GRAND OPENING OF The Best Of Everything azebo Car Americawfontily dining with a European flair! Honest and Homemade, the heart and soul of our cooking ORCHESTRA Cash Bar and Hors d'Oeuvres Menu Available Friday, July 23, 7 p.m. Tickets: $25 per person BREAKFAST - LUNCH DINNER DAILY LUNCH & DINNER SPECIALS Buddy Morrow All Dinner Specials come with soup or salad, vegetable & potato. Dinners start at 56.95 Walt Andrus Excalibur Restaurant, Banquet Ex Convention Center 28875 and 28847 Franklin Rd. • Southfield, MI 48034 248.358.3355 • FAX 248.358.3227 OPEN 1 DAYS A WEEK 10% discount for senior citizens Child-friendly • Very clean • Smoke-free environment urasian "Eurasia rill *In Tanasychuk etroit Free Press 'ufsine Fusion Cebitt - 1-)A;Akt I uttn, Amt Chef ceohe out * sone et thew 'nest ner4;tive , tuisteh, dishes , tv CAtitnbittalbet , et And astAtt ihrezediehia , c,toope(th, Open daily for dinner 4771 Haggerty Rd. at Pontiac Trail in Westwind Lake Mall • West Bloomfield 0 \ning • Outside ONI4f6 • t ive Piano Tues.-sat ° e Armijo & Michael /rt.; (248) 624-6109 Ammsmonsk \° re Pr esentations sentatio ns Summer Specids Make IT Di MoaesTa - Again. We inviTe you back TO Rts -rorzan -re Di MOOeSTa. WheRe we weLcome you TO a L014; sranautc.; Tk'at)ITIO11 OF Fine Ouu11c7, nine wines am) Frue113s. Ntake IT a Moaes -ra's aeicun. Ca -ro:Ing ,-. 5veciaL Evelt -rs PRI vcrre P ciRT,:e5 2 4 8 1995 • 20 oz. Porterhouse Complete Dinner gusToRfinit si tzlootsTft 29410 NORTHWESTERN HIGHWAY / SOUTHFIELD I • 1 lb. New York Sizzler Complete Dinner $ 19 95 • 1-1/2 lb. Alaskan King Crab $2195 Complete Dinner • 1-1/2 lb. Live Lobster Complete Dinner 199' . 3 5 8. 0 3 1- 4 Uno'8 Chicago Bar 0 Grill r Cocktail Prices 1/2 OFF Any Menu Item when a 2nd menu item of equal or greater value is purchased Nc+ coca with any other offer Vc!ia Anytirre 'a , arnt-,Pr _?1, loco • .1.,••-• 674.5 ORCHARD LAKE Ins) Across from Americana West /1 1999 (248) 737-7242 92 Detroit Jewish News y oit (44, 6se,a7 1410•• • zi.i' •••• •••,, Your Host: TrU110 . erfiuso 935 W. 11 Mile Rd. S.E. Corner 11 Mile & 1-75 248-399-5960 implied ... plus all the trimmings of the Gay '90s. ABOUT THOSE GREAT cottage fries that folks used to get at Berman's on Times Square, chef Charlie Brennan would go through about 104 pounds (two bushels) of potatoes an hour ... and did around 24 slices in four or five seconds. MAUNA LOA MEANS "Great Mountain" and is the name of the T:\ largest and only active volcano on the Hawaiian mainland ... The for- mer popular restaurant on Grand Blvd., named after this natural struc- ture, had on exhibit actual displays of hardened lava taken from the vol- cano ... and head man Robert Fenton was rightfully proud of the magnificent splendor decorating the ( interior in true Polynesian fashion ... However, not to be overlooked, were the beautiful and authentic decora- tions from other lands throughout the world ... and the continental food for which a completely separate part of the kitchen was devoted ... Mauna Loa was not only a Polynesian restaurant in the truest sense of the word, but also a delight- ful experience in world-wide decor and culinary enchantment. THE PIES AT Stafford's at both the Coolidge in'Oak Park and Seven Mile Road in Detroit locales reminded me of years past at the old Cream of Michigan on 12th and Pingree ... I never did think any place could ever give "The Cream" a < run for its money on the pies ... but Stafford's had a right to be mighty proud of theirs. REGARDING A column item of years back, Larry Sheehan of Little Caesars Pizza, and partner with Mike Illitch in Java Junction on Woodward, said that pizza was origi- nated by the Italians ... not the Jews, as mentioned ... I do recall that my ti, information came from the Italian Historical Society. WHEN JOHNNY MATHIS appeared on The Mike Douglas Show along with Mel Ball, he told of his next recording being "People Who not knowing that the song, Nlarcer both words and lyrics, were by Mel, while he was appearing at Angel's Hour Glass on W. McNichols. AT THE MICHIGAN Palace, ?Morey Amsterdam told of the grizzled old codger from Kentucky who con- sumed two quarts of high-proof bour- bon every day of his adult life and lived to be 92 ... At his cremation, said Morey, it took three days to put our - 1-)e (:.re