Top 10 Takeover dining series: Tickets for Indigo Culinary Co. on sale Friday
The next stop on the Detroit Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Top 10 Takeover dinner and cocktail series features Josmine Evans at the Joy Project in Detroit.
On Aug. 1, the Takeover series heads to the Joy Project, a community garden on the north end of Detroit.
Evans was named the Detroit Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers 2023 Emerging Chef.
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Restaurant critic Lyndsay C. Green, described Evans as a “cook, a farmer, a cultural anthropologist, an educator and a storyteller.”
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Evans was lauded for the dishes she offers at her pop-up restaurant Indigo Culinary Co. She’s also co-founder of the Detroit-based Joy Project, where she cultivates plants native to Black foodways across the diaspora, Green wrote.
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Indigo Culinary Co. pop-ups reflect many of Evans' family dishes, the foods of her ancestors and cultural influences from her world travels.
The Indigo Culinary Co. pop-up Top 10 Takeover takes place at 1105 Alger St. in Detroit with seatings at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Here's the Indigo Culinary Co. Takeover menu
Starter (air)
Chicken foot, chicken heart, chicken wing, deviled egg
Vegetarian option: black-eyed pea hummus with plantain chip, Koki bean, Texas caviar)
Salad (fire)
Grilled peach and H2O melon salad, burrata and ginger cayenne dressing
Soup (water)
Trini corn soup
Main dish (earth)
Peanut lamb in banana leaf, rice cakes, tomato and red onion
Vegetarian option: Root vegetables and leafy greens
Sweet
Benne ice cream with fresh banana and sweet farofa crumble
Beverages are Bissap (hibiscus drink) water and an option for hot tea or coffee at the end of service. There is no alcohol paring and no bar.
How to get tickets
Tickets for the event go on sale for Free Press subscribers at noon Thursday, with general ticket sales for the public to follow at noon Friday. Tickets are $63 per person and include tax, gratuity and a $3 donation to Forgotten Harvest, which helps fight food insecurity in metro Detroit. Visit freep.com/top10 for tickets.
The Detroit Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers are offering a chance to win two tickets for each event. To enter the contest, go to chevydetroit.com/top10.
At the Top 10 Takeover events, guests will have an opportunity to engage with Detroit Free Press staffers, including Green, who will honor Evans with an award, and food writer Susan Selasky. For those who wish to donate, the Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers will also have a collection box where canned goods and other nonperishable food items can be donated to Forgotten Harvest.
Contact Detroit Free Press food and restaurant writer Susan Selasky and send food and restaurant news to: sselasky@freepress.com. Follow @SusanMariecooks on Twitter. Subscribe to the Free Press.
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