$1.00 OFF a grande size caramel marvel (when you present this coupon) Lee Garden presents an enjoyable expe- rience. THREE OF ITS many wonderful features in a fine reputation ... excellent food, superior service and magnificent ambience ... combined still again in showing why Cafe Cortina is ranked among America's top Italian restaurants. This time, more than 70 people attended another grand display of ele- gant cuisine served by teams of waitper- sons each presenting the lavish dining display concurrently ... coupled with paired wines and the launch of Academia Barilla's latest elite brands of olive oils, balsamic vinegars and pro- sciutto. It was hosted by Cafe Cortina, Farmington Hills; Academia Barilla, manufacturer of Italian foods in Italy, and Cauley Ferrari Maserati in West Bloomfield. The magnificent vinegars range from $14 to $150, and can be gotten at Cauley, Hiller's Markets, Nino Salvaggio and Papa Joe's. WHEN ORDERING one of the big lobster favorites at Shangri-La in West Bloomfield's Orchard Mall, ask your server for lobster with ginger and green onions ... That's the delicious dish so many folks are talking about ... If you ask for Lobster Cantonese, you'll get it with chopped meat and vegetable and covered with black bean sauce ... The cut-up and cracked lobster with ginger and scallions comes on a bed of luscious soft angel hair noodles. YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE one of the waiters at Carl's Chop House on Grand River in Detroit and wonder what he is doing away from Las Vegas. Max Igol has been at Carl's four years after working in Las Vegas, but not as a waiter ... The nephew of Boris and Gary Greisdorf, is the same gent who years back fitted so many with glasses at Metropolitan Optical in Orchard Mall. Max had left the optical game for school in Nevada to learn dealing cards and wound up in Las Vegas as a black- jack dealer at El Cortez and Nevada Club and poker at the Four Queens. WHILEPERFORMING at the old Town Pump on Cass in Detroit years ago, among other spots here, "Saucy Sylvia" Stoun used to wow the audience with her comedy and song at their pianos ... Today as "Saucy Sylvia" Mureddu, she is still going strong, 60 years later. Her DVD Here's Sauey! takes in the evolution of a career that spans these many years ... and includes much footage of "Saucy" in action behind the piano with an amazing memory for names and lyrics. SOME OF THE concoctions were different and contained items seldom seen in the popular dish ... But the judges sorted things out and selected three winners from the 14 entries in the Second Annual Kevin Sofferin Memorial Chili Cook-Off at Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park ... Karen Richards took first prize, Greg Sleeman was second and Terry Selman third ... Judging was by Oak Park Mayor Gerald Naftaly, Jerry Milen, 95.5 FM, and myself CONGRATS ... To Hersh Gross on his 57th birthday ... celebrated at Hersh's Clippers Barber Salon in Southfield's Applegate Square with deli- cious cake made by Kelly Anderson, Clippers' upper-body masseuse. MAIL DEPT ... "Charleston is great. I see an average of three to four Detroiters a week and the restaurant is what people are calling my "grand slam," referring to Tapawingo, Tribute and now the Charleston Grill. It is awe- some and the food incredibly good." ... Mickey Bakst, former maitre d' and manager at Tribute. TRIBUTE'S FORMER executive chef Takashi Yagahashi will open the new Okada, one of 18 restaurants at the new Wynn Las Vegas Hotel in April ... At $2.5 billion, it will be Las Vegas' most expensively built ... Steve Wynn's former Bellagio cost $1.2 billion. WHERE THEY ARE DEPT ... Lou DeCillis, former owner of Savino Ices, then Savino Frozen Desserts with its fat- free ice cream, a business he built into a giant from a little 800-square-foot ice cream and sherbet shop ... 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Expires 7/31/05 QUESTION & ANSWER DEPT Q "My wife and I keep a kosher home and used to love the Chinese food at Bernstein-On-Essex Street in New York. Did you ever eat there? ... And is it true that a restaurant like it is supposed to open in Royal Oak" ... Lawrence D. A. ... I sure did, and also enjoyed it, especially the Chicken Bernstein stuffed with bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and pastrami and covered with Chinese vegetables ... About the restaurant pur- portedly opening in Royal Oak, no, nothing like Shmulka Bernstein's place, but word is that a kosher restaurant with a sushi bar is supposed to open at the former location of W.O.W. on Woodward south of 14 Mile. O Danny Raskin's e-mail address is dannyraskin@sbcglobal.net Budget Generators 24 Hour Emergency Service Home & Commercial Generator Systems Installed I Permits Additional *10 ft gas line I 15 ft cable included What a Shayner Ponim!! Was your mug in the Jewish News? 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