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Maple • Birmingham, MI • 1 blovk W of Telegraph • 626-2630 7618 Woodward Ave. 871-1590 OPEN SUNDAYS 12 noon to 9 p.m. Our Daily Hours ... Mon. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Tues. Thru Thurs. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Sun. 12 noon-9 p.m. L LIGHT SIDE MENU AVAILABLE ANYTIME SPECIAL QUALITY PARTIES up to 200 Specializing In: Bar Mitzvahs, Weddings, Birthdays, Sweet 16s, Anniversaries, Etc. Low Banquet Rates For All Occasions Ask About Our Special Appetizer Parties 82 1•1•111.. Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354-6060 DANNY RASKIN LOCAL COLUMNIST ou could call it 'The house that two salads built" and not be far wrong. Six months after Ron and Maggie Asmar took over a closed, bedraggled-looking, par- tially-burned former party store back in 1985, they added a cou- ple of salads to go with their wines, chocolates, gourmet cheeses, etc. They transformed the entire place into a 2,000-square-foot Vineyards Wine Cellar where it emerged into some sort of promi- nence as the place with those wonderful salads. In 1988, only three years after opening, Ron and Maggie added another 9,500 square feet ... and it had grown into a little cafe with 50 seats, deli counters and an open ceiling with fresh market ambiance. It is today beyond recognition ... Much like a chameleon that made a sudden change ... In July of this year, Vineyards became 11,000 square feet with entrances both at the side and front under a huge, new white facade on which its name is emblazoned with neon as if to proudly say, "Hey! Look at me now!" The feeling for many used to be that it was like eating in the middle of a grocery store ... Not anymore ... 10 padded booths now accompany nine 4-top tables and two 2-tops ... Outside are col- orful umbrellas over nine tables on its newly-done patio. Those two salads have grown to over 50 ... including 12 pasta salads, about six fat-free salads, two seafood salads, and around 15 low fat salads ... Also Mideast- ern dishes for carry-out and dine in (humus, taboolee, baba ghanouge, etc.) A huge menu blackboard lists almost 85 sandwiches of every de- scription ... a salad bar is also available for both dine in and car- ry-out along with 10 breads ... Two cases are now filled with pastries (New York cheesecake, German tort, banana nut tort, Middle East favorites, etc.)... All salads, by the way, are 100 per- cent natural — no salt, no sug- ar or preservatives. Sure there's still wine and liquor, about 1,000 brands of each, and tastefully placed in front so as not to conflict with the hardly believable changed over dining area. Vineyards now bakes its own fat-free potato chips, own French bread, own kaiser rolls, own crois- sants, double-bakes its rye breads, makes those delicious y low-fat and fat-free muffins, own cookies (six low-fat and fat-free), three types of brownies (rich dou- ble fudge, low-fat and fat-free) ... All in its own, on-the-premises bake shop. Two different soups are made daily and it does a big job on no- fat cappuccino, decaf cappuccino and espresso. Vineyards also makes its own cherry-chocolate mandelbread. The atmosphere is a festive one today with goodies of every imagination, gourmet jellies, domain of Shirlee Bloom ... open every day except Saturday, with separate cases, separate freezer, separate counters, etc ... People eat in or carry-out, and Bloom's Kosher Catering and Carry-Out does a whopping business on oc- casions for all purposes. Under supervision of the Met- ropolitan Kashruth Council of Michigan, a mezuzah hangs on the front door and mashgichim are there around the clock, su- pervising ingredients for kishke, kreplach, knaidlach, stuffed cab- Shirlee Bloom and Ron Asmar. dressings, candies and so much more as from the ceiling hang garlic, cheese, salami, dried pep- pers, baskets of every size and shape ... The "little Vineyards of yesteryears" that has grown up into one of so much respect now has two huge walk-in coolers and a large walk-in freezer. With Ron and Maggie are son Tony, 17, stock manager; daugh- ter, Angela, 15, cashier; Maggie's sisters, May Asso, manager; and Maha Azzo, bookkeeper and cashier. When it originally opened in 1985 there were just Ron, Mag- gie and May ... Now Vineyards has about 20 employees that in- clude 10 professional cooks ... It pridefully holds a 95 percent score given about a month ago by the Oakland County Health Dept. and is open seven days a week, Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A completely separate entity at Vineyards is the glatt kosher bage, farfel, beef stew, var- nishkes, gefilte fish, breaded veal chops, chopped liver, vegetari- an chopped liver, turkey burgers, veggie burgers, salmon burgers, soups, salads, Anna brown pota- toes, old-fashioned meat loaf, bar- b-q short ribs, chicken asparagus, veggie dishes like veggie cabbage, burgers, egg rolls, pastas, etc., in- cluding the excellent kosher frozen foods prepared by Shirlee. There is also a full line of deli meats by the pound or sand- wiches on double-baked rye, roll- up sandwiches and meat or dairy trays ... Shirlee's foods are cooked from scratch, with many folks coming lunch time to have baked turkey burgers and salmon pat- ties on onion roll ... All in all, Shirlee has 25 kosher entrees from which to select, including items like chicken Caesar salad, mostaccioli with vegetable mari- nara sauce, minestrone soup, duck a la orange, veal piccante, chicken Kiev, pepper steak, chicken stir fry, etc.