MIMMIM MI'M Have You had Big Daddy's Tommy Salad Yet? Or Our Fabulous Lamb Chops? Welcome to the best Greek food this grette, $15.95 ... and whitefish (40 pounds) baked with Italian bread crumbs, $12.95. Chicken, too, is quite popular at Colangelo's ... with about 200 pounds of the seven established favorites sold weekly. Colangelo's also makes its own desserts, including a delicious tiramisu ... Creamy spumoni is brought in a large, heavy stemmed glass. Even the wine list prices have been kept down. You can get a glass of red Columbia Crest mer- lot for $4.95, or Bollini merlot $3.95 ... The wonderful Kendall Jackson white chardonnay is $5.95, and Pinot Grigio Pighin, estate bottled, just $4.50. Good Italian red wines range from $2.95 for Montepulociano, Casal Thaulero, to Spalletti chi- anti, $3.95, among others. From our standby beginning when dining Italian ... extra vir- gin olive oil mixed with freshly crushed garlic cloves for dipping the Italian bread ... to the mine- strone soup and veal piccata made with lemon sauce and top- ping of artichokes (tender enough to cut with a fork), Colangelo's as a dining experience was a pleas- ant culinary adventure. A lot of the dishes are prepared the old-fashioned Italian way ... Like Manicotti Florentine, which is a crepe, not a noodle, stuffed with spinach and ricotta cheese. Colangelo's is starting to get that repeat business. As the weeks begin drifting by, it is apparent that Colangelo's in Pontiac is making people aware of its existence ... with come-back satisfaction. You wouldn't expect any less from the son of Mark "Schmaltzy" Colangelo and Rose Larco Colangelo. CONGRATS ... to Debbie and Alan Hitsky, Jewish News asso- ciate editor ... on their 25th an- niversary ... to Hy Horenstein, former topnotch deli owner ... on his 85th birthday ... to his sons, Ray, 54, and Joe, 45, and daugh- ter, Anne Galido, 51 ... All four birthday candle blowings-out were celebrated within a week. PIZZA SURPRISES are in the kosher rounders by the new Jerusalem Kosher Pizza carry- out, Southfield Road, about a half-block north of 10 Mile. The pizzas are better than many others ... kosher or nonkosher. Specialties like the potato pizza, with slices of potato, cheese, red onion, olive oil and rosemary, are receiving excep- tional raves ... Same for the supreme with cheese, mush- room, green pepper, onion, black olives, green olives, tomato (and, on request only, red pepper). The calzones made by Jeru- salem Pizza (pizza, cheese and Greek) also join the winner circle. side of Greektown. ..featuring wonderful Greek Favorites. Also excellent American Cuisine WHERE THEY ARE ... Frankie and Rose Potestio, 4307 Mourning Dove Dr., Naples, FL 33999 ... As Frankie Paul, the big favorite from these parts, he con- tinues to do an excellent job on the accordion at weddings, bar mitzvahs, etc. around Naples, Marco Island and other sectors there. Saucy Sylvia Muteddu ... 235 Eustis Ave., Newport, RI 02840 ... She has been at the Double- tree Hotel, former Sheraton there, for 25 years ... and recent- ly celebrated 20 years on live ra- dio, one of the few variety nostalgia radio shows in the country ... written, produced and directed by her husband, Mike. Sylvia also flies around the country doing private parties, at which she is a heavy favorite with her piano, songs and come- dy. Sylvia has emceed the New- port Jazz Festival ... and last year was on a jazz documentary shown around the world. She is also president of the Newport Federation of Musi- cians, part of the American Fed- eration of Musicians ... All this by the gal who used to pack them in years back at the Town Pump owned by Cass, Louie and Hen- ry Warshaw ... among so many other places hereabouts. THIS YEAR, through a con- tribution by localites George and Pearl Zeltzer, the one-millionth volume was put on the rare-book shelf of Judaic studies at Bran- deis University. Although Isaac Leeser's book, The Law of God, won't be one of them, many wonderful buys will again be on tap when Brandeis National Women's Committee lo- cally holds its used book sale '96 at Tel-12 Mall, Telegraph and 12 Mile. Opening night is Aug. 14, 9:30 p.m. to midnight, $4 donation ... The sale continues Aug. 15 through Aug. 21, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday ... No charge. Books that are left will be sold at half price Aug. 20 and 21. This year's chairperson is Gladys Bernstein. NO MORE bemoaning the leaving of food when dining at Chianti on Northwestern High- way ... Now it has a single-serv- ing-size section on the large menu ... 11 items that include re- gional specialties, pasta, chick- en, veal and fish. The big-enough-to-share por- tions are still there in the char- acteristic northern Italian form of cooking that features classic family-style dining. DON'T FORGET this Sun- day ...18th anniversary summer party by Excalibur on Franklin, from 5 p.m. ... No charge. ❑ Your Hosts, Rick Rogow and Tommy Peristeris Invite You To Join Us For Lunch and Dinner Seven Days T8 HpUmRStD0 A1Y2 &miFdRn1 i Dg Yt LIVE JAZZ Featuring MILLIE SCOTT and KEVIN CROSBY ASK ABOUT THE EXCELLENT CATERING gel " '1020)725:. e N 0 N SERVICES IN OUR PRIVATE FACILITIES 6199 Orchard Lake Rd., N. of Maple • 737-8600 • IN TRADITION WITH BIG DADDY'S PARTHENON NOW OPEN • FINE FOOD • FINE WINES • FINE CIGARS 810-788-4567 MENUS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR OUR BANQUET FACILITIES 5586 DRAKE ROAD JUST SOUTH OF WALNUT LAKE ROAD WEST BLOOMFIELD „ • +4. :••••••:•*::4;::' TUES. THRU SUN. 5 P.M. TO 11 P.M. CLOSED MON. YOUR HOSTS: BARRY ROGOW & ANDY STYLIANOU