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Wicked Table restaurant in Farmington Hills tickles the taste buds.

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ome people who may have been
prestigious dining career that started with the
involved, at one time, in various facets
Rikshaw Inn in the Orchard Mall years ago,
of the restaurant business often dream
was the former maitre d' at Benny's Chophouse
of the "days gone by" ... To them, those times are
in Chicago and worked together with Penny
just wisps of memories.
at Chicago's Gordon Restaurant some 25 years
Then, there are the ones who venture into
ago ... She was dining room manager and he
more and different phases of the dining game ...
its dining room captain.
those who create a continuous reality.
The high abundance of experience owned
The latter is the story of Penny White and her
by both Penny and Paul offers assurance that,
Danny Raskin
new Wicked Table restaurant that opened in
whatever tweaks might be needed, as almost
Senior Columnist
March in a shopping center at West 10 Mile and
all new restaurants may require, will soon be
Research Drive ... at the traffic light between
taken care of ... These first nine months may
Halsted and Haggerty roads, Farmington Hills.
hardly be long enough for complete improvement ... If any
Penny's memories of working at Dimitri's of Southfield,
should be needed at Wicked Table, the vast experience of
Excalibur and Restaurant Duglass, also managing Gordon
Penny and Paul would certainly make them disappear.
Restaurant in Chicago and the Big Easy in London, England
HARD TO BELIEVE ... If Pepino's is able to open by New
... prompted her to return here to open a Breakfast Club
Year's Eve at its new location on Orchard Lake Road, Sylvan
restaurant in 1999 and, then, three more of the same... She
Lake, it hopefully plans to have basically one seating ... some
sold two of the Breakfast Clubs and continues to own two, in
guests at 8 p.m. and others at 9 ... and maybe only four or
Commerce Township and Madison Heights.
five items on the menu that evening ... What determination
But it wasn't enough to satisfy
after such a heartbreaking and disastrous
Penny's huge desire ... and so
fire in Walled Lake!
came ownership of the full-
DANDY DINING DEAL ... Celebrating
service Wicked Table ... a neigh-
end of construction ... One-Half Roasted
borhood bistro serving casual
Chicken ... $7.95 ... seven days only,
contemporary food at lunch and
Thursday, Dec. 3, through Wednesday,
dinner ... featuring American
Dec. 9 ... Includes soup or salad, redskin
cuisine and international flavors
potatoes, vegetable and bread basket ... No
with seasonal changes ... Also
coupons ... Georges Family Restaurant,
offering a choice wine list, craft
Northwestern Highway, south of Orchard
cocktails and beer.
Lake Road, West Bloomfield.
Penny White
Soups at Wicked Table are
WHEN TALKING OF the success or
homemade, and guacamole is
failure of a restaurant, consider two types
prepared tableside ... Specialties are buttermilk-brined
... those "still in existence" and those "using a name
calamari, lump crab cakes, crab beignets, house pizzas, Thai
Restaurants still active have, obviously, won the race of
spring rolls, etc. ... Home-styled entrees include brandy
time in establishing themselves ... Likewise, most restau-
seared scallops, short-rib ravioli, hanger steak, pan-roasted
rants that have taken an exalted name and continued its style
chicken, 8-ounce filets, British-style fish and chips, three
of operation with some slight menu variations, if needed,
fresh fish dishes daily, etc.
also deserve honored respect.
Seating of 130 includes 110 in the dining room and 20 in
This is not the opinion, however, of some narrow-minded
the bar sector ... A patio is expected to open next spring ...
people who feel that after a certain number of years, a res-
Hours are, Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. for lunch,
taurant or theme, becomes too old to be any good.
and 4-10 p.m. for dinner.
To the contrary, most older restaurants have earned a
Her manager at Wicked Table, Paul Kopko, who began a
certain niche of fine consistency that will never change, like

Roma Cafe, Cafe Cortina, Mario's, Mon Jin Lau, Pepino's, etc.
... and newer "name operations" like the new London Chop
House, Steven Lelli's on the Green, Diamond Jim Brady's,
etc., in most cases, seem to work harder.
REUNION DEPT. ... Wheels have started turning for big
60th by Mumford High's 1956 class ... Saturday, Aug. 13,
2016 ... at Knollwood Country Club, West Bloomfield ... For
more info, call Susan (Klinger) Radner, (248) 669-0889.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE ... It was a sweltering day when
the Greenberg brothers entered the posh offices of the anti-
Semitic carmaker.
"Mr. Jones:' announced Norman Greenberg, "we have an
invention that will revolutionize the automobile industry:'
The carmaker looked skeptical, but their threats to offer it
to the competition kept his interest.
"We'd like to demonstrate it to you in person," they said,
bringing him outside and asking him to enter his black car.
"Please step inside said Hyman Greenberg.
"What!" shouted the tycoon. "Are you crazy? It must be
200 degree in that car!"
"It is:' smiled brother Max Greenberg, "but sit down and
push the white button:'
Intrigued, the magnate pushed the white button. All of a
sudden a whoosh of freezing air started blowing from vents
all around the car, and within seconds the automobile was
not only comfortable, it was quite cool!
"This is amazing!" exclaimed the industrialist "How
much do you want for the patent?"
"The price is $1 million, and we want the name 'Greenberg
Brothers Air Conditioning' to be stamped next to your logo:'
"Money is no problem:' said the carmaker, "but no way will
I have a Jewish name next to my logo on my cars!"
They haggled back and forth and finally settled on $1 1/2
million, but the surname "Greenberg" would be left off.
And that is why today, whenever you enter one of the
anti-Semite's vehicles, only those three brothers' first names
are clearly defined on the air-conditioning control panel ...
NORM — HI — MAX.
CONGRATS
Russi Arden on her birthday ... To Rita
Geiringer on her birthday ... To Ralph Woronoff on his 80th
birthday ... To Michael and Sandy Hermanoff on their 41st
anniversary. *

Danny's email address is dannyraskin@sbcglobaLnet.

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6646 Telegraph
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Bloomfield Plaza

70 December 3 2015

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Italian Cuisine

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Farmington Hills • Corner of Grand River & Haggerty Road
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