BEST OF EVERYTHING OF SOUTHFIELD Invites You To Enjoy .. . A Little Place In Southfield Becomes A Big Restaurant Hit FREE DINNER WITH PURCHASE OF DINNER OF EQUAL OR GREATER VALUE GOOD 7 DAYS A WEEK SATURDAY SEATING PRIOR TO 6 p.m. OR AFTER 8:30 p.m. (EXCLUDING SEA BASS, LAMB CHOPS & LIQUOR) 1_ DANNY RASKIN MOST DINNERS $6.95 TO $10.95 • PRESENT COUPON • EXCLUDES HOLIDAYS Local Columnist Expires 1/25/901 FABULOUS SUNDAY BRUNCH $7 50 W 1 1 I PER PERSON • LIMIT 10 PEOPLE COUPON • EXCLUDES HOLIDAYS • Expires 1/25/89i L_ WITH 25060 SOUTHFIELD RD (1 Block North of 10 m10557.8910 I 31646 Northwestern Hwy., West of Middlebelt, Farmington Hills 855-4600 00 OFF ANY LARGE PIZZA or LARGE ANTIPASTO or LARGE GREEK SALAD I • Coupon Must Be Presented When Ordering • Not Good With Any Other Discounts or Coupons JN • Expires 1-25-90 I 00 OFF ON YOUR NEXT TRAY MEAT OR DAIRY OK IC. HAVING A HOLIDAY PARTY? LET US CATER TO YOUR NEEDS • Minimum 8 Persons • 1 Coupon Per Customer • Expires 1-31-90 29145 Northwestern Hwy. at 12 Mile Rd. 3562310 Franklin Shopping Center Fresh Meat Shoppe & Restaurant r WHOLE SLAB BABY BACK RIBS 16 OZ. N.Y. STRIP STEAK $2°° OFF $1" OFF Reg. $12.95 L Expires 1-26-90 Reg. $7.95 IN j L Expires 1-26-90 JN j DINNERS INCLUDE: SOUP OR SALAD, POT. OR RICE, ROLLS & BUTTER NOW OPEN SUNDAYS I2 to 8 HOURS: MON. THRU SAT 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dinner Served Mon.-Sat. 4 to 9. Sun. 3 to 8 34731 GRAND RIVER, East of Drake Road (IN THE WORLDWIDE CENTER) 473-8400 68 FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1990 hen is a small neighborhood res- taurant considered to be good? . . . Surely it's the home cooked food . . . un- doubtedly the cleanliness .. . no ifs, ands or buts about per- sonal attention . . . and naturally the low prices. Jane's Place, on Lahser and Civic Center Drive in a small shopping strip next to a market, has all these salient qualities to go along with others. If you want salt, put it on yourself as desired at Jane's Place . . . Owners Jane Klad- zyk and Marvin Berris don't like to use salt because so many customers prefer to do their own seasoning . . . or are also watching their sodium intake. The awning outside beckons folks to Jane's Place, seating only 50 with three booths and the rest tables .. . It's so very clean and a mir- rored wall separates the kit- chen from the dining area while shining tiles cover walls above booths and down the sides. little homey This restaurant opened in May 1989 . . . and has become a quiet favorite of many who like to call it their very own. Jane is noted for her ponzis and bobolis . . . She's been making her own style of pon- zis about 20 years for family and friends . . . In Italy, a pon- zaratti is a little piece of dough . . . Jane's delicious concoction is large and stuff- ed with three blends of low-fat cheeses, whole tomatoes, spices and deep fried in a low cholesterol cooking oil to make it hot on the inside, cool on the outside . . . It is almost completely void of grease and served with a couple of fresh baked spinach balls. After heating it, Jane covers the bobolis with cream cheese, embellishes them with toppings (tuna, fresh vegetables, chicken, taco, etc.) and fresh chopped onion, dic- ed tomato and smothered with a three low-fat cheese mixture . . . After sprinkled with dill, Jane's boboli specials are baked to a tasty treat. Dinner features change dai- ly amid the intimate candlelight setting . . . There are always two different types of fresh fish and chicken on the menu. Although a fine respected general practice attorney, Marvin also likes to cook .. . and every so often goes into the kitchen, dons an apron and plies what has become somewhat of a secondary trade for him . . . preparing food. Jane's Palce is very inex- pensive and dotes on making food from scratch . . . in- cluding sauces for lasagna, etc., and soups among so many other items at the popular little restaurant. About the salt, it is left out of soup completely . . . with people putting in what they want . . . The health- conscious operation does most of its home cooking without or with very little salt. Even chlorine is taken out of the water at Jane's Place by use of a filtering system to achieve this purpose. Good food . . . not frozen .. . at very reasonable prices is a high specialty at Jane's Place, where everything on the menu is made right there. Design of the restaurant is Jane's work . . . print table coverings and the same pat- tern on shades in booths and cafe-style window drapes .. . Lamp shades in the cooking area also have the same material and design. When the Civic Center Drive bridge closed for repair, business slowed down quite a bit at Jane's Place, but people who had eaten there previously found a way to get back . . . Reopening of the bridge brought much conve- nience and new people who otherwise didn't know how to get there. When the weather gets warm, Jane's Place has an ad- ditional 10 tables filling the outside area . . . with large yellow, blue and mauve umbrellas. There's plenty of parking in the rear . . . People don't have to search for the parking area in front which is sometimes difficult to find . . . with result of winding up next to the market instead. This is a homey sort of restaurant . . . Sometimes, when very busy, some of the customers pitch in and wait on tables or bus the stations . . . A lot eat there daily .. . and if they don't show up, Mary or Jane call to find out if everything is okay. It's like the Tom's Tavern of yesteryears on Seven Mile and Wyoming across from Darbys . . . without liquor or slanted floor where you would walk as though one foot was shorter than the other. Attorneys, housewives, students, professional men, business persons, office and bank employees, etc., com- prise the mixture of customers. Jane is one of the few restaurant owners I know of who consider their operation "party time" every day .. . she loves to mingle with peo- ple . . . and is ecstatic when they are satisfied. Jane makes her own pum- pkin pie, rice pudding, Jane's Place opened last May and has become a quiet favorite. sometimes with white raisins, chopped walnuts or apricots . . . a big favorite. Also, you'll love her homemade brownies. And so nice to know that a restaurant cares about your health. Back to the ponzis and bobolis at Jane's Place .. . Both are her own concotions. The ponzi is a far cry takeoff on Italy's ponzaratti, a small ravioli-like prepara- tion . . . Jane doesn't use the same kind of dough or fillings . . . She expanded on the thought and called it a large, six-inch ponzi . . . At lunch- time, the bobolis and ponzis comprise abut one-half of Jane's Place's business. And about those brownies Jane makes . . . They're serv- ed warm or cold . . . plain or with vanilla ice cream or hot fudge or both. Jane's Place isn't your or- dinary little restaurant .. . This one has five different cof- fees and 10 blends of tea .. . all freshly brewed. It's open six days a week .. . Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. . . . Until summer, Jane's Place is closed on Sundays. I had a small boboli, topped with chicken salad, bowl of homemade lentil soup and very tender and tasty grilled breast of chicken kabob. At another table, a couple was enjoying their Greek trios . . . One had it with meat and the other was meatless . . . moussaka, spinach pie and grape leaves. A very big plus is the delivery service now at Jane's place . . . With the bad