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HENRY LUM Businessmen's Luncheons • Carry-outs • Catering 476-9181 (Drakeshire Shopping Center) • 35135 Grand River HOA KOW INN Specializing In Cantonese, Szechuan & Mandarin Foods Open Daily 11 to 10:30, Sat. 11 to 12 Mid., Sun. 12 to 10:30 — 13715 W. 9 MILE, W. of Coolidge • Oak Park • 547-4663 — Carry-Out Service KABOB GRILL Authentic Lebanese Cuisine I CARRY-OUT & CATERING AVAILABLE 29702 SOUTHFIELD AT 121/2 MILE (In Southfield Plaza) 557-5990 MON.-THURS. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. FRI. & SAT. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. OPEN SUNDAYS 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. DINING OUT IS BETTER AT A 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 Continued on Page 74