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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 c/\