Above: Its not location, at the back and inside a strip
mall, that keeps drawing a regular crowd to the Gallery.'
Right: David Walsh goes to the Gallery every morning to
eat breakfast and read the paper.
Below: For the past four years, these retired educators have
been meeting for breakfast every Wednesday at the Gallery.
(From left) Arthur Plotkin, Lloyd Peterman, Edward
Cervenak, Irving Wiener and Marshall Silverman.
n any given weekday morning, you
might find Jewish community leaders
and rabbis hunched over their break-
fasts, alongside "regulars" who have
had their coffee at the Gallery Restaurant for
years.
Manager Debbie Gdissis says it's not the loca-
tion of the eatery that draws a crowd of high-
octane and regular regulars; it's the service and
atmosphere, along with the fact that the waitstaff
know diners' preferences.
"We know everyone's habits, from David
Hermelin to Tim Allen. We know exactly what
they want," Gdissis says.
"Location it's not. If we put an ad in the
paper for help, they cannot find us, they call us
from the street, so I cannot say location," she
adds.
The Gallery opened its doors 15 years ago
inside the Bloomfield Plaza mall at Maple and
Telegraph Roads.
"We have big names and we have ordinary
people, and we love them all the same," she says.
"A couple years ago, a group of Jewish people
were on a plane coming back from Israel.
Someone said, 'I want broiled chicken at the
Gallery.' That's a big compliment for us."
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