If you want great, not fancy, breakfast fare, you should head on over to Hame Shop Cafe. For $25, we got more food than we could possibly finish. My husband had a ham and cheese omelette with real hash browns (not frozen), toast and coffee. I had side orders of ham, grits and sautéed peppers, onions and mushrooms. I couldn't even get through half of mine, and my husband barely finished his. If you're looking for a 5-star dining experience, you should move along, but if you want good food, fast and plenty of it - get yourself over there pronto! The city is currently digging up Monroe St, but if you're able to walk over like we did from the Hollywood Casino Hotel, it's well worth it. read more

Ham Shop Cafe - Sides of delicious ham, grits, sautéed vegetables, ham and cheese omelette, hash browns, toast and coffee - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

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I ordered the catfish and eggs breakfast. It was priced at $9.50 on Yelp. However, when I got there I was charged $16.00. Fortunately, I had the money. I asked about the price on Yelp and was told they didn't have anything to do with it. What! I got no apology or anything. This did not sit well with me at all. If I order again, I'll verify the price beforehand since Yelp isn't up to date. The food was good. read more

Great spot for a hearty breakfast- went here prior to the St Paddy's shenanigans in Corktown. The ham serving was generous and salty. Prompt and friendly service. Must be back! read more

Ham Shop Cafe - Front - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

Came here for breakfast 2 of 3 mornings while staying at Hollywood Casino. Such a great way to start day. No frills diner with friendly staff. Lots of locals come to get food as well so great reputation in the community. read more

Ham Shop Cafe - Turkey Sausage Skillet - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

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Service was good, eggs were good, pancakes are not good at all. Pretty run down looking.

The food is really good, the options are very similar to a Coney Island. We came in sat down and our orders were taken immediately. I ordered the western omelette that came with grits and toast 8/10. My breakfast buddy ordered pancakes 8/10. The restaurant isn't easy on the eyes, the tables/booth are old and wiggly. but the food makes it worth going. read more

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Okay this place doesn't look like much from the outside, or inside for that matter, but the food was delicious and good size servings for incredibly reasonable prices. We were in downtown Detroit for the new year's weekend and looking for an open restaurant as many places were closed. We asked a guard at the Greektown casino and this was her recommendation. A lot of locals eat there too! read more

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I was happy to return to Ham Shop after six years. My youngest son and I were staying nearby and visited around 8:30 AM on a Monday morning. There were only two other tables during our visit that had people sitting there. I ordered two eggs over medium, with sausage, potatoes and toast. My son had chicken tenders and fries. My breakfast was excellent and my son enjoyed his meal. As I said before there is nothing fancy here but a solid breakfast option in downtown Detroit. read more

Ham Shop Cafe - 2 Eggs Any Style with Toast - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

My original breakfast plans didn't work out, but I did still really want breakfast food. I passed by this diner on the way back to the hotel, and figured I would stop in. It doesn't look like much from the outside, and the decor inside doesn't necessarily stand out -- it's just a no-frills classic neighborhood diner vibe. The staff were really sweet and you could tell a lot of the folks in there were regulars. I looked at the breakfast menu on the wall that had quite a few options. As my eyes scrolled through the menu, catfish and eggs jumped out at me -- BAM! That was an easy one. I've never had this for breakfast before! I was able to get the eggs scrambled, wheat toast, and grits as well. It was less than $15, and in today's economy I was surprised. When i got back to my room, everything was fantastic. It was a hefty amount of food too -- my toast isn't even pictured in my tray below. It's a great stop for anyone in the area that wants a classic diner breakfast. Them grits were extra buttery too, whew! read more

Ham Shop Cafe - Catfish, eggs & grits - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

We were in town for vacation and we searching for a breakfast spot walking distance of our hotel. Their breakfast menu is great! Lots to pick from! Everything was delicious except for the catfish I ordered (but I do love that they offer catfish for breakfast!). The fry was just too heavy and too cooked for my personal liking. I ended up picking most of it off. While we were there, we noticed locals dining and lots of locals getting carry out. Another couple who were on vacation walked in, looked around at the place and left. It's not a fancy spot. It's your classic local dive (dive in a good way) breakfast joint. They've had a lot of business over the years so the floors are scuffed and everything is a little rough around the edges, but it is clean. I would eat here again! read more

Ham Shop Cafe - Catfish breakfast. Fish batter was too heavy for me. - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

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A+! Great food and service! The portions are large so I suggest sharing with one other person, unless you normally eat for 2. My husband ordered a ham and cheese omelette with hash browns plus a half order of biscuits and gravy but it looked like a full order. The ham is real, not sliced. read more

Ham Shop Cafe - Ham and cheese omelette, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, two eggs over easy with turkey sausage and grits. Rye toast. - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

We were staying at a nearby hotel and decided to grab some breakfast here prior to the Michigan football game. The food and service were both good. The ambiance was a bit old and outdated. read more

