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OPEN 7 DAYS • LUNCH & DINNER
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AUTHENTIC JAPANESE CUISINE

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• 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

Fine Catering
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One of Metropolitan Detroit's Most Beautiful & Exciting Restaurants

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Featuring Your Favorite Thai Dishes
Lunch Specials From 11:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.

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HOURS: Mon.-Thurs,. 11 am. - 10 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Sun 12-9 p.m.

6635 Orchard Lk. Rd. • Old Orchard Shopping Center • Reservations 626-6313

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A Bloomfield Hills landmark
Returns In Record Time

e Michigan Restaurant As-
sociation's President's Ball
had been held that night at
he Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Jan-
uary of this year.
It was his installation as 1997
president of MRA, and Kevin
Downey entertained committee
members in his suite when word
came at 4 a.m.
Kevin's Fox & Hounds Inn
Restaurant on Woodward, south
of Long Lake Road, was on fire.
Firemen at the station across
Woodward had been alerted by a
snow plow driver who smelled
smoke.
But the flames raged so fast
from a laundry room at Fox &
Hounds that almost the entire in-
terior was ablaze in minutes.
Five months after the devas-
tating fire, it was amazing that
Fox & Hounds, which has always
been in a class by itself for elegant
dining from a diversified menu,
was reopened.
Design work by Hank Gluck-
man of Gluckman Designs began
around Jan. 16 and was every
day until June 13 when, after a
$3 million reconstruction, Fox &
Hounds quietly opened to the
public.
Over 80 percent of Kevin's
staff returned to work, a major
achievement in today's labor mar-
ket shortage ... On June 23, Fox
& Hounds held its grand reopen-
ing party as a benefit for Light
House of Pontiac ... with over 500
attending the charity event for
abused women and children.
What these people and those
who attended the quiet public re-

opening saw must have brought hickory smoked salmon, shrimp
looks of unbelievable amazement. and mussels ... Its spicy prime rib
That it is a class act in the of beef sauteed with peppers and
restaurant game might best de- onions, topped with Monterrey
scribe Fox & Hounds since Kevin jack and cheddar cheeses and
Downey took over as owner after baked in a crispy shell, is sheer
Ben Kasle passed on in April culinary artistry.
1979.
Our waitperson Bob Schrandt,
Biggest seller is the
among the best around,
slow-roasted prime rib
has been with Kevin
of beef ... followed by
over 20 years ... and his
the New England style
courteous efficiency is a
seafood saute, with
delight.
main lobster, gulf
Kevin's wife Jackie,
shrimp and scallops, in
with whom he has been
white wine, lemon, shal-
married 15 years, was a
lots and mushrooms,
server when Fox &
DANNY RASKIN
served over a bed of rice.
Hounds first opened
LOCAL
Also the whitefish
Kevin came in 1975,
COLUMNIST
with a little olive oil,
met Jackie and they
fresh vegetables, red-
dated each other eight
skin new potatoes and herbs, years before being married in
wrapped in parchment paper.
1983.
Fox & Hounds today seats 120
She does all the payroll and
in three rooms ... and 80 in the accounting, works with the pas-
pub oyster bar lounge area.
try chef in the Fox & Hounds
The elegant dining rooms of Pastry Den where people buy
Fox & Hounds, with green linen gifts, cakes, gift baskets, etc. ...
triangles on white linen table- Jackie also worked directly with
cloths, green linen napkins and Hank Gluckman during the re-
green water glasses, possess one modeling process.
of the most inviting atmospheres
The kitchen had been entire-
in the local metropolitan area ... ly demolished by the fire ... In its
Its coziness and relaxing am- place is a glistening stainless
biance is conducive to fine dining steel state-of-the-art one that has
with ease.
few equals and continues to af-
Executive Chef Terry Shuster ford Terry and his staff the lux-
has been at Fox & Hounds 11 ury of preparing excellent food.
years ... preparing what he terms
Among the interesting things
classic continental cuisine.
at Fox & Hounds that make a
In the appetizer field, Fox & difference in the taste of dishes
Hounds takes a back seat to very are three cutting boards ... each
few when it comes to New Eng- a different color for poultry, beef
land crabcakes with lobster co- and fish.
gnac sauce ... or the plate with
Before the fire, Kevin had also
worked with Hank for two
years in remodeling the restau-
rant ... This time, in just hours
after the fire, he immediately
retained Hank to redesign the
interior that had been razed.
When folks saw Kevin,
they'd ask why his Fox &
Hounds was closed "so long" ...
The outside of the beautiful Tu-
dor-style building, originally
built in 1928 as the Fox &
Hounds Inn, a travelers' stop-
over point between Detroit and
Flint, is a Bloomfield Hills
landmark ... and was not
touched by the blaze.
It's castle-like gold dome and
brick walls remained in all
their elegance.
But inside was a different
story ... All electrical, plumb-
ing and over 80 percent of the
heating and cooling had to be
totally replaced if Kevin were
to open again ... Almost 30 per-
cent of the building that
Kevin and Jackie Downey of Fox & Hounds.
housed the kitchen and

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