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Wine Cellar Sorbet is a brand new treat with a vintage.
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YOU MUST BE 21 or older to
order and enjoy the new feature
at Small Plates Royal Oak on Main Street
... It's quite a unique up to 5 percent
alcohol content menu addition now being
served called Wine Cellar Sorbet ... Small
Plates Royal Oak is the first Michigan
restaurant to have the Wine Cellar Sorbet
drinks with flavors like champagne,
Riesling red, sangria rojo, pinot noir
and cabernet ... Sake and port are also
planned ... Also check out the fine blend-
ed sorbet concoctions of General Manager
Scott Badoff.
Small Plates Royal Oak was the site of
an early wedding present for Daniel Kahn,
son of community-ites Ted and Rhoda
Kahn, who'll wed Janet Williamson, Aug.
30 ... He was the recipe winner of the
restaurant's recent Pizza Contest that will
be featured on Channel 2 and offered at
the eatery.
READER MINI REVIEW ... "My
wife and I had dinner at Rice Bowl
Asian Kitchen, the Chinese and Thai
restaurant in the Millender Center on
East Jefferson in downtown Detroit. It is
an off the beaten path little place with
great food, which we found to be rea-
sonably priced.
"Sharon had the delightful Sesame
Shrimp, lightly breaded in a sweet and
tangy sauce. We shared the wonder-
ful Shrimp Egg Foo Young patties that
were nearly the size of softballs and the
shrimp inside as big as my thumb. I had
the Shrimp in Lobster Sauce that took me
back to the old days at Atlantic Gardens on
Linwood and Chung's in Detroit.
"All the meals, lunch or dinner, at
with many glatt kosher
Rice Bowl are under $10. A
American choices. It is under
tag worn by the friendly and
supervision of the Council
efficient wait staff says, 'Nee
of Orthodox Rabbis." ...
How?' which is Chinese for
Barbara Cohen
`Hi, how are you?' ... Dennis
ON-THE-PREMISES own-
Green
ership of two restaurants is
THE MINESTRONE
not the easiest thing, as Boris
SOUP folks enjoy so much at
Isralov has found out ... Now
Buddy's Pizza, Northwestern
that his former Boris' Deli,
Hwy., Farmington Hills, is
Danny Raskin
name changed to 865 Deli, on
from the original recipe
Senior Columnist
Maple and Farmington Road,
of community-ite Marlene
West Bloomfield, is under
Nessel who gave it to son
new ownership, he can devote more time
Mark Nessel when he was its kitchen
to needed training of service employ-
manager ... Super Buddy's gal Laverne
ees at his Siegel's Deli on Maple, west of
Hatchet improvised with it, and, as a
result, minestrone has become one of the Haggerty, Commerce Township ... Siegel's
Deli joins the list of delicatessens that
most popular soups at Buddy's Pizza ...
serve the traditional straight noodles with
Lavern's other wonderful soups are far
its chicken soup instead of those curly
from taking back seats ... Chicken noo-
pasta things.
dle (with straight, not curled noodles),
GOOD BARTENDER DEPT. ...
cream of broccoli, chunky vegetable and
Folks call him Mitch, but that's not his
New England clam chowder.
name ... It's Michael Mitchell, mixolo-
The regular Buddy's square pizza is
gist supreme in the lounge at Ginopolis'
always a huge favorite ... but also receiv-
ing big note is the Neopolitan-style crispy, On the Grille, 12 Mile and Middlebelt,
Farmington Hills ... His expert tap-
thin-crust square pizza made with salt-
ster talents, smiles, good listening and
water yeast flour and no oil.
friendly patter are excellent make ups for
MAIL DEPT. ... "My sons, Jason and
important bar-counter conviviality ...
Scott Cohen, have been to Israel several
Knowing customer likes and dislikes, too,
times. In 1998, Jason stayed there, com-
go a long way toward making guys and
pleted his studies and is now certified as
gals in this profession truly important
a rabbi.
assets ... Whether it's Mitch or Mike, he's
"Among the food he misses most is
for sure one of these bar folks.
Chinese, but whenever Jason would
AN AMBITION HOPEFULLY will
come back home, there were no kosher
become a reality as the new Johnny
Chinese restaurants here for me to take
Pomodoro's takes over the former Nino
him to. However I came across one that
Salvaggio Strawberry Hills Market, 14
Jason thoroughly enjoyed. It is called
Mile and Middlebelt, Farmington Hills
Rami's on Lincoln in Oak Park, with a
... Dan Sonnenberg, son of the late com-
large glatt kosher Chinese menu along
201 S Old Woodward Avenue • Birmingham MI 48009
248.594.7300 • www.forterestaurant.com
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August 14 • 2008
munity-ites Jack and Shirley Sonnenberg,
who'll partner with John Taormina in
opening the market, had visions of a
mom-and-pop style of market where
the owners know its customers by name
as in yesteryears, among other close-
knit relationships ... The name Johnny
Pomodoro's is a combination of Dan's
partner's name and Pomodoro, meaning
tomato in Italian ... Dan's wife, Julie, is
the daughter of community folks Charlotte
and Dr. Meyer Arbil.
REMEMBERING WHEN DEPT. ...
The Catskill Mountains in New York
had all those great comedians, Alan
King, Jackie Mason, Shecky Greene, Red
Buttons, Totie Fields, Milton Berle, Henny
Youngman, Rodney Dangerfield, Buddy
Hackett, Sid Caesar and so many others
... They didn't have to use any off-color
words to get laughs, just funny things like,
"The doctor gave a man six months to live.
The guy couldn't pay his bill so the doctor
gave him another six months" or "A bum
said to the Jewish fellow, `Give me $10 till
payday','When is payday?', `I don't know,
you're the one that's working.'
CONGRATS ... To Frank Kozin on his
74th birthday ... To Regine Rosenbaum
on her 75th birthday ... To Ken Chupack
on his 60th birthday ... To Jerry Bobroff
on his 66th birthday ... To Edwin "Tut"
Menzel on his birthday ... To Terry Brown
on his birthday ... To Gary Tringale on his
51st birthday.
GET WELL WISHES ... To Mort
Trotsky at Danto Health Care Center. II
Danny's e-mail address is
dannyraskin@sbcglobal.net .