The Best Of Everything
In Zinc
Here's the lastest
from bistros to benefits.
Detroit News; Sylvia Rector, Detroit Free
Press; Stephen Bitsoli, Macomb Daily;
Doug Levy, Oakland Press; Mike Strong,
Crain's Detroit Business; Linda Bachrack,
Style magazine; Ric Bohy, Hour maga-
zine, and me.
Complete info is at vvww.mcfwe.com
NEW OWNERS OF Mr. Joe's on 12
Mile east of Northwestern Highway in
Southfield, are Mike Abrams, also owner
of McVee's on Telegraph, and partner
Dave Prehs, restaurant supply boss ...
Former Mr. Joe's owner Joe Machiorlatti
retires after 37 years in the restaurant-
tavern business.
VALENTINE'S DAY comes a day
early at Vineyards Cafe in Farmington
Hills ... Its big Sweetheart Party is 2-4
p.m. Friday, Feb. 13 ... with the Simone
Vitale Band Trio, free dipping into
Maggie's Chocolate Fountain Bar ...
strawberries, banana slices, Oreo cookies,
pretzel sticks, marshmallows, etc.
No charge ... and all gals born on Feb.
14 will get a chocolate strawberry
Valentine rose bouquet ... Proceeds from
the auction of a Chocolate Fountain Bar
party for up to 50 people will be given
to Children's
Hospital.
ANGELO'S BISTRO on
ISA 'N DATA ...
the
site of former Paparazzi in
It's been over two
Sugar
Tree Plaza, Orchard
years since Pizzeria
Lake
Road
north of Maple, in
Uno closed on
West
Bloomfield
has opened
Orchard Lake Road, south of 15
to
happy
crowds
at
lunch and
Mile Road, in West Bloomfield
dinner.
... And that's almost how long it
Owner Angelo Georgizas is
has been since talk that another
the
popular former owner of
restaurant would take over the
DANNY
the Ram's Horn of Farming-
choice locale.
RASKIN
ton Hills on Orchard Lake
Then more words about it
Senior
Columnist
Road.
soon coming ... as people won-
The new Angelo's Bistro is a
dered why it was taking so
fine
Greek
restaurant
with Italian spe-
long.
cialties
and
a
smattering
of Spanish.
Finally the wait is over ... and Zinc, a
THE
CLOSING
OF
Joe Muer's Grill
French bistro-styled restaurant, was
on
Southfield
Road
in
Southfield
as of
opened to the public for lunch and din-
Feb.
21
...
proves
once
again
that
a name
ner this past week ... by Matt and Mark
does
not
guarantee
success
in
the
restau-
Brown, also owners of Red Coat Tavern
rant business.
on Woodward in Royal Oak.
It had no affiliation with the former
Pre-opening party had an over abun-
Joe
Muer's Oyster
dant passing of interesting hors d'oeu-
House
opened in
vres ... plus cheeseburgers, sliced tender-
1929 by the first Joe
RUMOR
loin, steak tartare, salmon tartare, etc. ...
Muer ... and later
DEPT ... It's true
among a bevy of food.
becoming Joe
that Hello Deli on
Zinc is a construction material found
Muer's
Seafood,
Maple
and
in many brasseries of France ... although
owned
by
the
sec-
Farmington
roads
it is not a French restaurant ... and does-
ond
Joe
Muer
...
But
in
West
Bloomfield
n't claim to be.
following its closing,
has been sold by
Restaurant people galore ... Harry
he
opened Joe's Bar
former owners
Neuman, Mickey Bakst, Norm LePage,
& Grill in 1994
Shelly and Jeff
Sameer Eid, Liza Bachour, Luciano Del
with Chick Taylor,
Weiss ... They'll
Signore, Artie Oliverio, George Grego,
his
former
general
take the newly
Jr., Raymond Wong, etc. ... mingling
manager
at
the
found
time to
with the overflow guests and brothers
Detroit
seafood
spend
more
family
Matt and Mark, the expert maitre d'
restaurant.
moments
together.
duo of Louie Weidemann and Zoran
Chick and partner
PROCEEDS
Smolic ... while in the kitchen, Executive
Geoffrey
Browning
the special
FROM
Chef Louai Sharkas and his staff pre-
bought
out
Joe's
charity
screening
of
pared food as fast as people were con-
interest
in
the
newly
Against
the
Ropes,
suming it.
