Farmers Restaurant

The service is warm and welcoming, delicious fresh food, huge portions, great prices.

It’s a great family style restaurant in Eastern Market in Detroit. I had the corned beef and swiss cheese omelette with the hashbrown thrown in it. Very tasty. My husband had corned beef and eggs, which he loved. It’s a great place to warm up when you are in the area shopping. Nicely priced, nice food, great waitstaff!

Great prices. Fast service and the French toast is amazing. They are huge! And the sausage is amazing and flavorful! A definite must on the weekend before doing the market!

Big portions and very good service. Food ok. I had gyro and Greek salad. Gyro was 1 or 2 stars the salad was 4 star. The German tomato soup was hearty and pretty decent. Corned beef my buddy was eating was above average. It was a mixed bag overall, thus I would go back and try again.

So, I should have trusted the fact that it was empty on a Saturday. But i heard so much good stuff, the reviews were ok. So me and the husband tried it out on a saturday morning while we were at the Eastern Market. I wish I had checked all the pictures so i would have seen how they cooked their omelettes. The kind of omelettes where you mix all the ingredients together with the eggs, throw it on the griddle, and then fold the two sides over. I dont like that kind. I like the omelette mixture to be INSIDE of the eggs. Thats what I call an omelette. The service was decent, and then the food arrived. My overcooked, and browned omelette which i was so excited for, left me looking ugh. I cannot eat scorched eggs, and this is what they were. The potatoes were great! The Rye toast and slightly toasted– eh. The husbands Corned beef sandwich looked good upon arrival, but there was nothing on it. Nothing. No cheese, so dressing, no mustard… Not what we’re use to. Well, i didnt eat the omelette, i ate some potatoes, and the waitress asked what was wrong, I told her the omelette was too overdone for my taste. I didnt need anything else to eat. I wasnt going to try anything else off the breakfast menu because I was already not feeling well. She took it off the bill. However, for the husbands Corned beef sanwich, pop, and fries, and my coffee, we paid 16 dollars. Ive paid that for both of us to eat somewhere before.
The WORST PART: As soon as we walk out of the restaurant, my husband said he felt funny. We hurried all the way to the car and hurried home. The whole way he was in pain with his stomach. We barely made it home before anything happened in the car. SMH. We wont try them again. We should have just drove a little further to our mainstay– Louies.

Okay breakfast, nothing great. People apparently flock here for the large portions.
The service was okay but we noted many people who came in after us receiving their orders before we were served.
The menu offers nothing outstanding, just the usual breakfast/​lunch fare.
Average food, mediocre service and higher prices than you would expect to pay for this type of food.
Not bad but not great either, just average. There are much better places in the area for breakfast or lunch.

I was really looking forward to going to this restaurant, especially due to its location in Eastern Market. My wife and I had a couple omelettes which were not very good. They used cheap american cheese slices which I find to be pretty gross and the omelettes were just very basic and without much flavor. The hash browns were good and our service was decent so no complaints there. I just think being close to many fresh ingredients, cheeses, meats would have encouraged them to be a little more creative or even just fresh and tasteful but it was not. It is a step down from IHOP.

Went here on a weekday, sausage was burned and when asked the waitress for non burnt she looked at me as if I was from another planet. The food is terrible and overpriced.

The type of food you would picture coming out of a 1970’s truck stop with a line around the corner food is great the food is great for diner style atmosphere and the servings would even make Fat Albert ask for a to go bag it has been a long time since I had a steak that thick and cooked well for a steak and eggs breakfast the service is fast and just the right style of catty old school waitresses that if you don’t like the food or finish your plate she’s going to smack you in the back of your head lol but definitely don’t try to go here on Saturday when Easter market is full of the out of towners you have to come early during the week they are open around 5 o’clock definitely worth the trip if you love breakfast food you would be hard pressed to find better nearby

