OPEN CHRISTMAS DAY
AND
NEW YEAR'S DAY

YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE
WITH OUR HOMEMADE GOODNESS!

r -
41 $5

MEM MEM

MEM MEM

After The Opening Onslaught,
Buster's Bay Gets Even Better

MEM MUM

OFF!

ON OUR BEAUTIFUL
*
*I
ALREADY LOW-PRICED
I MEAT OR DAIRY TRAYS

*

DANNY RASKIN LOCAL COLUMNIST

W

With This Coupon

. • Expires 12-30-93

-

• Not Good Holidays

DELIVERY
AVAILABLE

1:0ne Per Person

-

• 10 Person Minimum]

■ N

mom Imo

-

WE MAKE ALL OUR FOOD
ON OUR OWN PREMISES!

•HOMEMADE COLE SLAW
•HOMEMADE POTATO SALAD
•HOMEMADE CHICKEN SALAD
•HOMEMADE TUNA SALAD
•HOMEMADE EGG SALAD

WE COOK
OUR OWN
CORNED BEEF
& PASTRAMI

OPEN 7 DAYS—MON.-SAL 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., SUN. 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

STAR DELI

24555 W. 12 MILE, Just West of Telegraph, Southfield

352-7377

Let Us Cater
Your Next Affair

FINEST RESTAURANTS

TWO OF WINSDOR'S

tAlgiv
Other Ince

Tunnel Bar•13•Q

Succulent Seafoods, Great Steaks

Home of World-Famous
Spare Ribs
•
Fabulous Quality
Homemade Desserts

Fully Li ce nsed by I I BO

Excellent Party Facilities

•

3067 DOUGALL AVE.

58 PARK ST. E.

(Off the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Exit)

(Ouellette Becomes Dougall After Tecumseh)

DETROIT 4313) 961-3663
Windsor ....(519) 258-3663
(519) 258-2923
Fax

DETROIT...(313) 96343944
(519) 969-6011
Windsor
(519) 969-2402
Fax

615-1122

KITCHEN

• HUNAN
• CANTONESE
• SZECHAUN

4, 9...V .114.9441 AWNWORM

lisT

Vi i'

10
. - -

t-

CDUPC3rNi I

r■An i BUY ONE ENTREE AT REGULAR PRICE ,
OU'70 & GET 2nd ENTREE, EQUAL OR LESSER

OFF

VALUE AT 50% OFF. DINE IN ONLY.
Not valid with any other offer

Expires 1024/93

.t7

NANSfit anal:*..

78

vs 1.1,!4.1N14 i((ii

.

WO NG 'S

t..
i'

t .T.

"fide'.:i'..1.i:'.1,6.;i;:O.?. i:';:!:!"; ')Zi .

37057 Grand River (At Halsted K-Mart Ctr.) Farmington

Mon.-Thurs. I 1-10, Fri. & Sat. 1 I-1 I, Sun. 12-10

.

