(9ur thanks to the will be Saturday, May 13, at Farina's on Coolidge in Berkley ... Still $25 per person ... Call Erwin Waldman, grand chancellor of Michigan, for reservations, (248) 398 8282. GET WELL WISHES ... to Ben Bolton. YOU WON'T FIND it under "Fresh Fish Specials" or among the restaurant features ... but it's the best seller of all at Hoa Kow of West Bloomfield, located in the Crosswinds Mall on Orchard Lake Road. It is there under American-style dinners ... Broiled White Fish ... $10.25 for a complete meal that also includes soup, salad, vegetable, pota- toes and dessert. Fifteen white fish preparations list- ed under the "Fresh Fish Specials" are $10.95 for complete meals. After seeing baked white fish three times a week ... just seeing, not eating ... at Evergreen Health & Living Center, large broiled white fish at Hoa Kow certainly looked good ... and tasted even better. 18TH ANNUAL Dinner by Barbara Ain Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of the areas largest chari- table events, will be patterned this year after the musical Phantom of the Opera. The funfest, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 6, will again be at member Peter Karmanos' Compuware Sports Arena in Plymouth ... and called "Phantom of the Institute" ... with the arena transformed into an 1860s-era French opera house. THE RON CODEN Show will be at O'Mara's Restaurant and Brew Pub, 12 Mile and Coolidge, in Berkley, on Saturday, April 29. CONGRATS ... to Mort Meisner and wife Leslie Mangas ... on their 16th anniversary .. being celebrated Saturday night at Andiamo Italia in Warren, site of Leslie's recent birthday party. OLDIE BUT GOODIE Dept...: from Marian and Jay Grant ... The old gentleman's dear old dog passed away ... He was so attached to the dog that he went to his rabbi and asked if the rabbi would say Kaddish for the dog ... The rabbi said, "No, we only say Kaddish for humans, not animals ... However, there is a new congregation two blocks down the street from here ... You go there and ask if they will bless your dog ... The man thanked the rabbi and said, "Do you suppose they would also accept my donation of $75,000?" ... The rabbi said, "Hold it — come back. You didn't tell me the dog was Jewish." STAN ROSENBERG writes ... "In a recent article, some misguided geog- food critics and the area's most discerning - palates for the kind remarks and kudos you have bestowed upon us since our remodel. "America's TableTop Award" — Gourmet Magazine "Being a top seafood dining spot for so many years, as well as one of the prettiest, has not gone unnoticed by the customers." — Danny Raskin, Jewish News "Charley's Crab has been given a half-million dollar face-lift, the menu has been overhauled and is truly re-born as what it started Out to be: a first-class seafood restaurant." is Bohy, Hour !Magazine "Memorable is the waitstaff. Charley's Crab has in its employ some of the friendliest most informed staff I have encountered." — Beverly Hatcher, Daily Tribune "The grilled yellowfin tuna demands attention. Topped with fig marmelade, foie gras and pinot noir sauce and served over roasted garlic mashed potatoes and Swiss chard, it exemplifies the restaurant's new direction." —Jennifer Eger. The Observer & Eccentric Monday thru Friday 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday thru Thursday 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Friday 4:00 p.m. - 11:00 a.m. Saturday 5:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Sunday 4:00 p.m. -.9:00 p.m. Sark &d Monal thru Friday 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Saturday 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sunday 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. elr2aRteues erzab 4/28 2000 In