The Best Of Everything Not Forgotten Keeping in mind some places where Detroiters used to dine. ey litepcatz and Cool Dames... You're invited to a ir./.1P Islancl Swing $euttation, Celebration, every Thursdaii, SOO pane-close 418! II Sig Band Music Lessons from 4 , 'Dance Arhtur Murray 4, 'Dance studio 44.2g 'Premium . • Martinis lit 20% 0111 all dhampagne th..N ad 50% o *-Tith the entroo 04 a i v irelitztar prked OTatre Azly rittilln-s-aav .11143.11t, 3.'11 1799. ADMITS 4 PEOPLE (248) 926-5300 6041 Haggerty 3/5 1999 Between 15 Mile & Pontiac Tr. West Bloomfield Open Daily 11 a.m 84 Detroit Jewish News Farmington Road in West Bloomfield (his partner is wife, Mary), once par- ticipated in a world cook-off champi- onship held at Universal Studios in ooking back on yesteryears ... Hollywood, Calif. ... 67 cooks from as PEOPLE CALLED far away as Tahiti and Australia com- George Bricolas' new partner peted. restaurant on N. at his Sero's PEOPLE USED TO say that if Woodward "Lucky" because they you wanted a lot to eat for the money, couldn't pronounce his first name ... go to Rocky's Pizzeria on W. Seven Actually, though, Menelaos Mile, owned and run by Haralambos Vasilakis' first name Mary and Rocky does mean lucky in Greek ... He is Laudazio ... The full-- co-owner today of the Sero's in course dinners included Southfield. shrimp cocktail, YOU DIDN'T have to buy a antipasto salad, soup, seat on the floor of the New York entree, vegetable or Stock Exchange to know whether spaghetti, coffee, tea or the market was bullish or bearish milk and dessert, ... All it cost you was the price of a including a chocolate lunch at Alfred's restaurant in sundae ... Many news- Somerset Mall to get a daily DANNY paper writers and local RASKIN update. Items on world trade, pertinent Loc al Columnist personalities listed Rocky's among their information of national and inter- favorite places to eat. national interest, and the current WHEN IT OPENED in Novi, U.S. dollar exchange were all updated the Sheraton-Oaks Hotel ... now by noon to keep diners abreast of the DoubleTree ... created something of a market and fast-changing world affairs sensation with its European flair of a ... The noon update print-out was rushed to Alfred's just ahead of the luncheon crowd. Alfred's locale became Sebastian's Grill, Sebastian's ... and now P.F. Chang's China Bistro ... It was owned by Alfred Loewenstein, localize Frosty Yogurt chain king today. IN 1980, one of the best places around to get a real good old-fash- ioned sundae used to be in a Chinese restaurant swimming pool and whirlpool in the ... The Great Wall restaurant on lobby. Grand River in Novi made its own ice The hotel also had one of only two cream and sauces, and still offers a herb gardens that I knew of then ... homemade peanut-butter sundae. the other was at The Lark ... Between IF PEOPLE NEVER saw a 30 and 40 different herbs were grown Hungarian Grape Stomping Festival, at Sheraton-Oaks by Chef de there was a treat in store for them at Gardenier (gardener) Keith Famie Harvey Urnovitz' Hungarian Village on Springwells Street ... Girls in native Keith's culinary expertise was soon exhibited when he became chef de Hungarian costume danced inside cuisine at Raphael's, the hotel's ultra- huge vats filled with grapes. exclusive dining room that opened JIM LARK, whose popular Lark with seating for 64. Restaurant is still going strong on DANNY RASKIN Local Columnist L Remy Berdy, the executive chef at Sheraton-Oaks, today is at Pike Street Restaurant in Pontiac ... and pastry chef Peter Loren is now corporate chef for Epoch Enterprises, which owned the hotel ... (Epoch's properties are Tribute in Farmington Hills, Too Chez in Novi and Forte in Birmingham.) BENJI'S Restaurant in Sylvan Lake was owned by Ben Perlman, a chef and culinary expert for many years .. . He at one time owned the Benji Palmer Dance Studio on Seven Mile and Schaefer. The former king of the cha-cha was a little before his time with a fish and seafood restaurant that brought out its raw fish catches (usually about 10) for customers to see ... and passed around seafood hors d'oeuvres to customers at tables in a fine touch of warmth. WHILE MANY FOLKS have clamored for years for a good, strictly kosher restaurant in Detroit, such a dream was realized by Bill and Mae Kozin at their place on Seven Mile Road, a block west of Evergreen, in December, 1961 ... The elegant sur- roundings were smartly designed and the room was large enough to include a dance floor .. Called Kozin's Kosher Restaurant, it was under Vaad Harabonim supervision ... Those who thought Kozin's would be just another little store done over buzzed with amazement at its opening ... Few eateries in town could compare with its beautiful decor and good food. WHEN IT OPENED, House of Human, which replaced Point After Deli in the Racquetime Building on W. 12 Mile and Northwestern, had people looking at the menu and not believing their eyes ... The listings showed Dinty Moore's, hamburgers, corned beef, lobster tails, turkey, etc. ... The luncheon menu still had eggs and delicatessen combined with Mandarin and Cantonese dining ... In the evening, some deli was available, but who would want this when the three-page menu offered about 100 authentic Mandarin and Cantonese dishes ... many of which couldn't be gotten anywhere else ... House of Hunan was owned by Joe and Jennie Chue and Henry and Suzie Dong.