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The former Excalibur and Caffe Milano site will get creative as Pi.

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otpourri ...
It won't open until
November, instead
of the original October target
date, with liquor license holdup
the culprit ... But folks will
be pleasantly surprised when
the new Pi restaurant, formerly
Excalibur and Caffe Milano,
Northwestern and Franklin,
Southfield, finally puts on its
c'mon in smiles.
The change in ownership will
bring creative menu selections
from around the world, lower
prices, more casual and elegant
decor, etc. ... Also highlighted
will be a separate selection for
the late crowds ... open Monday
through Saturday until 2 a.m.
with an after-hours tapas menu.
Across the street at the open
Il Posto Italian restaurant, also
taken over by the same new
owners, added has been salad or
soup with all lunch entrees, and
half-off appetizers charges with
dinner entree Monday through
Thursday.
Even the former II Posto
Banquet Hall, now Pi Banquet
Hall, in back of Pi restaurant, has
significantly lowered its per-per-
son prices ... Like the Saturday
dinner buffet, 200 or more
people, $35 per head including
liquor (plus, tax and gratuity).
NOW COMES STILL anoth-
er rumor of a Cheesecake Factory
restaurant to open hereabouts ...
Hearsay is that it will be at the for-

is still going great guns
mer Kmart Office site
at bookstores ... She
on Big Beaver, Troy
was
to be at last year's
... As yet, no confir-
JCC
Jewish Book Fair
mation or denial has
here,
but a mixup pre-
come from Howard
vented
that and it was
Gordon, Cheesecake
supposedly
planned
Factory senior vice
for
this
year
... Sheryll
president of business
recently
spoke
at the
development and
Danny Raskin
Jewish
Book
Council
marketing.
Senior Columnist
in Washington, and
BACK TO
will
be at Jewish book
SCHOOL from
fairs in Hartford and New Haven,
vacation went her students,
Conn., and Columbus, Ohio, but
and so did Sheila Brown ...
is not programmed to appear
But not as assistant principal at
in November at the Jewish
Northville High ... Pert, smiling
and talented Sheila has returned Community Center here.
BEST BUYS Dept. ... The
on the drums and vocals with
10-ounce "Chopped Sirloin" plate
the fine Don Swindell Shuffle
at McVee's, Telegraph between
Play quartet, appearing every
Nine and 10 Mile, Southfield,
Friday and Saturday evening at
with sautéed onions and mush-
Ginopolis' on the Grill, 12 Mile
rooms, soup or salad, vegetable,
and Middlebelt ... and as the
one of four potato choices or
new principal of Belleville High.
CHINESE RESTAURANTS rice, and bread basket with
warm rolls, $11.95.
are on all sides, but Hoa Hoa
ALTHOUGH IT IS still
on Novi Road, south of 14 Mile,
closed, don't be surprised if the
enjoys a creative dish advantage
Morels name resurfaces again as
with items like its excellent
another Matt Prentice restaurant
Mongolian lamb chop rack with
... He admits that the name
hoisin sauce ... It is nowhere
is too valuable to not be used
else to be found in the region
again.
and, at the hardly believable
FOOD FINDS Dept. ... The
price of $17.95 for six tender
pita bread at Happy Days Coney
chops, is quite a menu selection
Island & Grill, Haggerty and 14
deal ... More than double that
Mile, in the shopping center with
price at upscale restaurants is
Hiller's Market ... Thin, made at
not out of the ordinary.
the restaurant and lightly toasted
America's
Great
THE BOOK
... Great with the Happy Days
Delis: Recipes and Traditions by
Greek salad.
former localite Sheryll Bellman

QUESTION & ANSWER
Dept. ...
Q. "I saw on the Stage Deli
carry-out menu pastrami
(regular or lap). What is lap?" ...
Sylvia Rugaman.
A. Lap stands for "lean as pos-
sible."
ORDER OF THE morning
was fun, frivolity and charity in
good health companionship for
about 250 guys and gals trekking
in the fourth annual Walk of
Ages by the Auxiliary for Jewish
Home & Aging Services, at the
Jewish Community Center, West
Bloomfield.
Attendance gets bigger each
year as more folks are finding
out about the pleasure-filled
walk ... And if another group
gets wise and clears its date with
the Jewish Community Council
rather than have one on the
same day ... Just cuts into each
other's attendance and heaviest
sufferers are the charities.
Walk of Ages seen and heard
... Circuit Judge Ed Sosnick lov-
ing the beautiful dog he carried
... George Cantor and his big
smile ... Murray Gula insisting
that his name was not Gala as on
the name tag ... Evelyn "Evie"
Orbach with a grand marshal
name tag almost as big as her
... Dell Warner on the lookout
for some TV news ... Murray
Feldman with word that a new
Bentley restaurant will open
on Drake in West Bloomfield

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... Carol Rosenberg, executive
director of JH&AS, so effer-
vescent and so well-liked by
so many for so long ... Lavish
kudos from many to volunteers
like Geri Margolis, walk adviser
and chairgal of the household
tent sale, among the lads and
lassies who work so hard every
year to make this a big success.
IT WAS HOME town
remembrance time for Joe
Cornell, here recently to attend
the bat mitzvah reception for
Summer Krinsky, daughter
of Joe and Emily Krinsky, at
the Orchard Lake Country
Club ... Joe, who now lives in
California with his movie mom
wife, Kathy, went to Tomatoes
APizza, 14 Mile and Middlebelt,
Farmington Hills, for a pie to eat
at the home of Kathy's mother,
Toni Lafter ... Owner Mike
Weinstein recognized Joe as
his dance teacher over 20 years
ago, and personally made him a
special pizza that Joe says he'll
never forget.
CONGRATS ... To Jody
Jonas on her birthday ... To
Laurie Gates on her birthday ...
To Sandi Yagoda on her birthday
... To Louise Abrams on her
birthday ... To Mary Tarnow on
her 85th birthday.
HEALTHY and happy holi-
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days to everyone! ---

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Holiday wines available.
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