Not An Imitation The Real Thing! Tommy Peristeris and Rick Rogow inviteyou to join us for lunch or dinner 7 days a week /- Kol Ami, Ultimate Chicken Soup Contest, 5055 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323. First prize is a fine soup pot from Kitchen Glamor and the winner fea- tured with his or her recipe on Chef Keith Famie's "Adventures in Cook- ing" over \BK-TV 2 ... Second prize is dinner for two ar Ristorante Di Modesta ... and third gets a cookbook from Kitchen Glamor. Judges will be Keith, Rabbi Norman Roman of Temple Kol Ami, and myself WHEN IT CLOSED for lunches last September, reason given was a good one ... Not enough service for the lunch crowd at his Flying Fish on Orchard Lake Road and West Maple ... Matt Prentice did the right thing ... He closed lunches until being able to give service the way he wants. That time has come ... and Flying Fish will again be open for lunch ... as of Monday, Feb. 1, 11 a.m. BEST BETS are those Thursday blues nights now at Ja•Da on E. Larned, with live entertainment giving out a lot of great rhythms ... Nothing the matter with the live jazz brought by owners Armanda and Bill Herbert on Friday and Saturday evenings ... Or their wonderful soul food, too. QUITE A BIGGIE is expected to open on that corner of 14 Mile and Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield with the shopping center to include a large 38,000-square-foot Merchant of Vino/Whole Foods Market. The marker will have a meat department, deli department, seafood department, salad bar, sushi bar, etc. ... Opening is forecast for the latter part of this year or early 2000. THE TRIO from Jamaica kept wel- coming people to 'Tom-Pan-ohs," until owner Ramzi Neber finally got through ro them that it was Pompano's. And after saying it correctly, they were thrilled amid the all-around hand clapping. Reception festivities by Pompano's seafood dining spot in the Holiday Inn, Grand River and 10 Mile in Farming- ton Hills, came about five weeks after its quiet opening ... and amid mounds of shrimp, oysters Rockefeller, salmon, clams, etc., introducing folks ro what may be the answer to Holiday Inn's search for a successful restaurant to fol- low Maxwell's, Jimmy's and Brady's. SWINGTIME '99 by Fanclub Foundation for The Arts, Saturday, Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m., will transform the Fisher Building lobby at Grand Boule- vard and Second into a swanky lounge setting ... with much food, live enter- tainment and art stylings. AiPY OUR AWARD WINNING TOMMY SALAD, MICHIGAN'S FINEST LAMB CHOPS AND OTHER FAVORITE GREEK SPECIALTIES. Complete carry-out service available, banquet rooms accommodating up to 25o people, for all occasions...and our catering coordinators are at your service to help you plan your perfect affair. Weddings, Showers, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Anniversaries, Reunions, Birthdays, etc., etc. 6199 ORCHARD LAKE RD. (North of Maple) WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI • (248) 737-860o Detroit Jewish News 1/29 1999 95