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Crumpets Takes Coffee Shops
To An Elegant, Higher level

ble sea of stainless steel with
ey, where are those two potato royale.
And if you're looking for a de- four walk-in refrigerators.•
people going? ... The friend
About the salmon, again ...
thought the guy was taking licious piece of chicken, there's
his best gal for a fine din- one at Crumpets that is drawing one of the ways Mark also likes
ner on her birthday ... not to a raves ... Chargrilled breast with to prepare the fish is called
angel hair pasta, pepper couli crimping ... Its much like poach-
hotel coffee shop.
and
a corn salsa.
ing but cooked and marinated in
Could it be that he knows
There are always at least four its own stock with the flame
something others don't?
Probably so, because what fresh fishes every day ... Salmon turned off ... If you've never had
it before, a treat is in
would an executive chef like is the No. 1 fish seller,
with
whitefish
a
close
store.
Mark Kuzma be doing in a hotel
Crumpets is located
coffee shop? ... After all, Mark second ... Pompano,
off
the lobby of beautiful
pickerel,
ocean
perch,
has a collection of 12 gold
Somerset Inn and seats
medals, three best of show etc. are among the dai-
138 with white linen
awards and the ultimate in culi- ly catches made avail-
tablecloths covered by a
nary circles, a gold medal with able.
Boston scrod in
spotless glass top, and
distinction ... All won in world
white linen napkins ...
lemon butter and white DANNY RASKIN
competition.
LOC AL
Another 50 can be seat-
Crumpets in the Somerset Inn wine with tomato and
ed in the bar-lounge.
COLUM NIST
on West Big Beaver, east of caper sauce and arti-
choke
salad
is
another
It is open Monday-
Coolidge, is the former
L'Auberge coffee shop that once favorite, and always on the Friday, 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. for
breakfast; 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
took a big back seat to Somer- menu.
Specials might include orange lunch; 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. for
set's former fine dining West
End restaurant with its elegant roughy, sauteed scaloppini of dinner ... Saturday and Sunday,
veal and other tastebud tingler 7 a.m. to noon breakfast; noon to
settings.
2:30 p.m. lunch and 5:30 p.m. to
West End is now used solely items.
Fine servers like Patty Boyd 11 p.m. dinner.
for private upscale functions and
The Saturday night
the one-time dark
that Crumpets opened
L'Auberge had a
back in 1985, Somerset
name change to
Inn was the U.S. Open
Crumpets, along
host
hotel and Stan and
with a complete ren-
Sam wanted it ready to
ovation that brought
feed the hungry golfer
about a lighter and
stars and their galleries
much more attrac-
... which Crumpets did
tive face.
in big and satisfying
Mark has been
numbers.
with Stan and Sam
Somerset Inn has
Frankel at Somerset
taken a giant step in
Inn for 10 years ...
the catering world also
and is also the hotel's
with the addition of
executive chef ...
7,200 square feet ... The
which accounts for
main ballroom, slated
all the wonderful
to be ready around July
food being put out at
1 of this year, will serve
social events held in
about 500 with a dance
Somerset Inn.
floor and approximate-
When L'Auberge
ly 600 without. Book-
was renamed Crum-
ings are being taken for
pets in 1985, it also
the new Grand Ball-
became a hidden
room.
Troy masterpiece
Presently, Somerset
with its soft blonde
Inn has the 3,000-
wood, marble, art
square-foot Sussex
deco ambiance and,
Room for 225 ... Bristol
after Mark came on Mark Kuzma and Stanley Frankel of Crumpets and Somerset Inn.
Ballroom just under
board, food with a lot
2,200 square feet for
of character.
140.
Like the lamb chops that are
So all together, with the soon-
dry aged for three weeks and are pleasant and accommodat-
come with angel hair pasta, ing ... She has been at Crumpets to-come Grand Ballroom, Som-
served with an herb and chut- since it opened ... And sweet, gra- erset Inn will be able to
ney crust and a rosemary in- cious Pam Holland, director of accommodate almost 1,000 peo-
sales at Somerset Inn, has been ple at one time.
fused lamb sauce.
Sorry about straying away
And Mark makes a fillet of there over nine years.
Barry Johnson is Crumpets from Crumpets, but the new
Norwegian salmon that has a lot
of people talking ... It is seared manager and Duane Swanson is Grand Ballroom is such dandy
and served with a lobster sauce, Somerset Inn's general manag- news, what with so many folks
looking for bar/bat mitzvah, wed-
saffron rice and artichoke salad. er.
The clean kitchen where dings, etc., sites that I sort of got
Also a Delmonico Louisiana-
style cut dry aged beef served Mark and his staff ply their culi- carried away.
The biggest seller is beef ...
with demi-glace, corn salsa and nary artistry is a large, verita-

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