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Detroit needs more good breakfast joints. Here's a good one, which opened several months ago.
Jane Slaughter gives a glowing Metro Times review to Folk at 1701 Trumbull in Corktown, which focuses on sourcing locally, organically, humanely and seasonally.
The menu leans more to breakfast or brunch than to lunch, though Folk is open til 4 p.m. — eggs, quiche, toast, a yogurt bowl, but just the one (vegan) burger and no sandwiches, per se. You can get a single-origin espresso or a tahini latte, milk infused with turmeric or beet root powder, and several hot and cold teas.
As you approach the restaurant, you're greeted with a row of bright flower boxes spilling over with color — and broccoli and cabbage growing among them. There's a patio, and inside holds six-seat tables with stools, which can be shared.
If I had to choose one Folk favorite, I'd choose two — the hash plate and the Tigress Aussie Meat Pie (Fowlkes is Australian). In the former, which can come with eggs or smoked tempeh, my sunny-side-ups were perfect, and the potatoes were not hashed up but faintly spicy, nestled among cubes of squash and all served with a spicy peach-colored aioli. The round meat pie had a fabulous crisp-but-tender crust — as a meat pie should — with creamy coconut chicken inside, and was served with lightly dressed bright purple greens.
