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$19.95 Dinner For Two
Sundays Noon - 4pm
You am w,e nearly $10.00 with our new eat , dining menu. During these special times,
d rose any two dinner entrees up to a regular price of $14.95 each and pay only $19.95.
Delicious decisions. Your choices inducle any of these sixteen entrees from our regular
menu listed Udow:
■ 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
III Filet Mignon
■ Top Sirloin
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Teriyaki Top Sirloin
Flame Broiled Salmon
Grilled Swordfish
Tempura Shrimp
Shrimp Scampi Linguini
Lemon-Herb Chicken
Teriyaki Chicken
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!
Earl y dining ‘11- •r ;wadable on 519.95 Dinner for Two entrees only. Guests must be .scatt.,1
(luting six•cial early dining times. Ciller is limited to sealing capacity of the building. Reser-
vations :ire suggested and may Ix• necessary to) assure availability of seating. 519.95
I./inn, lot Two (lc >4., not include sales tax or gratuity. Not valid on holidays, h, banquets or
large parties of eight or more, or with any ether oilers
Valid at the Southfield location only.
Offer Expires
Nov. 28, 1993
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31005 ORCHARD LAKE RD. BEHIND F8,81 SOUTH OF 14 • 626-5020
MON. - SAT. 10-11, SUN. 12-8
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FAMILY ITALIAN DINING & PIZZA
"RATED #1 BY THE ONES WHO COUNT-OUR CUSTOMERS"
4033 W. 12 MILE, 3 Blks. E. of Greenfield
Berkley
548-3650
DAILY LUNCH & DINNER SPECIALS
PIRA •RIBS •FISH
SQUARE PEA
ROUND PIZZA
HOMEMADE GARLIC BREAD SMALL OR LARGE SMALL • MED - LARGE
ON FOOD PURCHASES
OF $6 OR MORE
OF F
DINING ROOM, CARRY-OUT
• 1 COUPON PER TABLE
• ONLY ONE COUPON PER PURCHASE • NO SEPARATE CHECKS
• COUPON NOT VALID WITH DAILY SPECIALS
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• COMPLETE CARRY-OUT
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Star Deli's Huge Reputation
Is Opposite Of Its Tiny Size
DANNY RASKIN LOCAL COLUMNIST
T
hey didn't have corned
More than 9,000 customers
beef sandwiches in
a week come to Star Deli . . . It
Siberia . . . The people
cooks over 2,000 pounds of
were lucky to even get
corned beef a week . . . goes
bread . . . And tuna salad? .. .
through over a thousand loaves
Forget it . . . The closest they
of bread a week ... does almost
came to any kind of fish was an
200 meat and dairy trays a
occasional drawing someone
week . . . sells around 200 or
would make.
more pounds of chicken salad a
Sid Neuman, owner of Star
week . . . and over 5,000 sand-
Deli on 12 Mile west of Tele-
wiches ... When Star Deli first
graph, never tasted corned beef
opened in May of 1968, it was
in Poland either, where he was
lucky if 100 people a week came
born . . . Sid had his first taste
in.
in 1956 after coming to the
Ten years ago, Sid toyed
United States.
with the idea of opening a full-
During World War II, Sid
service sitdown deli . . . But he
was sent to Siberia by the Rus-
was too busy at Star to pursue
sians . . . After six years,
they finally allowed him
to return to Poland only
because of his being a Pol-
ish citizen . . . He ran away
to the American occupa-
tion sector in Germany,
and received permission
to go to the United States.
Sid bought Star Deli 19
years ago, coming here
from Chicago to take over
a little carry-out operation
whose kitchen, 600 square
feet, was a big as the en-
tire front, which is still
only 600 square feet.
But oh, what that tiny
1,200-square-foot carry-
out delicatessen has be-
come ... It ranks today as
one of the largest volume
carry-out-only Jewish del-
r Deli's Harry and Sid Newman.
icatessens in the nation
. . . open seven days a week with
this ambition.
regular hours, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Sid still wishes Star Deli had
. and never closing any day of
some seats . . . But where in the
the year.
world would he put them? .. .
Imagine a little 1200-square-
600 square feet with four re-
foot carry-out deli selling almost
frigerated cases and food every-
1,500 pounds of white Albacore
where sure doesn't give much
tuna a week . . . a salad which
room.
continually receives rave no-
Those refrigerated cases are
tices.
chock-filled with traditional
When Sid bought Star Deli,
Jewish dishes ... smoked fish,
its original owner, Ed Kircidel,
sable, kippered salmon, herring
was satisfied with only one re-
in both cream and wine sauce,
frigerated case and to sell only
etc.
the bare basics from a Jewish
Almost everything is made
carry-out delicatessen.
on the spot, right at Star . . . in
Sid changed all that . . . re-
its little kitchen . . . This is
modeling it with four refriger-
where Naomi Harding, who
ated cases . . . a large walk-in
must be a magician or some-
cooler ... and everything imag-
thing, makes soups, blintzes,
inable in Jewish traditional
latkes, stuffed cabbage, chopped
foods among many other items
liver, kugels, knishes and so
that can be jammed into its
many other luscious delights.
crowded but neat areas.
Sid's son Harry is manager
People never cease to mar-
at Star Deli and has been with
vel at the business this small
Dad 16 years . . . Pete Simek,
spot transacts . . . Out-of-town-
a 19-year veteran there, is
ers look at its dimensions from
Star's assistant manager .. .
the outside and say, "Impossi-
along with Mitch Kogan, five
ble!" . . . When they go in, the
years; and Lou Golden, four
word changes to "incredible!"
years; both also assistant man-
agers . . . With the amount of
hours and shifts that Star has,
it is important to have many in
supervisory capacity.
It cooks its own corned beef,
pastrami, tongue, roast beef,
etc. . . . makes its own seafood
salad and potato salad among
10 varieties; cole slaw, pasta sal-
ad, rice pudding, fruit salad, etc.
Behind the counter that ex-
tends from one end of the store
to the other hang over 300
salamis . . . Small signs galore
are also back there with names
of sandwiches, specials, prices,
etc.
There are breads, cookies,
candies, pop, sour cream, milk,
coffees, four-pound sour cream
cakes pies, rugelach, potato
chips, beer, cheeses, etc.
Star regulars reads like a
who's who with Bill Davidson,
Mike Ilitch, Marty Goldman,
Bob Sosnick, Mickey Shapiro,
Dave Hermelin, Sid Forbes,
Mickey Nemer, Senator Sandy
Levin, Eugene Applebaum,
Jane Sherman (her dad, Max
Fisher, sends his housekeeper)
. And the list goes on and on
. . . enough to fill this entire
column by itself.
In Siberia, Sid never knew
the girl who would someday be-
come his wife . . . even though
she was sent there, too . . . He
met her in the lobby of a Chica-
go hotel in 1951 where the Jew-
ish Federation had put Rose
Schwartz and her mother after
they came to America . . . Sid
was at the hotel to meet a friend
. and destiny took over ... He
and Rose became man and wife
a year later.
She comes to Star about four
days a week to help her hus-