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omeone in the kitchen is thinking.
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The Best Of Everything

Looking back at wonderful times in the Detroit area.

Abe, he had yearned to own a restau-
Venice with boutique stores ... Rialto,
OOKING BACK ...
rant so he could eat and drink all he
at one time, was among the few places
Bumped into John Laffrey
wanted
... The first day that Sydney's
around that served turkey sliced fresh
recently ... and couldn't help
opened,
Abe's doctor put him on a
from the bird ... Not rolled or pressed.
but remember that beef
strict
low-calorie
diet!
There was a sign over the bar at
Wellington he used to serve at his
Hershel
Bernardi, who
Darlin' Lilly's on Orchard Lake
John Laffrey's Vineyards restaurant on
had
put
on
a sensational
Road, just south of 12 Mile in
Franklin and Northwestern ... It was a
show for the 10th annual
Farmington Mills, that read,
tender filet in a flaky pastry with a
"Hassidic Happening" at
"Bar-B-Q Beef Bones, 25 cents
magnificent Bordelaise sauce ... And it
Ford Auditorium, was one
each, Monday through Friday,
could only be gotten rare or medium • 3 p.m. to 7 p.m." ... They
of not many people (Myron
rare, which still is the correct way to
Cohen was another) able to 40
weren't just bones, but plenty
prepare beef Wellington.
put across a dialect story in
of meat.
The Swell Club was part of Restau-
the fine art that retained
The Wonder Bar on Wash-
rant Duglass on Southfield in the
survival ... Made no differ-
ington Boulevard had a hat-
then-named Farrell's Shopping Plaza
ence how old the joke was
check gal who never gave out
D A NNY
... It was one of the area's largest and
... The handling by old pros
checks for coats ... not even to
RA SKIN
most popular dining and social orga-
like
Bernardi or Cohen was
strangers ... Her memory was
Local Columnist without equal.
nizations, with hundreds of members
uncanny and she never made
from Grosse Pointe to Farmington
Few could tell the oldie
an error.
Hills.
about
Mr.
Goodman
being the kind
Sydney's in the Top of Troy Build-
Hungarian Village on 1-75 and
ing on Big Beaver, now housing Ruth's of husband who believed he was enti- •
Springwells used to have Yiddish
tled to a night off every week ...
Chris, was owned by Sydney Harris
Night on Thursdays ... Eric Rosenow
What's more, he sold Mrs. Goodman
and Abe Minkowitz Syd used to be
and his Continentals played the music
on the proposition ... So every
a comic at the Elmwood Casino in
while folks dined on three choices of
Wednesday,
regular as clockwork, he
Windsor, among other places, includ-
Israeli dinners.
pedaled
off
by
himself ... Only one
ing top spots in Chicago like Chez
She's still going strong ... at the
Wednesday,
Mr.
Goodman neglected
Paree ... and then a theatrical agent.
Jewish Community Center on Maple
to
come
back
home
... For seven years
He always wanted a restaurant like
at Drake ... And can probably recall
he
was
among
the
missing
....Then,
nothing this region had seen ... As for
when it all began in January 1977,
one Wednesday afternoon, he -ft-
suddenly appeared ... His wife,
with I Do! I Do! that opened
at historic Botsford Inn,
overjoyed, began calling all her
starring Nancy Gurwin and
friends ... "Hey," said Mr. Good-
Phil Marcus Esser ... During
man, "What's the big idea?" ... "I
the next several years,
thought I'd whip up a little wel-
Nancy's I Do! I Do! was pre-
come-home party for you this
sented at various metro
evening," she explained ...
Detroit locations and
"What?" roared Mr. Goodman,
became the company's most
"On my night out?"
•
successful traveling show.
Barry Rogow, brother of Rick
Time was when a truck-
"Big Daddy" Rogow and son of
load of Cohen's Knishes was
Emily and Sonny Rogow, was
hijacked while enroute from
Bernardi's chauffeur while he was
New Jersey to Knish Delish
in Detroit at that time.
at the former Tally Hall ... It
New Orleans had its Antoine's
was hijacked out of Boston
... And so did the Detroit area ...
... And to top it off, the late
Only thing they had in common,
Max Simons of Knish Del-
though, was that both were
ish said that he got a call
restaurants ... The local Antoine's*
asking if he needed any
on Woodward, between 10 and
knishes ... And they turned
11 Mile, served Greek and Ameri-
out to be his own!
can food ... Antoine's in. New
People used to ask where
Orleans was in the French Quar-
the name "Rialto" came
ter.
from for Rialto Cafe on
Steve's Blind Pig on East
Woodward and Nine Mile
Larned had no booze without
Road that was owned by
license and no gambling ... Just a
brothers Charlie and Frank
catchy name with a menu of IN
Nancy Gurwin in her "I Do" days.
Pappas ... It is a bridge in