Dead in the middle of Eastern Market. If you’re coming on a Saturday, be prepared for a wait (for obvious reasons). If you’re coming during the week, there’s ample parking on the street and in the large lot behind Shed 3. You won’t wait during the week.
I think this place is more of a breakfast food place more than anything else (though they claim they specialize in corned beef, which I think is just OK– if you want ready-​made corned beef in the Market, I’d go for Russell Street or Louie’s over this place). Think of it as a kind of a half-​step up from Ram’s Horn, I guess. They make their own breakfast sausage, which is really tasty. Omelettes and the eggs/​hash/​meat plates reign.
If you’re going for lunch, their soups are homemade and tasty. The cabbage soup is particularly good. The chicken salad platter is a bit bland, but serviceable and large. The patty melt is pretty good, too, though very greasy. The fried egg sandwich is a good value, if you’re not starving.
Not the cleanest– or brightest-​looking place on the planet, but it’s not like it’s filthy or anything. It’s just been around forever and looks the part, to a certain extent. It certainly hasn’t kept me away.
Prices are OK, pushing pricey. Expect to be out around $ 11 before tip on an omelette and coffee.

This is a very relaxed restaurant, nice place to go on a lazy saturday or before/​after a long morning of shopping at Eastern Market. The portions are very large, so bring your appetite or a carry out box. Prices are very reasonable and the food almost gets to your table before you finish ordering. I would like it if they offered fresh squeezed juices instead of concentrated. I can’t speak to their lunch or dinner menu because I’ve always had breakfast foods when dining there.

Farmers Restaurant is located in the heart of Detroit’s Eastern Market. It’s one of eight full-​time restaurants within proximity to the sheds.
It’s a simple menu of breakfast and lunch items. Expect the usual: eggs, omelets, sandwiches, soup and salads. Our table ordered pancakes, a corned beef reuben and a BLT. The pancakes, which looked slightly over cooked, were actually huge and quite good. I’m not really a pancake man but I have to admit that these were good. Not Original Pancake House good but rather adequate. The side order of sausage was suprisingly good too. The were short, plump links and quite meaty for sausage. Much better than the GFS links that most places serve. I’d get those on a return trip. My wife noted that her faithful order of the BLT was packed full of well cooked bacon and the fact that they use real mayo and not Miracle Whip. Well played Farmers Restaurant. I ordered the reuben and, although not necessarily huge, a decent size with what appeared to be Wigley’s corned beef. I asked the waitress and she didn’t know where it came from. When you’re a stone’s throw from EW Groebels and Wigley’s, I would only pray it would come from one of the two legendary corned beef houses. It most certainly was not Sy Ginsberg. It was good, not «epic», and I would order it again.
Couple of things to note: a) My server was decent and friendly but she seemingly didn’t know much about the menu. We inquired to what FR’s specialties were and she really didn’t have an answer. Find one thing on the menu and lie to me. I still don’t know what they are known for or what their signature items are as the menu didn’t really let you know either. b) As several people have noted, the menu prices are somewhat inflated. The sandwiches ala carte all run about $ 7 -$ 10. Add a side of fries and a conservative scoop of slaw for an additional $ 2.50 and your tab is well over the $ 10 mark and you haven’t ordered a beverage yet. Add a bevy, tax and tip and you’re looking at almost $ 15 a person here. At that price point, I expect a little better somewhere in the experience in décor, food quality, portion size or even service.
I would eat here again but if given the choice, I’d hop in the car, head north on Russell and hang a quick right on Mack Ave. to Louie’s Ham for a better overall experience for less money.

The food was great! Lots of food for the price and the corned beef was amazing. I love the corn beef hash for breakfast with eggs. The pancaked were also tasty and fluffy. They seated us fast and got us food quick. The only downfall is that the server we had was a bit rude and gave us the wrong sausage then told us what she brought us was better anyways. Not sure I agreed with that one.

We go here weekly when we do our shopping at Eastern Market. Best sausage. Excellent corned beef hash and eggs. There’s nothing fancy about this place. It’s used, abused and busy. The service is consistently fast.

Two things come to mind when I think of Farmers Restaurant: reliable and perfectly located.
Farmers Restaurant is situated in a perfect corner of Eastern Market which is probably the number one reason for its great popularity and weekend lines. However, they also offer reliably good breakfast or lunch which a few specials which keeps us adventurous eaters pleased with variability.
I have never been disappointed at Farmers Market yet, I’ve never been blown away. However, there have been times when the hustle and bustle of Eastern Market coupled with the heat had required a shaky ol’ me to stumble into Farmers for a much needed endless cup of coffee and a hearty helping of eggs, breakfast meats, and grits.

