May 16 • 2019 45
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Danny Raskin
Senior Columnist
Ever
Legendary
T
he second anniversary celebration of
a reincarnation of its legendary name
in the upscale dining game … Joe
Muer Seafood Bloomfield … has arrived to
follow its Downtown Detroit Renaissance
Center sister.
Following a year-and-a-half of dealing
with a construction site directly on top of
it, the second year of Joe Muer Seafood
Bloomfield is located at the site of the for-
mer Kingsley Inn, Woodward and Long
Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills, … happy
indeed to be conducting business next to the
beautiful new Hilton Doubletree Hotel.
Many significant changes have been made
since its opening last year … including the
numerous times asked for live lobster, 2 to 7
pounds, from a well-appointed tank to fur-
nish the serving of its popular item.
Also on a fish display by Joe Muer
Seafood Bloomfield is a smartly styled show-
case of fish advertising its entire selection …
red snapper, black grouper, Coho salmon,
etc. … Showing from when the fresh fish
arrives to its in-house filleting … Also dis-
played are the six types of oyster selections
on the daily menu … including both east
and west oyster choices.
Still a huge favorite is the mammoth
1,000-gallon salt water aquarium where so
many people love to take pictures.
The Joe Muer Bloomfield wine collection
continues to grow … A wall now holds more
than 5,000 bottles from the world over, with
a sommelier always eager to assist customers
in the pairing of wine with their meals.
As it has since its opening two years ago,
sumptuous sushi holds sway with the very
assurance of freshness … The Joe Muer
Seafood Bloomfield Japanese Sushi Master
is most choosy of its selection that includes
popular rolls along with Negri and Sashimi
styles … Guests are also welcome to sit at
the granite sushi bar and order freshly pre-
pared sushi and sake.
Whatever the weather, the second anni-
versary of Joe Muer Seafood Bloomfield is
prepared … Its Woodward North dining
room, for example, has Nano glass doors
that completely open during pleasant weath-
er … and offer a fine experience in al fresco
dining.
Also available are two private rooms for
parties or corporate meetings and events for
up to 50 … Plus a semi-private wine room
that accommodates up to 80 persons …
Menus can accommodate all styles of food
to fit varied events.
A piano bar presents entertainment
Wednesday through Saturday … On Friday
and Saturday, it certainly becomes very lively
with customers.
To say that Joe Muer Seafood Bloomfield
has arrived is putting it mildly … Knowing
Joe Vicari, wife, Rosalie, and son Dominic,
along with general manager Matt Smith,
former GM at the Joe Muer Seafood Detroit,
enough said for supreme elegance … and
satisfying visitations in celebration of its sec-
ond birthday.
REARVIEW MIRROR … When a cus-
tomer asked Nerio Lelli, owner/head chef
of the once-noted Italian eatery formerly
on Woodward, why he doesn’
t lose weight,
Nerio replied, “What? And lose all my good
food?” … Nero was as round as a ping pong
ball and he offered mouth-watering out-of-
this-world dishes … Italian food that ele-
vated his cooking from the mundane to the
outstanding.
SEEING SIGNS … On an out-of-town
delicatessen wall, “Today only! Homemade
imported caviar.
” … At the same deli, anoth-
er wall sign said, “If you don’
t smell it, we
ain’
t got it!”
WHAT HAPPENED TO all the wonder-
ful chefs who went to the Eastern Market
very early in the morning to get needed stuff
… The truly good ones still go there.
SERVER DEPT. … If you’
re making so
much in tips that you don’
t care for more,
don’
t put a person’
s goodies in the box they
asked for … Let them do it themselves.
ADD ANOTHER restaurant that now
has brunch on both Saturday and Sunday …
Grand Tavern in Rochester Hills, M-59 and
Adams, Marketplace Circle … Saturdays,
$14.99, children 12 and under, $8, 4 and
under free … Sundays, $16.99, kids 12 and
under, $8, 4 and under no charge.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE… A small Jewish
man is sitting on the ship’
s deck next to a
huge sleeping Texan … The Jewish man gets
seasick and ends up vomiting all over him.
The Texan starts to stir … Then to his
horror sees the mess he is in.
“You feel better now?” the Jew asks.
CONGRATS … To Arthur Cohen on his
56th birthday … To Wilbur (Willie) Blake
on his 80th birthday. ■
Danny’
s email address is
dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.
On its second
anniversary, Joe
Muer Bloomfi
eld
delights its patrons
even more now.
Dominic Vicari, Rosalie Vicari and
Joe Vicari
raskin
the best of everything
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