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35450 Grand River at Drake • Farmington Hills
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SEAFOOD • SHRIMP • OYSTERS
Munchies • Gourmet Burgers • Sandwiches • Pizza
Happy Hour • Ice Cold Beer • Frozen Cocktails
Big Screen Sports TV • Sports Team Seating
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DANNY RASKIN LOCAL COLUMNIST
hose who remember the the Brass Rail on Michigan and ber of booths is for privacy and
mural that stood majesti- Griswold next to Kinsel's Drugs, romance.
Decor of the three larger rooms
tally above the Brass Rail opened in 1938, and this one from
is
very
pleasant, with brick walls
on Adams across from the Adams' Brass Rail, which
Grand Circus Park, owned by Bill Bill's son, Ivan Boesky, ran for that look natural but when pur-
Boesky and Joe Freedman ... or six months before closing ... San- chased had many coats of paint
were told about it by friends ford operated the third one on that have been removed, framed
and relatives ... need wonder no Woodward and Grand Boule- pictures of downtown Rochester
before and today, hammered fa-
more what happened to the artis- yard.
cia that take up a partial space
Whatever
the
story
about
the
tic piece of Detroit dining histo-
ry.
Above the entrance at Kruse
A broiled, fresh
& Muer On Main in Rochester is
PINBONED WHITEFISH FILLET
the same (with one exception)
Served with our famous
large wooden mural of a gentle-
— Friday
SLICED CHEESEBAKED POTATO
man with one foot on a brass rail
and another gent carving a piece
with sour cream,
FISH FRY
of fish ... The original one had the
fresh
green
beans
and
coleslaw.
$6.95
fellow cutting a roast.
Tossed
salad
in
place
of
All You Can Ea
It was there in 1990 when Bill
coleslaw at 1.25 extra.
Kruse and Chuck Muer bought
the spot and made it into their
HOUSE SPECIAL
highly-received restaurant across
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the street from the Rochester
FULL SLAB BAR-B-Q BABY SPARE RIBS
Chop House, also owned by them.
Young, so tender, meaty ribs, barbequed to perfection,
Ironically, Chuck originally
served with coleslaw and french fries or potato salad.
wanted the mural carving for his
Tossed salad in place of coleslaw at 1.20 extra.
Charley's Crab in Troy ... Joe's
Sliced cheesebaked potato at .75 extra.
son, Sanford Freedman, had been
storing it for years in a ware-
house and sold it to one of the
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SHEEHAN
GOURMET
r
site's previous tenants.
Before opening their second
Brass Rail (they had three), Bill
• HALF DOZEN OYSTERS
and Joe asked a boyhood friend,
raw on the half shell
architect Ted Rogvoy, to design
ONE
DOZEN
SHRIMP
•
the masterpiece for them from
per
burger
Peel 'n eat
with coupon
a sketch Bill had seen in a mag-
GATOR
TAIL
•
azine ... According to Bernie
Limit
one
Sheehan
Burger
per
coupon.
White tail meat
One coupon per person • Dine in only.
Kerner, Bill's nephew, a fact that
Not
valid
with
any
other
discounts.
•CALAMARI
Not valid any Friday after 6 p.m.
very
few people ever knew was
Baby squid
GOOD AT O'SHUCKS
that it originally had been a sheet
P.M.*TIL 6 P.M. • 10 P.M. 'TIL CLOSE
Expires 4-30-95
metal carving ... not wood.
VOID FRI. & SAT. AFTER 10 P.M.
COUPON elm Imo
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Bill and Joe brought Ted's
sketch
to Abe Meltzer, a sheet
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metal mechanic for Ford Motor
Co., who did work in the back of
his house on 962 Melbourne,
down the street from the late
H arry
Meltzer's Oakland Bath
Bill Kruse and the famous mural.
House, says Bernie.
per pizza
per dozen
Abe had a three-car garage,
with coupon
in the ceilings, buffalo-checked
with coupon
Bernie remembers, with no cars how and where of the wooden tablecloths with black and white
Limit one pizza per coupon.
in it, where he made the large mural with those two men on it, and green and white alternating
Limit one dozen shrimp per coupon.
One coupon per person • Dine in only.
Not valid with any other discounts.
One coupon per person • Dine in only.
sheet metal mural ... Then came the Brass Rails were wonderful between the rooms ... white linen
Not valid with any other discounts.
Not valid any Friday after 6 p.m.
Not valid any Friday after 6 p.m.
much fear that the garage would Detroit dining institutions.
GOOD AT O'SHUCKS
GOOD AT O'SHUCKS
Which makes Kruse & Muer napkins, print-covered booths,
fall down ... Abe had literally
Expires 4-30-95
butcher block paper on the tables
Expires 4-30-95
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painted himself in a corner ... owner Bill Kruse all the more with the usual crayons, etc.
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proud
because
it
stands
for
ex-
The mural was too big to get out
Casual and informal dining is
so one of the beams that held up actly what he has attempted and a big feature, with smatterings
"The Simone Vitale •
the garage had to be cut off, succeeded in doing ... achieving of folks coming dressed in suits
Band is an assurance
dining excellence at his Kruse &
laughs Bernie.
and dresses.
of a great evening."
The big day finally came in the Muer On Main to go along with
In the center dining room, Jim
Danny Raskin, Jewish News
Rochester
Chop
House
across
the
early '40s when the Brass Rail on
•
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Bajor, the favorite of so many for
Adams opened with the great street.
•Weddings
His Kruse & Muer fresh fish, so long at the Caucus Club, is at
mural ... A few years later, says
•Bar/Bat Mitzvahs
the piano Thursday through Sat-
Bernie, the gloss couldn't be kept seafood, pasta, grilled steaks and urday.
•Anniversaries
poultry
operation
takes
up
four
on so it was covered with wood ...
•Private Parties
One of the gourmet pizzas at
If so, could be that the original rooms of intimate coziness that Kruse & Muer, Rocky's Creation,
all told seats around 150... Three
sheet metal is in back of it.
FOR ALL YOUR
rooms all have open togetherness is the work of former C.A. Muer
Sanford
Freedman
says
there
Corp. Executive Chef Rocky
HAPPY OCCASIONS
were two of them ...One above and one room with a small num-
A Popular Favorite
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