The Fleetwood Diner in Ann Arbor stands as a gleaming silver sentinel on the corner of Ashley Street, where the aroma of sizzling gyro meat has been beckoning hungry patrons for decades.
In a culinary landscape increasingly dominated by trendy farm-to-table concepts and deconstructed classics, this unpretentious 24-hour establishment remains gloriously, defiantly unchanged.
You haven’t truly experienced Michigan’s food scene until you’ve slid into one of the Fleetwood’s well-worn booths at 2 AM, watching steam rise from a perfectly assembled gyro sandwich that promises to change your understanding of late-night dining.
The stainless steel exterior shines like a beacon against Ann Arbor’s brick-dominated downtown, a rectangular time capsule that seems transported from an era when diners were America’s great democratic eating establishments…