hen it opened in July
no frozen fish is carried by
of 1992, people were
Buster's Bay.
thrilled . . . Another
When Jimmy Schmidt and
Jimmy Schmidt/Mike
Mike Ilitch took over the locale,
Ilitch restaurant had come to
they did a total remodeling job
the northwest suburbs . . . this
. . . even going through a wall
time on the restaurant corridor
for the large 40x20-foot open
of Orchard Lake Road.
kitchen and more booths and
Joining Cocina Del Sol,
tables.
Northwestern Highway; Tres
It is fashioned in the tradi-
Vite in downtown Detroit, plus
tion of a Cape Cod or New Eng-
Rattlesnake Club also in Detroit
land-style boathouse . . . The
(Stelline in Troy hadn't been
entrance welcomes guests with
opened yet), was the new
an inviting front porch, com-
Buster's Bay, seemingly des-
plete with stately columns .. .
tined to become the seafood
A widow's walk, an architec-
palace of the northwest sub-
tural feature common on the
urbs.
Eastern Seaboard, also was
It started out gangbusters
added to the structure.
with all barrels afire, and being
Shades of colors suited to the
a new attraction also gave it a
Northeast . . . subtle gray-
distinct advantage.
greens, the red-orange of old
But it was obvious to many
brick, and variations of mustard
that the avalanche couldn't last.
yellow are splashed through-
Getting its act fully together
out the restaurant.
has taken awhile and the re-
In the main dining room are
wards now seem to have been
three custom-made eight-foot
reaped . . . Not that Buster's
contemporary fish chandeliers
Bay wasn't a good seafood
... Each fixture has a four-foot
restaurant before . . . . It had
stainless steel fish head sus-
just never quite reached its
pended by copper tubing with
potential.
more than 50 colorful fishing
Located on Orchard Lake
lures and abstract glass fish
Road and Pontiac Trail, at the
figures.
site of former Wilken's Corner,
A large racing sail is draped
Meating Place, Treats and
from the 26-foot ceiling; there
Roadhouse, Buster's Bay has
are pickled pine accents, red oak
learned from its mistakes and
wood floor, bar, table surfaces
is better for it.
with a weathered wood finish,
After opening, Buster's Bay
large 750-gallon aquarium with
didn't give anything away with
Buster, a 20-pound red-tailed
its food . . . The entire menu was
Brazilian catfish, four alligator
a la carte ... Now there are no
garpikes, sturgeon (rare in cap-
more $24.95 items (the highest
tivity), a compass painted on the
is $18.95 and the lowest $8.95.)
center of the floor, molded glass
Monday to Friday, 11:30
dividers between booths, etc.
a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Sunday,
A unique feature in the main
4 p.m. to 6 p.m., through the
dining room is the assortment
end of the year, as example,
of bird houses from Jimmy's col-
people can get broiled white
lection, displayed on a large tree
fish, $7.95, or a one-pound
lobster, $9.95, both in-
cluding soup, salad, pota-
to and bread basket.
The five poultry and
meat dishes come with
soup or Buster's salad,
vegetable, choice of red
skins or baked potato or
rice pilaf and bread bas-
ket.
Most of the fish and
pasta selections now in-
clude soup or Buster's sal-
ad and bread basket .. .
Fish also has a starch.
This is truly a seafood
house ... It is not uncom-
mon to find 30 different
fishes on the menu .. .
some difficult to be found
anywhere else . . . All are
delivered fresh daily since Jimmy Schmidt and George Kalergis at Buster's Bay.

cut from someone's back yard
and bolted to the floor.
Artist Robert Schefman,
whose wife Christine is a
Jimmy Schmidt right-hand gal,
and mother Theda Schefman a
proud localite, created several
painted screens and wall-sized
3-D relief paintings with
aquatic themes . . . Fish etch-
ings from the late 1800s and
early 1900s are on the walls in
cracklewood frames.
Latest inspection by the Oak-
land County Health Depart-
ment gave Buster's Bay an 86
percent score, high for a seafood
restaurant.
The fish served at Buster's
Bay come from oceans, lakes,
streams and wherever there is
water . . . How many places do
you know with fish like tilapia,
dab, moonfish, red drum, hake
. . . unfamiliar names . . . Onaga
is red snapper and Opakapaka
is pink salmon . . . It even has
shark.
The main dining room seats
80 to 100 people . . . Buster's
Room capacity is about 50 ... a
little room cove, 28, and an up-
stairs loft, 24 . . . The approxi-
mately 200 seating is at booths
and round and square tables
with green linen napkins.
For the first time since open-
ing, Buster's Bay now takes
reservations . . . It is open sev-
en days ... Monday-Thursday,
11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday,
11:30 a.m.-midnight; Saturday,
5 p.m.-midnight; Sunday, 4
p.m.-9 p.m.
On Tuesday evenings, 5 p.m.
to 7 p.m., adults can make
reservations to come in and
"check" their youngsters with
supervised care ... The kids get
free dinner and pop, coloring