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$19.95 Dinner For Two

A Popular, Low-Priced Spot
Marks Its 10th Anniversary

Sundays Noon - 4pm

You can mve nearly $10.00 with ournew eatly dining menu. During these special times,
choose any two dinner entrees up to a regular price of $14.95 each and pay only $19.95.
Delicious decisions. Your choices include any of these sixteen entrees from our regular
menu listed below:

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Petite Cut Prime Rib
Standard Cut Prime Rib
Sizzling Mushroom Steak
Stuffed Filet Mignon
Whiskey Peppercorn Top Sirloin
Brandy-Dijon Filet Mignon
Roasted Chateau Filet Mignon
Filet Mignon

.Top Sirloin
Teriyaki Top Sirloin
Flame Broiled Salmon
Grilled Swordfish
Tempura Shrimp
Shrimp Scampi Linguini
Lemon-Herb Chicken
Teriyaki Chicken

DANNY RASKIN LOCAL COLUMNIST

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So, join us for the $19.95 Dinner for Two early dining menu. Make your
reservations any Sunday and save almost $10.00 off the regular menu price!

Early dining offer available on $19.95 Dinner lOr '1\vo entrees only. Guests must be seated
during special early dining times. Oiler is limited to seating capacity of the building. Reser-
vations arc strongly suggested and may be necessary to assure availability of seating. $19.95
Dinner for Two does not include sales tax or gratuity. Not valid on holidays, for banquets or
large parties of eight or more, or with any other offers.

Valid at the Southfield location only.

Offer Expires
July 4, 1993

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ANNETTE NAGEL, A & N Vendor Co.; AL NAGEL, Clinician;
DANE GUSSIN, Combined Insurance Resorces: DAN
STREEETER, WJR Radio News; JANNA WALLENDA, High
Wire Walker Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey; MICHELLE
MARSEY, Mother of Pam; MICHELLE GLOBERSON,
Chatterbox Balloons & Buttons; MICHAEL CRANE, Arrow
Office Supplies; MICKEY MILBERGER, C.P.A.

MARVIN SEZ:

OPEN
JULY
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"HE WHO GOES FORTH
WITH A FIFTH ON THE
FOURTH MAY NOT GO
FORTH ON THE FIFTH"

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3005 ORCHARD LAKE RD BEHIND F&M SOUTH OF 14 • 626-5020
MON.-THURS. 11;10, FRL & SAT. 10-11, SUN. 12-8

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25938 Middlebelt Rd. at 11 Mile Rd. in the Mid-11 Plaza
Farmington Hills J WE SERVE BEER & WINE I 476-1750
EARLY BIRD SPECIALS

SUN.-THURS. 3 P.M.-6P.M.

FRI. & SAT. 3 P.M.-5 P.M.

•CHICKEN STIR FRY

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Served Over Rice

• HOMEMADE MEAT LOAF

Served With Pot. & Veg.

ALL $495
PRICED
AT

• LIVER & ONIONS

Served With Pot. & Veg.

•CHARGRKLED CHICKEN BREAST

Served With Pot. & Veg.

• SPAGHETTI OR MOSTACCIOLI

Served With Garlic Bread

iiLSO INCLUDES SOUP OR SALAD & DINNER ROLL
•No Senior Citizen Discount on Specials
•Not Valid With The Entertainment Coupon

Reg. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 11-11,
Sat. 8-10, Sun. 8-9

J

nce upon a time, in
a restaurant that to-

day Chris and Bill
Anastasiou call their
castle, customers used to line
up awaiting food picks .. .
Plenty of mouths to feed and
then-owner Chris Hatzilis
didn't disappoint them at his
Beef 'n Bird cafeteria.
Ten years later, the same
location on Southfield bet-
ween 11 Mile and 12 Mile is
still feeding folks . . . only this
time as one of your better,
low-priced, home-cooking,
family sitdown restaurants.
Vassili's, owned by wife and
husband Chris and Bill, had
its 10th anniversary this past
October and remodeled with
the simplicity their restau-
rant is noted for . . . They
replaced the carpet, added a
short wall and expanded the
menu to include a lot more
dishes for health-conscious
people . . . pastas, more broil-
ed foods, additional salads,
etc.
Few places in the northwest
area even come close to
Vassili's in food and service at
such low prices . . . This is a
fine, wanted combination in
good family dining.
And Vassili's isn't just a
place where senior citizens go
because of much food at
low cost...so low that a
discount isn't needed...
Many prominent people who
certainly don't have to watch
their pocketbooks, like world
boxing champ Tommy
Hearns, are regular cus-
tomers.
If anything, the food at
Vassili's is better . . . and
there's more variety.
At few places can you get a
quality, wholesome dinner
around $4 or $5 (the average
here is $4.50) from a menu
that has almost 250 items .. .
including 12 chicken dishes,
10 salads, eight fish special-
ties (Vassili's sells almost 100
pounds of whitefish a week),
American features galore,
Greek favorites, Italian
choices, Mexican-style salads,
etc. . . . Even vegetarian
lasagna Florentine . . . a
children's menu . . . and fried
ice cream.
Bill makes those delicious
peach cobblers along with do-
ing all the home cooking .. .
fettuccine chicken almondine,
fettuccine Alfredo, Hawaiian-
style chicken kabob with
pineapple and green peppers

