Brunch at The Beverly in Berkley: A Local Food Loop

Saturday morning at 3180 Coolidge Hwy, the wait for a brunch table at The Beverly stretches past the host stand and into the vestibule. Inside, the walls are painted a cornflower blue that reads more like a favor to the room than a design choice, and the smoker installed in the kitchen last winter still gets a workout on weeknights. The restaurant opened January 30, 2026, from the team behind Bar Pigalle in Brush Park, and by late summer its weekend brunch, served Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., had become the kind of booking locals plan around rather than fall into.

What's easy to miss, standing in that line, is how much of what's on the plate in front of you was never meant to come from The Beverly's own kitchen alone.

An Opening That Already Knew the Neighborhood

Travis Fourmont, who co-owns The Beverly with chef Norman Valenti, has called Berkley home for more than a decade. Before this restaurant existed as anything but a "for sale" sign on a former auto parts shop, Fourmont had already built a career in Detroit's restaurant scene, first as bar manager helping open Roast at the Westin Book Cadillac, later as the bartender Hour Magazine named Detroit's best in 2012 and 2013, and eventually as the co-founder of Bar Pigalle, the French-inspired restaurant that opened in Brush Park in 2022. When he finally found his corner of Berkley, he told Hour Detroit it wasn't a real estate calculation so much as a decade of noticing a gap: "I wanted to service the community I call home."

That sentence could sound familiar from a new restaurant owner. Here, the details that follow show how it connects to nearby businesses.

The Ingredient List Doubles as a Map

When The Beverly was still under construction, Fourmont described a menu built to run through his neighbors' storefronts rather than around them. Bread would come from Crispelli's. Specialty cheeses would come from Mongers' Provisions, the cheese and charcuterie shop at 3127 12 Mile Rd that opened its Berkley location in November 2021, nearly three times the size of its original Detroit storefront. And there was talk of some kind of tie-in with Bombshell Treat Bar, the ice cream shop two blocks away at 2688 Coolidge Hwy, a favorite of Fourmont's.

Then there's Casa Amado Taqueria, at 2705 Coolidge Hwy, run by chef Amado Lopez. Chef Valenti is a personal friend of Lopez's and has occasionally worked a shift in his kitchen over the years, a connection between two restaurants on a two-block stretch of Coolidge Hwy.

Lopez's own story is worth knowing if you've eaten at Casa Amado without realizing what you were eating. He trained under chef Rick Bayless at Topolobampo in Chicago, helped open Xoco, then walked away from fine dining to raise his kids on a saner schedule, eventually landing in Berkley through a pandemic pop-up at the old Atomic Dawg hot dog stand. In January 2023, Lopez was named a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation's Emerging Chef award, the kind of national nod that briefly turns a neighborhood taco counter into a pilgrimage site. He's said the honor caught him off guard precisely because he'd built the place to be modest.

Put those two chefs on the same corridor and something more interesting emerges than a list of good places to eat. The Beverly sits alongside Casa Amado, Mongers' Provisions, and Bombshell Treat Bar, each with its own offerings.

Four Doors, One Walk

If you're planning a Saturday around this stretch of Berkley, here's what's actually within reach of each other, not as a curated food tour but as an accurate description of what's already there:

• The Beverly, 3180 Coolidge Hwy. New American comfort food, weekend brunch Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., dinner service the rest of the week.
• Casa Amado Taqueria, 2705 Coolidge Hwy. Chef Amado Lopez's tacos, quesadillas, and hot dogs, most orders under $10, and a 2023 James Beard Emerging Chef semifinalist nod to go with them.
• Mongers' Provisions, 3127 12 Mile Rd. Cut-to-order cheese, craft chocolate, and charcuterie, opened in Berkley in November 2021 as the larger of the shop's two Metro Detroit locations.
• Bombshell Treat Bar, 2688 Coolidge Hwy. Chocolate-dipped ice cream bars and soft serve, grown out of a pandemic-era mobile cart into a 2,200-square-foot storefront.

None of these are new discoveries if you already live here. What's new is realizing they're not four separate errands. They're one loop, with The Beverly among the other three businesses.

How The Beverly Fits Into a Walkable Downtown

A new restaurant opening in a small downtown joins a neighborhood with businesses already serving local diners. The Beverly opened among established food businesses on Coolidge Hwy and 12 Mile Road, and the details of its nearby connections offer one way to consider how it fits into the area.

Fourmont described plans to source bread and cheese from nearby businesses, and there was talk of a Bombshell Treat Bar tie-in. Chef Valenti had also worked in Lopez's kitchen. These connections place The Beverly among the businesses on Berkley's stretch of Coolidge Hwy and 12 Mile Road.

For readers interested in how a new restaurant fits alongside smaller businesses, this is worth noticing. The Beverly's early months included sourcing plans and connections with nearby businesses. Whether those connections continue as the restaurant settles into its second year is worth watching. The plans and Valenti's connection with Lopez offer one example of the relationships among businesses on this stretch of Berkley.

If you've lived in Berkley long enough to remember when this corner sold auto parts, you've seen the businesses along this stretch change over time. The Beverly's opening added another stop alongside those already here.

Whether you're weighing a move to a walkable downtown like this one or you already have your Saturday morning route memorized, K&K Real Estate Group spends as much time paying attention to what's happening on Coolidge Hwy as we do to what's happening on a closing statement. Let's Start a Conversation.