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Higher Than Four Stars
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R
esting on
its laurels is nev-
er expected from a four-
star restaurant that is
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accustomed to winning
awards for its culinary expertise
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and presentations.
And because of this, customers
1 are the real winners ... Especially
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when the restaurant also has the
leadership of persons who know
FAMILY ITALIAN DINING & PIZZA
no other way but being on top.
"RATED #1 BY THE ONES WHO COUNT-OUR CUSTOMERS"
Pike Street restaurant, 18 Pike
4033 W. 12 MILE, 3 Blks. E. of Greenfield
Street in Pontiac, has a couple
of gents who are taking it a
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notch
higher than the 1992 recog-
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nition as Michigan's restaurant
of the year among other acco-
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lades.
General Manager Nino Chi-
uchiarelli, who many folks will
ON FOOD PURCHASES
remember, was a fine east side
OF $6 OR MORE
restaurant owner and can count
DINING ROOM,.CARRY-OUT
about 37 years in the dining
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game, beginning as a busboy at
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• EXPIRES 12-30--94
JN
the Cabellino Bianco in Abruzzo,
Italy ... After a six-year stint in
the service for Uncle Sam, he
worked at Mario's on Second as
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cook, waiter, etc. ... In those days,
everybody at Mario's had to know
five things ... how to wash dish-
es, bus tables, bartend, cook and
wait tables.
Mideastern & American Cuisine
At his former Nino's Ristorante
27060 Evergreen
on 13 Mile and Hayes, Nino was
At 1-696 & 11 in Lathrup Landing
a workaholic owner noted for his
559-9099
• Lamb Chops • Shish Kabob • Tabbouli
choice Italian dishes and saying
• Stuffed Grape Leaves (Veg. & Reg.)
"Thank you" all evening to prais-
• Bar-B-Q Ribs & Chicken • Etc.
ing customers.
RAW JUICE BAR
Nino won't talk about it, but
With Fresh-Squeezed fruits & Vegetables
he was a winner in service, too ...
winning the battle of survival in
Vietnam,
where Nino spent 19
Buy One Entree At Regular Price -1
months
with
the U.S. Special
Get Second Entree
Forces in Matrang, Vietnam.
Equal or Lesser Value
Executive Chef Derin Moore
HALF THE PRICE!
will be on the 1996 central re-
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gional sector of Team USA at the
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Culinary Olympics to be held in
Expires 12-30-94
Berlin ... Team USA is made up
of the national squad and only
r
four regional crews ... Like exhi-
bition games in sports, his first
"exercise" will be in Chicago this
coming May against another re-
gional
team.
With This Coupon
To be a member of the very
• One Coupon Per Table • Not Good With Any Other Discounts
prestigious USA Culinary Team,
JN
• Expires 12-30.94
a chef must be highly proficient
and rated number one in both hot
I BABY SPARE RIBS Mon. & Tues. ° RACK OF LAMB 7 Days
and cold presentations ... Derin
PSYCHIC BELVA KING Every Thursday Evening
placed first on hot and second on
Complimentary Reading With All Dinners
cold, being only a fraction of a
FRESH HEALTHY FRUIT JUICES
point away from selection to the
national team.
He has been at Pike Street
restaurant 6 1/2 years, is a grad-
uate of the Culinary Institute of
America in Hyde Park, N.Y., and
trained under the wings of super
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chef Brian Polcyn.
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There are few restaurants that
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can boast of the Pike Street high
quality ... and persons behind it.
Most popular dish on the Pike
Street restaurant menu is rack
of lamb with cabernet sauce,
roasted potato and eggplant chile,
$24.50.
Pike Street is big on fresh fish
which Nino and Derin have flown
in twice a week ... All are pin-
boned at Pike Street restaurant
before serving ... Atlantic salmon
with seafood sausage in crisp pas-
try with armanac sauce, $21.50;
oven steamed Atlantic salmon
with parslied artichoke coulis,
$18.50; sauteed pickerel in pecan
crust with celeriac coulis, $18.95,
are among a number of highly de-
sired fish entrees ... Also, seafood
scallopine with crayfish, sweet-
bread and asparagus ragout,
$19.50; and hot and cold hors
d'oeuvres which do so much
in bringing out the Olympic
culinary excellence of Derin
Moore.
Dinners include an appropri-
ate starch, vegetable, salad of the
day and hot bread basket.
Pastas can be gotten either as
half order or entree ... Like an-
gel hair with oven-dried cepes
and white truffles, half order
$7.50, entree $12.95; orzo, a rice-
shaped pasta, with parmesan
cheese and chicken fennel
sausage, half order $6.50, entree
$10.95, are select items.
Derin's specialty pasta dishes
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Pike Street's Derin Moore and Nino Chluchiareill.
creations like pan-seared sea scal-
lops with Oriental barbeque glaze
and vegetable won ton, $21.50;
and sauteed Gulf shrimp with
potato gnocchi and vegetables,
$19.50.
One of Derin's creative spe-
cials, tandoori-grilled swordfish,
has an Indian influence with
spicy fruit chutney, $21.50 ...
Pike Street restaurant goes
through about 30 pounds of
swordfish a week.
He enjoys creativity in food, es-
pecially on specials of the evening
which change daily, when he and
Nino present a different soup, a
pasta, two fish dishes, one meat
and one poultry feature and a hot
appetizer ... Many customers
come regularly because of the
imaginative surprises like veal
vary daily, but include fried
seafood ravioli with white truffle
cream, half order $7.50, entree
$18.50 ... Pike Street restaurant
makes its own pasta, with entree
portions served with house salad
and hot bread basket.
This highly-acclaimed restau-
rant owned by Jim Fitzpatrick is
housed in a registered historic
150-year-old building that origi-
nally was home to Michigan Bell
Telephone ... Pike Street restau-
rant, opened in 1983, celebrat-
ed its 11th anniversary in
November ... Caricatures of all
the original investors are on a
wall that can no doubt tell many
stories.
Seating is for 185, including
a tavern lounge and enclosed
porch sector. •