Fine Catering
for all occasions

More Than A Restaurant,
It's Home Sweet Home

One of Metropolitan Detroit's Most
Beautiful and Exciting Restaurants

Wonderfully Prepared Catering
in Your Home, Office or at Our Restaurant

Fine Dining and Live Entertainment
Now Appearing
Mon. thru Sat.

GEORGE "STARDUST"
GREEN QUARTET

28875 Franklin Rd. at Northwestern & 12 mile
Southfield
358-3355

FAMILY
RESTAURANT

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15800 Middlebelt Between 5 and 6 Mile • Livonia • 5225600

Homemade Greek, Italian & American Dishes
FULL LINE OF BEER, WINE, LIQUOR & COCKTAILS

MID-SUMMER SPECIALS

• FRESH SALMON FILET
LUNCH CUT
$6.95
DINNER
$8.95
• FRESH SEA SCALLOPS, GULF SHRIMP, CRABMEAT
AND CLAMS With Pasta
$8.95

Both Include Soup or Salad & Fresh Baked Rolls
• COLD PLATTERS WITH CHOICE OF WHITE
MEAT TURKEY, HAM OR ROAST BEEF
Served with seasonal fruits and potato salad
$5.95
• TUNA OR CHICKEN SALAD COLD PLATE
Served with seasonal fruits
$5.95
All Cold Platters Include Soup or uice & Fresh Baked Rolls

DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS
From $3.25 - $4.95

DAILY DINNER SPECIALS
From $5.95 - $8.95 •

OPEN 7 DAYS

SUNDAY SPECIAL
COMPLETE FAMILY DINNER

SENIOR CITIZENS DISCOUNT
10% After 3 p.m.

Including: Soup, Salad, Main Course, Potato,
Dessert and CoMe, Tea or Soft Drink

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12 Noon-10 p.m.

• FRESH ROAST TURKEY With Stuffing
• BAKED BONE-IN HAM With Raisin Sauce
• ROAST LEG OF LAMB
• FRESH ROASTED 1/2 CHICKEN With Stuffing

$7.95 - $8.95

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Plan The Perfect
Party!

* All-you-can-eat pizza and salad packages for

groups of 15-100
* In Buddy's party room.
* Carry-out service for your office party.

* Call for reservations today!

WATERFORD • 683.3636
Lake R.
Highland Road (M-59) at POIltlite

BIRMINGHAM • 645-03 00
Maple Rd. & LAW

FARMINGTON HILLS • 855460 4
of Middlebett)
Northwestern Hwy.

ROYAL OAK • 549-8000
Woodward, 6 blocks N. of 13 Mlle Rd.

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Any Large Pizza
or Antipasto Salad
Dine In or Carry-Out
Expires 9-30-93
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DANNY RASKIN LOCAL COLUMNIST

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tanding in all its ele-
gance amid the hustle
and bustle of a thriving
metropolis is an 11,000
sq. foot home built in 1929 as
part of Novi's history.
It became Home Sweet
Home on Nine Mile Road just
east of Novi Road when Steve
Romanick, in 1987, finally
found the place to cultivate
his dream . . . He used to own
Romanick's with fine dining
in Orchard Mall, now R.I.K.s
The Restaurant.
That longing of Steve's was
for a place with down-home
cooking . . . and the former
Cervi's White House Manor
was the perfect locale.
It had been built on the
original homestead of the
Thornton family into which
the late Charles Rogers had
married . . . He and his father
are credited with inventing
condensed milk and selling it
to the Pet Milk Co.
Legend has it that the
grand staircase with cherry-
wood bannisters was said to
have been built for the
daughter Charles and Har-
riet Rogers never had . . . hav-
ing four sons instead . . .
When a granddaughter was
born, he couldn't wait for the
day she would come down the
staircase on his arm . . . It
never happened . . . she
eloped.
Home Sweet Home with its
seven dining rooms on two
floors seating 185 plus 40
more on an outdoors patio, is
celebrating its first anniver-
sary under the ownership of
Joan and Dave Collins who
purchased the restaurant in
September 1992.
About those seven dining
rooms, there is no more clos-
ed feeling . . . The walls have
been opened and people can
go from one room to another
without walking into the hall
as was the White House
Manor case.
Even the rooms have char-
acter . . . Like one that is
called The Tin Room because
of its old tin table tops with
enamel like grandmothers
and great-grandmothers used
to use in the kitchen.
It's not strange to see
customers walking around
admiring the decor of Home
Sweet Home with its classic
blend of New England and
Georgian-style proportions,
two fieldstone chimneys, lead-
ed glass windows, Italian-