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Ham Shop is an old-school no-frills diner on the edge of Greektown. I saw a mix of downtown professionals and locals eating here for a good reason. The food is excellent and reasonably priced, and breakfast is served all day. I ordered the catfish breakfast with eggs and potatoes and a side of grits for takeout. The cook time took twenty minutes which I spent walking around Greektown. The catfish was huge, perfectly cooked, hot, crispy, meaty, and tender on the inside. I was surprised that the fish tasted so good. I love grits with any breakfast meal, and I received a large container. The eggs and hash browns were also well-cooked. I have no complaints about this breakfast. I recommend Ham Shop for a classic local Coney diner-style breakfast downtown. read more

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Standard diner in downtown Detroit. A bit small and very busy with customers going in and out. Food was delicious and service was outstanding. Our waitress was very friendly and attentive! I ordered the Greek omelette which was filling and deserves a 10/10. The breakfast special with corned beef was also delicious! I would recommend this place for an easy and fast breakfast! read more

Ham Shop Cafe - Greek Omelet - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

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Awesome skillet and friendly staff! Highly recommend and great price. I will be back next time in or around Greektown.

Great place to grab breakfast or lunch before a Lions or Tiger game. About a 10 minute walk to the stadiums. Best value in Detroit IMO. Good service and food. read more

I absolutely LOVE a good, affordable breakfast and this place has it! If you're staying near here and you don't visit you're missing out! read more

Ham Shop Cafe - Cover of the menu - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

Ok, let's go right to ambiance. It doesn't look like much, inside or out. Cheap cutlery, mismatched tables and chairs, not much in the way of decor except an autographed picture of some guy from Gary Indiana named Micheal Jackson, apparently he loved the joint. Guess what is top notch, the food. Wow. Normally I get the big as breakfast when I go for breakfast and keep the ham for my dogs. Well I kept some of my ham for my dogs, grudgingly. That ham is a grand slam home run. When I go back, when, not if, I will skip the bacon and sausage and eat all the ham, doggies be damned. Well done! read more

Once again another great breakfast. I was at a business event and a guy was telling everyone that if you wanted breakfast, the Ham Shop was the only place to go. It was my thoughts exactly. There ended up being a few of us who had already eaten here and everyone had the same review. Great food, Great service and worth the visit. read more

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What a great local diner style restaurant. Service was great and attentive. Coffees were always filled and were delicious. Prices were perfect for what we ordered. Old and run down but authentic. Would go back again. read more

Ham Shop Cafe - All meat skillet - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

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You can take coney island out of the name but not out of the same mediocre menu and food. All weekend we were saying no eating at coney islands that seem to grow on trees in Detroit. Got us here How we got stuck is just like everywhere, restaurant closings and opening/closing times are constantly evolving. If I had made my sweetie drive to yet another spot that was just not open on Sunday afternoon for some reason or other, he was gonna want to strangle me. Basic breakfast/lunch items. Lots of flavorless bacon, eggs tasted like mine (I don't cook well), mushy hash browns and toast. My man got an overcooked rib eye with eggs n hashbrowns. He ate it anyway because he will eat anything. Only thing we asked for was napkins. Never got them. Pretty small spot so we could hear the staff talking about heading home asap. Don't blame them but made me uncomfortable asking for something else that maybe I would enjoy Waitress asked if I wanted a box because I obviously didn't eat much. No thanks. Just left it there. She never came back to ask if our meals were ok. Friendly staff but just know at 130 they were not taking customers (closes as 2) and are more focused on getting out the door themselves. read more

We were here for an event at Ford Field (MHSAA Wrestling Finals). The restaurant is small in size and there were only 2 people taking orders and serving food. They said they were unaware of the event. However, even the cook came out to help serve food and make sure people had their orders taken. It definitely is not the newest restaurant, but I would not say it was dirty. Gently used might be a good description. It reminds you of an older diner with good food. We got a lot of food for a very reasonable price for it being downtown Detroit! Definitely recommend this restaurant and will be back!!! read more

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Food was great, service and ambience ok. Definitely a delicious place to have breakfast

Stopped in for a late brunch and had the French toast, bacon, eggs and a slice of cake. Everything was perfect and full of flavor. Service was fast and kind. Highly recommend trying, if I lived here I'd be back all of the time. read more

Come on sandwiches on hotdog buns!!! sandwiches lacked flavor, pretty horrible. The cream of broccoli soup was a bit salty but still ok read more

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If you want breakfast at a great affordable price. This is a good place to start. We were visiting from California and walking around downtown looking for food after church. We walked by a few spots that had long waits and pricey food so we made our way to the Ham Shop. Food was ready quick. We left satisfied. No complaints. read more

Good food , nice staff.. hats off the homeless man Dennis who apparently scores free breakfast everyday. Will go back next time I'm in town and buy him breakfast again!! read more

Great breakfast and a very reasonable price. nice staff.

