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Back-To-The-Future Pizza Biz

Local couple to launch new frozen food concept.

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OTPOURRI
between 12 and 13 Mile,
After being open three years
West Bloomfield, is noted
and then selling their New York
for authentic preparations of
Pizza and Deli restaurant, one seemed to
northern Indian food with its
feel that Gary and Joanie Tringale would
use of traditional ingredients
someday be back in the pizza business.
like yogurt, ghee (clarified
This time, it won't be as a sit-down
butter), etc. ... North Indian
restaurant ... Gary and Joanie are in the
dining, such as enjoyed at
process of launching a new frozen pizza
House of India, includes its
into the market.
use of Tandoori ovens with
It will be called Tringale's Pizza
their charcoal-fired flames for
Pinwheels, "A Pizza with a Twist"
the luscious breads, chicken,
Their previous pizza and deli spot was a
kebabs and so many other
new twist in itself ... with the delicatessen
dining delights.
part soon after also including many dishes
Vegetarians love House of India, with its
that the famed Darbys restaurant had
large selection of veggie items ... The choic-
served more than 40 years before.
es do much in bringing out the true realism
The name originally thought of was
of most Indian restaurants because so many
Giuseppe Weinberg's, then Pizzelli's
people these days have centered their diets
Since Joanie is Jewish (Adell) and Gary is
around the vegetarian way of dining.
Italian, the Tringale's New York Pizza and
Northern Indian cuisine as presented
Delicatessen was used.
by House of India also takes in delicious
A sandwich was also named after the
breads like roti made in its Tandoori
manager and masseur at Harry Meltzer's
oven, flaky Indian bread with styles of
Oakland Bath House, called a "Toots
vegetarian and non-vegetarian fillings,
Burger" ... Chopped
etc. ... And certainly
liver was made by
not to be forgotten
Joanie from her grand-
are the special breads
mother's recipe and
like Onion Kulcha or
Gary's lasagna was also
Paratha stuffed with
from a recipe by his
potatoes and, of course,
grandmother.
the Naan bread filled
There was an egg
with cheese or garlic or
cream drink without
minced lamb.
eggs, which is like that
Don't let the store-
in New York where it
front look in a shop-
Gary and Joanie Tringale
is most famous ... The
ping strip center fool
original egg cream
you ... The authenticity
drink is just with chocolate syrup, milk
of House of India food is without question.
and carbonated water.
OUR LAKES are always good places for
It will be interesting to see what Gary
friendly competition and viewing enjoy-
and Joanie come up with this time.
ment as they are crowded with folks put-
CONSIDERED AMONG the finest res-
ting on July 4 fireworks displays ... and
taurants of its culture in the Detroit met-
those who come for the luscious vittles as
ropolitan area, it is unsung by many whose well as to see the striking shows that light
numerous quiet visitations to it are mainly up the skies.
kept to themselves.
The ones on Walnut Lake in West
Bloomfield this year might have lost some
House of India, Orchard Lake Road,

Fine Italian Dining in a Casual Atmosphere

of their glamour with Benson
Ford and his rented barge miss-
ing from action ... However,
his closest "competition" by
Bruce and Denise Seyburn
more than made up for Ford's
show not being there.
Smaller displays lit up the
sky and wide-eyed watching
was the thing to do by people
like those at Morris Margulies'
shindig ... Sons Andrew and
Adam Margulies and their
buddy guys and gals, his
friends Rhonda Ginsburg, Paul and Ruth
Chosid, who attended both by Morris and
the Seyburns, Dr. Mike Sherbin, Jeremy
Brand and Shelly Bordelove, Harvey
Singer, Dr. Andrew and Lori Bonin, Steve
and Lisa Kaplan, and so many others.
The big mob at Margulies' shindig ate a
lot of hamburgers and hot dogs, but miles
apart from those 61 Nathan's hotties con-
sumed by Joey Chestnut in 10 minutes at
a competition in New York, even though
Morris had juicy Hebrew Nationals.
HE WON'T BE IN the movie, but
Marvin Yagoda will be well represented ...
Ten of the pinball machines owned by his
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
on Orchard Lake Road, Farmington
Hills, were rented for the film, Superman
vs. Batman: Dawn of Justice with Ben
Affleck, being produced in Pontiac at the
Michigan Motion Picture Studios owned
by Chairman and CEO Linden Nelson and
A. Alfred Taubman, John Rakolta, etc.
JUST ANOTHER WRONG rumor ...
That owner George Lukaj has sold Georges
restaurant on Northwestern Highway,
West Bloomfield ... He has been spending
much time at his new eatery, Fifth Tavern
on Telegraph north of Square Lake Road,
Bloomfield Township, and divides his
schedule between the two operations ...
The young man and gal who customers see
all the time now are George's son Anton
Lukaj and his wife, Jennifer ... George's

wife, Teresa, is in the back carryout sector.
LATEST GIG BY former Detroiter,
world-renowned concert pianist David
Syme, son of the late Rabbi M. Robert
Syme of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield
and brother of Rabbi Daniel Syme of
Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township,
recently wowed a huge audience with his
flying fingers at the National Concert Hall,
Ireland's equivalent of New York's Carnegie
Hall ... He will be in Cleveland Oct. 21,
with hopes of appearing here around that
time ... David has many followers in the
local area who certainly wish that possibil-
ity becomes a reality.
REUNION DEPT. ... All-years event by
Paul L. Best Elementary School (now John
F. Kennedy School), Oak Park, is Sunday,
Aug. 17, noon-4 p.m., at Farina's Banquet
Center, 2485 Coolidge, Berkley ... Contact Eve
Silberman, (734) 663-8756, evesilbermanA2@
gmail.com, or Jonathan Nachman, (248) 390-
3768, or Mike Gerber, (248) 302-2947.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE DEPT. ... The
main course at the big civic dinner was
baked ham with glazed sweet potatoes.
Rabbi Cohen regretfully shook his head
when the platter was passed to him.
"When:' scolded Father Kelly playfully,
"are you going to forget that silly rule of
yours and eat ham like the rest of us?"
Without skipping a beat, Rabbi Cohen
replied, "At your wedding reception,
Father Kelly."
CONGRATS ... To Taylor Chimoff on
her 22nd birthday ... To Ilene Lubin on her
birthday ... To Harvy Berman on his birth-
day ... To Lauren Kunin on her birthday ...
To Annabelle Chaikin on her 95th birthday
... To Simone Vitale on his birthday ... To Jo
Thompson on her birthday ... To Eileen Foon
on her birthday ... To Suzanne "Suzie" Katz
on her birthday ... To Sam Essick on his
94th birthday ... To Herbert "Herb" and
Cerle Clifford on their 55th anniversary.

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