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Joe Muer's helping at Pike Street; Ron Coden's celebrating at McVee's.

its other locations only.
restaurant on Porter and 24th.
Signed leases so far for the new
UNTIL 9 p.m. ... on Friday, June
Gateway Center also include
11 ... Guys 'N Gals has its 10th annual
Walgreen's, Linens and Things,
Clothing Drive with people trading
ISA 'N DATA ...
Organized Living and J. Alexander's
in old jeans (clean, without holes) for a
NO TRUTH TO the
restaurant ... There will be 96
new pair at half price ... All
heavy rumors, says Joe
condominiums on the site.
jeans collected are donated to
Muer, that he is taking over
MORE KOSHER carry-
the homeless in Oakland
Pike Street restaurant in Pontiac ... "I
out
cuisine is provided by
County
...
In
fact,
folks
can
like to work," says Joe, "but no way
Larry
Katz, former owner of
make
a
very
worthy
tax
would I ever own another restaurant
Salad
Scene
in Tel-12 Mall's
deductible
donation
on
all
again. Jim (Fitzpatrick) and I have
Mainstreet,
now
cooking the
clothing,
plus
bedding,
small
known each other for years, and I'm at
goodies for his dad, Johnny
furniture, toys, etc. ... Lois
Pike Street to help him re-Market it by
Katz ... Johnny owns
Levenson, Julie Feldman and
breathing in some new life." ... Joe says
Harvard Row Meats in the
Sheri Levenson Stay are taking
he is just working there now as an asso-
Sugar Tree shopping center,
them in as well at Guys 'N Gals
ciate of Jim.
DANNY
Orchard Lake Road, West
in
the
Orchard
Mall,
Orchard
EVERY YEAR, popular guitarist-
RAS KIN
Lake
Road,
north
of
Maple,
in
songster Ron Coden has a party on his
Local Columnist Bloomfield.
Larry makes the soups and
West
Bloomfield.
birthday ... This year, the celebration is
salads there ... plus a carryout
WHEN IT OPENS in
during Ron's current engagement ...
variety of potatoes, kugels, chicken and
January 2000, one of the departments
The date is Friday, June 11, with his
turkey dinners.
at the new 38,000-square-foot Whole
trio at McVee's, the spot owned by Ray
ANNIVERSARY TIME is here for
Foods Market/Merchant of Vino being
and Michael Abrams on Telegraph,
Star
Deli on 12 Mile Road, west of
between Nine and 10 Mile roads,
Telegraph-...
No. 27 for the wonderful
in Southfield.
carry-out
only
delicatessen that defied
HEALTH - CONSCIOUS folks
all
odds
when
it
opened ... and became
... now probably more than ever
an award-winning deli ... Proof that
before ... are welcoming the
strength comes in all sizes ... 600 of
Benecol food product that is on the
Star's 1,200 square feet is its kitchen,
dairy shelves at all Kroger stores.
where
all those homemade items are
New margarine-like spreads,
prepared
... along with more trays than
such as Benecol have been clinically
anybody
else
has put together.
proven to lower cholesterol when
PROBLEM
HAS BEEN finally
eaten as part of the regular daily
solved
...
and
those
individual kosher
diet ... It's said to work by blocking
pizzas so many people enjoyed from
absorption of cholesterol into the
American Bulk Food in West
digestive tract ... Besides as a spread,
Bloomfield Plaza, Orchard Lake Road,
Benecol can also be used in cooking
have
returned.
and baking the same way as butter
It
had
the kosher pizza almost two
... and Benecol is kosher.
years
ago,
but stopped because of pro-
BACK IN 1946, Buddy's Pizza
duction
not
being able to maintain the
was born on Six Mile and Conant
same quality at all times.
... Buddy's, which claims first hon-
The low-fat Italian herb bread crust
ors in making a round pizza square,
and
low-fat cheese pies, under supervi-
is having a price rollback to that
sion
of the Michigan Kashrut Council,
first opening ... on Tuesday, June
Humorous guitarist-singer Ron Coden is cele-
have
seven different topping combina-
21, between 3 and 6 p.m., dine in
brating another birthday per forming with his
tions
... and all are made in front ... on
only at any of the six Buddy's
trio Friday, June 11, at McVee's in Southfield.
the
American
Bulk Food premises ...
restaurant locations ... A large pizza
The
one
size,
nine-inch
individual piz-
will cost you $3, with cheese and
zas come ready to eat or can be pur-
one topping ... Limit two per table ...
chased frozen.
built at Gateway Center, corner of
Did pizza cost that much 53 years ago?
SCREENING OF "Divine Food:
Orchard Lake Road and 14 Mile Road,
IT'S A SHAME that there are no
100
years in the Kosher Delicatessen
will
be
a
kosher
gourmet
carry-out.
good French restaurants in the metro-
Trade,"
5 p.m. Tuesday, June 15, at Star
It
will
be
called
Sperber's
Gourmet
politan area ... Some make-believers ...
Southfield
Theater, is an interesting pre-
Delights
...
with
upscale
carry-out
food,
but no authentic ones ... Too bad there
sentation
...
It is part of the Jewish
both
fresh
and
frozen
...
dinners,
sand-
are no more people like Marie and
Community Center's first Lenore
wiches, salads, etc.
Michel Bertin, who had places like Allo
Marwill Jewish Film Festival, which
Sperber's Kosher Catering will be at
Paris on Livernois, and Aliette's Bakery

DANNY RASKIN
Local Columnist

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