on rice among so much more.
People also don't have to
stick to the menu . . . Bill is
that kind of cook . . . and,
with Chris, will graciously
prepare whatever people
want or concoct . . . just so
long as they have the ingre-
dients to make the dishes .. .
This couple is very accom-
modating and always eager to
please . . . Too bad some other
restaurant owners and op-
erators I know don't also have
this much-welcomed attitude.
Bill watches the kitchen
like his own . . . which it is.
This too is very important
. . . Since he and Chris own
the place, everything must be
just so . . . the food, its presen-
tation and the friendliness
that abounds at Vassili's .. .
He takes a lot of pride in his
cooking and demands that it
be served properly . . . Chris
is in front making certain
that it is . . . The two make an
excellent team . . . She comes
up with a lot of the ideas and
Bill puts them together.
Vassili's seats 135 at booths
and tables; a high ceiling pro-
vides an open yet intimate air
. . . Many people don't go
downtown to Greektown be-
cause some of Bill's Greek
dishes are so popular . . . His
lemon rice soup is hard to
beat as are the seven Greek
favorites he makes.
People of all ages, casual or
dressed, go to Vassili's . . . The
low prices have much to do
with its popularity but the
quality is really what brings
them back . . . Half the
customers usually come there
twice a day . . . something
very rarely found in the
restaurant business . . . Even
the author/customer of an up-
coming book will tell of
Vassili's.
Between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.,
all children under 12 having
a birthday get their own
special children's menu with
more of everything on it.
Chris and Bill know most of
their customers by name .. .
and Vassili's is the type of
place you want to go to
because of them . . . plus, of
course, the home cooking,
good service and low prices.
A solid mom-and-pop family
dining operation with home-
cooked meals presents a hard-
to-come-by reputation . . .
This sort of restaurant is one
of the most wanted and need-
ed eating spots in the low-

priced world of culinary knife-
and-forking . . . It's like a lost
art . . . There used to be so
many of them with good food
for everybody but the high
costs of today seem to have
withered away a goodly
number.
Vassili's is open seven days
a week . . . Monday-Saturday,
7 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday,
7 a.m. to 8 p.m. . . . with daily
lunch and dinner specials
plus its regular menu and
about 30 sandwiches . . . in-
cluding the good ol' turkey
burger . . . and seven sum-
mertime cold plates with
three types of stuffed tomato.
Food prepared by Bill is as
customers want . . . Regard-
less of the fact that the doctor
will, for example, say not to
have too much salt, a lot of
places tamper with a person's
health by ignoring the re-
quest . . . After all, how do
you know what goes on in the
kitchen?
Confidence in a restaurant
plays a very important health

A make-over
after 10 years.

role in this regard . . . another
major reason why Vassili's is
so popular . . . People trust
Chris and Bill . . . Your dollar
can't buy more.
CONGRATS . . . to Rhoda
and Albert Dicken . . . on
their 50th anniversary... to
Hope and Stuart Grant...on
their 19th anniversary...to
Selma and Newton F•eed-
man...on their 19th anniver-
sary.
SURE DOESN'T look like
the former tenant, Ramone's
Cafe in Sunset Strip on Nor-
thwestern just north of 12
Mile, and a lot of folks are
glad to hear that the new
place has finally opened.
Bangkok Hung Cafe of
Szechuan Garden has 47
seats that include booths,
tables and counter . . . with a
pleasant, intimate feeling
and fine decor appointments.
A lot of concentration is be-
ing done on preparing dishes
as the people want their Thai
food . . . mild, medium or hot
. . . In vegetable oil only .. .
no lard . . . It is owned by
brothers Neng and Xeng
Hang . . . The popular
Szechuan Garden is on Maple