Jackie Kallen signing her book, "Hit
named Joe Muer's
starring Meg Ryan
HAVING FRESH seafood is almost
Me With Your Best Shot," at Borders
Grill
in
1997
...
but
as
localize Jackie
as remote as eating a Coney Island hot
Books in Farmington Hills
it
never
did
reach
Kallen
... 7:30 p.m.
dog at an upscale restaurant.
Thursday, Feb. 19,
But although most people who dine at the Gratiot Joe
Muer's Seafood pres-
at Star Southfield Theater ... will be
Frankenmuth's Bavarian Inn Restaurant
tige.
given to Stars (Seeking Techniques
think of it mainly as a place for all-you-
FOOD
AND
WINE
pairings
and
Advancing
Research in Shunts).
can-eat chicken dinners ... or perhaps
tastings
will
be
from
20
Metro
Detroit
Cost:
$20
movie ... or $100 movie
the steaks, pastas and German specialties
restaurants
...
plus
live
music,
live
and
and
VIP
afterglow
with Jackie at
... seafood is also coming up big there.
silent
auctions,
etc.
...
at
the
Ninth
Sposita's
Ristorante.
For more info, call
So much in fact that from Feb. 24-
Ellie Phillips, (248) 454-9599.
April 12, Bavarian Inn will again have its Annual Michigan Culinary Food &
Wine Extravaganza (MCFWE) Mardi
MORE PROOF THAT Governor
awaited "Seafood Fest" ... six weeks of
Gras
benefit
for
culinary
students
...
6-
Jennifer
Granholm knows what she is
fish and seafood from around the world.
10
p.m.
Tuesday,
Feb.
24,
...
at
Mac
&
doing
...
is her appointment of Frank
Apple pecan crusted salmon, crab and
Ray's
Banquet
&
Conference
Center
in
Taylor
to
the Michigan Travel
shrimp cakes, sea scallops baked in
Harrison
Township.
Commission
... Frank is president and
cheese and artichoke sauce, gulf shrimp
"Blind
judging"
without
knowing
operating
manager
of Sweet Georgia
stuffed with crab and scallops, Teriyaki
which
restaurant
entered
what
will
be
by
Brown
in
Detroit
...
which recently
sea bass over baby spinach and water
... Jane Rayburn and Molly Abraham,
received a high-ranking five-star award
chestnuts, etc.
D
2/13
2004
46
from the North American Restaurant
Association.
NEXT THEME DINNER by caterer
Jeff Rosenberg at Adat Shalom
Synagogue is 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb.
19, ... Glatt kosher all-you-can-eat
Chinese buffet ... Adat Shalom mem-
bers: $15/adult, $5/child 12 and under;
nonmembers: $18/adult, $8/child.
There will be 27 items ... For more
info, call (248) 851-5100.
ERRATA, TYPO, ETC. Dept. ...•
Kathy Kosins, whose trio is at La Dolce
Vita on Woodward, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday evenings is the late Harry
Kosins' daughter ... 13en Kosins was her
uncle.
FIVE-COURSE DINNER ... featur-
ing gourmet French cuisine and wines ...
is on tap by students of Oakland
Community College's Culinary Studies
Institute ... on the Orchard Ridge
Campus in Farmington Hills.
Date is 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19,
in the J Building. The $50 cost includes
a photograph in front of an Eiffel Tower
picture, hors d'oeuvres, wines, beers, etc.
"BEST FOOD THIS Side of
Heaven" is claim by Marriott Detroit
Pontiac at Centerpoint 1-4 p.m.
Sundays, Feb. 22, March 28 and April
25 ... Complete dinner and live musical
performances by local churches will
make up its Gospel Supper ... Adults,
$14.95; children under 10, $7.95.
"IF ONE FOLLOWS the line of
thinking that being Jewish is matrilineal,
then I'm Jewish," says Marcus
McLaughlin, marketing manager at Jax
Kar Wash, owned by Bruce Milen.
His mother's maiden name was
Green, shortened from Greenberg ...
which she learned late in life from
genealogical research ... From that point
on Marcus' mother embraced her
birthright.
The child born to him and his wife,
was named Abigail Sarah McLaughlin ...
Abigail ("her father rejoices") and Sarah
("princess") are both good Hebrew
names.
KORN KORNER ... One night, a
robber broke into a home and heard a
voice say, "Jesus is watching you!" while
he rummaged through the desk.
He replied, "Who said that?!"
Once again he heard the same thing,
"Jesus is watching you!"
The robber looked around the room
only to see a parrot. He asked the parrot
what its name was. The parrot replied,
"Cornelius."
The robber said, "What kind of a
name is that? Who names a parrot that?"
The parrot said, "The same person
who named that rottweiler behind you
Jesus!"
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