Cuisine fo
Dine for

Best Of Everything

A Miniature United Nations
Under One Restaurant Roof

Renown Chef

Louai
Sharkas

invites

you to

experience

the taste

everyone is

talking

about.

Michigan's
finest upscale,
casual
American
bistro.

Now open

for lunch.

"Oakland Grill gets wows for
class act."
Observer & Eccentric

—

"Our meal at Oakland Grill was
exceptional and it left us talking
about our food all weekend long."
— Oakland Press

Hours:

Mon-Wed

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 midnight

Thur-Fri
11:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.

Sat.

5:00 p.m. -

2:00 a.m.

Please join us for happy hour,
Monday thru Friday, 4-7 p.m.

Domestic beers

$2.00

Imported beers

$2.50

Well drinks

$3.00

Available for private
engagements Saturday
afternoons and Sundays.

32832 Woodward Royal Oak
oust South of 14 Mile Rd.)

►

11/7
1997

100

(248) 549-7700

Reservations accepted.

cm

because, back in the 1800s, many
cream, Madeira wine, mushrooms,
hile living in Rome and
members of Russian aristocracy had
onions,
parsley
and
dill.
traveling around Europe,
French cooks.
Also
wiener
schnitzel,
veal
lightly
she had a thought ...
Ellen has retained the name
breaded
and
pan
sauteed.
Why not a continental
Sweetwaters
Bistro ... so titled because
Before
dinner,
a
very
interesting
restaurant that combines various cul-
of
its
location in Keego
array
of
hors
d'oeuvres
and
tures and serves unusual dishes among
Harbor,
on Cass Lake Road,
appetizers
are
brought
to
the
its regular cuisine?
about
six
blocks north of
table
without
charge.
Thus was born the newly reopened
Orchard
Lake
Road ... sur-
This
is
almost
another
meal
(under new ownership) Sweetwaters
rounded
by
Cass,
Orchard,
in
itself
...
that
came
about
Bistro on Cass Lake Road, just off
Pine,
Sylvan
and
Hammond
because
at
home
Ellen's
hus-
Orchard Lake Road.
lakes.
band Eugene and their son
The papers had been signed two
She recalls Russians com-
Oscar
don't
particularly
like
weeks previously. But Ellen Press
ing
into a cafe in Paris say-
being
hungry
too
long
...
opened the doors again of Sweetwaters
ing,
"Bistro! bistro!" ... In
Ellen
began
making
pates
for
Bistro on July 23, 1997.
Russian,
bistro means quick.
them
to
nosh
on
while
waiting
There are no more booths in the
D A NNY
Everything
at
for
their
entrees.
wide-open expanse ... and the main
RA SKIN
Sweetwaters
Bistro
is made
As
a
result,
at
her
dining room seats 80 ... Its bar lounge
Local Columnist from scratch and there are
Sweetwaters
Bistro
restaurant
has seating for 20 more, plus six bar
usually soups like borscht,
dinners could also include
stools in a very corn and cozy atmos-
mushroom barley and chick-
hors
d'oeuvres
and
appetizers
phere.
en
soup
with
noodles or barley.
like
pickled
plums
or
stuffed
pickled
The cultures take in foods of
Sweetwaters
Bistro makes its
eggplant
or
hot
and
spicy
roasted
zuc-
Russia, Italy, France, America, Spain
own
sausage
...
A
very
important asset
chini
with
garlic
or
pickled
watermel-
and Germany, with dishes prepared by
...
And
also
its
own
lox
pickled with
on
like
those
made
in
the
Ukraine,
chefs Vitale Lobanov and Victor
Stolichnaya
Pepper
Vodka.
etc.
Dolbny.
Ellen likes to cook unusual dish-
Pates can be liver pate, chicken
Since both are formerly of the
es
at
home
and when she goes out to
with
liver
pate,
turkey
pate
with
a
Russian Bear when it was in the
dinner
with
hubby Eugene, owner of
mixture
of
veal,
beef
and
red
peppers,
Orchard Mall, the fare of Russia is
Silver
Fox
Furs
in the New Center
chicken
pate
with
spices
and
chicken
more predominant than others.
area,
they
will
eat
most anything.
breast.
Vareniki (potato filled pasta served
Russian
people
love to eat well ...
Dinners,
except
light
dishes,
with fried onions and
And
being
from
Russia,
she heartily
sour cream); galubtsy
-fine
food
that
is
not
necessarily
enjoys
(cabbage rolls filled
plain
food.
with ground beef,
Saturday evenings present an excit-
sauteed onions and
ing
adventure in dining.
rice); blinis with red
Customers
may order from the
caviar; Karsky shaslik
menu
...
or
beforehand
from a set
(marinated lamb rib
menu
for
two
or
more
that
starts at 8
chops skewered and
p.m.
...
and
includes
10
cold
appetiz-
charcoal grilled); etc.
ers,
three
hot
appetizers,
a
combina-
Dishes you won't
tion plate of three or four different
find at too many
entrees, coffee, tea or soda drinks,
places are veal la
desserts and fruit plates ... $35 per
Savoyard from the
person.
Alpine Savoie section
It also includes lox, smoked fish,
of France, tender
caviars,
etc.
escalopes served with
Be
set
to take food home with you!
mushroom sauce and a
Sweetwaters
Bistro prepares a
touch of dry white ver-
stuffed
trout
that
is very close to the
mouth .. and chicken
way
it
was
made
for
her while in
Marengo, a French
Bulgaria
...
and
also
makes
its own
classic roasted and
Roma
blintz
dessert,
blini
with
canno-
served with mushroom Ellen Press of Sweetwaters Bistro.
li
and
raisin
filling,
served
with
vanilla
wine sauce, said to be
cream.
first eaten by
There is a separate menu sector for
Napoleon Bonaparte after the battle
include
soup,
salad,
hors
d'oeuvres
children
under 12, with all entrees for
of Marengo in 1800.
and
appetizer
plates
of
the
pickled
the
youngsters
including a small drink
If you've been searching for some
vegetables,
lox
and
a
couple
of
pates,
and
scoop
of
ice
cream.
good beef Stroganoff, the 19th centu-
choice
of
baked
potato
or
the
special-
Sweetwaters
Bistro
is open for din-
ry dish created for noted gourmet
ties
like
roasted
redskin
potatoes
or
ner
only
...
Tuesday
to
Thursday, 5 to
Count Pavel Stroganoff at the court of
mashed
potatoes
with
garlic
and
a
10;
Friday,
5
to
11;
Saturday,
5 to 1
the Russian Czar Alexander II, your
touch
of
horseradish.
a.m.;
Sunday,
5
to
9,
with
a
Sunday
search may be over ... Sweetwaters
Russian food has some resem-
brunch, noon to 3, $15 adults; $7 for
serves it as lean sirloin beef pieces
blance
to
French
cuisine
...
This
is
children
age 6 to 12; $4 up to age 6.
sauteed and then simmered in sour