well people talk about gathering around
the table for a meal and conversation
and one restaurant in Detroit is taking
that to a whole new level it's called
gather and you'll find it in the Eastern
Market District we're joined now by the
owner Leah hunts over here in the burger
Wednesday shirt and the head chef Jesse
patois no how's it going fantastic how
are you
you know I said her name twice during
the commercial break flawlessly I feel
like I need to take another shot Potts
wha no anyway everything is perfect
perfect yeah would you say it para no
that sounds just like me yep locally
sourced ingredients so the Eastern
Market district must be the perfect
location for what you all do for sure
indeed yeah we work directly with
Eastern Market as well as a lot of other
growers in the major metro area so it's
also about gather lia it's a small 30
seat restaurant we make everything from
scratch and source locally as we can
jesse is the chef and creates wonderful
dishes but yet we see communally so
gather kind of is a little bit 2-fold in
the name gathering people together a
family style yeah yep a stranger sitting
issues yep yep so their seats their
tables of ten so if you come in with a
party of four you're likely to sit next
to someone else yeah any cool stories
happen because people have their comfort
zones and some people don't like close
talkers or sitting close to somebody
especially while eating but you had
people friendships been made people yes
yeah it's been really cool to watch
people are a little apprehensive at
first sometimes especially on a busy
night and you put a party at two right
between a full table and they kind of
sit down and then all of a sudden you
look over and they're sharing an
appetizer with and they look like one
full group rather than separate groups
which is pretty cool
all right well pretty cool is your
recipe for today which what are you
making for us here on how would you call
that a baguette or what this is our
country bread it's just your most basic
yeast leavened bread but it is a
bruschetta which is just a very classic
take on the Italian favorite mm-hmm so
we make our own country bread in-house
and then we have heirloom cherry
tomatoes from acre farms which is right
here in the in Detroit and
we have a pesto made from watercress and
walnuts that we just toss our tomatoes
in we also make our own ricotta in the
house so what we have here is a ricotta
made from Guernsey's dairy which is oh
you know those me and guernsey we go way
back that's the milk I grew up on oh
really mm-hmm
yeah so we start with a nice generous
layer of cheese usually we we give the
bread a little bit of a grill but today
we're giving you the abbreviated version
so here we have the tomatoes tossed in
pesto which are beautiful right now
we're we're swimming in tomatoes all
sorts of farms have gorgeous options so
it's been really fun working with each
of the farms to find different varieties
and things that we haven't seen what a
lovely image swimming in tomato
definitely they're everywhere
remind everybody while you're finishing
that up where you're located and like
hours of operation how to find you on
social media and all that absolutely we
are in the Eastern Market districts so
we are located right on Gratiot off of
kind of Russell and Gratiot there we
have a lovely block of neighbors with
well done goods and borrow and
simplified and Trina soaps so it's a
really nice spot to be you can come and
do a little bit of retail shopping as
well Instagram Facebook yep we there yep
gather
yup gather on our website is gather
detroit.com and special events coming up
we every week
thus my burger Wednesday shirt on
Wednesdays we collect a donation for a
local nonprofit 4 or 5 - in exchange for
5 dollar burger this coming month we'll
be collecting canned goods for Gleaners
and we are also jesse is going to be
participating in savor Detroit October
1st October 1st so that's a Monday so
you can buy tickets for that dinner
excellent and we're looking at a
close-up of what are those ribs yes
those are our pork ribs they're from
Berlin dairy farms and Ohio
when we can't be super local we try to
be within a 500-mile range which is
perfect they're slow braised and smoked
to perfection okay well thank you so
much for your time today ladies thank
you thank you
our pleasure actually it's gonna be my
pleasure to eat that you can have the
other one