Breakfast and lunch fare back as Ferndale's Fly Trap sets Tuesday reopening

Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press
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The Fly Trap has been testing the menu ahead of its Tuesday opening and recently posted this burger photo on Facebook.
The Fly Trap has been testing the menu ahead of its Tuesday opening and recently posted this burger photo on Facebook.

The wait is over for fans of Ferndale's beloved Fly Trap eatery.

After staff training and menu testing with public tastings the Fly Trap, known as "the finer diner" and a popular spot for brunch, will welcome back diners Tuesday.

Closed since September, the eatery sold last month and is under new ownership that promises to keep it as the Fly Trap.

The diner, at 29950 Woodward Ave. in Ferndale, will be open 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays.

Featuring items like green eggs and ham, crab cakes and pumpkin seed avocado toast, the Fly Trap in Ferndale guarantees to provide a unique breakfast experience.
Featuring items like green eggs and ham, crab cakes and pumpkin seed avocado toast, the Fly Trap in Ferndale guarantees to provide a unique breakfast experience.

More than a month ago Kara and Gavin McMillian, who owned the beloved diner for 17 years, announced they sold the restaurant to restaurateur Matt Buskard, owner of five Bobcat Bonnie's locations in the metro Detroit area, one in Grand Rapids and another in Toledo, Ohio.

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In announcing the new ownership, the owners cited staffing issues and owner burnout for the September closure in a Facebook post.

Buskard has been posting on social media for the past week about training staff and menu testing along with some photos ahead of the Tuesday opening.

In a recent Facebook post, Buskard wrote that those food sampling said: “it tastes exactly as it did prior.”

And that was the goal.

A Fly Trap regular for many years, Buskard announced he would reopen the diner writing in a Facebook post the spot on Woodward would stay as the Fly Trap.

"Our goal is simple — which is to keep the Fly Trap as the Fly Trap. There will be no crossovers, remixes, sharing of ideas, etc. We want to keep the magic that is the Fly Trap at the Fly Trap and vice versa," Buskard wrote in a Facebook post.

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