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Catering Facility with Full Bar,
Stage & Dance Floor (120 capacity)

Private VIP Room • Business Lunch Specials

Enjoy authentic Mideastern and Mediterranean cuisine
surrounded by hand painted scenes from the Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam.

We invite you to try our seasoned Quail, Baby Lamb Chop
or Filet Mignon grilled to your order by our professional chef
Abu-Ali.

Three tantalizing recipes for baked whitefish served with
fragrant Basmati Rice Pilaf.

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stood. A wedding is
theater.
I began to realize
the dimensions of staging a
"proper" wedding when my
daughter Katie became en-
gaged to Sam Nicita last sum-
mer. As M.O.B. (wedding-ese
for the mother of the bride), I
became the producer and my
husband, Leonard, the financial
"angel" of an intimate piece of
living theater coming to a local
stage in July.
The engaged couple, who
wrote the book on which our
production is based, will star
and direct.

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Courteous, friendly service by knowledgeable staff.

Saturday is International Night with Russian, Israeli,
Armenian, French and American entertainment by Marina
and The Overtime Band. More dancing.

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If all the world's a stage, this wedding

MARILYN S. BROSE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

Tap your toes to live jazz on Friday night. Dance to the music.
Ladies welcomed with 1/2 OFF house wines or drinks from our
non-alcohol juice bar.

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Expanded vegetarian menu. The best Falafil in Michigan.

Catering and banquet facility, private V.I.P. room, full bar,
business lunch specials, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

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ILLUSTRATION BY HOWARD FULMNER

ORCHARD MALL (ORCHARD LAKE & MAPLE RD.) • WEST BLOOMFIELD

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Location, Location
Finding the right setting was
the first business we needed to
attend to. Our director, Katie,

came in from Chicago, where
she lives and works as a com-
puter analyst dealing with eso-
teric financial instruments
(which she has tried, in vain, to
explain to her mother), to find
the right backdrop for the pro-
duction.
After looking at a dozen po-
tential sites, she declared them
"stuffy" and became sure that
what she and Sam really want-
ed was an outdoor wedding.
Not being in possession of a
wedding-worthy estate or hav-
ing a country club to call our
own, we began looking at local
"mansions."
Our quest took us to places
that had Tidy Bowl blue-col-
ored water issuing from foun-
tains and plastic flowers for
decoration. We checked out a
friend's bed-and-breakfast in the