Matt Prentice (Photo: Facebook)
Anyone who follows the restaurant industry in Metro Detroit knows the name Matt Prentice.
Over the years, he owned a number of restaurants in Metro Detroit -- including Deli Unique, Coach Insignia, Northern Lakes Seafood, No. VI Chophouse, Morels, Shiraz, Plaza Deli and more. Then he got banished from the Detroit restaurant scene because of a five-year noncompete clause stemming from a lawsuit with his former employer, as the Detroit Free Press notes. That has now expired.
So, here he comes again.
Prentice and Mary Liz Curtin are plotting to open Three Cats and a Cook, a retail-restaurant hybrid next door to Curtin's home decor and lifestyle shop Leon & Lulu in downtown Clawson, reports Melody Baetens of The Detroit News:
Details are still coming together for the 100-seat cafe, but "a firm handshake" is in place and the plan is to open the casual fine dining restaurant with small plates and a full bar in late spring in the building they call "the Show," formerly the Clawson Theatre.
Curtin currently has her Three Cats Cafe bistro-style restaurant in this space, as well as greeting cards and other retail offerings.
"Three Cats Cafe is going to grow up and become a really fancy restaurant," said Curtin, who owns Leon & Lulu with her husband, Stephen Scannell. "This, to me, is a restaurant dream come true."
