JAPANESE DINING
AT ITS FINEST!
HAKATA
JAPANESE RESTAURANT
Some After-Hours Mystery
At One Of Detroit's Finest
OPEN 7 DAYS • LUNCH & DINNER
featuring
AS YOU LIKE IT!
• Elegant Atmosphere • Gracious Warmth
• Reasonable Prices
* Sushi Bar * Private Japanese Rooms
* Cocktails Including 30 Different Kinds of Sake
Lunch: Mon.-Fri. 11:30-2 p.m.
Dinner: Mon.-Sat. 5:30-10:30 p.m.
Sunday 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
32443 NORTHWESTERN HWY.
Between Middlebelt & 14 Mile
737-7220
Fax: 737-7223
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24555 W. 12 MILE, Just West of Telegraph
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Call The Sales Department (810) 354-7123 Ext. 209
Of course, the Rhinoceros riety of burgundy, gray, beige
chicken Wellington with minced and black.
Norman used to have his own
vegetables, enclosed in a puff-
pastry shell and champagne after-hours spot in the '70s called
dressing, is a perennial winner the Cove ... which had previously
... And folks also love its broiled been Tadian's and then Don's Beef
& Ale on West McNichols.
white fish almondine.
The name Rhinoceros came
Among the appetizers, vege-
from a large copper and
tarian Wellington with
brass Rhinoceros on the
a cheese tomato basil
main room's back bar in
sauce goes over big ... As
front of a '20s mirror that
does Rhinoceros' salt
had been bought in Bu-
water seafood cakes
dapest by its previous
with pumpkin sauce,
owners ... The glass sits
mashed up potato and
inside a frame of gold lay-
seafood mixture (crab,
ers.
shrimp, etc.) ... and
The collection of rhi-
chicken oreganatta with DANNY RASKIN
LOC AL
nos is impressive ... as
fettuccine.
COLUM NIST
are the many antique
Seating at Rhinocer-
pieces that date way
os is for 100 in three
rooms downstairs ... 75 more like back ... Furniture of the 1800s
to sit upstairs on overflow week- that includes an 1820 gold-leaf
laminated, two-legged table in the
ends.
In the main dining room are main room, and a 1920s cherry-
another 18 bar stools, six high- wood cabinet in the Gray Room ...
standing cocktail tables, and 18 It stands 7 feet tall and is 18 feet
more seating at regular tables ... long, with eight individual sec-
A piano bar, where some of the tions.
In both the Rose and Gray
finest local talent around per-
forms nightly, seats another six. rooms are tables from France that
One of the three bars at Rhi- date to about 1870 ... Each weighs
noceros was formerly at Frank about 700 pounds, with wood
frame and inlaid marble top.
Gagen's on West McNichols.
Over the piano bar is a heavy
Entertainment is all seven
nights ... plus 5:30 p.m. cocktail crystal Art Nouveau chandelier
hour on Friday and Saturdays, from France, made and imported
and Sunday brunch 11 a.m. to in the late '20s, with chrome used
3:30 p.m. with live jazz 12 noon instead of sterling silver since that
was the Art Nouveau thing in
to 3:30 p.m.
The Rose Room (with green those days.
The famous Rhinoceros Carrot
walls) seats 40 among pictures
of entertainers who have per- Soup is always on the menu,
formed at the Rhinoceros, rhino served with chives ... as is French
cutouts, caricatures, the chan- onion and a soup of the day.
Everything is made fresh ... to
delier that sways after hours, etc.
Linen napkins are novel ... order ... which might account for
each one color but mixed in a va- the extra time it may take
in preparing certain
dishes.
All dinners come
with soup or salad,
vegetable, potato and
bread basket.
The house dessert
at Rhinoceros is choco-
late banana Welling-
ton, made on the
premises with ice
cream and nuts.
Rhinoceros' interior
has the look of a Eu-
ropean or New York
restaurant with its en-
chanting low-lighted
ambiance.
Awards hang on
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the hallway walls
leading upstairs and
in another downstairs
sector.
An outside patio
Norman Schwartz has made Rhinoceros a happening.
that seats 50 was for-
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AUTHENTIC JAPANESE CUISINE
THE JEWISH NEWS
hey are playful ghosts ...
Maybe Casper and his
friends ... And the funsters
make sure all customers
have left before doing any of their
shenanigans.
Norman Schwartz and some
members of his staff at Rhinoc-
eros on Riopelle, corner of
Franklin, in downtown Detroit,
say they have seen the frolicsome
antics in the wee hours of the
morning, about 3 or 4 a.m.
Perhaps the pendulum of an
unwound large clock on the Main
Room's back bar will suddenly be-
gin swaying as if the ghosts are
laughingly having fun on a swing.
Or maybe the classic chande-
lier in Norman's Rose Room (he
calls it that even though the walls
are green) will begin shaking as
though they are jumping from
crystal to crystal.
Thankfully, the ghosts never
get hungry at Rhinoceros, three
long blocks east of the Ren Cen
offJefferson and two short blocks
from the Chrysler Freeway.
They don't touch any of the
food, which leaves a lot of menu
items for customers to select from
its wide variety of dishes ... 12 ap-
petizers, three soups, nine salads,
six sandwiches, 20 entrees.
It was a shot-and-a-beer joint
when Norman took over in 1977,
and remained that while Rhi-
noceros was being renovated ...
Workers on Detroit River steam-
ers came for the hamburgers and
variety of sandwiches.
Today, its biggest seller is the
rack of lamb ... And when avail-
able, Rhinoceros always sells out
of the popular Cajun blackened
yellow fin tuna with seafood cake
and bearnaise sauce.