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FRESH WHITEFISH $ 95
INCLUDES: POTATO, SALAD OR
COLE SLAW ANP BREAD
31006 ORCHARD LAKE RD. AT 14 • Farm. Hills • 851-7000
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FAMILY
DINING
27167 Greenfield, Just North of 11 Mile
559-8222
FREE DESSERT
WITH DAILY DINNER SPECIALS
AND EARLY BIRD DINNERS
HOMEMADE RICE PUDDING, HOME-
MADE TAPIOCA PUDDING OR JELLO
• Daily Specials
• Early Bird Specials
• 10% Senior Citizen
Discount 3 p.m. to Closing
(Not Good On Early Bird)
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Skinless, boneless chicken strips sauteed with
Vienna salami strips onions and broccoli over
fettuccini with Alfredo cream sauce.
66 95
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POTATO, VEGETABLE & BREAD BASKET
Open
Mon.-Sat.
7 a.m. -
8 p.m.
Closed
Sundays
DELI AND GOURMET RESTAURANT
21754 W. 11 MILE RD. • HARVARD ROW • 352-4940 FAX: 352-9393
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f you go there looking for the is also a big Memphis Smoke
Dessert listings are from var-
$2 million or more renovation, seller.
ious parts of Memphis ... lemon
chances are that you'll do a
Mike, Rob, Marty, Ralph and ice box pie from Gridley's; vanil-
double take and say, "No way." their designer, Ron Rea, went to la wafers, fresh banana pudding
But a long look around will Memphis for on-the-spot ideas ... and whipped cream in a parfait
show a lot of dollars and sense in What they came back with has glass from Germantown Com-
this dining and entertainment created a mild sensation.
missary; Memphis Mud (Oreo
spot.
The idea and concept of Mem- cookies, chocolate pudding and
The new Memphis Smoke, on phis Smoke was something Mike whipped cream) from the Public
Main and 11 Mile in Royal Oak, Nash had since he was 19 years Eye.
cost well over the two mill mark, old while in Morganfield, Ky. ...
Also from Memphis dining
and owners Mike Nash, Rob He was working in a job corps spots are the onion loaf from
Jackier, Marty Tuchman,
Ralph Gustafson and
managing partner L.J.
Hurley have the receipts
to prove it.
The new restaurant
used to be a Liberty Drug
Store, and before that
Romelyn Drugs ... When
the walls were uncovered,
writing was revealed from
back in 1937.
All around the 250-seat
restaurant that opened
Aug. 29, 1995, are doors
from torn-down houses,
cleverly mishmashed into
the decor ... Other fasci-
nating things are strewn
about, but the best ones
are hidden in the Mem-
phis Smoke hallway with
photos of Billie Holiday, pictures summer program from Marty Tu chman, Rob Corky's; Texas link
of New Orleans, great jazz artists, Wayne State University. Jackier a nd Mike Nash appetizers from the
etc.
Down there, barbecue of Mem phis Smoke. Rendezvous; hot
The food is interesting ... bring- is the predominant cui-
sauce and regular
ing authentic Southern barbecue sine of the area, as well as in most original from Neely's Interstate.
in the third concept by a highly Southern regions ... Mike always
Memphis Smoke serves two
successful Mr. B's chain, whose wondered why there was never kinds of ribs ... traditional hicko-
casual dining with a sports theme any full representation of that ry ribs finished off with its own
is well noted, along with its Mon- particular style of cuisine north barbecue sauce ... and Memphis-
terrey Mexican restaurant in of the Mason-Dixon ... Over the style dry ribs basted and then giv-
Royal Oak.
years, he would collect a lot of in- en a taste emphasis with a
Three more Memphis Smoke formation and file it away ... custom blend of dry rub ... The
restaurants are expected to be When the 11 Mile and Main cor- ribs come out lean, with very lit-
opened by the fellows in 1996 ... ner in Royal Oak opened up, his tle fat ... most of it dripped off by
It has been ticketed as the Mr. concept was finally born here.
the rotisserie ... The Memphis rub
B's growth vehicle be-
Rob, L.J. and their gives dry ribs a totally unique fla-
cause of the huge affir-
chef, Gerald Fowler, for- vor.
mative response.
merly of the Detroit
Main entrees like smoked
In the first month
Athletic Club, were giv- brisket, smoked turkey, smoked
Memphis Smoke was
en firsthand attention ribs, smoked chicken, etc., are
open, it served over
by being put to work for slowly cooked over hickory and
40,000 people ... 10,000
on-the-spot training at other aromatic woods ... Rotis-
a week through lunch
the famous Corky's and series turn slowly in enclosed
and dinner.
DANNY RASKIN
Public Eye restaurants chambers.
The menu lists six
LOC AL in Memphis.
The age brackets of customers
salads (turkey salad,
Consultant for Mem- vary from morning to evening at
COLU MNIST
Greek salad, etc.)... six
phis Smoke, David Memphis Smoke ... Everybody in
appetizers including the moun- Sorin, lives in Memphis and is a the family seems to love it at din-
tain of onion rings fried into a loaf retired restaurateur since selling nertime ... The later it gets, the
shape, Texas-style chili with the Public Eye ... He and broth- younger the crowd becomes ... By
smoked beef brisket, etc.
er-in-law Don Peltz (they mar- the time the music starts, it is pre-
As the name would imply, ried sisters) opened Corky's, now dominantly in the 20s and 30s.
Memphis Smoke does a lot of owned solely by Don.
Entertainment is Tuesday
smoking ... It has two full-size
The garlic mashed potatoes ... through Sunday from 10 p.m. ...
smokers with modernistic rotis- country greens of collard, mus- Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
serie trays that allow the barbe- tard and Swiss chard greens with blues; Tuesday through Thurs-
cue drippings to baste the next onion and spices ... and red beans day a mixture of reggae, Creole
rack ... A smaller smoker is used and rice ... give an authentic fla- and blues.
for the barbecue chicken which vor.
Memphis Smoke is open sev-