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Pancakes with Puppets
A Saturday morning of fresh pancakes, fruit, and juice — with puppets from PuppetART's own collection wandering the room before the curtain rises on a brand-new show.
DateSaturday, September [ ]
Breakfast9:00 – 10:00 AM
Puppet Show10:00 – 10:45 AM
How the Morning Unfolds
One Hour and Forty-Five
Minutes of Pure Delight
9:00 AM
Breakfast Seating
Families are seated and breakfast service begins — pancakes, fruit, juice, and your choice of protein.
9:15 AM
The Puppets Arrive
Our puppet MC and friends move table to table — chatting, joking, and "interviewing" the puppet stars of the morning's show.
10:00 AM
The Puppet Show
A 45-minute PuppetART performance for the whole family, right in the café.

Pancakes with Puppets pairs the two things that make a Saturday morning worth getting the kids out of bed for: a really good breakfast, and a show that's actually made for them. Families are seated together at 9:00 AM for a full breakfast service — not a quick continental spread, but real plates, made to order, the same way Cass Café has always done it.

While breakfast is being enjoyed, a puppet MC works the room — greeting kids by name, cracking jokes with parents, and conducting playful "interviews" with the puppet characters who will take the stage once the dishes are cleared. It's part of what makes this morning different from a standard kids' show: the puppets aren't strangers by the time the curtain rises. By 10:00 AM, families settle in for a 45-minute performance from PuppetART — Detroit's beloved puppet theater company, now performing right inside the café where the morning began.

Why This Pairing Works
A puppet show alone is a lovely 30–45 minutes. A family breakfast alone is a lovely hour. Put them together, with the puppets weaving through breakfast before their own show begins, and you get something neither could be on its own — a morning that feels like an event, not just two things happening back to back. It's also simply more efficient for a family already getting everyone dressed and out the door on a Saturday: one outing, one ticket, one unforgettable morning.
A PuppetART Production
Every puppet your family meets at breakfast, and the show that follows, belongs to PuppetART — performed by PuppetART's own puppeteers, drawn from PuppetART's permanent collection. PuppetART has called Detroit home since 1998, when a trio of theater professionals first established the city's only resident puppet theater. What began as a small touring troupe grew into a full theater, studio, and museum, with a repertoire of original shows drawn from folklore and storytelling traditions from around the world. Pancakes with Puppets is a PuppetART production, brought to life inside Cass Café as part of the café's ongoing cultural programming.
The Breakfast
Build Your Own
Pancake Plate
Every ingredient on the plate — the fruit, the eggs, the maple syrup, the flour — is grown, raised, or produced within the Great Lakes region.
Every Plate Includes
Fresh Buttermilk Pancakes
A short stack, griddled to order, with real Michigan maple syrup and butter. Gluten-free buckwheat pancakes available on request, same hearty short stack.
Fresh Seasonal Fruit
A colorful plate of melon, berries, and orange wedges, sourced from Great Lakes region growers as the seasons allow.
Fresh-Pressed Juice or Smoothie
Orange, apple, or a kid-favorite berry smoothie from the juice bar.
Choice of Protein
Plant-Based
House lentil sausage patties, made from the same recipe as our signature lentil burger.
Animal-Based
Apple-wood smoked bacon or classic breakfast sausage links, from Great Lakes region farms.
For the Grown-Ups
Coffee, tea, and mimosas with fresh-squeezed OJ available at the bar.
Tickets & Family Packages
One Ticket. Breakfast & the Show.
PackagePrice
Single Ticket
One breakfast plate, juice or smoothie, and one seat for the puppet show.
 $22
Child Ticket (Ages 3–10)
A full short stack of pancakes (buckwheat available), fresh fruit, juice, and choice of protein — plus a seat for the show.
 $14
Parent & Child Package
One adult, one child — breakfast and the show for both.
 $32
Save $4
Family Package (2 Adults + 2 Children)
Our most popular package — a full family of four, breakfast and show included.
 $62
Save $10
Family Package (2 Adults + 3 Children)
For larger families — every child gets a full plate and a great seat.
 $74
Save $14
Additional Child
Add any additional child to a Family Package.
 +$12
Children under 3 dine and attend the show free, seated on a parent's lap.
Reserve Your Table →
Seating is limited. Tickets include assigned table seating for breakfast and reserved seats for the puppet show.
Cass Café
4620 Cass Avenue · Detroit, Michigan · A Chalfonte Foundation Project
In Partnership with PuppetART