JET JEWISH ENSEMBLE THEATRE restaurant is Double Tree Guest Suites, sister of Guest Quarters in Troy. Few people are happier than Frank Passalacqua at Carl's Chop House on Grand River ... Tonight starts Red Wings hock- ey again ... and his shuttles to and from Joe Louis Arena for home games are always many ... The Carl's shuttles still also take folks to shows at Fisher, Mason- ic, Gem and Fox theaters ... plus major events at Cobo Hall, Re- naissance Center, etc. ... One of the more romantic restaurants around, Cafe Cortina, which re- cently celebrated its 18th an- niversary, naturally always has high bookings for Valentine's Day. ALL IN THE Family Dept ... Congrats to sister Belle Wein- garden on her birthday ... Be- lated birthday congrats to sister Lillian Rosen and brother Mar- vin Raskin. THE CAB driver said that when he came to Las Vegas 10 years ago he didn't make a lot of money but it sure was a good- paced place for his family. Water Club Grill takes Plymouth by sea. Today, the cabbie says, there's almost 900,000 people and the population is growing rapidly ... According to figures, over 4,000 a month are moving permanent- ly into the Las Vegas area. The house he bought is worth "a ton of money" now, but he nev- er gets to see his family anymore ... "Pm too busy; can't enjoy easy, relaxed living like before." Las Vegas has always been a fast-paced city ... "But never like this!" he moans ... It has more than doubled in population since our cab driver moved there. Its hotels used to always try to outdo each other in height ... Like playing who has the taller sign or which pays the bigger electric bill ... It's different today ... Now the games are who has the most rooms, the biggest casi- no, the most spacious theme park. Winner so fax is MGM Grand & Theme Park with 5021 rooms holding the top rung as the largest entertainment resort of its kind with 30-story towers and the world's largest casino, three football fields big ... Others aren't far off in accommodations with over 3,000, or 4,000 rooms ... Around the 3,000 number is ex- pected to be the norm ... So many seem to be expanding and some will probably hit the magic (for now) 5,000 mark. There is a lot more to Las Ve- gas, writes a special section trade journal, than just world-class en- tertainment or gambling ... "It's also one of the world's greatest dining places." Reason for this, it says, is that many of the chefs in the Las Ve- gas restaurants are formally trained in culinary arts, either in Europe or in some of America's finest restaurants. And there's more to dining in Las Vegas than haute cuisine, says the article ... Price and choice' are two of the more ap- pealing things about eating in Ve- gas ... And because there are so many fine restaurants compet- ing against each other, a first- class meal is generally less expensive than in most major cities ... The multitude of fine dining restaurants in Las Vegas cannot be found anywhere else. When the El Rancho Vegas Hotel opened in 1941 as the first hotel in Las Vegas (no, it wasn't Ben "Bugsy" Siegal's Flamingo with the 1946 opening), owner Beldon Katelman needed some- thing to keep customers in the hotel after the second show and dreamed up his Midnight Chuck Wagon Buffet. Today, Excalibur Hotel has a buffet dining room that seats 1,400 people and serves more than 12,000 daily to make it the largest commercial dining es- tablishment in the world ... The three serving lines at Circus Cir- cus dish out to about 12,000 a day, or over 4 million a year. Nothing modest about the buf- fets ... Many of the hotels offer as many as 45 dishes per meal plus an unbelievable amount of desserts. And when it comes to enter- tainment, Las Vegas is in a class of its own ... So much to see ... from a volcano that erupts regu- larly outside the Mirage to pirate ships fighting outdoors at Trea- sure Island to statues moving and talking at the Forum Shops in Caesar's Palace ... and so much more. One of the biggest "sleeper'' fun spots is Friday and Saturday nights in the Celebrity Cafe with its after-theater menu at the Debbie Reynolds Hollywood Ho- tel and Museum on Convention Drive ... especially Saturday evenings ... These are the nights entertainers on the Strip or in town are introduced by emcee-co- median Jimmy Caesar and Deb- bie Reynolds to come up and perform on stage for her usual- ly packed house audience ... Debbie comes in after her show in the Debbie Reynolds Star The- atre and wows everyone. IT TOOK SIX years, but John Levy finally got his hole-in-one ... Was at the Seasons Ridge Golf Course in Osage Beach, Mo., with an eight-iron on the par three 138-yard hole ... 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