Arts & Entertainment THE BEST OF EVERYTHING Cool As Ice Wine Cellar Sorbet is a brand new treat with a vintage. p OTPOURRI 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 B16 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 .