Kinfolk is slated to fully open in late March at 113 Harbor Town Square.
The eagerly-awaited breakfast-lunch restaurant was conceived by chef/owner Cole Jeanes, 34. His square-cut biscuits or “cathead biscuits” are the centerpiece of the menu, which includes breakfast sandwiches, breakfast bowls, French omelets, steak and eggs and hash browns, oat pancakes, and other breakfast staples, including the MVP a.k.a. the “Most Valuable Plate.”
Jeanes and Natalie Lieberman of collect + curate came up with the interior design for the 1,500 square-foot restaurant. Jeanes knew what he wanted, but Lieberman reined him in somewhat, or, as Jeanes says, helped him “bring it back a little bit.”
“I tend to take it a little too far and I didn’t really understand the cost of things,” he says. “She helped me be realistic.”
He adds, “I knew what I wanted. I love Danish interior design. And I love Japanese simplicity and things like that. So, that still falls into this space as well. I just wanted really expensive wood.”
He also likes the esthetic of “joinery,” which is “no nails. Everything is held together through precision cutting and fitting. “But,” he adds, “I wanted all those things and I also wanted a Southern country diner. So, yeah, bring it back a little bit.”
The restaurant looks like a diner, Jeanes says. “Pieces we bring into it, little knick knacks and things we have in here, lean more toward the country side of things.”
For now, Kinfolk will be open for grab-and-go and coffee from 6 to 7 a.m. and the full breakfast menu from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch will begin at 10:30 a.m., Jeanes says. He plans to eventually “work in a happy hour” from 4 to 8 p.m. “Our lunch menu and our key items will kind of carry over to that with our bar program.”
