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Arts Entertainment
The Best Of Everything
American Dream
Golden Basket family cooks up delights
of U.S. and native Greece.
GARY PUCKETT
WITH JOHNNY MAESTRO
Et THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Gary's signature voice and hit songs like 'Young
Girl" have sold out venues around the world.
Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge cover
all your favorites.
FIGHT NIGHT — PRO BOXING
Strap on the gloves with special guest Jake
LaMotta as Emanuel Steward, SML Productions
and Andiamo present live Professional Boxing.
Gourmet dinner and premium open bar included.
TONY DANZA
One of America's most popular performers. A star
of television (Taxi, Who's the Boss, Family Law),
stage (The Iceman Cometh), and movies (Angels
in the Outfield) Danza wows audience and critics
with his song and dance stage show.
ELVIS TO THE MAX
25 Years ago Elvis left the building. Now he returns,
or so you will think, to play for you at Andiamo. It's
Elvis to the Max with Max Pellicano, his Las Vegas
Dancers and special guest comedian Paul Locrichio.
Come sing along with all of your favorite Elvis hits.
ITALIA
Tickets ft Information
(586) 268-3200
andiamoitalia.com
1/17
2003
82
East 14 Mile Road. West of Van Dyke.
Warren, Michigan
626790
But also New York strip steak,
London broil, shrimp, Delmonico
steak, barbecue ribs, chicken, veal
parmesan (the real thing,) chicken
parmesan, whitefish, turkey, orange
roughy, liver and onions, veal cutlets
(the real thing), etc.
Hamburgers? ... For sure ... Fried
chicken? ... Certainly ... And of course
American fries.
The cooking versatility of Chef Pete
Loucopoulos in the kitchen is endless.
Golden Basket is open seven days ...
Monday-Saturday, 6:30 a.m.-10 p.m.
... Sunday 7 a.m.-10 p.m. ... for break-
fast, lunch and dinner.
It goes through 100 pounds a week
of broiled whitefish, and about 50
pounds of salmon.
Seating is for 120 in a sea of cleanli-
ness with tables and booths ... There
are no linen tablecloths ... No linen
napkins ... Just good solid food and
low prices.
Before it became Java Junction, the
location was that of Niko's, where Nick
used to make me the best, at the time,
gol' durned spanikotiropita (spinach
pie) outside of Greektown in Detroit.
Golden Basket does itself proud in
the preparation of Greek dishes ... But
as a clean down-to-earth neighbor-
hood American family restaurant, it
goes far beyond the norm.
THIS IS THE 20th year as a wait-
ress at Bread Basket Deli on
Greenfield and Lincoln (Lincoln
Center), Oak Park ... for Priscilla Gold
... a stalwart server with so many
requests for her station.
Priscilla has been at Bread Basket
since the early days of former owner
Ron Forman ... and continues to serve
those bio-t, deli sandwiches on double-
t is known by many as
preparation of Greek dishes.
a good little Greek
But herein lies another very
restaurant ... But the
big facet of the pride that is held
major items' emphasis
by the Loucopoulos family.
is on American fare ... as a
Their endless love for
tribute to the adopted coun-
America ... and what it has
try of its owners.
accomplished for them ... How
The Golden Basket on
best, they felt, would it be to
Woodward, between 13 and
turn their little Greek opera-
DAN NY
14 Mile roads in Royal Oak,
tion into one in which the
RAS KIN
may not be pretentious or
wonderful things they learned
Local Columnist through the years could be
even out of the ordinary, but
it has numerous prime things
given to their customers.
going for it ... Family-owned and
And so, today, Golden Basket is
operated, old world recipes, menu
both a Greek and American family
simplicity and diversified selections ...
eatery ... with the major emphasis on
and the very utmost in restaurant
American.
necessity ... all-around cleanliness.
Daily specials are as American as
Back in Nafpaktos, Greece, about
you can get ... with homemade meat-
100 miles west of Athens, Steve
loaf on Mondays ... homemade
Loucopoulos had a restaurant in
American goulash (ground beef
which one of his sons, Dino, was a
instead of chunks) on Tuesdays ...
cook ... When he came to America in
homemade chicken pot pie on
1970, Dino's dream was to someday
Wednesdays ... homemade stuffed cab-
bring the Loucopoulos family to the
bage on Thursdays ... homemade
United States.
salmon patties on Fridays ... home-
He worked at the Bouzouki, Hellas
made corned beef and cabbage on
and Parthenon, all in Greektown ... and
Saturdays ... and homemade stuffed
was able to send for sisters Vicky and
cabbage again on Sundays.
Kula in 1972 ... brother Peter in 1974 ...
The Loucopoulos family has gone
and mother Peggy and father in 1975.
American so much that most of its
The free-standing Java Junction site
menu now features American items with
became available in 1980 ... and dad's
just a smattering of Greek specialties.
hope to have a restaurant with his sons
Sure there's lamb chops, flaming
Dino and Peter, became a reality ...
saganaki (Opa!,) stuffed grape leaves,
They bought the Woodward location
spinach pie, gyros, Greek salad, etc.
from Mike Ilitch and Larry Sheehan ...
and opened their Golden Basket.
Vicky has been hostess-waitresses
since opening ... Kula was a waitress,
too ... until leaving to open her own
restaurant.
Pete is the chef at Golden Basket ...
plying his trade with much satisfying
results ... Mom and Dad spend seven
months here and five months in Greece.
Dino is the front man ... greeting
customers and making certain their
restaurant ship runs smoothly ... His
wife, Cindy, is hostess four or five
times a week ... and Pete's wife, Helen,
works in the kitchen with him about
four times a week.
The building is their own ... and
much pride is packed into everything
made and served at their spotless
restaurant.
Recipes that have been in the family
for generations are used in Pete's
Brothers Peter and Dino Loucopoulos of the Golden Basket