charlie LeDuff attributed his cat-like reflexes to the “beefy, protein-packed power of the all-American dog,” or that in a fever of creativity, Al Roker once called them “very good” during his more portly years on The Today Show.

We may not have the swelling piano or the silky smooth pipes of Tim Allen, but here it goes: The Michigan road trip.

Financially, Detroit may be struggling.

Complaining about the weather is the true American pastime, and Michiganders are some of the best complainers around.

You live in Detroit.

Let’s take a look at some recent national media headlines re: Detroit.