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52 Friday, February 21, 1986

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Greektown's Finest Cuisine

BEST OF EVERYTHING

LAIKON
CAFE
AUTHENTIC GREEK COOKING

DANNY RASKIN

Liquor • Beer • Wine
Sun., Mon., Wed. & Thurs. 11 a.m. - 3 a.m. •
Fri. & Sat. til 4 a.m.

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Your Hosts: Gus & Chris Mangles
Monroe Ave.
Downtown Detroit
963-7058

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SaigglOgi

"THE ONE & ONLY"

IRVING'S

Restaurant at La Mirage

29555 Northwestern Hwy. Bet. 12 & 13 Mile

352-3840

ENJOY ROSE'S
FAMOUS HOMEMADE
COOKING!!

ALL FOODS ARE MADE
FRESH IN OUR
OWN KITCHEN!!

BREAKFAST SPECIAL — FEB. 21 THRU FEB. 27

Good 7 days till 11 a.m.

WESTERN OMELETTE

41e

$ I 78

BAGEL, ROLL OR TOAST

DINNER SPECIAL — FEB. 21 THRU FEB. 27

WHOLE STUFFED

CORNISH HEN

78

INCLUDES: SOUP OR SALAD, VEG.
BREAD BASKET . . . AND
RICE PUDDING OR JELLO
WE ARE OPEN MONDAYS
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WE DO OUTSIDE CATERING FROM
APPEIIIIR TO COMPLETE DIMIER

Expert Tray Catering For
All Occasions

ML

MILES

Broasted &
Bar-B-Q Chicken

Bar-B-Q
Ribs

Seafood

FEATURING SKINLESS BROASTED CHICKEN

(Breast & Thighs Only)

WHOLE BROASTED CHICKEN FOR TWO
$7 95
BAR-B-Q RIBS, WHOLE SLAB FOR TWO
11.55
WHOLE BAR-B-11 CHICKEN FOR TWO
$7 95
SHRIMP (Freshly Breaded In Our Own Batter)
$ 6 95
SEAFOOD PLATTER (Fish, Shrimps & Scallops) ...... .1.95
BAR-B-Q RIBS, CHICKEN & SHRIMP
'8 75

INCLUDES: Cole Slaw or Salad, Potatoes and Garlic Bread

'TcoupoNT
GRAND OPENING INTRODUCTION SPECIAL

D
15% OFF

T IO N T E AIL N B oIN LIVy

With Coupon • Anyhour 7.Days • Expires 2-21-86
Op So. this REA a.m.-10 pis.
Fri. & Sat. 11 a. ■ . to 11 p.m.
CARRY-OUTS IN ANY QUANTITY FOR ALL OCCASIONS
1118 S. WOODWARD, Just N. of 10 Mlle Next To The Zoo

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• STEAKS • SALADS • SANDWICHES

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544-1211

1

IF ANY PEOPLE BACK in
the 1940s before World War II
ended ever thought Rose and Irv-
ing Guttman would someday own
one of the city's leading
delicatessen-restaurants, they'd
be considered candidates for the
booby-hatch.
At Auschwitz, Rose was among
those scheduled for the gas
chamber a la Nazi sadistic elimi-
nation . . . Even though she was
picked to work in the kitchen, no
one at Auschwitz knew from day
to day who would be next . . . From
there, Rose was one of 300
"selected" to make ammunition at
another concentration camp ..
followed by a terrible six-week
walk to Bergen-Belsen concentra-
tion camp . . . with hardly any-
thing to eat . . . She was among
those sent there for the bizzarejob
of stacking terminated human
bodies . . . Other Nazi horror
stories are unbelievably dreadful
. . . Rose was freed by the British
. . . hadn't eaten in so long, drank
three or four cans of Pet milk plus
fresh rolls and fresh butter . . . she
would up in the hospital with
typhoid fever from eating rich
foods.
Irving was at a Polish ghetto
run by Nazis . . . and escaped to
the Polish woods . . . where
Jewish underground movement
helped him . . . He had seen his
brother killed in their own home
by the Nazis . . . Irving roamed
the woods until freed by Russians.
After the war in 1946, Rose
went home to Romania looking for
her family . . . mother, father, five
brothers and sisters . . . She was
the only one still alive . . . and
emigrated to a German displaced
persons camp in hopes of finding
someone . . . Rose found a few
cousins . . . and Irving, also there,
was told about another brother,
now living in Israel, being in Cyp-
rus, Greece.
Rose and Irving met each other
at this Furth Displaced Persons
Camp . . . They became engaged
and within a few months, in
January, 1947, were married.
They first went to New York .. .
but left after three months when
Irving couldn't make a living .. .
and came to Detroit where Irving
worked at Dodge Main . . . until
being laid off along with so many
others.
Not knowing anything about
the restaurant business, it was a
big gamble buying their first one
in 1954 . . . on Yeaman's in Ham-
tramck.
Rose remembered when people
griped because they thought 80
cents was a lot of money to charge
for dinner . . . and corned beef
sandwiches were sold for 65 cents.
It had formerly been Harry's
Delicatessen . . . where Harry
Seltzer ran the place for 20 years
before selling to Rose and Irving.
Irving's Deli in Hamtramck be-
came a landmark . . . for another
20 years . . . before it moved to
Greenfield, north of 11 Mile Road,
and ten years more from 1.974 to
1984.
Today the Guttman family has
finally weathered the storm that
usually comes with opening at a
new location . . . and has its feet
on the ground in La Mirage Mall
on Northwestern Highway .... An

