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MIMI MEM
The original members of Lorio, mind was to own a restaurant ...
now gone their separate ways, Back in 1979-84, his cousin, Joe
will be on hand to sing and play Locricchio, owned Pine Knob and
their wonderful songs together asked him to help out ... Sam
once more ... Sam was one of the stayed on to became general
three-man group plus songstress manager of the theater, all the
Sandra Mandella ... It will do the restaurants and its ski lodge.
Sandra sang with Lorio from
same numbers as they did when
1972 to 1978, when it
becoming the highest-
disbanded ... Sam
paid group in the local
opened a recording stu-
area ... and the toast of
dio on Van Dyke and
Las Vegas.
13 1/2 Mile in 1978,
Sam and Sandra have
calling it Lorio Record-
never stopped entertain-
ing Co. ... waxing
ing ... Every Saturday
Gladys Knight, Burt
night they are in the
Bacharach, Bob Seger,
main dining room singing DANNY RASKIN
etc. ... and won a Clio
their hearts out for the
LO CAL
for his Dodge Magnum
large dinner audience ...
COLU MNIST
commercial with San-
and each Wednesday
dra.
downstairs with Johnny
Sandra has done over 60 com-
Trudell in the Green Room.
Entertainment is everywhere mercials and cut three albums
at Arriva ... going on at all times ... all available on CD and cas-
upstairs and downstairs ... Fran- sette ... Sandra Mandella, One
co Viola is upstairs Monday Breath Closer, and Arrival with
through Saturday, doing vocals Sam ... All are available at Har-
while at the piano and his side- mony House and Arriva.
When Arriva first opened,
man accompaniment ... Johnny
Trudell is in the jazz room with Sam knew that one day he would
his rollicking troupe once a week have name entertainment ... The
on Wednesdays, and more enter- first act in its Rainbow Room was
tainment goes on downstairs that fall when the Gaylords ap-
peared.
Thursdays through Saturdays.
The main emphasis at Arriva
Sam's wife, Joanne, is hostess
and coordinator of all the dinner is still food ... His mother, Stella
shows in Arriva's Rainbow Room. Locricchio, has made the home-
Their daughter, Stelle "Bun- made pasta since the restaurant
ny" Locricchio, is in charge of ban- opened But that's not all
Mama Stella makes
... She does so much
more, like the parch-
ment bread with
kosher salt, and
those long thin
breadsticks.
The eight veal
dishes that come
with soup or salad,
pasta, vegetable and
bread basket, include
all traditional Italian
favorites ... 20 pastas
made by Mama Stel-
la are served with
soup or salad and
bread basket.
It's hard to pick
out any one or two of
them as favorites ...
Her handiwork is a
big Arriva trade-
mark that stamp all
Arriva's Joanne and Sam Locricchio and Sandra Mandella.
as large sellers ...
Few places have the agnollotti
over 2,000 people were there to quets, and books all its parties.
Plus the Melodeers, Sam has piemontese (stuffed pillows of
witness the Hollywood-like open-
ing ... Its upcoming fifth an- been with his brother, Tony and roasted veal and vegetables in a
niversary is expected to be even The Tartans and Lorio ... Be- rosemary sauce), $14.95 ... and
bigger ... in a gala four-day event tween the latter two stints, he her nicchi salmone (pasta purs-
as appetizers by the thousands had his own recording studio and es with salmon, shittake mush-
will be passed out to attendees ... was a producer and writer for rooms, roasted garlic and chives
in a lemon cream sauce, $15.95)
and frivolity will reign every- Motown Records.
The furthest thing from Sam's is difficult to top.
where at Arriva.
hen Ethel Merman
used to belt out her
wonderful rendition of
"There's No Business
Like Show Business" ... with the
line "There's no people like show
people" ... she hit a lot of chords
and sent shivers up and down
many spines.
Folks like Sam Locricchio and
Sandra Mandella at Arriva, on
East 12 Mile between Mound and
Van Dyke, knew what she meant
... They are the kind of people
Ethel sang about.
Today, Sam is co-owner with
John Ausilio of the fine Italian
dining spot, which he has also
made into a multi-faceted dining
and entertainment emporium.
Sandra is his manager and
head hostess.
Show business blood is thick,
and never leaves an entertainer's
body, continually bringing
sparkles to the eyes.
Which is why Arriva is the
kind of place it now is ... Good
Italian food continues to be a big
favorite, but it has also revived
what seems a lost attraction in
this region.
Why not, thought Sam Locric-
chio? ... After all, he knew food,
how to operate a restaurant and
was a former entertainer himself
. Who better to try and bring
about this revival?
When it opened Feb. 7, 1991,
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