Tommy Peristeris and Rick Rogow invite you to join us for lunch or dinner days a week Arts Artainmat The Best Of Everything 7 eason Number • No Room Rental • No Charge for Dance Floor • No Charge for Colored Napkins • No Charge for Skirting Tables fz No Charge for Unlimited Hors d'oeuvres s'a eason Number 2 "I must Compliment YOU and Big Daddy's Parthenon on your outstanding food and fine customer relations ... YOU truly understand the word customer." IRENE LUCAS FIELDS "There was nothing that we asked for that he said he could not do. His answer to everything was ill take care of it'... and HE DID!" LINDSAY 6 BRADLEY FINKEL "You told me not to worry, but I did. And I truly had nothing to worry about." ARLENL; RICK JINNI 6 SCOTT • No Hidden Charges No Gimmicks •, ARTIE SAYS: years of Hospitality Experience in Catering your needs. Over 2000 successful parties in the last 3 years. 20 , Want "91M'''. For an appointment Call "Artie" 6199 ORCHARD LAKE RD. (North of Maple) WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI • (248) 737-8600 Over 20 restau- rants will partici- pate in the annual Mardi Gras cele- bration ... with Oakland County heavily represented with 15 establish- ments. The 1999 champion, Cafe Cortina, which nearly edged out Andiamo as Best Overall Restaurant, will defend its crown ... as will Ristorante di Modesta, which received top honors for Best Display in 1999. For tickets, call Kitty Adler at Mac & Ray's ... (810) 463-9660, ext. 429. OLDIE BUT GOODIE Dept. ... About the slow but steady drinker ... who's never drunk enough to stag- ger, but always in a happy frame of mind ... When his wife thought she was catching a cold, she took a short snort out of his bottle, then went to tuck their daughter into bed ... "Oh, Mommy," the youngster said, sniff- ing hard, "you're using Daddy's per- fume." BOB RUSSMAN writes ... "I've been involved with Handicap Parking Enforcement Volunteers for almost three years with the Novi Police Department, and recently with Farmington Hills. It is a terri- ble shame that people still continue to ignore the desperate need for this enforcement. "We patrol all of Novi and give out tickets at $100 each, but the solution still hasn't been solved. In 2 1/2 years, 600 tickets have been given out ... "In Farmington Hills, the fine is $125 for illegal use of handicap parking spaces. "We find many violations, such as no permit, using someone else's per- mit and altered permits. We take a Polaroid picture and write a citation. We need this when we go to court, where we have not lost a case. "Many people merit a handicap permit, but too many do not need one. I guess these people are friendly with their doctors or something to be able to get a permit. "If you saw the many people who have to walk dangerous distances because some others with no feelings just about hop, skip and jump to the same places, you'd see what I mean." NEW RESTAURANT that opened this year, is operated by a familiar name in the catering and dining games ... It's Chuckie