Honcho
From mechanic’s garage to taco counter.
One culinary continent, smashed into another.
Honcho was conceived at the markets: Latin food that speaks with an Asian accent.
That’s why a Korean pork taco sits next to chicken tinga, why the rice bowl comes with kimchi and nori, and why the Brussels burrito is seasoned with garam masala and mirin.
The kitchen leans on its neighbors too — hot links and pulled pork from Union Woodshop, Pinconning cheese in the Union Mac, and a house lager brewed by Austin Brothers up in Alpena.
Two garages, joined at the hip.
Honcho lives in an old mechanic’s station on the downtown Clarkston strip — two separately functioning garages combined into one restaurant and coffeehouse.
The main dining room offers table, booth and counter seating for lunch and dinner. Next door, the coffeehouse pours house-roasted pour-over from early morning. In warm weather, the whole thing spills onto the patio.
The interiors — rope chandeliers, tufted counter stools, collage walls — were crafted by Ann Stevenson Studio.
One of the Union Joints.
Union Joints is “the little house that mac & cheese built.” It started in 1995 with the Clarkston Union, and grew into a family of restaurants in one-of-a-kind places — Union Woodshop, Vinsetta Garage, Fenton Fire Hall, Gran Castor, Union Assembly and more.
Honcho is the Latin street food and coffee joint of the bunch.