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One Mo' Moe's

Wixom location adopts
Moe's on Ten's upscale menu, low prices.

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ecognizing a good thing and
utilizing it to a full extent is
important in the restaurant •
business ... It's not how many custom-
ers come in one time or how many
orders are sold in that period ... The
important result is the amount that
return and how many become steady
patrons.
.
Moe Leon, owner of Moe's on Ten in
Novi, discovered this after changing his
menu to an upside family restaurant
with low prices ... It became so suc-
cessful that he has done the same thing
with his newly named Moe's on Wixom,
where folks can now take another route
for the same fine new family dining
menu they get at Moe's on Ten.
It has met with such large success
that Moe made the name change from
his Leon's to Moe's on Wixom, South
Wixom Road, between 1-96 and Pontiac
Trail, with immediate very welcomed
results.
Concentration is on upscale neigh-
borhood family dining without the
high-level pricing, which has caught on
with much rapidity ... Mind you that
Moe's food items are far from being
frozen and thawed as could be the case
at many family neighborhood dining
spots ... His food is prepared fresh and
includes dishes at difficult-to-believe
low prices.
Dinner favorites like a chargrilled
filet topped with wild mushrooms and
crisp onions, $18..99 ... Lemon chicken
sauteed in lemon butter and tossed with
asparagus, mushrooms and artichokes,
boneless breast herb chicken grilled
with asparagus, spinach and sun-dried
tomato butter sauce, oven-roasted half •
chicken with special lv1oe's seasonings
... each $9.99.
Seating in two areas is 270, plus 100
on the outdoor patio and 15 bar stools
... A large wine closet includes a full
selection of good vino at reasonable
prices.
Moe's on Wixom is much more than
the usual type of family restaurant ...
The meatloaf and fresh roasted turkey
dinners with stuffing and gravy, $8.99
each, are among the better ones to he
found ... A 14-ounce New York strip
steak, chargrilled with sauteed mush-
rooms,.scallions, herb butter and crisp
onions, is a huge dining buy at $15.99,
as is the shrimp scampi, sauteed with

herbs, white wine and capers, $11.99.
All are served with soup or salad,
smashed potatoes, vegetable and made-
at-the-restaurant bread.
Pasta favorites, too, among the biggie
being Moe's on Wixom's Italian seafood
pasta with tomatoes, onions, basil, gar-
lic and white wine, $11.99.
It is a seven-day open restaurant:
serving breakfast, lunch and dinner,
Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.,
Friday and Saturday, 7-11, Sunday, 7-
9 ... Sunday brunch, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. is
$7.95 adults, $4.95, youngsters 10 and
under.
Yes, Moe's excellent soups made by
him, including his big winner, chicken
soup with fresh vegetables and pasta,
$2.99, and Italian fish chowder with
tomatoes and fresh herbs, $3.50, at both
lunch dinner ... All other fine Moe's
soup features are also $2.99.
And of course, there is a fine separate
children's menu ... After all, what is a
good family restaurant without a chil-
dren's bill of fare to let the youngsters
and parents know the youngsters are
very much welcomed?
Moe's On Wixom is directly across
from the Ford Plant, with an outdoor
burgundy canopy that beckons folks to
have some good, wholesome family din-
ing food at hard-to-beat prices.
HE'S BACK LIKE before as man-
ager and counter gent at Steve's Deli,
Bloomfield Plaza, Telegraph at 15 Mile,
Bloomfield Township, and Stan Snitz
couldn't be happier ... No more 95-
hour weeks at the deli bearing his name
on Woodward, where talented Stan no
longer plies his trade.
RESTAURANT CAPSULE ...
It's been around almost 50 years, since
1959 to be exact, always noted as a good
neighborhood family restaurant, but
never really receiving the accolades it
has deserved.
Sila's Dining & Pizza, West 12 Mile,
east of Greenfield, Berkley, the quiet 7-
day-a-week Italian dining spot owned
by Ruth and Rick Hoenle, doesn't have
any impressive sounding dishes or
fancy prices ... Just good ol' plain,
down-to-earth food with a homey
touch that relaxed informal dining usu-
ally brings ... Waitpersons like Nancy
Weinstein, 20-year favorite, and Shelly
Terrien, 10-year veteran at Sila's, are
polite, knowledgeable and efficient, with

smiling gracious-
ness that goes a
long way with the
enjoyable food they
serve.
22nd
ANNIVERSARY
Dinner Show
by Blue Nile
Ethiopian res-
taurants, June 2,
9 Mile, Ferndale,
and June 3, E. Washington, Ann Arbor,
includes complete dinner and lavish_
traditional show, $40 per person.
CHECK SHEETS on the back of
restaurant restroom doors tell a silent
story ... And it is usually about the res-
taurant's cleanliness ... Hourly initials
or names of persons doing the check-
ing, lists of missing things, etc.
THERE'S NOTHING unusual
about restaurants closing ... It's been
going since they were invented ... But
the big question is usually why? ...
If it is lack of amiable communica-
tion between the property owner and
restaurant proprietor, this is sad, since
the restaurant's customers usually bear
the huge loss many times caused by
strained egos, relationships or greed
... If it is for other reasons, there is
more often than not little rationale
why things can't be worked out ... In
these temporary trying times especially,
much bending is needed to alleviate
whatever problems the situations may
have ... Big shame on those who don't
cooperate.
CONGRATS ... To Sharon
Cohen on her birthday ... To Michael
Himelson on his birthday ... To Lisette
and Yossi Benyamin on their 12th anni-
versary.
MAIL DEPT. ... "A number of
years ago, my husband and I went to
a restaurant on Gratiot and Mitchell
in Detroit called Cardinelli's. It was a
small, family-run Italian restaurant that
had the best veal parmesan, green lasa-
gna, pasta, etc., and served wine in cof-
fee cups. I would like to know if any of
the owner's children are still in the busi-
ness and what happened to the recipes
for all that wonderful northern Italian
cooking?" ... Sandra Tarnopol. II

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