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Steve’s Deli

ESTHER ALLWEISS INGBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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register display the deli’s private-label
hicken soup, or “Jewish peni-
items, including bagels, bread, drizzled
cillin,” is the food many people
popcorn, candy and other nibbles.
crave when fighting a cold. I’ve
Catering is the third prong of the suc-
traveled 20 minutes to Steve’s Deli in
cessful Steve’s Deli business.
Bloomfield Hills to obtain a large glass
Chef Val runs a scratch kitchen
jar of their house-made chicken soup.
Brimming with noodles, white chicken and hasn’t missed a day in his almost
25 years with Steve’s.
and carrots, this heavenly
He interprets Joanee
concoction could make
Hurwitz’s menu ideas
anyone feel better.
and offers his own. The
Joanee Hurwitz oper-
chef ’s daughter, Shifra,
ates Steve’s Deli, a Jewish-
shares co-manager duties
style but not kosher
with Ron Forman, former
restaurant. Opening
owner of the Nosherie,
day in 1993 was on the
later Bread Basket Deli, in
Oct. 10 birthday of her
Oak Park.
husband, Steve Hurwitz,
At the restaurant’s back
founder of Mai-Kai
entrance, a whiteboard
Cleaners. He also owned
lists featured entrees and
Plaza Deli in Southfield,
the “manager’s lunch
but his role here is “PR
special” — perhaps tur-
man behind the scenes.”
key pasta or honey garlic
Located inside
wings — served with a
Bloomfield Plaza, on
cup of soup.
Telegraph at Maple roads,
In warmer weather, the
Steve’s Deli has been
dog-owning Hurwitzes
included in the national
welcome guests to dine
Zagat dining guide and
with their canine com-
named “Best Deli” in
panions at “patio” tables
local polls. Besides five
outside the door.
soups, the claims to fame
The long, narrow din-
include traditional sides
ing room within sports a
like knishes, noodle
fresh red-and-white color
kugel and kishka; appe-
scheme.
tizers, such as kippered
Recognizing that
salmon with cream
deli food has lost pop-
cheese, whitefish salad
ularity among some
and Nova Scotia lox; and
younger people and
overstuffed sandwiches,
the weight-conscious,
including corned beef,
“we changed ourselves
pastrami and brisket.
to account for chang-
Roasted turkey off the
STEVE’S DELI
ing tastes,” said Steve
bone is especially recom-
6646 Telegraph Road
mended.
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 Hurwitz.
Dining with my friend
Most menu items
(248) 932-0800
Judy,
she was happy to
are available for car-
www.stevesdeli.com
get
their
fat-free tuna
ryout. Display cases
$$$ out of $$$$
salad plate and diet sweet
inside the Telegraph
and sour cabbage soup.
front entrance contain
Food is minimally salted, so I added
Chef Val’s daily entrees, appetizing
a bit more to my Mish Mash soup —
choices like pineapple chicken (with
chicken broth with noodles, matzah
its sweet, baked topping), stuffed cab-
ball, kreplach and carrots. Among 15
bage, vegetarian lasagna and turkey
salads available, I did well to choose
meatloaf. About 300 entrees to-go are
Brussels sprouts salad. It has mixed
sold most days, according to Steve
greens, crunchy sprouts, green beans,
Hurwitz. Continuing around the cor-
crumbled blue cheese, pumpkin seeds,
ner are refrigerated deli delights, such
tomato and dried cherries with a
as salamis and egg-white egg salad.
honey-mustard dressing. ■
Racks, shelves and counters near the