inspired columns, original tile
the mellow jazz and blues
in the front entry hall, oak
tones of the Calvin Brooks
flooring, artifacts and an-
Trio with Calvin on the
tiques everywhere, huge
guitar and vocals; keyboard/
original chandelier, etc.
vocalist, and drums.
Home cooking is the
An outdoor wishing well in
restaurant theme at Home
front of Home Sweet Home
Sweet Home, where food
beckons folks to make a wish
royalty is meat loaf, chicken
and toss a coin for charity.
and dumplings, mashed
Joan and Dave Collins wish
potatoes, filet of salmon (they
that the ghosts of Harriet and
buy the whole fish and cut it
Charles Rogers would stop
themselves), breast of -- fooling around with the lights
chicken, steaks, chops, beef
every so often.
stew, baked chicken, ham-
IT'S OFFICIAL now .. .
burgers, chicken and beef pot
signed, sealed and whatever
pies, baked pasta, etc.
. . . as Debbie Miesel takes
There's also coconut shrimp,
over the reins at Nifty Nor-
beef Wellington and stuffed
man's on South Commerce
mushroom caps, plus five
Road . . . She's the daughter
salads including Caesar and
of Ed Meisel, Meisel Foods,
a chicken pasta Oriental that
and will continue the restau-
goes over big.
rant operation previously
But number one at Home
owned by Norman and Bon-
Sweet Home is its fresh
nie LePage, plus its popular
roasted turkey cut right off
lower level party room for bar
the bird . . . and the home-
made brownies which are now
a staple there . . . A lot of
homemade apple pie a la
mode is also consumed.
Four women in their 60s are
in the kitchen . . . They come
in at 4 a.m., prepare the fresh
vegetables, bake those noted
chocolate brownies, home-
made muffins and biscuits,
slice apples for the apple pie,
make the chicken and dump-
lings, etc. . . . One of the gals,
Lorraine "Dinky" Burke, has
been at Home Sweet Home
since opening day.
"Dinky," along with vet-
eran waitstaff personnel
Cathy Kwiatkowski and
Tyree Jones, plus Sharon
Liddle, supervisor of wait-
resses and in charge of
mitzvahs, etc. . . . Something
private party arrangements,
new is the catering outside
were all with former owner
her restaurant.
Steve Romanick at Ro-
TWENTY-FIFTH anniver-
manick's on Orchard Lake
sary presentation for Con-
Road.
gregation Beth Achim by
That staircase and cherry-
Nancy Gurwin Productions
wood bannister make it a
about Broadway then and
fine setting for weddings
now, "There's No Business
among other occasions.
Like Shul Business," is Sept.
The cocktail lounge used to
12, 1 p.m. at the synagogue's
be the Rogers home's library
Wasserman Hall on W 12
. . . with all original
Mile Rd.
mahogany paneling, some of
Oliver by Jewish Communi-
which was used to make the
ty Center and Nancy Gurwin
bar.
Productions is set for six
Home Sweet Home is open
Saturday and Sunday perfor-
for lunch Tuesday thru Satur-
mances beginning Oct. 16 .. .
day 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and
It'll be Nancy's 51st major
dinner Tuesday, Wednesday,
production in her 17-year
Thursday and Sunday 4 p.m.
history of presenting corn-
to 9 p.m. . . . It is open Friday
edies and musicals around
4 p.m. to 11 p.m. and from 5
the local area.
p.m. on Saturday.
TOMORROW IS Second
Wednesday evenings have
Annual Memory Walk at

Home Sweet Home
celebrates its
first anniversary
under the
ownership of
Joan and
Dave Collins, who
purchased the
restaurant in
September 1992.

