Flint's culinary export is the Flint-style coney — a beef hot dog topped with a dry, finely ground meat sauce that is more like a spice-rich meat crumble than the wet sauces used in Detroit. The city's coney joints have been arguing for nearly a century about who invented it (Angelo's, Starlite, Tom Z's) and who does it best.
Beyond coneys, downtown has slowly added a handful of more interesting restaurants — Mexican, Vietnamese, farm-to-table — but the city's eating scene is still defined by neighbourhood diners and family restaurants more than by destination dining.