Bloomfield, will have owner Angelo Georgizas thanking folks in a special way ... During the week of Monday- Thursday, January 24- 27, he'll give free pieces of anniversary cake and no charge for soup and tossed salad with both lunch and dinner during the four- day shindig. BIG SELLERS now at Gene Woo's Hoa Hoa Inn on Novi Road off 14 Mile in Novi are not Oriental dishes ... The Mongolian rack of lamb, a seven- or eight-bone rack of delicacy, is $17.95 ... Chilean sea bass has boomed in sales, $15.95 ... and the 14-ounce Certified Angus New York steak, $17.95 ... All • include soup, egg roll and dessert. QUESTION & ANSWER DEPT. ... "Do you know why Cafe Venezia on 11 Mile and Middlebelt in Farmington Hills closed, and if and when it will reopen? My wife and I used to go there and enjoy the food very much. It wasn't fancy; but the food was great and the prices were very reasonable" ... Jerry Natinsky. As far as I have been able to find out, that old scourge, lack of business, finally took its toll. Too bad that more people like you and your wife couldn't have also felt the same way. CHICKEN IS STILL king and queen at Frankenmuth's Bavarian Inn ... and its second annual Chicken Jamboree, going on now to Feb. 7, is giving folks a chance to have many of the featured entrees along with those famed all-you-can-eat chicken dinners that about 75 percent of the almost a million people go through each year. NOW HE'LL SEE some of the other side with Chef Jeff Baldwin being boss of his own restaurant ... Former long- time executive chef at Mac & Ray's, Jeff, who also helped open Van Dyke Place and Whitney, has taken on new worries with opening of J. Baldvvin's Restaurant & To Go (the latter with a variety of home meal replacement items) on 18 Mile and Garfield in the Hunters Pointe Center, Clinton Township. GIVE CONGRATULATIONS to Sharon Schultz next time you are at Giorgio's Gourmet Diner in West Bloomfield on a weekend ... The Friday, Saturday and Sunday hostess and night manager, has been named Flight Attendant of the Year for Northwest Airline's Detroit base at Metro Airport. AFTER MORE THAN 50 years, Jerry Gurwin has closed his Gurwin's Autobody Klinic on 8 Mile in Detroit ... Health problems and a long hospital stay were the cause ... Thankfully he is home and recovering ... Jerry is retired now, but when he gets well, I don't think he will stay out of work for long. NEW HOME OF Kabobgy Mediterranean restaurant around February will be the former location of House of Hunan on Northwestern Highway n Southfield. OPERATION THAT'LL take over former La Shish location in West Bloomfield's Orchard Mall will not open as another restaurant ... It will be part of the Annie Sez chain of off-price women's clothing. ADDITIONS MADE TO its already large Mexican menu have already become overnight favorites at Ole Ole Southwestern Bar & Grill on the corner of 14 Mile and Walled Lake Road in Novi. Southwestern salmon, grilled North Atlantic filet with a special Ole Ole salsa, $14.95; Southwestern shrimp grilled on skewers with onions, peppers and chipotle sauce, $12.95; chicken bandito pasta, grilled breast with chopped veggies and an Alfredo salsa sauce, $12.95. GOOD EMPLOYEE DEPT ... Bill Gregory and Tom St. Cyr, likeable managers at Jax Kar Wash on Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield ... Both hard-to-find breeds, with keen interest in customer satisfaction to go with their personable politeness. TALK IS THAT still another steak house will be opening in Troy ... 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