A Nostalgic Look
At Detroit Restaurant Scene
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trolling through yester- fee shop, dining room and Sky- people at one time ... in minutes
years ...
light Lounge plus pianist Char- ... at the Raleigh House ... Noth-
The Gold Cup Room in lie Dubin, bartender Tommy ing had to be ordered in advance
the Whittier on Grand Chadwick and waitress Chris from Gordon's Kosher Kitchen on
Boulevard, a very modern, so- Lancaster ... Sam and Bernie's Evergreen and 12 Mile in the
phisticated dining room with Darbys Stanley Steamer, after Country Village Plaza ... kishke,
seafood and flaming-dish spe- the restaurant burned down, was f7 1 1p, chicken and complete meals.
cialties ... Cafe Caprice Lounge also given the kind of class they
There was no place like
(no food) just off the lobby in the knew with carpeting and wood Healthy Jones, owned by Joan
Hotel Sheraton-Cadillac on paneled walls.
and Dr. Don Wittenberg, on
Washington Boulevard, with
Golden Griddle - Pancake Northwestern Highway, near 12
song stylist Don Hill at the piano House, owned by Dave Burg on Mile ... and when it closed, peo-
bar ... The Apartment Lounge on Woodward, opened a delicatessen ple missed it dearly.
W. McNichols, west of Southfield, dept. ...Marty Horowitz always
Buddy Greco, appearing at the
owned by Ray Bresler and Jack had a trick to show customers at Roostertail on Jefferson, and Jose
Freed and then Dick Larry and Marty's Delicatessen in the Ferrar, starring at the Fisher
Frank McQuade, with enter- Green-8 Shopping Center on Theatre, supplied vocals after
tainers Bobby Laurel, Vince Greenfield ... Uncle John's Pan- work at Place D'Encore, open un-
Mance, Tony and Carolyn, Dan-. cake Houses, owned by Ben til 4 a.m. in the Hotel Pontchar-
ny Holley, Larry Santos, etc., Kasle and run by Ray Pierce, train ... Dining at Hugo's
amid couches, fireplace and oth- gave away 25,000 birdhouses.
Italian-French restaurant in the
er living room comforts.
Mary Panackia opened
Park Shelton Hotel was an ad-
Shep's Delicatessen on Gris- Panackia's Lounge on W.
wold, owned by Harry Shepherd McNichols after a stint at An-
and Sol Pitt, where waitress gel's Hour Glass,
Shirley Kaufman used to bring owned by Angel and
me a loaf of bread to dunk in the Hank Panek
luscious brisket of beef gravy ... "Saucy Sylvia" Stoun
Northwood Inn on Woodward, was held over at
with Nan Corrone singing "Yid- Royal Ascot Sup- _
dishe Mama" in Italian on Friday per Club on
and Saturday nights.
Southfield and
Ivanhoe Room at Brass Rail on Fort Street be-
-„c"_n
W. Adams changed to Starr-Lite cause
cus-
Room by new owners Sam and tomers of Town
son Fred Starr, as comic Frankie Pump, owned by
Rapp brought a lot of laughs ... Cass Warshaw, C- ! . 4`,-s'
Murray Lieberman of the former in the Royal -Cr P
Lieberman & Citron's on Lin- Palm Hotel re-
wood and Blaine, managing membered her so --
Roumell's Seafood Grotto on much ... Cliff Pross-
Woodward.
er, at Royal Ascot,
Sandy's on Livernois near Out- was maitre d' 18
er Drive, owned by Sandy Hoff- years at Al
man and Larry Leshman, taking Siegel's Elm-
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over the former Allo Paris site ... wood Casino /
4 11
Herb Craw opening the Devon in Windsor. /
Gables restaurant on Telegraph
Pier One
and Long Lake roads ... Nosherie Club
on
in Lincoln Center, Lincoln and Lamed and
10 1/2 Mile, with a beautiful and Shelby, owned by
venture ... Chin Tiki on Cass was
easy-to-read menu ... Best seafood George Nichols, changed the everyone's dream of a South Seas
in town, especially lobsters, were menu format to strictly Greek food
• considered to be at the Clam and was an instant success ... Jim paradise, from a striking sand-
sculptured exterior, past water-
Shop on E. Grand Boulevard, Constand owned both Jim's fall and bridge into rooms divided
owned by Dave Goldfine.
Garage and Grecian Gardens at by beaded curtains and palm tree
Frank Gagen's on W. McNi- the same time but devoted more tikis.
chols had a mahogany and velvet hours to the "Garage" before sell-
Aged and Rare in the Harlan
decor accented with oil paintings ing both and opening Constand's House on W. Grand Boulevard,
to give it the look of a plush club at the former Vineyards Restau- was an all-around favorite with
... "Little Helen" Luebbert, bar rant site on Franklin ... Bloom- its widely-acclaimed piano bar ...
maid, and Mackie Cooper, bar- field Canopy was built by Frank Jack Freedman had long-time
tender, were valuable customer Stratton on Orchard Lake Road chef around Detroit, George
pleasers at Loser's Lounge on W. near Maple, and owned by him Johnson, doing the cooking at
Seven Mile ... Skandia on James over 20 years.
Jakk's Chop House & Cocktail
Couzens, opened by Paul Boraks,
Joel Nash, favorite piano styl- Lounge on Greenfield and 10
on James Couzens Highway had ist of so many, was the top-notch Mile ... and then Carl Steger a fix-
an unbelievable smorgasbord.
talent at John Laffrey's on W. ture at the piano when Dick La-
Darbys on W. Seven Mile and Seven Mile Road and Telegraph, Combe took over ... Armenio's
Wyoming, owned by Sam Boesky formerly Dino's and O'Dino's
Villa Venice Italian restaurant
and operated by him and stepson Geza Lang, of the noted, beauti-
on Woodward, north of Grand
Bernie Kerner, was noted as a ful blond curled mustache, Boulevard, was owned by Arme-
triple-threat restaurant with cof- thought nothing of serving 2,000 nio Beltramello, who was its bus-
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