Food Exchange

So dam good the biggest burger for your $$ love the big baby y’all don’t know this but u can get a double big baby lol

What more can you ask for? The food and burgers here are great! This is an often go to lunch spot for the wife and I. I know they’re know for the BIG and Delicious Big Baby Burger, but don’t sleep on the fish sandwiches or sliders.

The good: the big baby is so good it makes you feel guilty for eating it. It is so huge your eyes, stomach and mouth get tired just looking at it.
The bad: my cholesterol count after eating half the Big Baby and Big Baby fries.
The ugly: Sadly the neighborhood. Hopefully during Detroit’s reemergence this once good neighborhood can return and bring more and a different type of clientele to the area to support this business.
A very solid visit food wise. I will return for another Big Baby after I hit the gym for a few weeks.

Update: They updated the décor on the inside waiting area a little bit. Seems like business has been good and the waiting area is a lot more welcoming and clean.

Going in to this place, I had no expectations because I had never heard of the place or knew anything about it. I ended up going on a Wednesday which is a great day to go because their signature menu item (The BIG Baby) is Half Off! I ended up ordering one along with some cheese fries. The wait was pretty long compared to your standard wait at any other carry out restaurant but it was well worth the wait. The food was absolutely amazing! The Burger is huge! 14oz of Ground Beef topped w/​corned beef, and your standard burger condiments on an onion roll. I really enjoyed it. The fries weren’t anything special. They were the same fries you get at any coney island in the city and the cheese was… A slice of American cheese which is pointless in my opinion. I was expecting a cheese sauce but none the less, I did eat the fries and they were good. I’d suggest going in with an open mind and prepared to wait a while. The entertainment from the other customers’ conversations is epic. You are just about guaranteed to laugh at least once! I’d definitely go again for one of those BIG BABIES!

Big Baby fries… oh baby! They were great! Going back for the Big Baby burger (didn’t want to be a complete glutton) I’m expecting it to be just as tasty. You may want to visit this place with a companion, someone to lookout. As was mentioned in previous reviews, the area is not so pristeen. Just be alert. Definitely worth it though.

Oh. My. God. This is exactly the type of burger place I was hoping to find during my Detroit visit. The Big Baby… Holy shit. Waaaay too big for just one person. My boyfriend and I just split one and it still made us so stuffed we could barely move but it was so ridiculously tasty!
To the owners, I know shit’s rough right now but I truly admire that you are sticking by your city and pumping out bomb food! I wish nothing but the best for you. I hope you get the all the success that you deserve! I genuinely thank you… a thousand times!

Food exchange absolutely delivered, drawn in by the Danny Brown Eddie Huang video. Warning, this block is very sketchy, the plexiglass wall separating the customer from the register/​employees is not for aesthetics.
Somebody needs to partner with these folks and make a food truck.

Here’s the deal: you’re eating in East Detroit. It’s as bad as it gets. The restaurant is pretty crummy as well, with a wall of fiberglass separating your from the kitchen/​register and some unstable seating.
PICK UP IS A MUST!!!
That being said, the Big Baby is a great burger. Crumbly ground beef with hot corned beef on top loaded with goodies on an onion roll. Can’t say I had anything else but it warranted a second trip.
TL;DR: Get the Big Baby and GTFO.

I think I’m the only Eastsider that hates this place. My S/​O forces me to get carryout from here and I oblige every few years and EVERY time something has been mis-​made. I don’t understand it. It just doesn’t taste very good to me. He tells me the burgers are supposed to be big as hell, but I’d rather just buy something that tastes GOOD rather than is BIG. Leave it to a man to think it’s size that matters. It does nothing for me.

I traveled to the deep darkness of Detroit’s east side — the part where there are only one or two valid address on each block and where everything cowers to the shadows of the old Packard plant. You know, the one owned by the same slum lord billionaire that owns the hulking disaster known as the Michigan Central Train Depot.
I went to the food exchange for their legendary ½ pound burger/​corned beef sandwich. Good thing I was near starvation. The place reminded me of a 10 by 10 cell. The girl at the register took our order, and me, my wife and our two boys watched the cook — who was really just a another girl who worked the grill that day — reached into an ordinary household refrigerator, pulled out a foil-​wrapped hunk of ground beef, then slammed it onto the grill. We got home. I got full. But nothing else was special about the experience. Go there only if you are starving one day and happen to get lost in the black hole of the abandoned part of the east side under Al Taubman’s gross shadow.