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The Wait Is
Almost Over!

Danny Raskin

Senior Columnist

Second Joe Muer

Seafood to open

in early June.

Joe Vicari

What has become an obses-
sion for being flawless has
been holding up the opening of
Joe Vicari’s newest restaurant.
Joe is noted for wanting
the best possible at all his
Andiamo restaurants and
Joe Muer Seafood in Detroit’s
Renaissance Center, but his
continuous desire for near
perfection has already played
major parts in the causing of
three delays for the opening of
a second Joe Muer Seafood in
Bloomfield Hills.
However, now it has defini-
tively been finalized … and in
Joe’s hopeful words … “This is
it!” … That second Joe Muer
Seafood Bloomfield Hills in the
former Kingsley Inn (soon to
be Hilton DoubleTree Hotel),
Woodward, will open on
Wednesday, June 7, to Sunday,
June 11, for dinner only, 4-11
p.m., to get the staff in proper
readiness … After, lunch and
dinner weekly beginning
Monday through Saturday,
11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. … Sunday
brunch every week 10 a.m.-3
p.m. and then dinner 4-9 p.m.
Two days prior, Monday, June
5, will be a charity opening.
REMEMBERING WHEN
… Back in the days of
Prohibition, a house stood
on Lothrup between Second
and Woodward that today is
the fine Cuisine French-style

N OT T I N G H I L L

of W EST B LOOMFIELD

restaurant owned by Executive
Chef Paul Grosz … In those
days of yore, personalities were
also seen there … after look-
ing through a peephole in the
door before being let in … They
continued to patronize the site
when it became the 48 Club …
but under the eyes of the law
… The name was changed to
Steak Out, but the interesting
old house hid many memories
and secrets with numerous
folks mighty happy those walls
could not talk.
STRANGE THE new owner
of the former Caucus Club
site in the Penobscot Building,
Detroit, is able to use the
Caucus Club name … Former
owner Mary Belloni, following
original London Chop House
boss folks Les and Sam Gruber,
has the name registered with
the state of Michigan … and
her Caucus Club Catering on
10 Mile in Roseville (no affilia-
tion) has been going strong for
a long time.
This would have been anoth-
er well over 60-year anniver-
sary of the former Caucus Club
… Too bad the new so-named
one isn’t like before as it would
be a huge boon to the present
Downtown dining resurgence
… It certainly deserved to be …
The new Caucus Club look and
menu are almost completely
different … not as they are

OLDIE BUT GOODIE DEPT.
… An elderly Jewish man is
bumped by a car while crossing
the street. He is unhurt, but his
wife persuades him to go to the
doctor, just in case. He returns
home and his wife asks, “What
did the doctor say?”
“The doctor says I have a
flucky,” he said.
“Terrible! What do you do for
a flucky?”
“I don’t know, he didn’t say.”
She tells her neighbors, “My
husband was hit by a car and
now he has a flucky!” The first
neighbor says, “In the old coun-
try, when someone has a flucky,
we always applied cold. Cold is
the best thing for a flucky.”
The second neighbor says,
“What are you talking about?
Cold is absolutely the worst
thing you do for a flucky! We
always applied heat. That’s the
only thing you do for a flucky.”
Cold, heat … Now thoroughly
agitated, the wife calls the doc-
tor herself, “Doctor, please tell
me. What’s wrong with my hus-
band?”
“I told him nothing is wrong.
He got off lucky.”
CONGRATS … To Michael
Hermanoff on his birthday … To
Armen Darakjian on his birth-
day … To Bernie Friedman on
his 75th birthday. •

Danny’s email address is
dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.

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very fondly remembered and
enjoyed by so many prominent
public leaders, politicians,
sports figures, etc. who hoped
and prayed they would again
be continued … Only the valu-
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name has been retained.
MAKING A COUPLE of
yesteryears rounds … To the
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Bernie Glieberman, Al Hacker
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