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Your choice of
5 lunch
specials daily
includes soup, salad
starting
at $ 7.00
Coming Soon!
Bento Box
Rice, Salad, Soup
and Sushi
Dine In and Carry Out
HOURS:
Von.-Sat. 1 1-10
Sun. 12-10
(248) 538-0664
fax (248) 538-0668
28972 Orchard Lake Rd.
between 12 and 13 Mile on
East side
Farmington Hills
other location in E. Lansing
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10-1/2 Mile Road & Greenfield
Oak Park ■ (248) 968-0022
12/25
1998
Breakfast ■ Lunch • Dinner
After-Theater • Kiddie Menu
Remembering favorite places and friends as 1998 winds down.
chicken filet sandwiches for everyone
over 50 years in the delicatessen busi-
from the Maple and Orchard Lake
ness, did everything except wait on
Road Big Boy, where he and Jimmy
wrecking ball extravaganza-
tables at the deli that bore his name at
Michelson owned the franchise ...
like take-down of the Hud-
10 Mile and Coolidge in Oak Park's
Even their daughter, Missy, a student
son's building on Woodward
Dexter-Davison Farmer Jack Center ...
then at Tufts College,
brought to mind memories of the
And if necessary, he'd wait on
pitched in and helped mom
Riverview Room at J.L. Hudson's in
tables, too ... Hy was counter-
through the many hours.
the '50s.
man, short-order cook, cashier
HIS LUSTY baritone
The beautiful room was once
and even his own dishwasher.
voice rocked the La Scala
known simply as the J.L. Hudson Co.
AT LARCO'S on W. McNi-
Opera House in Milan,
Tea Room ... There were two or three
chols, there was a soup that the
Italy, 11 times ... But it was-
of them.
three brothers were raised on
n't Theodore Mitropoulos'
The time had long passed since
only talent ... Ted held
... It was on the menu but
"Meet me outside J.L. Hudson's Tea
diplomas from Athens Uni-
strangely, not under soups, but
Room and the first one there get in
versity in classic psychology
pasta ... The different delight
D ANNY
line," was an exclusively female saying.
and political science ...
was thick with pasta, peas and
RA SKIN
Usually a majority of handsome
talked on WQRS radio
broccoli (Pete added asparagus
Local Columnist every Sunday ... and was
females dined in the Riverview Room
for an extra taste.)
... but also many men discovered what
executive chef of Yassoo
MUCH COULD be said
the gals already knew ... That you
Greek
Village
when it opened on
about the very magnificent, big
Woodward
and
14 Mile. Yassoo had
couldn't get a much better lunch at a
job Mary Lou Zieve and her assistants
just
about
everything
folks could get in
more moderate price in the Ciry of
did ... putting together the local seg-
Greektown without going downtown -
Detroit.
ments of the Jerry Lewis Muscular
... It was later co-owned by former
The Riverview Room was a good-
Dystrophy Labor Day weekend
Detroit Tigers catcher Jim Price, now
looking room after the feminine tea-
telethon over Channel 2 ... Their
one of the club's broadcasters ... Before'
room atmosphere was gone ... The
excellent work was worthy of much
recently closing, the place was Oak-
decor after redecoration and remodeling
applause ... and a thousand drum rolls.
land Grill ... and will soon become
was at least neuter, if not masculine.
Mary Lou's hubby, Mort, an adver-
another Little Daddy's Parthenon ...
As many came to expect in J.L.
tising executive at Simons-Michelson-
By the way, Ted is back in the Detroit
Hudson operations, everything was in
Zieve, would bring bags of breast of
area and is soon to be heard
good taste, including the food.
about chefing at a local spot_
The east wall of the room (it was
again
on the 13th floor) was a series of large
JIMMY LAUNCE, televi-
picture windows that gave a fine view
sion and radio personality,
of the city and Detroit River.
was king of the dinner-the-
The menu at the Riverview Room
ater circuit ... and his excel-
had one or two items that probably
lent performances at so marie .
were superior to anything of their
places were usually sellouts.
kind in Detroit ... The Maurice salad
MUNCHING A Greene
hamburger with onions at thl
and chicken pie.
Seven Mile and Schaefer
I had the chicken pie there years
emporium seemed like going
ago and always found it full of tender
home to many who had
chunks of chicken as well as the other
moved out to the suburbs..- 1
traditional ingredients, including fric-
People used to take their kid
assee gravy.
to Greene's for lunch or a
Over the years, though, I became
quickie dinner and they ner
leery of chicken pies ... They seemed
forgot it ... mother's cooking
to have anything in them BUT chick-
was never as satisfying as
en ... And there were few places I
Greene's ... The kids have
would order them ... Hudson's was
grown up, but discoverincf
one of them.
inimitable hamburger again
IF PEOPLE had a hankering for
(now at 10 Mile and Orcha
Greek food, Hellas (now called New
Lake roads) draws more ray,,
Hellas) in Greektown was always a
notices than the finest
safe bet, from the salad to the mousa-
aourmet dining .
ka to the creamy rice pudding and
DON VARGO'S ultima
For years, Mary Lou Zieve and her assistants
baklava .. Customers waited in line
dream wasn't to be the best
put together the local segments of the Jerry Lewis
outside the restaurant as they kept
restaurateur in the business
Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day weekend
The owner of Vargo's, on Si
coming back for more.
telethon over Channel 2.
HY HORENSTEIN, who had
L
OOKING BACK: The
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