Arts & Entertainment THE BEST OF EVERYTHING A Bad Deal Restaurants need true partners to thrive. p OTPOURRI One of the biggest scourges of the restaurant business over the years has been partnership problems ... In most cases, this inevitably led to a res- taurant's closing ... Various tribulations usually contributed to the ill-fated lack of success, but in most cases, it boiled down to the partners having a lack of knowledge about each other ... Taking on partners without really knowing one another can sometimes be problematic, but in many instances not difficult to rectify. A SIGN ASKS customers to place their order at the cashier before sitting down at Pei Wei Asian Diner on 14 Mile and Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills ... A large menu-filled blackboard hangs on the wall, from which the choices are made ... However, there are also printed menu sheets that folks are taking to the table they want to save and after making their selections, get up to order and receive a number to hang on their table ... There is no hot coffee at Pei Wei or its next door neighbor, Potbelly Sandwich Works ... Pei Wei does have hot tea. I SORT OF figured and was right, that owner Steve Goldberg wouldn't fool around with tradition and not have the proper kind of noodles for his chicken soup at Stage Deli, West Bloomfield ... If there was one more thing that his mom and dad, Harriet and Jack Goldberg, always insisted on was that their Jewish food be with true Jewish tradition ... Real straight noodles, not those curly pasta whatevers that so many places put in their chicken soup. IN FULL VIEW at George's Also some delicious-sound- Honey Tree, Northwestern ing entrees like baked ruby Highway, Farmington Hills, are trout stuffed with lobster actual displays on dishes of the and lump crabmeat, etc. lunch and dinner specials for GOOD WAITER DEPT. that day ... A good looking and ... A lot of folks know Jim very interesting exhibit instead Schulze as the efficient, of just the lighted blackboard in courteous and knowledge- back of it. able wait person at Tribute, IT'S WITH THE blessings 12 Mile, Farmington Hills Danny Raskin of band leader Simone Vitale Senior Columnist ... But many also remember that Royce Javan, Simone's him as the same likeable gent previous lead singer, is now on customers asked for so much his own by Royce's request ... He and a at the former Excalibur in Southfield. pianist are Wednesday evenings at Grace's ANOTHER RUMOR to bite the dust Underground in Ferndale and every other is that about kosher caterers Jeffrey Thursday at Oxford Inn, Royal Oak, billing Rosenberg and Phil Tewel merging their himself without the last name, as Royce talents ... Jeff remains sole caterer at "the Voice:" his Farmington Hills Kosher Catering NO KEEPING HIM DOWN, as Joe and Adat Shalom Synagogue, where he Vicari continues to invade locations in is celebrating his 36th year ... Phil and the Metro Detroit area ... His most recent his Jewel Kosher Caterers continue to do opening, Andiamo Livonia, makes No. affairs as usual, with the two kosher kids 11 in Joe's Andiamo Restaurant Group having an exclusive togetherness arrange- (not including his other eateries like five ment to go 50-50 only on parties that Phil Country Inns, Mesquite Grill, Shield's and r is Jewel Kosher Caterers bring rent- Pizza and Post Bar, along with the lone free to Adat Shalom ... That's all there is non-dining spot, Detroit Chemical & to it, folks. Paper Supply) ... Wall-to-wall people, DID YOU KNOW that the local Jewish no exaggeration, at the former Cooker's community has its own air force? ... completely gutted to look like something Well not exactly, but sort of a club whose in Joe's vein of decor, music by Royce "the members are all flying devotees with Voice" Javan trio, food stations and people their own aircraft Chai Flyers is the no doubt wondering what's next for Joe. only group of Jewish pilots in the Metro FALL MENU add-ons at Seldom Blues Detroit area ... Its membership of 42, in the GM Renaissance Center are mouth- including two women, meets every month, watering ... Appetizers like Buffalo frog September through June, at Temple Beth legs, maple barbecued quail and butter- El in Bloomfield Township, with speak- nut squash and pumpkin bisque soup ... ers who cover topics pertaining to avia- tion like safety, maintenance, medical, unusual planes, fun places to fly to, etc. ... Members also meet weekly for breakfast at the Big Boy restaurant on M-59 near Pontiac Airport and usually have four or more planes flying somewhere for lunch Chai Flyers membership includes a 747 captain, several physicians, dentists, attorneys and a variety of others who use their planes for transportation around the country plus giving rides to young future aviators ... It also volunteers for Operation Good Cheer to deliver holiday gifts throughout the state of Michigan ... To join Chai Flyers, contact Judy Schwartz, secretary-treasurer, at (248) 851-4935 or icanflytoo@comcast.net . GOOD EMPLOYEE DEPT. ... Lainie Way, dermatology doctor Steven Shumer's fine nurse at his Southfield office, the mold of how people in her position should be ... Dedicated, patient caring and so very efficient. WHERE THEY ARE ... Tom Altenburg at the piano and songstress Debbie Geverink, Friday and Saturday evenings at G. Subu's Leather Bottle on Farmington Road, Livonia ... 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