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7618 Woodward Ave.
OPEN SUNDAYS 12 noon to 9 p.m.
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Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Sun. 12 noon-9 p.m.
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4033 W. 12 MILE, 3 Blks. E. of Greenfield
Berkley
548-3650
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Italian Restaurant
Lunch ■ Dinner ■ Cocktails
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680-0066
645 E. Big Beaver Road, Troy
Middle East Delicacies
And A Fabulous Juice Bar
DANNY RASKIN LOCAL COLUMNIST
W
hen the juice bar rage on fresh juice selling, but has also
started a number of become one of the leading Mid-
years ago, many people dle Eastern restaurants in this
thought something new region.
under the sun had been added for
Opened just over a year ago in
their culinary delight.
May 1993, part of it is the former
Fact is that juice bars, or their Sol's Deli ... When owners Tony
counterparts, go back centuries and brother Raad Samona took
... It's old hat in the Middle East, over, they immediately expand-
where juice bar shops have been ed ... Sol's used to seat only about
enduring because of continuous 40 ... La Fendi today seats 140
hot weather ... There was no au- and has also added more kitchen,
tomatic or electrical machinery, storage, dining and other areas,
and juices were squeezed by hand but additional room is still need-
and lever machines until the ed ... The former rest rooms were
blender came along ... Even to- moved, along with new plumb-
day, only blenders in many sec- ing, to another section so that
tors are mainly used as well as people can enter through a floral
plain hand machines.
trellis.
The popularity swung to
There is always a family mem-
America, where restaurants of ber present at La Fendi to make
numerous types now have juice sure everything goes according
bars or facsimiles because of a to their wants ... providing good
large demand for the nutritious food, good service and ultimate
goodness they offer.
cleanliness ... Besides Tony and
Place's like La Fendi Restau- Raad, a third brother, Kenny, is
rant on 11 Mile and
Evergreen, off 1-696 in
Lathrup Landing, take
juice bars a large di-
mension further with
modern squeezing ma-
chinery that not only
provides every type of
juice imaginable, but
also blends of very
healthful non-alcoholic
and exotic cocktails.
Along with its excel-
lent Middle East dish-
es, La Fendi does a big
business with squeezed
juices and juice cock-
tails ... Its number one
seller is the delicious La
Fendi cocktail of ba-
nanas, strawberries, or-
ange juice, honey and
rose water ... Second
best seller is carrot
juice, either plain or in Tony and Raad Samona
combination with others
... Over 150 gallons of
carrot juice are sold every week day manager.
Tony Samona, whose abstract
... Next comes an old home recipe
of lemonade with fresh lemon paintings have regular exhibits
juice, squeezed oranges, sugar, around town, proudly displays
many of his works on the walls
rose water and ice.
About 15 different types of at La Fendi ... Its artifact ex-
fruits and vegetables are hibits are also most interesting
squeezed at La Fendi, which will ... antique cameras, vases, urns,
mix whatever combination peo- glass and brass water pipes, met-
ple want ... even requests for al and glass pitchers, drums,
fruits and vegetables blended to- tambourines, etc.
The large restaurant with such
gether.
In a week's time, it goes beautiful intimacy is made up of
through over 100 pounds of three sectors, each having ils own
strawberries, more than 400 decor ... One area has bamboo
pounds of carrots, over 600 or- cane chairs with padded seats,
anges, and an untold number of mirrored walls, Tony's paintings
... Another has a brick wall,
other fruits and vegetables.
La Fendi, a Turkish word for hand-woven carpet hanging on a
important gentleman, is very big back wall, drapes of carpeting ...
A third has more of Tony's paint-
ings, high-back black metal
chairs with padded seats.
All have fresh flowers on the •
tables, planter boxes throughout,
and the pleasantness of white
linen tablecloths centered by a
mint-colored linen triangle and
linen napkins.
La Fendi is the only Middle
Eastern restaurant that serves
fish curry, a filet of white fish
baked and topped with a special
salsa of onions, parsley, tomatoes,
garlic and lemon juices ($10.95)
... Its number one food seller,
lamb shank over rice ($8.95), may
be gotten at other Middle East-
ern restaurants, but not with the
secret seasonings used at La Fen-
di.
It has an excellent potato chop
($7.95), in which a boiled potato
is mashed and stuffed with fine-
ly-ground beef and parsley before
hitting the vegetable oil deep fry
(
... Very few places have Shaikh
Mahshy (baby eggplant stuffed
with beef or chicken, chopped
onions, parsley, tomato sauce and
seasonings, served over rice,
$9.95).
All lunches and dinners in-
clude soup or salad, cut vegeta-
bles, potato or bean stew, rice and
fresh pita bread.
Chicken meatballs served over
rice are pan-fried of ground chick-
en mixed with special spices and
sauteed with tomatoes, onions,
green peppers and tomato sauce
($8.95).
Combination dishes are served
where customers select any two
or three meats on the menu (two
$9.95, three $11.95) ... The La
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