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• breakfast • lunch • dinner
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open tuesdays thru sundays
10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
968-0022
lincoln shopping center, 10 1/2 mile & greenfield, oak park
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25290 GREENFIELD North of 10 Mile Rd.
967-39991
CATERING FOR ALL OCCASIONS
THE GOLD COIN
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OPEN 7 DAYS — YOUR HOST: HOWARD LEW
SZECHUAN, MANDARIN, CANTONESE
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24480 W. 10 MILE ON TEL-EX PLAZA)
West of Telegraph
GOLDEN BOWL
353-7848
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22106 COOLIDGE AT 9 MILE In A & P Shopping Center
398-5502 or 398-5503
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OPEN 1 DAYS-Mon.-Thurs. 11-10, Fri. & Sat. 11-11, Sun. & Holidays 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Your Chef: FRANK ENG
• Banquet Facilities
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Chinese-American Restaurant
Cantonese, Szechuan & American
Dining & Carry-Out
OPEN 7 DAYS ... Mon.-Thurs. 11:30-9:30, Fri. & Sat. 11:30-11, Sun. 12-9:30
642-8386
4067 W. Maple Rd. Just East of Telegraph
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476-9181
(Drakeshire Shopping Center) • 35135 Grand River
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Specializing In Cantonese, Szechuan & Mandarin Foods
Open Daily 11 to 10:30, Sat. 11 to 12 Mid., Sun. 12 to 10:30
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13715 W. 9 MILE, W. of Coolidge • Oak Park • 547-4663
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KABOB GRILL
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29702 SOUTHFIELD AT 121/2 MILE (In Southfield Plaza)
557-5990
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OPEN SUNDAYS 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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JEWISH NEWS
RECOGNIZED RESTAURANT
72
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1990
A Good Restaurant Returns
To Its Old Tally Hall Locale
DANNY RASKIN
Local Columnist
W
hen Tally Hall
bolted its doors for-
ever at Hunters
Square, Orchard Lake Road
and 14 Mile in West Bloom-
field, one of the area's most
popular indoor mall cafes was
closed with it.
Customers of the Honey
Tree restaurant had lost what
they conceived to be the finest
gyro sandwich around.
However, a stroke of luck
seemed to bend their way
with word that the Honey
Tree would reopen again .. .
only this time as a full-
fledged restaurant with its
own outside private entrance
at Hunters Square.
May 2 of this year is a date
owner Tom Goulas will
remember for a long time .. .
When the Honey Tree opened
at 1 p.m. that day, the lineups
of happy people began again.
An awning and lighted sign
show the way to this popular
family dining operation .. .
No more sitting at little cafe
tables in a mall after getting
your food at the Honey Tree
counter.
It's like a new world has
opened up as seating for 100
is all at padded booths with
dark blue fabric backing and
lighter-colored vinyl-like
padded seats . . . Gray walls,
gray ceiling, gray tables,
black and white tiles, wall
statues, wall plants, round
mirrors . . . this is the new
decor that the Honey Tree at
Hunters Square now gives
folks.
But more, Tom is back with
his excellent gyros . . . plus a
diversified menu of Greek
food for casual dining.
The informality of the
Honey Tree is personified by
the polite waitresses and
waiters in their working
T-shirts with "Honey Tree"
on the back.
From the open kitchen, ef-
ficient and personable Maria
Gjonas brought me a Greek
salad, gyros sandwich so
delicious and rice pudding
that has to rank among the
tops . . . another of Tom's
recipes.
Many remember when the
Honey Tree used to make its
own gyros (lamb and beef on
a rotisserie) . . . So much was
sold that a company had to be
gotten to cook it for Tom .. .
using the recipe he brought
back from Greece.
During the Tally Hall days,
it was nothing for the Honey
Tree to average 1,000 pounds
of gyros in the short span of
a five-day week . . . Although
only opened since May 2 of
this year, this number has
already been surpassed.
