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The Simcha Package

Weddings, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and other family Simchas
begin at the Radisson Plaza Hotel at Town Center.

Besides offering out-of-town guests and mishpocha an
unbeatable value on Greater Detroit's most stylish and
comfortable accommodations...we give you, the planner,
even more to kvell about! Book 10 rooms or more and we
will donate a portion back to your congregation or favorite
charity!

World-Class Cuisine
In A Most Elegant Selling

$79

The Simcha Package

Features:
Luxurious
guest
room for two
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• Dairy breakfast for two
• Indoor pool and fitness center
• Designer Gift Bags to welcome guests to
their rooms
• Complimentary valet parking
• Late check out at 3 pin

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Our Radisson chefs will work with you to plan a spectacular
affair from a delicious Saturday lunch, Saturday dinner, or
Sunday brunch — from kugel to kreplach, bagels to blintzes,
and more!

Kosher and Jewish-style catering is now available.

GRadisson.

PLAZA HOTEL AT TOWN CENTER

1500 Town Center, Southfield
(810) 827-4000
For Reservations Worldwide 800-333-3333

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24555 W. 12 MILE, Just West of Telegraph
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Lunch Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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run elevator goes from the first
to third floor was then a hy-
draulic operated lift.
You might call the Whitney a
true
American restaurant that
ring.
covers the basics of traditional
But a place like the Whitney
and modern dining ... but not
restaurant, on Woodward at Can-
afraid to get involved in Oriental
field, can never receive too many
or other European influences.
praises.
"The best restaurants in the
Like its sister restaurant, Van
world are the friend-
Dyke Place, it is in
liest," says John,
a class by itself.
whose actual caring
Back in 1894,
about people and
when David Whit-
their feelings is well
ney was making his
noted ... Ron enjoys
fortune as a lumber
this distinction too.
baron, he lived for a
A big testament to
short time, before
the liking of John
passing on in 1900,
and Ron is that nu-
amidst luxurious
merous employees
surroundings that
are still there ...
undoubtedly gave
Many of the help
him much enjoy-
were with them
ment during his
when they opened
short life there.
the Van Dyke Place
Today, his former
... and are now at
mansion continues
the Whitney.
to give endearing
Tables are covered
pleasure as a world-
with white linen
class restaurant.
tablecloths over long
The Whitney and
mauve linen under-
Van Dyke Place,
skirting ... And the
both owned by John
Whitney boasts of
McCarthy and Ron
being the only
Fox, are each for
restaurant in Michi-
mer elegant resi- The Whitney's Jahn McCarthy.
gan with four certi-
dences turned
fied sommeliers to
restaurants that can have only 1912 and for almost 70 years it help folks select wines with their
one classification ... fine dining was an office building for Wayne meals ... wines from one of Michi-
... but with a certain flare ... County Medical Society and then gan's finest lists.
Rarely, do they even approach the Visiting Nurses Association.
Expensive? ... Sure ... But
any degree of mediocrity ... and
When plans were afoot to de- people can also go to the Whit-
seldom do customers leave with-
molish the stately building, ney, see its magnificent beauty,
out the very best taste still in
Richard Kughn stepped in and enjoy the elegance of linen and
their mouths and minds.
When it opened Dec. 12, 1986, bought the former home and of- crystal, and just have a great
burger or a salad or bowl of soup
dripping with elegant atmos- fice structure in 1979.
... days or evenings ... The burg-
He
was
a
regular
patron
at
the
phere, there were persons who
er
with Poncho sauce at both Fri-
Van
Dyke
Place
where
Dick
loved
would be cynical and critical ...
No way, they said, could this be to dine ... "Let's do a restaurant day lunch and dinner every day
pulled off in a class that would together," he suggested ... and is $6.95 and served with potato
salad ... There's also a vegetari-
match its previous ornate sur- the Whitney was later born.
Much of its beauty had been an burger with lentils, mixed veg-
roundings.
Well, time has given the an- painted over ... Marvelous artis- etables and mixed herbs with
cheddar cheese on an onion roll,
swer, and the Whitney today, if tic discoveries appeared when re-
served with pasta salad, $7.95
possible, has gotten better furbishing processes were put
both
Friday lunch and daily din-
into place from descriptions giv-
through the years.
Six dining rooms on the first en to Dick, John and Ron ... An- ner.
Th( Whitney menu changes
floor, four private rooms on the gel heads, etc., began popping up
each day, but two items have
second floor, plus a great hall ... everywhere.
The same wood is still there, been on it since opening ... Cala-
A third floor with a main bar area
and three rooms where people go every type imaginable, with ex- mari appetizer and the three
for the desserts, appetizers, cock- ceptional craftsmanship ... Out- Russian caviars, Beluga, Sevru-
side is the beauty of pink jasper ga and Osetra.
tails and even dinner.
It is open seven days ... Din-
A separate before-theater granite.
Ron lives, eats and breathes ner: Sunday, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.;
menu is available, and people
also eat at the bar ... This is the antiques ... He, John and Dick Monday and Tuesday, 6 p.m. to
sector where Kate Patterson love art and history ... it was a 9 p.m.; Wednesday and Thurs-
day. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and
(now minus 100 pounds) has perfect combination.
The home's original elevator Saturday, 5 p.m. to midnight :
been singing so wonderfully since
opening day ... She and her pi- shaft, built with the house, is still Sunday brunch is 11 a.m. to 2:30
anist, Johnny Allen, are excep- there ... Where now an electric- p.m. ... and the Whitney is open

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written about it that more
glowing words would only
tend to have a repetitious

tional favorites Wednesday
through Saturday evenings.
Seating is 200 on the first floor,
and about 100 each on the second
and third floors.
To speak of the Whitney sole-
ly as a former mansion would be
the more romantic thing to do ...
but such is not the case ... The
Whitney family moved out in