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onion ... and the Lobster
one-year existence in
Pontchartrain
dish is a duet
the restaurant busi-
of lobster tails lightly dust-
ness is many times
ed and baked and finished
looked upon as a stepping
with a shrimp and jumbo
stone to what is hoped will
crab meat, mushroom and
be a long tenure.
champagne butter sauce.
Here is the case of a spot
There have been few
where the reasoning doesn't
changes
in the year at
hold true because that step-
Seldom Blues ... After all,
ping stone was reached on
D ANNY
like the guy or gal says, if
the very first day it opened.
RA
SKIN
nothing's broken, why fix
Seldom Blues, in Tower
Se nior
it? ... Subtle alterations like
400 of the GM Renaissance
Col
umnist
the menu adapting to
Center in Detroit, is one of
changing needs of guests
the very few restaurants
with lighter fare at lunch,
around that can point to continuous
new desserts and increased seating and
crowds almost every night since open-
ing on June 3 of 2004 ... with no signs tables on the patio.
Live entertainment is still a big thing
of a letdown.
at Seldom Blues ... but changed from
Much of this is due to the gents
seven to six days a week ... with per-
whose partnership has flourished into
formances beginning at 7:30 Tuesday-
a togetherness friendship that continu-
Thursday;
8:30 on Friday; 9:30
ally oozes out onto the many people
Saturday;
noon-4
Sunday ... and the
who have become Seldom Blues regu-
occasional addition of national "name"
lars ... partners Frank Taylor, Robert
acts on Sundays.
Porcher, Alexander Zonjic and Jerry
Nottage.
In the year
since opening,
Seldom Blues
has served
almost
200,000 guests
with food that
has vaulted
Executive Chef
Jerry Nottage
even higher as
a culinary
headliner ...
Dishes like his
excellent sea
bass, including
Chilean,
Seldom Blues partners are Executive Chef Jerry Nottage, front;
BlueBQue,
etc., accounted jazz flutist Alexander Zonjic, back left; ex-Detroit Lion Robert
Porcher, center, and longtime local restaurateur Frank Taylor.
for more than
6,500 pounds
Regular restaurant hours are
being sold as they continually create
Monday-Thursday, 11:30-10; Friday,
raves ... Also, the more than 3,500
11:30-midnight; Saturday, 5-midnight;
pounds of filet and the more than
Sunday
brunch, 11:30-4.
25,000 lobster tails (lobster
The Seldom Blues dining room seats
Pontchartrain, etc.)
300-350, including 50 in a private
The highly popular BlueBQue sea
glassed room ... The large picture win-
bass is floured, seared and finished in
dows look out onto beautiful scenic
the oven ... Before being served, it is
brushed with blueberry barbecue sauce views of the Windsor skyline and the
rippling waves of Detroit River ...
... The filet mignon is served with
Patio seating of 20 also gives an out-
sauce Bordeaux and caramelized pearl
standing look of picturesque magnifi-