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omo’s short time without a
late last month it has shuttered a num-
liquor license has come to
ber of locations across Indiana and
an end. The iconic Ferndale
Michigan — including their Detroit
pizzeria didn’t have such a merry
location on Randolph Street that
Christmas, with orders handed down
opened two years ago. The company
for a 50-day suspension from the
operates locations across the Midwest;
Bureau of Licensing and Regulatory
as well as more than 60 Buffalo Wild
Affairs on Dec. 23. The suspension
Wings Grill & Bar franchises.
was set to run through next month if
Looking for the perfect Jewish
$1,000 in fines went unpaid, but the
Christmas? This year we skipped
restaurant announced its bar was back some of our West Bloomfield favorites
open within a week and that those bills (Sorry, Golden Phoenix and Shangri-
had been paid.
La) and opted for the often-overlooked
The restaurant was pinched
Bloomfield Hills gem Golden
for serving liquor to a 19-year-
Crown (43239 Woodward
old Ferndale Police decoy
Ave.). I love their pan-fried
and bouncing a check — a
noodles and seriously gener-
violation of the state’s liquor
ous portions of almond bone-
licensing law. The restaurant
less chicken. If you’re already
has had its liquor license since
planning for next year, you
1972 and, in that time, has
may want to consider The
faced a baker’s dozen in liquor Ryan
Golden Bowl in Oak Park
law violations.
(22120 Coolidge) or Royal
Fishman
Another public relations
Oak’s Peking House (215 S.
fiasco for Detroit’s Punch
Washington), which has the
Bowl Social — the self-proclaimed
best sizzling rice soup in town.
“dining and entertainment mecca” had
When it comes to salt and soda,
to issue a public apology just a year
I’m inclined to agree with the much-
ago for its disastrous opening week
maligned politicos in New York City
— now they’ve been hit with a flurry
who have taken a lot of heat for trying
of online complaints after the story of
to do right by their constituents. A
a Christmas-week incident between
few years ago, former Mayor Michael
a staff member and a customer went
Bloomberg pushed a ban on oversized
viral. The employee allegedly had
soda servings. Though short-lived, the
some choice words for the woman
idea was brilliant. At the very least it
about the color of her skin, and a bar-
sparked a national dialogue about how
tender then allegedly tried to turn the
many calories we drink and whether
verbal confrontation into a physical
that’s the best choice for our children.
one. That employee was fired, but the
Now the Big Apple is being sued by
company denied any racial undertones the National Restaurant Association
were involved in the incident.
over a regulation requiring the place-
If you missed your shot at a last visit ment of a small saltshaker logo next to
to The Lark, you may be in luck — the menu items that exceed the daily-rec-
rumor mill is buzzing with buyers who ommended limit of 2,300 milligrams
have approached owners Jim and Mary of sodium. Think about that stagger-
Lark about purchasing the name and
ing number before you scream big
reinventing the beloved brand. Former government — a single dish with more
GM Adrian Lark told Crain’s Detroit
salt than you should eat in a day.
Business her family could sell as early
We’re not talking about a skull and
as this month.
crossbones, just a little image that like-
If you’re truly impatient, their for-
ly won’t discourage the habit, but serve
mer chef John Somerville has already
as a reminder to those inclined to
landed on his feet; wisely picked up
watch what they eat that they should
by Steven Lelli’s Inn on the Green in
look elsewhere on the menu.
Farmington Hills. Mark Zarkin broke
The bottom line — government gets
the news on his Facebook, sharing
in the way plenty, but now that we’re
Somerville’s new title. He’ll join an
shouldering the cost of health care for
already amazing team as their execu-
every American, it’s about time we
tive chef de cuisine.
take some preventative steps to get this
Growing from humble roots in
country a bit more healthy.
Berkley just eight years ago, you could
MAZEL TOVS
say Bagger Dave’s Burger Tavern
Happy birthday to Jonathan Podolsky
ran before it could walk. Diversified
and Blair Pesses.
Restaurant Holdings Inc. announced
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