The food was tasty. I definitely recommend the breakfast potatoes. Very affordable breakfast. My only suggestion is that they should have a better system on how they are sitting people. I was told it was a 20 minute Waite. I put my timer on and the hostess was sitting people down before me that came way after me. I am not a person that like to use the race card but I definitely felt a certain way. I had to let her know I heard tell a male that he was next and he was polite enough to say he knew I had been waiting much longer than him. Perhaps it was an oversight but not sure when I was the only black woman waiting and the others were older white males. read more

Simple, cheap, not extravagant. Service is friendly and attentive. If you're looking for something outside the box, then you're probably looking in the right place. If you're looking for a simple breakfast that won't break the bank then you're in luck. The inside is a little worn down, slightly dark. Just feels like a basic diner you'd find locals in getting a cup of coffee. Fair warning though, if you're crunched for time you can call in an order and get it to go. Personally, I would suggest this since there are a bunch of other people that do it as well which can add to your wait time. Plus, you can eat wherever you want. I had ordered a ham and cheese sandwich for a compatriot, and veggie omelette with potatoes for myself. According to compatriot the ham and cheese was a good bite. The omelette came with a bunch of potatoes on the side, and tasted as you would expect it. If I was in the area again, I'd get food to go in the morning certainly. Some of the best prices I came across to be honest. read more

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Probably one of my favorite places I visited in Detroit. Old school dive spot that serves all the basics. I loved eating breakfast here, not pretentious, quiet and the price was always right for the food! The folks that work here are all SUPER nice, humble, local people and they showed nothing but kindness to me and my colleagues on a daily basis. read more

This is not enough corn beef for me Worst corn bees sandwich ever dry and tasteless too read more

Ham Shop Cafe - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

So so... the people were nice overall, though can't say much about the food or quality of restaurant. If you want a decently fast meal and aren't focused on the experience then you would be just fine here. Was hoping for a little more frankly. I'm good with dive places but this one stretches even me a little.... Had multiple breakfast entrees and all were as we ordered and came out hot. read more

Honest food from kind people. It's not fancy but it's hearty, filling and hits the spot.

I have no idea why this place had 4-5 star reviews. The place is dirty. The floors have food on them. You can tell the owners do not put much back into this place. Tables are chipped and broken. Staff doesn't even offer to refill the Coffee though they are friendly. This place is cheap I will give it that. However the food is bland and flavorless. It comes out quick though. I would not return here at all. I would also tell people to just go somewhere else. It's really not worth a $5 breakfast. read more

Ham Shop Cafe - Diners Near Me - Detroit, Michigan

In town on business and the hotel restaurant was closed. Found this place when I went for my morning walk. Food was good and staff was friendly. Got the ham and cheese omelette with grits. Omelette was loaded up with ham and had plenty of cheese. The grits were good and it was a large portion of grits. Highly recommend if you're in the area. read more

Great Food. MASSIVE portions. The whole menu is available all day - so I started my day off with chicken stir fry. Trust me, stir fry makes a fantabulous breakfast, particularly when someone else is doing the cooking. There was enough on my plate to feed a Sunday School - and it was a first rate stir fry. The pita bread that came with it was just as good. I gained ten pounds that morning and didn't regret an ounce. * * * I showed up at the Ham Shop at 6:05 in the morning. Greektown at six in the morning is deserted. The Ham Shop looks like a run down old diner, even by daylight. Greektown before dawn has the empty city streets of a film noir. Eating in the Ham Shop before dawn is just like being in a real life copy of Nighthawks. (That is the famous Edward Hopper painting about being in a lonely diner in the middle of the night while all the streets are dark around you.) But of course the people in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks weren't eating Giant plates of really good stir fry with really good pita bread on the side. If the cooking was better in Edward Hopper's diner, all the people in the diner would have been happy, and the painting would have looked like it was painted by Norman Rockwell. * * * So if you want the painting of your life to be happy, eat at the Ham Shop. read more

This place is no frills, nothing fancy, just very good and inexpensive food. We arrived around 1 o'clock on Sunday and found to be one of the only customers. We ordered a grilled cheese with ham and a breakfast plate with eggs, English muffin, and potatoes. Everything was very good. The food came out quickly. It was less than $20 total. I'm not sure about the parking situation as we walked from our hotel, but it is a reliable option for breakfast. I also noted that they had other menu options such as lunch sandwiches, chicken tenders etc. read more

This Classic decades old Downtown favorite plates up some of the best Ham around town along with fabulous Chicken n Waffles and me favorite be Catfish and Eggs with a big O bowl of Grits. Located on Monroe as you enter the Greek Town block this very busy place really has great service and many super sandwiches, Soups n Salads to fill da belly. They have runners delivering that hot delicious food for many blocks around. Get your Catfish crave on right here folks it's battered and cooked to perfection. read more

Ate here while on vacation. Not busy at all. The food was good and affordable. Nothing spectacular just homemade style food. Wish the menu was bigger. read more