I love this place. If you are going to Eastern Market on. a Saturday stop here first! They are best know for their corned beef and it doesn’t disappoint. If you see what seems like a long line hop in it. They turn tables quickly and the wait is minimal. My only complaint about this place is the cheese… yes I said it… the cheese! The corned beef is cooked to perfection and then you slap that horrible piece of processed Swiss cheese food on op of all that lovely corned beef… shame, shame shame. Please please please ditch the processed cheese and get the real thing. It will only make me love you more.

I went to Farmer’s on a non-​market day, in order to try a new breakfast place. I had heard a few good things about it from friends and acquaintances, and I couldn’t convince my friend to go to Louie’s again, for some reason.
It was only us and a couple other tables in the restaurant, around 1 pm. The server who took our order was very nice, and coffee and water were in front of us immediately. Prices were reasonable, but perhaps a little inflated due to location and volume of customers next to Eastern Market.
I saw that they had a biscuits and gravy special with eggs. This is a go-​to meal if I’m skeptical of other things — how can you screw up biscuits and gravy? My friend ordered a regular breakfast with several meats, including sausage.
When the food came (quickly, i may add), I wasn’t sure what to think. The biscuits looked fine, but covered with a translucent yellowish substance with pink specks of sausage in it. It looked what I would expel from my stomach after a corned beef sandwich and too many beers. I really wish I was exaggerating. I couldn’t take a picture, it was too much to bear. And not only that, my eggs came on a separate plate (doesn’t everyone eat the eggs on top of the biscuits and gravy??).
The taste was about the same. It was the most salty but bland substance I had ever encountered in breakfast food. there was no flavor profile I could taste but the occasional piece of meat. I should have scraped it aside and concentrated on the biscuits and eggs, but my masochism and hunger overtook me and allowed me to finish about half the portion. It was at that point that I pushed it away and swallowed the rest of my coffee to dilute the salt lingering on my tongue.
I’m still stunned. How do you make bad gravy? Do you know what gravy is? Why did the people here think this was ok to serve to people? I realize it wasn’t a busy day, and perhaps their top lineup of cooks wasn’t in the kitchen, but that was embarrassing.
I will mention that my friend’s breakfast was perfectly acceptable, and he enjoyed the sausage quite a bit. I saw a guy order the polish sausage and eggs combo. He ate it as a sandwich with his toast — and I COVETED it after my despicable meal. He seemed to be enjoying it, but everything seemed positive compared to the sour look on my face.
I might go back if I can’t convince people to go to Louie’s and desperation strikes, but I would certainly avoid any kind of liquid substance that isn’t coffee.

I liked the gyros and feta omelette, but the hashbrowns were kinda pale and the toast was kinda burnt.
My friend ordered an omelette with spinach and mushrooms with bacon on the side and the left out the spinach and mixed the bacon in. She sent it back and the waitress gave her kind of a hard time and said no that’s what you ordered.
When they brought it back they had just cooked some spinach threw it on top and covered it up with cheese. So that was kinda lame.

Loved this place. Casual, diner type place. Had breakfast at noon on Friday. It was great. Someone else mentioned the sausages – right on! Had eggs over easy with sausage and it was great! Hubs had corned beef hash and it was a MONSTER portion. He ate maybe half of it, but liked it.
The only weak link was the potatoes – they needed salt and pepper, and there were a lot of them too.
Service was EXCELLENT – prompt, fast, attentive.
Wanted to try the roast turkey, but breakfast won out (due to sleeping late after losing $$$ nightly at the stinking casino)…

Best breakfast in Eastern Market. The coffee is always good. It’s a dive and not at all trendy. Sometimes basic is comfortable. It is always very busy and it’s right there in the market so you know everything is fresh.
The service is hurried but they will slow down if you need. Like I said in my tip, try the Farmer’s Mess. Just prepare to split it.
It gets busy in the summer. If you don’t want to get there super early, prepare to wait in line. The line moves pretty fast though.