Andiamo Italia
is pulling back
the curtain...

The Best Of Everything

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A Dining Tradition

Ann Sayles Dining Room continues its legacy of good food and service.

Venice scenes and the front wall is of
Sunday hours are noon to 8.
natural large stone and a tall window.
Of noteworthy prominence is that
Ann Sayles Dining room is still
everything at Ann Sayles Dining
very clean, intimate and warm ... serv-
hen a restaurant is built
Room is homemade ... The bread,
ing classic American cuisine with a
on repeat business, it
soup, pastry dessert, entrees, etc.
full bar.
has learned to do both
Most popular menu items are the
Entree prices are uneven,
the little things and big
fresh Lake Superior white
like a broiled chicken half,
things that prove to bring its cus-
fish and broiled Atlantic
$8.96; broiled whitefish
tomers back.
salmon ... But many folks
$10.33; broiled salmon,
A restaurant that has been doing
will bet on the Swiss steak.
$11.08; baked meatloaf, $8.96;
this for many years ... and generations
Also of note is Ann
charbroiled filet mignon,
... is one you know will have satisfac-
Sayles Dining room slicing
$11.84 regular cut (king cut,
tion awaiting your every visit, from
its own turkey directly from
$12.83) etc. ... This may seem
the time of entering to leaving.
the bird ... no roll or breast
odd, but with tax, the prices
Ann Sayles Dining Room, on 13
... the turkey itself ... And
come out even ... and there are
Mile Road two blocks east of
its meatloaf is the real hon-
D ANNY
no pennies left over ... People
Greenfield, has been a prized tradition
est-to-goodness homemade
RA SKIN
like this a lot.
in eating since the middle 1920s.
kind that you can trust.
Local Columnist
Also the inclusion into the
Before the depression days then,
Customers truly enjoy,
price of appetizer, salad, pota-
Ann Sayles and her two partners
too, the wonderful person-
to, vegetable, dessert and beverage ...
opened their original restaurant, The
nel that have been Ann Sayles stal-
Can't beat this.
Lexington, in Detroit ... When the
warts for so many years ... People like
There are dinner specials, too, five
great depression of 1929 came, few
server Yong Thompson, 30 years ...
days a week ... Tuesday, corned beef
people had money ... and so many
Rita Juskusky, server 30 years ... Willie
and cabbage or baked ribs with sauer-
wanting to eat on credit forced The
Key, cook 20 years ... Greg Doss, cook
kraut; Wednesday, stuffed pepper or
Lexington to close.
15 years ... Mamie Smith, mainte-
tenderloin tips over noodles;
Two of the three gals, one of them
nance 24 years.
Thursday, braised lamb shank or pot
Ann Sayles, eventually opened a little
The stories these people remember
tea room on Hamilton and
are great ones ... of unbeat-
Webb, named Nellie Ann's, the
able customer satisfaction
name of her partner.
that, along with the good,
They moved their small tea
wholesome food and low
room in the early `40s into the
prices, keep people coming
Wilshire Hotel on West Grand
back.
Boulevard ... and called it Ann
Also today, so many
Sayles Tea Room ... It was the
who remember Ann Sayles
beginning of a name that was
Tea Room and Dining
to become synonymous with
Room from years back ...
wonderful dining at low
their children ... and
prices.
grandchildren, too ... con-
When Ann Sayles became
tinue to return for more
the sole proprietor in 1956,
on a regular basis.
she moved her tea room to
Ann Sayles dining
Seven Mile, near Livernois ...
Room is much more than
She had it until 1961, when
just another restaurant ...
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sisters Ann Tacconelli and
it is a tradition ... and a
Mike Ferraro: Continuing a tradition.
Helen Stanko bought her
real good one.
restaurant when Ann retired
JOE VICAR! continues
roast with noodles; Friday, baked
for health reasons ... They stayed there
his upswing as one of the locale's pre-
salmon loaf or roast leg of lamb or
until 1972 ... and moved to the pre-
mier restaurateurs and showmen by
baked Swiss steak; Saturday, half slab
sent locale in Royal Oak.
bringing here more great names in
of barbecue baby back ribs or baked
Today, Ann Sayles Dining Room
show business.
Swiss steak or pot roast.
thankfully still lives ... owned by Mike
Don Rickles, Sept. 15 and 16
This, my friends, is good, whole-
Ferraro, who took over in the spring
...and Paul Anka, Nov. 18 and 19 ...
some, homecooked eating at low
of 1986, keeping primarily the same
will appear at Joe's Andiamo Celebrity
menu ... And same decor ... Seating is
prices ... Lunch specials are by asking
Showroom attached to his Andiamo
a server, "What's cooking today?"
for about 100 or so, with red table-
Italia, East 14 Mile Road between
cloths, a couple of walls covered with
It is open Tuesday-Saturday, 11:30-
Mound and Van Dyke, Warren.
2:30 lunch, dinner 4:30-8 ... Friday
three-dimension-like molded Venetian
Other appearances include ... Sha
and Saturday dinner is 4:30-8:30 ...
murals... Another wall has pictures of
Na Na, Aug.13 and 14; The Platters

DANNY RASKIN
Local Columnist

IV

Paul Anka

Nov. 18 & 19...2111 seats $30-$100

The Platters

(with Sam Butera)

Sept. 4, 5, & 6..All seats $30-$35

Sha Na Na

Aug. 13 & 14.. All seats $30-$35

The Scintas

Sept. 22, 23, 24.. All seats $30-$35

ITALIA

7096 East Fourteen Mile Road

(Just west of Van Dyke in Warren)

Selected "Best Italian Restaurant" by
Gourmet Magazine '96.'97, and '98

7/23
1999

visit us at: www.andiarnoitalia.com

94 Detroit Jewish News