36 Friday, January 4, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Distinctive Dining at Reasonable Prices For lunch or dinner.Georgio's features specially prepared appetizers, exotic salads, gourmet entrees, fine wines and liquors and exceptional desserts. Daily Seafood Specials Mon.-Thurs. 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. BEST OF EVERYTHING s de Cuisine Chef' ON THE BOARDWALK Orchard Lake Rd., South of Maple DANNY RASKIN Presents Piano Music Wed. Thru Sat. Valet Parking Fri. & Sat. Great Gift Baskets 290 N. WOODWARD In The For All Occasions Great American Insurance Bldg. Major Credit Cards Accepted . 855-0190 Reservations Suggested 540-7940 _Da 1291,LE gacifitiEl ffaiz 9oz Tout 9acTozitE., Saturday Afternoons and All-Day Sundays Continental Cuisine Dancing Entertainment By: NOUVEAUTE Lunch 1 a.m. Dinner 4:30-1 a.m. Reservations: 362 1262 755 W. Big Beaver Concourse, Top of Troy Bldg., Troy Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354 6060 - - The Wildflowet 1.1920 5586 Drake Road at Walnut Lake Road Our New Hours: Mon. Thru Sat. 5 p.m. to 1 2 Mid. Still Serving Our GREAT Sunday Brunch 10 a.m.. to\ 3 p.m. . OPEN FOR ALL OCCASION PARTIES ONLY MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Come and enjoy THE BEST . . . amidst elegant surroundings BOOK YOUR HOLIDAY PARTYS NOW. SPECIAL GRAND OPENING PACKAGES AVAILABLE. Your Hosts: Sunday Brunch Is Our The Finest Anywhere! LOUIE BRICOLAS MANUEL CHAVEZ New Year's Eve Entertainment Call For Information . . . 661-1920 THE BEST KNOWN restau- rant to many New Yorkers and Californians who visit Detroit is the London Chop House. While we hope we have pretty well proved to the regular readers of this column that Detroit has plenty of good restaurants, we can find little quarrel with visitors who go to the London Chop House . . . Unquestionably, it is among America's better restaurants. Now owned by Max and Lainie Pincus, original proprietors were Les and Sam Gruber; along with their partner, Al Woolf . . . Max and Lainie also run the Caucus Club in the Penobscot Building. Les and Sam opened the Chop House at its present location, 155 W. Congress, in 1938 . . . Before opening the Chop House, Les op- erated the Den of Forty Thieves at Broadway and John R. during the late '20s and early '30s . . . Spe- cialty at the Den, in addition to good food, were some 14 readers given to forecasting the future from tea leaves in the bottom of a cup . . . This was immensely popu- lar with the customers of that era. The Chop House is a very New Yorky restaurant . . . It is located in the basement of the Murphy Building . . . The walls are dark wood paneling covered with cari- catures of celebrities . . . Seating is 184 . . . and about 150 or so with dancing. As might be expected, the Chop House menu is a la carte and enjoys a reputation of being one of the most extensive and expensive in town. Back before present Executive Chef Jimmy Schmidt, Milos Cihelka, master chef now at the Golden Mushroom, and others in the Chop House kitchen, regard- less of the eatery's national repu- tation and superb cuisine under direction of Chef de Cuisine Panco Valez, the specialties of the house were two very simple entrees .. . hamburgerand perch. The hamburger in this case was ground prime sirloin beef .. . available in either a steak or an equally superb sandwich. The perch was a carryover from the days when former Chop House chef Eddie Dobler ran the kitchen at Breitmeyer's . . . This was a blind pig where Detroit Athletic Club members used to go on Fri- day night and eat a mess of sauteed perch off of card tables while seated on empty wooden cases that once contained "stuff right off the boat" . . . Danish tur- bot, a form of sole, also was one of the specialties. Other contributions of the Lon- don Chop House to the gas- tronomic culture of Detroit in- cluded the Caesar Salad, which it introduced here . . . and a wine cellar that the late Gruber used to modestly describe as the `5best in the Midwest, maybe from New York to California." PROHIBITION WAS A disas- ter for many prior to the early '30s, but owners of night clubs in Manhattan never had it so good either before or after . . . Consider the attractions they could afford to book — all in New York, and all flourishing at the same time .. . Heigh Ho Club featured the danc- ing of Fred and Adele Astaire plus warbling of Rudy Vallee . . . Libby Holman starred at the Lido and Beatrice Lilly at the Sutton Club . . . At the Fifty-Fourth Street Place, Helen Morgan held forth, and Sid Silvers and Phil Baker starred at the Little Club ... Joe Frisco was the stuttering host at Back Stage while Clayton, Jackson and Durante were smashing furniture at the Club Durante . . . Add to all these celebrities Paul Whiteman at the Frolic and Clifton Webb at Ciro's . . . Even Las Vegas never has or had a lineup comparable to that. Did mobsters participate in the ownership of these glorified speakeasies? . . . Well, one New York assistant district attorney was all but laughed out of the state when he cautiously testified in court about discovering that "gunmen were reputed to have a small interest in one of the clubs." SINCE HUNGARIAN VIL- LAGE on Springwells and 1-75 has changed back its hands to Dave Ganus, things have been perking along at a merry clip. ED SULLIVAN, most suc- cessful and durable m.c. in the history of television, took a grea deal of kidding for his. deadpa expression . . . "In Africa," sai Henny Youngman, "the cannibal in particular adore Sullivan They're convinced he's some kin of frozen food." MUCH HAS BEEN writte about the places owned by Chuc Muer . . . but little about this fin gentleman . . . a credit to the re taurant industry. JACK BENNY, who raise millions of dollars at benefits fo musicians and musical schol arships, played the violin faith fully, but with frequent wander ings from correct pitch ... Afte one of his more venturesom solos, an anguished lad exclaimed, "My God, he's lost hi ear!" . . . Ever since, Benny like to refer to himself as "the Va Gogh of the Violin." WHAT'S THIS? . . . Can it b true that second owner of Foo By Julie locale, 10 Mile an Greenfield, wants to sell? .. . just bought it . . . number eig starting with Dubbs Countr Kitchen. FAVORITE STORIES . . . b Simone Vitale, of Sound Ideas . . about the impossible-to-pleas booking agent who patronized • certain local restaurant re • ularly, and was loathed by eve waiter and waitress in the plat —with reason . . . One day a head line revealed that the agent ha been. caught in a crooked stoc promotion and clamped into jai . . . "Hey, hey," rejoiced one of the waiters." I'd like to see him sen the pot roast back now!' By Barrister Henry Baskin . . about the little old lady bein examined for jury duty in a smal town courthouse . . . She wa asked if she knew the defens lawyer . . . "I do," she snappe "He's a crook" . . . "And the plai tiff's lawyer?" . . . "Yes, and he's crook, too" . . . At this junctur the judge called both lawyers an told them in no uncertain to "If either of you birds ask if sh knows me, too, ru fine you for con tempt of court." •