whether you're looking for the perfect
date night place a friend's night out or
a place to bring the little ones this
next spot has you covered serving up
delicious natural food made from scratch
it's sure to have your mouth wiring
especially you Jason when you see the
150 pounds of bacon 150 pounds of bacon
wait to see when your bread it's a
Milford as Michelle Oliver it takes us
to dine in the D at palate whether
you're sipping on a drink next to their
palate or their tantalizing yours with
some delicious food you're bound to have
a good night out at this family-run
establishment in Milford palek got its
start back in 2010 when its two owners
she a former entertainer and he an
experienced chef meant my husband Joe
has been in the restaurant industry
since he was 13 I was a professional
dancer I worked for Disneyworld
Caribbean so we met in 2010 and then
palate opened in 2012 we were married
the next month and then we had a child
two and a half years later she was in
charge of the look and feel of the
restaurant I had to really get creative
when we were coming down to the design
budget because we completely had a gut
and redo and buy all new kitchen
equipment there was a lot of barns
coming down so Joe and I went and we
basically bought half of a barn I have a
lot of reclaimed wood in here local
students made their favorite fruit and
vegetable for me when we first opened
there on our wall I like the really
farmhouse glam that's kind of how I
ended up here he was in charge of the
food frozen was not an option we wanted
things that were quality from scratch as
far as Joe goes he likes to develop
their relationships with the farmers so
he goes he talks to every single person
they've become known for this giant 150
pound platter of bacon which they serve
at their Bloody Mary bar for brunch as
well as their rooftop garden this is our
fourth year of doing a rooftop garden
we did have honeybees so you move those
to our property that we bought Joe loves
sunflowers so the whole front of our
rooftop garden is some flowers we also
have heirloom tomatoes we have all
different kinds of herbs that go into
our cocktails or into our sauces that we
make they like to change up their menu
quite a bit but a current favorite is
their bone-in pork chop we start off by
seasoning the pork chop up its dura pork
from Iowa actually six generation farm
it's called dealer's barn and they just
do everything the right way so what is
the right way the right way is that kind
of never never programs no hormones no
antibiotics nothing of that nature as
that grows we start working on the sides
so our roasted carrots we're gonna saute
these in the butter
that's Guernsey butter and then we heat
up some potatoes as well what is in the
these potatoes the red skin potatoes I
see some onions they are red skin
potatoes and they are from van Houde
farm which is in Romulus and also their
peppers and onions and then obviously a
little bit more butter can't have too
much butter okay no butter makes
everything taste so much better then we
make a bourbon butter glaze yeah you
heard that right to pour over the pork
which is made with Buffalo Trace bourbon
it's gonna glisten it's gonna bring a
lot of nice flavors out and pork and
bourbon well just go together
that's very colorful yeah
once everything cooks up it's time to
plate it up
joining us today is Bristol Hobart and
she was one of the proprieties
proprietors of pallets and you're gonna
tell us about this wonderful spread that
you brought yes I'm so excited to be
here thanks so much for having me I have
over here to our right we have our
chicken and waffles which is kind of a
proprietary thing that we do there it is
a family recipe and it's chicken breast
it's marinated it's so delicious there's
a chipotle aioli on there as well as a
habanero have already cheese some
pickles and an awesome homemade waffle I
have our Michigan salad up there in the
front and we we work with garden fort
and South line and it's a small family
owned farm which we like to focus on
they provided the carrots on the pork
dish our tomahawk pork steak there
okay so let's show that and then pause
and get to the drinks yes it's a dirac
pork chop it's actually a farmer out of
Iowa that we use Beeler's all of our
hands on yeah we love it's it's on our
website we list all of our farmers and
friends on our website and all the all
the people that we partner with to do
organic and natural food so very yes we
have our our you want to talk about
cocktails just long as the cameras on
the same size okay we have our triple
berry Cosmo here which our bar manager
Charlie he infuses all of our liquor we
don't buy anything artificial
artificially flavored so there's three
different types of berries in that vodka
it's absolutely delicious
next to it is we call it the garden
party we partnered with on patron with a
barrel select so we went down and picked
out our own barrel aged and yaho and
that is using ingredients from our
rooftop yes it's super delicious it's
just like a it's a good refreshing
but it's not veggie flavored it's
sweeter so it's good yeah on the other
side over there we have a little bit of
a patron mule I will call it so in a mug
it's like a copper mine yes but its
stainless it's to the left of the plate
yes there you go she has it okay now now
once I get a hold of that we turn to
this beautiful plated not yes so this is
our our palate steak bites which it's
actually filet mignon and it's
we use the tips and then we pair it with
our own chop sauce we are working on a
sauce line and at the moment it's in the
beginning stages and then we also have
our house-made breadsticks that are
super delish it's a good garlicky
awesomeness okay so we have less than 30
seconds okay get this yeah we have a
nice chicken salad and then we have a
meat and cheese board that we do your
critter oh yes charcuterie and lots of
things going on we are constantly this
weekend is Milford memories come see us
we have a huge beverage tent with lots
of yummy craft beverages in it so this
is your DJ sip so we are on 449 North
Main Street in the village of Milford a
cute little town right near Kensington
Metropark so we would love to see you
absolutely thanks so much for having us
it's our pleasure you and your husband
Joe are delightful thank you you want to
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