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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