Detroit’s emerging riverfront development gets a huge boost next week when the long-awaited Asian Village opens on the ground floor of the Beaubien Place parking garage at 521 Atwater St., just east of the Renaissance Center.The destination has three components: the Kawaiian Cafe, an artisan coffee/organic tea shop; the Marketplace, with made-to-order Asian street food dispensed at several stations, as well as ready-to-go sandwiches and salads; and Fusia, an elaborate restaurant.
Asian Village will open any day now with a bubble tea shop and sushi. It is not an ethnic neighborhood as some people believe. The center of Asian culture in Detroit, at least after the real Chinatown was moved, is in Madison Heights although the Japanese are mostly around Novi. Or you could consider Windsor’s Chinatown around Wyandotte.