experiment to give Rose more open five days . . . On Greenfield it
time out of the kitchen failed .. . was six days . . . and now at La
very few can' cook like her . . . and Mirage seven days . . . This has no
so Rose has returned doing what doubt been done to accommodate
she knows so very much.
shoppers and storeowners . . . Irv-
The service that left much to be ing's is open Mondays 7 a.m. to 3
desired has finally begun shaping p.m. . . . Tuesdays through Fri-
up . . . and veteran waitresses like days 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. . . . Satur-
sisters Diane Zatorski and Ilene days 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. . . . and
Onesko, Dawna Aleo, Linda Mis- Sundays 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
ner, Cindy Stevenson, Betty
Of much importance is the
Guyzik, etc. all from the former menu portion now at Irving's ap-
Greenfield operation . . . plus proved by American Heart Asso-
about nine more competent gals ciation . . . Also children's dishes.
. . . have gotten the waitperson act
Whoever started that dastardly
together . . . and impress with rumor about Irving's at La Mirage
customer satisfaction.
being for sale must be placed in
Lil Benkoff, Irving's first the category of a fool . . . Such a
cousin, is there, too . . . cashier 18 -far-fetched falsehood can do noth-
years with Rose and Irving . .
ing but harm to spreaders of the
dating back to their Hamtramck lie.
days.
Of course rumors are nothing
The Irving's operation at La new to Irving and Rose Guttman
Mirage that has finally begun to . . . They lived through Hitler
come into its own again, is run by supposedly assasinated, Franklin
Roiie, Irving, son Jerry and D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill
daughter Carol Hoptman.
and Josef Stalin imagined to be
It is one of the few family-owned murdered . . . The only true one
restaurant-delicatessens where was that World War II had ended
members of the family control and they were being liberated.
both the kitchen and floor . . . The
It is wonderful to see the change
dedication by this restaurant- in service and food at Irving's . . .
oriented family has won out from from when the place opened at La
when it first opened at La Mirage Mirage, Aug. 21, 1985.
. . . there's so mah difference now
Now that Original Irving's on
. . . No more overly-salted food .. . Greenfield has been sold to Alia
and the previous "experimental" and Jim Sage of Remal's in Oak
Irving's has done a complete tur- Park . . . and being named Alia's
nabout from poor inconsistency Family Dining . . . the Guttman's
and coldness at first to the kind are sole users of name Irving's .. .
that has made Irving's a house- as it should have been in the first
hold name in delicatessen- place . . . No more cat and mouse
restaurant circles . . . The with Original or One & Only or
homemade food is good, whole- deli or restaurant.
some and tasty ... now with Rose
Time and experience has finally
back in the kitchen making those prevailed . . . Rose, Irving, Jerry
great stuffed peppers, stuffed cab- and Carol run a good, clean opera-
bages, etc., etc., etc., etc. . . . plus tion . . . at which noted local show
her wonderful sour cream and nut business personalities go out of
cake.
their way to eat . . . Irving's was
Unlike its previous restaurant good on Greenfield ... It has got-
on Greenfield, Irving's is all open ten even better in La Mirage at
. . . and airy . . . seating 140 on two Northwestern Highway between
levels . . . main dining room look- 12 and 13 Mile.
ing out of large glass windows
BIG NEWS IN THE restau-
onto the mall . . . and an upper rant game . . . Look for Dimitri's
level facing large glass looking to of Southfield, Ten Mile and South-
the outside . . . Contemporary art field, to soon become a house of
deco designs of grey and mauve fish and seafood galore.
adorn -the walls . . . And the at-
New menu will also include
mosphere presents much inti- many poultry and veal specialties
macy and comfort . . . also with . . . plus some favorite Greek dis-
seven seats at a raised counter of hes . . . Concentration will be on
peach coloring . . . The wide ex- the fish and seafood . . . which ac-
panse and airiness has made it tually is a true Greek natural
conducive too for private func- since Greece is probably sur-
tions.
rounded by more water than any
(It is well to note that regard- other country in the world . . . and
less of fact that Irving's moved fish is the most popular dining
into a "high rent district" mall, fare among its natives.
the same good solid meals are
THAT 20 PERCENT OFF
served . . . and prices have not complete dinner at Stage Deli on
gone up.)
Nine Mile, Oak Park, is Tuesdays
There are other changes at Irv- through Fridays.
ing's Deli at La Mirage on North-
DRAKE RESTAURANT,
western . . . like fashion shows Drake and Walnut Lake Road, is
every Saturday at 12:30, lunch de- sponsoring a two-day tournament
livered to offices . . . but the im- at Detroit Curling Club , . . to-
portance remains of tasty morrow and Sunday . . . Annual
homemade Hungarian, Roma- event has participants from Mid-
nian, Russian, etc. specialties .. . west and Canada . . . Detroit Curl-
plus cheese or apple strudel made ing Club on Drake Road is celeb-
daily by Rose among other pas- rating its' 101 years . . . Drake
tries . . . Also reasonably 'priced Restaurant and bar will be avail-
are newer, lighter menu items . . . able afternoons and evenings of
and fresh chicken, fresh veal, both days. .
fresh fish, etc., etc., etc., etc.
BESS BONNIER, jazz pianist,,
New too is the fact that Irving's is now in the main lobby of newly
at La Mirage is open seven days a 'renovated Hotel Pontchartrain
week . . . In Hamtramck, the every . day except Sundays, 5:30 to
Guttman's had "banker's hours," 10:30 p.m.. . ; Bess has performed