Back in Athens, Greece,
Tom used to make gyros .. .
and came to the United
States with the old world
recipe imbedded in his mind
. . . to again make the very
popular Grecian delight.
When Tally Hall closed on
Jan. 21, 1989, the Honey Tree
was one of two restaurants
that were retained, along
with Marvin Yagoda's fun-
filled Marvelous Marvin's
Museum . . . Tom had been
there eight years, satisfying
The Honey Wee is
back with its gyros
sandwiches.
people with his effervescent
personality and good food.
The Honey Tree restaurant
at Hunters Square is a sweet
sight to so many peole .. .
with its all-ceramic tiled floor
instead of carpeting, black
and white around the walls
formed into a Greek key styl-
ing, wallpaper on one wall
designed with a portion look-
ing like a bricked area from
perhaps a Greek acropolis,
track lighting, etc.
When Tom first opened at
Tally Hall back in 1975, not
even his wildest imagination
or dream could be of today
having five places . . .
Macomb Mall, Roseville;
Liberty Square, Ann Arbor;
Eastland Mali (Athenian
Cafe), Harper Woods; and
Shelby Corners, Utica.
Tom spends almost all of his
time at the Hunters Square
locale . . . intending to remain
there morning, noon and
night greeting the many peo-
ple he has met on the north-
west side of town . . . Tom is
mighty lucky to have compe-
tent assistants at the other
sites.
His nephew, Pete Goulas,
runs the Eastland and
Macomb Mall operations,
plus taking care of the cater-
ing for all five
establishments.
The Honey Tree at Hunters
Square is open seven days a
week . . . Monday through
Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.;
Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.
to 10 p.m.; and Sunday, 11
a.m. to 8 p.m.
Everything at the Honey
Tree at Hunters Square is
homemade on its premises
. . . soups, spinach pie, flam-
ing Opa! saganaki, tzatziki
(cucumbers and garlic
yogurt), etc., even the
marinades.
There are seven types of
gyros at the Honey Tree .. .
gyros plate, chicken gyros,
ham and cheese gyros, turkey
and cheese gyros, gyros
supreme, gyros vegetarian
(feta cheese, lettuce, onion,
tomatoes, served in pita
bread), and of course its fam-
ed sandwich of seasoned lamb
and beef in rolled pita bread
with onions, tomatoes and
homemade gyro sauce.
You won't find chicken
gyros at ' too many places
(broiled filets in pita bread
with onions, tomatoes and the
homemade gyro sauce.) .. .
Those who like chicken will
love this sandwich.
And the Honey Tree has
four salads, shish kabob,
chicken kabob, moussaka,
pastitsio, broiled chicken
breast, combinations and
other goodies.
Want a Coney Island hot
dog with chili and onions? .. .
The Honey Tree has that, too
. . . even with cheese if you
desire . . . Also hamburgers,
club sandwich, grilled cheese,
tuna, turkey, etc.
No more getting your food
and a counter and sitting at
a mall table . . . Not that it
was so bad at Tally Hall .. .
But this is now an entirely
different ballgame . . . sitting
at booths and being waited
upon.
Tom is so well-liked that
people used to throng to the
Honey Tree when it was in
Tally Hall . . . Now they're
flocking in droves to his
restaurant next door at
Hunters Square . . . and the
enjoyment of being around so
many people he gets such
pleasure being with is like a
blessing for Tom . . . His hap-
piness at returning to the nor-
thwest area shows in the well-
liked personality he exudes
even onto his employees like
Dana Golditch in the kitchen
cooking days and doing so
much as Tom's right hand gal.
Both the Honey Tree and
Marvelous Marvin's Museum
were huge crowd pleasers
while in Tally Hall . . .
Hunters Square is mighty
wise in getting them back.
You step onto a cement
balcony with its brown railing
. . . and into the world of bub-
bly Tom Goulas . . . The
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