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Farm-to-Table Soul Food Restaurant “Detroit Soul” Opens Second Location in Jefferson Chalmers
Posted on January 7, 2023 by The Warrior
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Farm-to-Table Soul Food Restaurant “Detroit Soul” Opens Second Location in Jefferson Chalmers
Rasha Almulaiki
January 6, 2023
Samuel Van Buren and Jerome Brown (left to right), brothers and co-owners of Detroit Soul, opened their second location in the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood.
Detroit Soul, a farm-to-table soul food restaurant, recently expanded into its second location in the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood. In 2015, brothers and co-owners Samuel Van Buren and Jerome Brown opened their first location along East 8 mile Road in Detroit.
Serving up old-fashioned soul food favorites like a slab of BBQ ribs with a steamy side of collard greens, the restaurant has grown into a hot spot for family dining and carry out while modeling an investment in community-centered practices.
Van Buren and Brown sat down with the Michigan Chronicle to talk about what inspired the idea for the restaurant and how they find their roots in the community’s economic empowerment and family-centered, healthy eating.
“We wanted to bring homestyle soul food cooking into the city neighborhoods because, growing up there, we never needed to go out or downtown,” said Brown. “Everything we needed was around us, from where you got your hair cut to where you found your groceries. And when we thought of opening up our 8 Mile location, we’re looking at the need now, the need was to bring food, good food, to the neighborhood.”
Brown said the idea for the restaurant can be traced back to childhood family reunions he went to every summer down South. He said the stovetops were always kept busy cooking up a storm of traditional food for the entire family. ..CONT...
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Farm-to-Table Soul Food Restaurant “Detroit Soul” Opens Second Location in Jefferson Chalmers
