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Meat Tray $5.65 per person Dairy Tray $10.50 per person $ 5 OFF With This Coupon • Expires 12-31-97 • One Per Customer DELIVERY AVAILABLE • Not Good Holidays • 10 Person Minimum STAR DELI 24555 W. 12 MILE, Just West of Telegraph Southfield 352-7377 L. -J ■ 111111•11 ■■ • W MO M Advertise in our new Entertainment Section! L ROSS 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 IFF,I)E10(:( ) FI l, 1 .1.`\"1 • 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- T 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.