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• Weddings

• Rehearsal Dinners

• Bar/Bat Mitzvahs

• Bridal & Baby Showers

• Receptions

11/27
1998

Make your experience
the ultimate! Fine
cuisine, and beautiful
meeting rooms
capable of servicing
50 to 400 guests are
designed to enhance
any occasion.

Excalibur also offers
state of the art Audio/
Visual Capabilities
and an Oversized
Dance Floor.

Now booking for
Breakfast Meetings,
and Lunch and
Dinner Events.

opened Auburn Hills' Great Lakes
Crossing, was fun.
The casual dining menu includes
items for the whole family ... Seven
pastas, six salads, seven sandwiches
(like Rumble in the Jungle turkey
pita: romaine lettuce tossed with
Caesar dressing, topped with sliced
roast turkey and stuffed into warm
grilled pita bread), nine entrees (char-
broiled salmon, blackened meatloaf,
Siam chicken stir fry, etc.), and 10
appetizers (sautéed peppers,
caramelized onions, grilled chicken
and melted cheese on grilled pita,
served with salsa, sour cream and
guacamole) ... Of the five desserts,
Key lime pie and coconut bread pud-
ding are made on the premises ... A
squeezed fruit and vegetable drink
setup is underneath the 42-foot
Magic Mushroom Juice and Coffee
Bar ... Smoothies blended with non-
fat yogurt are also served there.
Rainforest Cafe in Auburn Hills is
a 19,220-square-foot, 300-sear restau-
rant ... The interesting interior recre-
ates a tropical rain forest through a
blending of animated wildlife and spe-
cial effects.
Entering the dining room, folks
walk under a 7,000-gallon archway
aquarium that features a handmade
cora? reef full of colorful salt-water
fish.
Walking to our table, all around
us were lush vegetation, simulated
thunder and lightning, the sounds
and smells of a tropical rain forest,
cascading waterfalls and huge
Banyan trees.
Barbara Zanetti, manager and host-
ess at the former Ernest Larco Italian
restaurant in Orchard Mall, is manag-
er days at Rainforest Cafe in Great
Lakes Crossing ... open Monday-
Thursday, 1 1-10; Friday and Saturday,
11-11; Sunday 11-9.
IT'S FINALLY been settled ... The
Sheik on Orchard Lake Road in
Orchard Lake and The Original Sheik
on Orchard Lake Road in Farmington
Hills have ended their name dispute.
The Sheik name will remain at Its
present location ... And the Original
Sheik name will be no more at the
Farmington Hills locale ... It will be
changed to another title.
ONE OF THE BEST restaurants
in the fine Lettuce Entertain You
chain, Maggiano's, will bring its Italian
fare to West Bloomfield ... It'll be in
the new shopping center beginning
construction on the northeast corner
of 14 Mile Road and Orchard Lake
Road, says Dave Tisdale. 7