Beans & Cornbread finalist in Steve Harvey's Neighborhood Awards

You can vote for Best Soul Food restaurant on Monday, June 8

SOUTHFIELD, MI - Patrick Coleman is hoping that the fourth time is the charm.

The owner of Beans & Cornbread has come very close before to a Steve Harvey Neighborhood Award as the nation’s Best Soul Food restaurant.

“Beans & Cornbread is a 4-time nominee, and … it almost feels as if we are the Susan Lucci of these awards,” quipped Coleman, referencing the longtime “All My Children” actress who failed to win an Emmy after 18 nominations. “We want to get over that. We don’t want to be the Susan Lucci.”

Voting takes place in the popular radio host’s contest for just one day--- Monday, June 8, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. --- and can only be done online. The link for Beans & Cornbread won’t be live until that day. You can find that link and vote on Monday at https://www.neighborhoodawards.com/awardshow/best-soul-food/. Voting for different categories, ranging from best beauty salon to best high school coach, are held daily throughout the month as part of Harvey’s long-running national event.

Beans & Cornbread earned nominations in the category in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The Southfield restaurant has been praised many times locally, including making the Metro Times’ “best of” list, by BLAC magazine, by Hour magazine and in various competitions.

Winning the Harvey award would “be great for the city, great for the region,” said Coleman, whose first restaurant opened 18 years ago. “When you think of Detroit, you think of music, you think of cars; why not have it also be the location of the best soul food restaurant in the country?”

Beans & Cornbread has been described as “the place for upscale Soul Food,” and its offerings include southern favorites such as fried chicken, farm-raised catfish, smothered pork chops, collard greens, candied sweet potatoes and macaroni & cheese.

The Steve Harvey Neighborhood Awards will be given out during a weekend of events taking place in Atlanta on Aug. 6-9.