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The Best Of Everything

880610

Just Like Home

Pasta Fagioli marks 8 years being a delicious,
cozy place for diners.

7

made pasta fagioli and mine-
his November has
strone soups, about 100,000
been eight years since
pounds of pasta, 80,000
it opened strictly as a
pounds of veal, 50,000
carryout ... and within a very
pounds of chicken, 45,000
short time became a small
pounds of fresh fish.
family restaurant that also
The lovely little Pasta
included five tables for sit-
Fagioli, with its blue linen
down dining.
napkins and very pleasant
Since the 1996 beginning,
DANNY
walls that strikingly display
Pasta Fagioli on Square Lake
RASKIN
Janine's hand-painted talents,
Road, just east of Telegraph in
Senior
has gained a popularity that a
the Sugar Bush Plaza in
Columnist
lot of large restaurant opera-
Bloomfield Township, has
tors would love to have.
served 250,000 people ... and
But
therein
lies the key for Hamad
instead of just five tables for 20 people,
and
Janine
...
A
small, intimate, very
today there are 11, plus a counter with
clean place with excellent food served
eight more seats.
by very good waitpersons ... With
It has always been a popular place
Hamad the head
for localites to dine,
chef, too, there isn't
but now even more ...
much that leaves its
very intimate, cozy,
kitchen
without his
warm and ultra clean
approval
... and he is
... A small restaurant
extremely strict about
where people like
this.
William Davidson,
Hamad is much
Max Fisher, Irving
like numerous other
and Beverly Laker,
owners who want to
Milford and Lois
serve and prepare the
Singer, Mickey
best ... But in so
Shapiro, Doug and
many
instances, they
Judy Etkin, Dr. Uri
don't have the last
and Nili Katz,
Hamad Kouka
say ... Maybe it's
Leonard and Bluma
someone other than
Siegel ... and so many,
themselves, perhaps a
many more call it a
chef or manager, whose monetary
relaxing home away from home to
interests are not in the restaurant's
dine.
behalf.
Pasta Fagioli's first customers were
In the case of someone like Hamad,
Dr. and Mrs. Katz, who like an untold
being
chef and owner gives him much
amount of others, have become regu-
more overall control.
lars.
Pasta Fagioli may be only 8 years
Only two styles of veal were served
old, but it has certainly carved an
when the little restaurant opened ...
admirable niche as a fine, neighbor-
Now there are four ... Same with the
hood,
Italian restaurant.
chicken dishes ... The five original
THE
SHEIK, Middle East restau-
pasta dishes have grown to 15, and
rant
on
Orchard
Lake Road in West
instead of two appetizers, there are
Bloomfield, has been sold ... New
five.
owners Mohamad Cheaib and Samie
The pleasant little restaurant that
Salah retain the Sheik name ...
owners Hamad and his wife, Janine
Previous owner, Dean Hachem, is no
Kouka, once held great hopes of own-
longer affiliated with the restaurant.
ing, has grown up into a dining spot
ANOTHER RESTAURANT notch
far and away beyond their dreams.
goes
on Joe Vicari's money belt as he
With the 600-square-foot kitchen
opens
(with partners General Motors,
and 1,200-square-foot dining and rest
room areas, no imagination could have brother John Vicari and Tom Vitale)
Andiamo Riverfront in downtown
conceived that in eight years, it would
Detroit's GM Renaissance Center
have sold 310,000 gallons of home-