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Snippets of news from the Detroit area restaurant scene.

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Generations tasted the
Chinese food of owner Gene
Woo and wife, Ruby, from their 40 years
on Nine Mile in Oak Park as Hoa Kow,
to 11 more years as Hoa Kow of West
Bloomfield in Crosswinds Mall, and the
name change from Hoa Kow to Hoa Hoa
when opening in Novi four years ago
... It is no more as Gene throws in the
towel and puts a padlock on the one-time
popular Chinese restaurant ... He says he
and Ruby have no intention of going back
into the restaurant business.
GRAND OPENING OF the New
Giorgio's Gourmet Diner, Orchard Lake
Road north of Maple, Sugar Tree Plaza,
West Bloomfield, will be celebrated
Sunday, Aug. 3, through Friday, Aug.
22, with 20 percent off everything on
the menu ... No coupon needed ...
New management under Bob Bisgeier
has added items to the menu includ-
ing daily features ... His reputation for
quality food and low prices are contin-
ued.
THOSE ARE TWO more Bernardi fam-
ily members that customers see every
Friday evening during summer at Pepino's,
Walled Lake Road and Pontiac Trail,
Walled Lake ... Don Bernardi assisting
behind the bar and wife, Linda, helping
out hostessing.
SINCE SELLING his Tringale's New
York Pizzeria and Delicatessen on 12
Mile in Southfield about four years ago,
Gary Tringale kept looking to open
another Italian and Jewish food operation

... He still has the one Gary
unwrapped about 20 years ago
on Jefferson and Van Dyke,
Detroit, called Garalino's Pizza
and Deli carryout and delivery
... Gary recently opened the
Troy Merchandise Mart flea
market on Rochester Road, Troy,
where wife, Joan, takes care of
things when he is away, and has
finally found a spot for another
Italian and deli food operation
... It is up north in East Jordan, where
Gary is putting together a convenience
store that will be called A Slice of Italy,
selling Jewish delicatessen and pizza
along with liquor, beer, wine and gas ...
East Jordan connects with Charlevoix and
Boyne City via Lake Charlevoix's south
arm.
IT IS DIFFICULT to put a price on
personal service, especially when a res-
taurant runs out of a certain food and it
can be gotten in a jiffy by simply a phone
call to its supplier ... Most restaurants
that deal with wholesale food distribu-
tors like K. Lefkofsky & Vienna, for exam-
ple, are glad know they can depend on
people like Marty Cook, co-owner with
Dan Lefkofsky, to get them the needed
merchandise.
IT WAS JUST a memento clipped to
their marriage license in remembrance
of a wonderful 1949 honeymoon spent
in Chicago and staying at the luxurious
Palmer House ... Former Detroiters
Arville (Arv) and Joyce Yancher never
gave it a thought that the hotel receipt

they had kept 59 years
would be worth anything
but a memory ... In
Phoenix, Ariz., where they
live, moving from Detroit
in 1961, Ary and Joyce saw
a newspaper promotion
about folks who stayed at
the world-class and pres-
tigious Palmer House over
50 years ago being able
to stay there at the same
price they paid way back then ... Off to
Chicago Ary and Joyce recently went to
spend their 59th anniversary, staying at
the Palmer House Hilton for the same
$10.95 per night as on their honeymoon
... room rate today at the Palmer House
Hilton, noted for its two 24-carat-gold
angels in the lobby and all-around
grand elegance, is around $300 and
upwards a night, with its suites going
for as much as $1,600 nightly ... Arv,
80, owns the Arcadia Antiques store in
Phoenix, and Joyce is 77 ... The catch?
... Show your receipt, which very few
could ... Except Ary and Joyce.
REMEMBERING WHEN ... from
Norman Prady ... "Among the many loca-
tions of the old Dexter-Davison market,
it never was at Dexter and Davison, but
had started out a block south on Dexter
at Waverly Street. One time, while waiting
my turn at the checkout, a woman with a
shopping cart loaded with enough for a
family of 12 asked if she could go in front
of me. `I've just got the one basket; she
said.

"And I'll never forget being at the fish
counter when a woman in front of me
responded to the clerk's call for the next
customer. 'I'm Mrs. So-and-So and I'm
here for my standing order.' The clerk
turned to a fellow worker for guidance
as to who this person was and what she
might want. 'She comes in every week for
a quarter-pound of lox.' Okay,' the clerk
nodded, and proceeded to prepare the
order. `Let me see what you've got on the
wax paper, the woman said.
"Examining the lox the clerk held up for
her, she exclaimed, `That's too much.' But
ma'am, it's your standing order. Exact, to
the ouncenisten, young lady, I've had a
standing order here long enough for you
to know that that's too much.'"
WHERE THEY ARE Dept. ... Jerry
Gurwin, former owner of Gurwin's
Autobody Klinic on W. Eight Mile, Detroit,
for so many years is running the show
at Gendel's Collision on Seven Mile and
Wyoming, Detroit ... He's there Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
CONGRATS ... To Karen Marx on her
birthday ... To Sandy Horowitz on her
birthday ... To Stuart Wilhelm on his 75th
birthday ... To Reggie Rosenbaum on his
birthday ... To George Barr on his 99th
birthday ... To Robert Myrick on his 60th
birthday ... To Marty and Faye Weinstock
on their 52nd anniversary ... To Sherman
and Suzanne Mendelsohn on their 58th
anniversary. LI

Danny's e-mail address is

dannyraskin@sbcglobal.net .

201 S Old Woodward Avenue ■ Birmin •
248.594.7300 • www.forterestaura

July 31 • 2008

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