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Pickles & Rye keeps diners coming back with its innovative menu.
T
he first year is almost always the
second-year indications have
comfortable booths and tables
most difficult … A restaurant
already told them loudly and
… Hours are Monday-Friday,
must go through many opening
clearly that continued success
10 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday and
pains before seeing any semblance of suc-
has a wonderful chance at
Sunday, 9-9.
cess.
being a regular happening.
It might be noted that
First-year problems that might occur
Among the needed things
although serving the usual deli
in the front or back of the eatery include
were innovations that would
fare, this is definitely not your
necessary menu and feature alterations, if
meet customer pleasure …
ordinary Jewish delicatessen
needed, etc. … Previous experience may
Like having delicatessen fare
… There is a difference … as
help a lot, but new openings many times
that may not be obtainable
many patrons have discovered
Danny Raskin
present glitches that the owners may
elsewhere, such as dill pickle
with
much delight during the
Senior Columnist
never have seen before.
soup or gluten-free walnut
past year … and notably return
Anniversary No. 2 brings breathing
dried-cherry kugel, as well as
as Pickles & Rye celebrates the
room … and thanks to heaven above that
weekly changed lunch, dinner and salad
beginning of its second anniversary.
the first year has ended with the coveted
features like salmon wild rice blintz with
HE IS GIVEN ALL other kinds of
prize of come-back customer satisfaction
a creamy dill sauce or chicken wild rice
awards for his charitable work, why not
and enjoyment … Be assured that owners
mushroom blintz, etc.
one for National Man of the Year … By
of new restaurants like Rick Therrien and
Also, breakfast highlights on Saturday
helping to raise $177,000 for its causes
Linda Collins feel much better knowing
and Sunday, 6-ounce sandwiches, a
(the goal was $100,000), Joe Vicari, found-
they have passed a stringent test of time
3-ounce sandwich that includes a bowl
er, owner and CEO of the nine Andiamo
that the first year may have offered.
of homemade soup, vegan and vegetable
restaurants in Metro Detroit, one in Las
The first year of their Pickles & Rye
soups, wild mushroom barley soup, low-
Vegas, another at Detroit Metro airport,
Deli, Orchard Lake Road, between 14 and
fat cranberry dill tuna, sweet potato waffle Joe Muer Seafood eatery Downtown and
15 Mile, West Bloomfield Plaza, has prov-
fries, masa-fried pickles, light dinners, etc. others, has another huge honor to hang up
en its mettle with relaxed feelings … That
Double-meat sandwiches are now avail- or put on his mantel … Joe has been given
initial year was difficult … New customers able only on request … Cooked daily
the 2016 National Man of the Year award
were skeptical … Would it measure up to
foods are made from fresh local ingredi-
by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
near the success of a previous deli at the
ents, including those in the much-request-
Joe participated in honor of his late
location, etc.?
ed light dinners presented by Pickles &
friend, Jim Giftos, former head of National
Rick and Linda are not dining newcom- Rye … Although not on the menu, avail-
Coney Island, who passed away in 2011
ers … They know right from wrong and
able, too, are fresh fish, salmon, salmon
after a long battle with a blood cancer
that opening a new deli i is not easy …
patties and more.
related to leukemia … one of the diseases
elicatessen
Rick, a highly touted delicatessen
And for folks feeling like
that $177,000 and much more wages war
or of
diff
man and former director
something different,
how about against.
restaurant operations, and
a pastrami bu
burger, 8-ounce
MAIL DEPT. … from Russi Arden … “I
tor
Angu beef, 4-ounce
Linda, a previous director
Angus
was a bunny at the Detroit Playboy Club
of training for two din-
Sy Ginsberg pas-
on Jefferson from its opening through
t
ing conglomerates, are
trami,
lettuce,
1967 and always enjoyed its great food. We
vastly experienced in
tomato, coleslaw received complimentary issues of Playboy
the operational run-
and pickled
magazine every month. I am very sad that
ning of a successful
onions on a
it has completely changed its format. The
restaurant.
challah roll.
naturally beautiful girls and wonderful
Thankfully, the
Dining
cartoons are sadly missed. No one that I
first-year newness
room seating
know seems to like the change.”
has passed, and
is for 125 at
(Thankfully, Russi, the Playboy Clubs
Linda Collins and Rick Therrien
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still have many of the world’s finest chefs.
The food there has always been among the
best. Not many know the reason why the
magazine format changed, but although
Scott Flanders took over a few months
ago as chief executive officer of Playboy
Enterprises from Christie Hefner, daugh-
ter of founder Hugh Hefner, he might not
have had the last say. Whoever does, hope-
fully he or she puts in some of those great
chefs’ recipes.)
DID YOU KNOW DEPT. … That Dr.
Jordan Meier, head of Karmanos’ Weisberg
Treatment Center, Northwestern Highway,
Farmington Hills, may have begun his
medical career years back as a busboy at
the former Steak & Ale on Northwestern,
Southfield? … It might have been when a
customer grabbed his throat and turned
blue … Jordan applied the Heimlich
maneuver he learned at Southfield-
Lathrup High and out popped the food
stuck in the man’s throat.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE … The company
decided it was time for a change and hired
Morris for the job. He was to rid the com-
pany of all slackers.
On his first tour of the factory, he saw
a young man leaning against a wall and
asked him how much money he makes.
The young man tells him $200 a week and
asks why he wants to know.
Morris hands the man $200 and says,
“Here’s a week’s pay. Get out of here, and
don’t let me see you here again.”
Feeling good about his dismissal, Morris
looks around and asks, “Does anyone want
to tell me what that idiot did here?”
One of the workers replied, “He’s a
delivery guy from Domino’s Pizza!”
CONGRATS … To Rikki Rogow on
her birthday … To Jerry Youkelson on his
65th birthday.
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Danny’s email address is dannyraskin@sbcglobal.net.
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