four entrees (5-ounce center cut
top sirloin, $6.95; char-broiled
Delmonico, a 9-ounce center cut
top sirloin, $8.95; Annie Thomas'
home-style ribs, $9.95; whitefish
broiled, Cajun style, blackened
or pan fried, $7.95)
Everything on the menu at
Matt Brady's Tavern in Ferndale
is served at lunch, dinner and af-
ter hours to 2 a.m., along with
daily specials.
Matt is seeing many old faces
from Seven Mile Road with doc-
tors, lawyers and other busi-
nessmen living in nearby
Sherwood Forest, Palmer Woods,
etc.
Those who frequented his for-
mer spot on Southfield in Bev-
erly Hills have followed Matt to
his new Ferndale locale.
Many people still remember
when Matt's dad, Jim Brady,
and Kenneth Schwartz, North-
land Playhouse producer in the
late '50s and early '60s, founded
the Irish-Israeli charities to help
needy peOple.
The street signs that used to
deck out Seven Mile and Green-
field ... plus Fifth Avenue, Bow-
ery and other New York
memories will be back, Matt
says, but with all Detroit street
names.
When Matt took over the for-
mer Bootlegger's, he almost com-
pletely gutted the place ... Matt
The Brady name
has moved to
Ferndale.
could do this because he was now
his own landlord, buying the
free-standing building in July ,..
collapsed roof and all.
It had been closed a couple of
years ... and when Matt's re-
modelers took away a disco mir-
ror, they found a beautiful .
fireplace.
The old Bootlegger's was an
all-pink disco joint with no win-
dows ... Today, Matt Brady's
Tavern in Ferndale has seven
windows, four facing Nine Mile,
and parking is on both sides of
the building.
Back on Seven Mile Road, Jim
Brady bought his meat from
Thompson and Cain, which sold
out to Chicago Beef 10 years ago
... 42 years later, Matt still buys
his meat from Chicago Beef
salesman Tommy Thompson III,
grandson of the meat company
founder.
A picture of Jim Brady, taken
by the late, great Free Press pho-
tographer Tony Spina in 1961,
•is above the fireplace at Matt
Brady's Tavern in Ferndale.
His sons, Tom at Diamond
Jim Brady's in Novi ... and Matt
Brady in Ferndale ... have car-
ried his name well ... and with
much pride.
THE THIRD Deli Unique
has been opened inside Kingsley
Hotel & Suites on Woodward at
Long Lake Road ... It's restau-
rant No. 12 in Matt Prentice's
Unique Restaurant Corporation
family ... Deli Unique of Bloom-
field Hills joins Deli Unique of
Bingham Farms and Deli
Unique of West Bloomfield.
THERE WILL be dancing
every Thursday evening, begin-
ning Feb. 27, in Cafe Cortina's
Garden Room, 10 Mile Road just
east of Orchard Lake Road.
Plenty of dancing at Cafe
Cortina's recent Valentine's din-
ner in the regular series of theme
evenings ... and even owner with
son Adrian, Rina Tonon, danced
although hobbling about on
crutches after breaking her foot
in the pool while recently vaca-
tioning in Cancun, Mexico.
It was almost like being in
Italy, where so many parts like
Palermo, etc., have music every
night ... Excellent courses pre-
pared by executive chef Vincen-
zo Bassonetti were on beautiful
plates brought from Italy by
Rina ... and guests helped in the
merriment, singing with the
three-piece band.
Guest George Zeff was the
evening's hit, singing in four
languages as he took folks on a
journey to Italy, France, Spain
and Israel ... George livens up
festivities when he sings at af-
fairs.. •
CONGRATS ... to Harold and
Sylvia Flusty on their 70th an-
niversary ... to Vic and Mayme
Lawson ... on their 62nd an-
niversary.
INDOOR INVITATIONAL
Golf Tournament at Mac & Ray's
has been rescheduled for Feb. 25.
ONE OF THE favorite gals
in the Jax Kar Wash chain
owned by Jack and son Bruce
Milen, cashier Sue Thomason, is
celebrating 29 years with Jax
All but one year have been on 10
Mile, just east of Greenfield ...
The one year was at their Eight
Mile and Greenfield locale..
BLACK TIE gala by Variety,
The Children's Charity, will be
its second annual "A Winter's
Fantasy," March 1 at Forest
Lake Country Club ... and limit-
ed to 280 guests.
Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres
at 6:30; dinner at 8 ... and an im-
pressive list of items for the pop-
ular silent and live auctions.
Variety's great work always
bears repeating ... Myoelectric
Center at the Rehabilitation In-
stitute of Michigan, Cardiology
Center at Children's Hospital of
Michigan, SCAMP summer
camping program for children
with special needs, the 4-H
Horseback Riding program, the
Sunshine Coach program bene-
fiting Orchards Children's Ser-
vices, the Sanctuary and Detroit
Institute For Children.
Call the Variety office at (810)
258-5511. ❑
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AMONG OTHER FAMOUS GREEK SPECIALTIES ...
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Invite You To Join Us
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