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MEADOW•BROOK

A Professional Theatre

BENEFACTORS

By Michael Frayn

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A comic drama by
the author of Noises
Off. Winner of the
New York Critics'
Circle Award.

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"A wise
witty and
wonderful
play"

— Associated
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The Oxford Inn
Doubles Its Popularity

DANNY RASKIN LOCAL COLUMNIST

e may be founder and pres- have been with Bob since the be-
ident of the Royal Oak ginning.
Remember Debbie Hamilton,
Restaurant Association,
but no one can say person- that excellent pastry chef who
able Bob Higgins is too selfish to had the gourmet carry-out and
spread his talents around to oth- catering years back on the Board-
walk? ... She is Bob's cousin and
er locales.
Bob's Oxford Inn of Novi as Debbie Lewis now, makes the
opened July 25, 1994, on Grand pastries at both his places ...
River, east of Novi Road, at the Good waitress Carole Evans,
site of the former Victor's restau- with the friendly and gracious
rant ... and has gained note for personality, is a standout at his
seafood and baby back ribs, with Novi restaurant.
Oxford Inn of Novi likes to also
oysters Rockefeller a standout ...
Biggest seller is the ribs, with pride itself on homestyle cooking
perch a close second at both Novi ... serving meat loaf, $7.95; pot
and in Royal Oak on Main, north roast, $8.95; chicken pot pie,
of 1-696 ... Salmon goes
over big, too.
There are eight fishes
a day at Oxford Inn of
Novi ... Whitefish, sell-
ing more than 100
pounds a week, orange
roughy, catfish, sword-
fish, tuna, Cajun mahi
mahi, cod and chips,
Norwegian salmon.
Heaviest appetizer
sellers are the large
Chesapeake Bay oys-
ters, six for $5.95; and
oysters Rockefeller,
three for $4.95. ... At
both his places, Bob goes
through 800 oysters a
week ... Also mussels,
chilled and marinated
overnight with a slight
hint of jalapeno, white
wine and garlic, 1/2
pound $3.50; full pound
4.95.
Oxford Inn's Bob Higgins.
Dinner specialties in-
clude baked chicken
breast stuffed with spinach, $6.95; stuffed peppers, $6.95;
mushrooms and rice pilaf, topped chicken dumplings, $6.95, etc.
Dinners include salad or cole
by a creamy white wine sauce,
$11.95; prime rib of beef prepared slaw, choice of baked potato,
in Oxford's special ovens, eight- French fries, English-cut fries, or
ounce petite cut, $11.95; 12-ounce rice pilaf; and home-made bread.
In 1991, Bob was a contestant
beefeater cut, $13.95; 24-ounce
king cut, $20.95; plus steaks in in the Big Rib Cookoff, placing
second among 18 finalists from
both petite and regular cuts.
Oxford Inn of Novi has three around the country ... His Oxford
rooms ... non smoking seats 90, Inn makes its own chili twice a
two adjoining dining areas each month, black bean or kidney bean
have seating for about 40 ... and ... Between 30 and 40 soups are
a bar lounge area has 12 bar prepared, one each day accom-
stools and five standup tables for panying Oxford Inn's standard
cocktails and appetizers ... Cou- French onion with its croutons
ples also like to eat there at din- and heavy melted cheese, $3.50
ner time ... As many as four can a crock ... It even has a Reuben's
use the island tables when not soup with sauerkraut in it.
Debbie's pastries are big fea-
having dinner.
It is open Monday-Thursday, tures for both restaurants and
11 am. to 10 pm.; Friday, 11 am. private affairs ... Hot caramel ap-
to 11 p.m.; Saturday, 4 p.m. to 11 ple pie, chocolate cheesecake,
French flan, strawberry tort, etc.,
p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
At the Royal Oak spot, which all $4 ... The hot caramel apple
opened in 1988, there is virtual- pie with ice cream is $5.
As president of the Royal Oak
ly no employee turnover ... and
no openings ... Most of his people Restaurant Association with its

40 or so members, Bob aims to
promote the city's dining spots by
coming out with ideas for their
continuous betterment as well as
having a cohesive togetherness.
He always shows up at both
his restaurants and is a regular
at charitable affairs ... like the
great favorite annual Taste of
Royal Oak, Feb. 12, at Oakland
Community College in Royal Oak
... Bob is big on helping charities
with his culinary and promo-
tional abilities ... Bob's main am-
bition and future goal is to have
a kitchen and training center for
young kids, 16 and up, on drug

and alcohol rehabilitation ... Plus
the kitchen, Bob would love to
have a gym and library to en-
hance the health of their bodies
and minds ... while enjoying the
ability to get them employment
placement.
Opening more Oxford Inns
would be no problem for Bob but
he has a certain type of hangup
... Bob won't do it unless he is
able to staff them with excep-
tionally good key people ... He
knows the restaurant business
too well to do otherwise.
Until then, his Oxford Inns in
Novi and Royal Oak continue to
satisfy a large majority.
CONGRATS ... to Iz and
Fran Malin ... on their 57th an-
niversary ... to Iz (recuperating
at home)... on his 78th birthday
... to Emanuel Koenigsberg ... on
his 75th birthday ... to his sister,
Pauline Fine ... on her birthday.
FIE IS IN the California
Sports Hall of Fame, which takes
in all superior athletes of that