Detour Cafe on Division Is Closing After 15 Years

Kiss it farewell on Valentine's Day.

After 15 years, Detour Cafe at Southeast 30th Avenue and Division Street is closing.

The little green breakfast cafe, tucked away behind foliage next to an ever-growing computer-chip pattern of modern mixed-use apartments, is the latest casualty of changes in the surrounding neighborhood. In December, classic musician's haunt and Italian shop Eugenios closed, after holding a death march down Division Street.

Detour's last day will be Valentine's Day, Feb. 14.

Detour remained an open secret to many even in its own neighborhood, with hyperminimalist decor, a post-punk soundtrack, and a streamlined menu of frittatas, skillets and monstrous breakfast sandwiches. Oh, and a lot of hot sauce. If you had to wait for brunch, it was in part because the place was so damn small.

But this does not mean Detour's menu will disappear entirely. Detour's owners, Becky Doggett and Scott Krombein, also own Ford Food and Drink farther down Division, on the bottom floor of the modern business complex on Southeast 11th Avenue. They write that they will bring some favorites from Detour's menu there.

Here's the going-away message from Detour's Facebook page.

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