k%ne4 A Casual Fun Place to Eat and brink Enjoy a touch of Florida or the !stands right here... 1 1 SHU CKS \ off 111 (RAW BAR & GRILL) Muirwood Square 35450 Grand River at Drake • Farmington Hills Call 474-8484 for carry out or party info SEAFOOD • SHRIMP • OYSTERS Munchies • Gourmet Burgers • Sandwiches • Pizza Happy Hour • Ice Cold Beer • Frozen Cocktails Big Screen Sports TV • Sports Team Seating $9.99 1 111BARE11111001 BURGER $Q99 99 114 ■ SHRIMP $ 49 1.11 U) LLJ CD CC F- LU CD LL, 18 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 11.99 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 " 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 L .•,• Bill and Joe brought Ted's sketch to Abe Meltzer, a sheet r PEEL 'N EAT –I r PEPPERONI 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 1.1 It nomj COUPON Ism mom • painted himself in a corner ... owner Bill Kruse all the more with the usual crayons, etc. •••• — — 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 • A • 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 Whitefish V) Dining Benchmark Re-Appears In Rochester ■■ ■ — — PIZZA $ 99 LIN =IN NMI MIE COUPON NMI =NI 11 ■ I MMM j N UJ 03//noth---'We (810) 544-7373 T \ (: