Ente nment E _ST OF EV Class On Cass Midtown Shangri-La gets A+ raves around the Wayne State campus. M any folks thought she must carts 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and there- ing an elegant, first-class have known something or has a after the menu ... Chinese din- dining venue with the best far-reaching vision or else why ners include 15 combinations of Italian specialties. Adrian would she decide to open another restau- with entree, egg roll and fried took over the restaurant with rant in so soft an economy in a chance rice, all $8 ... Many of the Thai his mother decades ago, fol- area ... Especially, too, since another suc- favorites are difficult to find lowing his father Adriano's cessful restaurant of hers was doing so elsewhere. death, when he had just well in another locale. Cholada comes about five graduated the Michigan State Cholada "Nancy" Chan had no inten- times a week to supervise University School of Hotel tion of it being another Shangri-La like and smile pretty ... Raymond and Restaurant Management. Danny Raskin her highly respected operation in West Wong is restaurant manager, Senior Columnist He is a warm, gentle young Bloomfield's Orchard Mall ... But when and Cholada's son Joey Chan is man who treats his guests like Sue Mosey, president of the University bar manager. treasured friends and is not Cultural Center Association, told her about She may not have realized it fully, but above stepping up to refold a napkin if a a vacancy in the building owned by Lorna Cholada Chan and the midtown sector of guest steps away from the table. The best Abraham, Cholada took a look-see and Detroit, make a wonderful combination ... managers are ones who know and do all envisioned a changeover her way at the Her presence there with Midtown Shangri- the jobs of a restaurant. former Twingo's locale. La is has proven to be a fine addition to "Cafe Cortina makes and sells its own This year in September what has become an unbe- pasta sauce, which is out of this world. I it will be two years since lievably wonderful bubbling always keep two jars in the house in case Cholada opened Midtown of community pride. I need them. Special honors should go Shangri-La on Cass Avenue,. IT'S ALMOST a done to Cafe Cortina's Chef Jeffrey Hoffman's Detroit, in the heart of deal, and the announce- special dessert, a light lemon custard with and surrounded by opera- ment will be big with final a melange of cashews and other nuts, tions that have made the signing of the lease ... topped with chocolate shavings. So light area a very viable location News is about the former and delicious. with teeming activity ... prominent restaurant to be "I was very impressed with the Old Midtown Shangri-La has opened again in Downtown World elegance and service at Cafe become a huge favorite with Detroit ... Out of personal Cortina. Every want or need was attended Cholada "Na ncy" Chan employees and students respect for the new owner, to without asking. The Mediterranean sea from Wayne State University nothing else can yet be bass was carefully deboned at the table- with its campus and dormitories, and revealed ...Also, still on a hot fire is word side and a napkin was discreetly used to workforces of Henry Ford Health System, that the famed London Chop House, too, cover the skin and bones while the fish Detroit Medical Center, Detroit Public will be reopened ... Their realities will was served. The cappuccino was served Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, etc.... all bode well that the restaurant business is with clarified sugar. This kind of presenta- of whom have done wonders for the area definitely on the rise again ... which brings tion and service is woefully missing in Midtown Shangri-La is open six days a very great feeling. many of our high-end venues." ... Dr. Susan a week, Monday-Thursday 11-10; Friday- READER MINI REVIEW ... "My hus- Harold Saturday, 11-midnight, closed Sundays ... band, Harold Schreiber, and I recently DANDY DINING DEAL ...10 12 ounce Seating for lunch and dinner is 99 with dined at Cafe Cortina [Farmington Hills]. broiled whitefish, soup or salad, potato Chinese, Thai and dim sum selections ... Adrian Tonon and his mother, Rina Tonon, or vegetable, $7.95, Thursday, March 31, Dim sum, about 50 choices, is served from are doing an incredible job in maintain- through Thursday, April 7 ... George's - Honey Tree, Northwestern Highway, West Bloomfield. QUESTION & ANSWER DEPT. ... "Before we were married, my husband, Maxwell, and I loved going to Healthy Jones on Northwestern [Southfield], but wasn't there another restaurant like it also on Northwestern?" ... 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