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Danny Raskin
Senior Columnist

Eat at Moe’s
H

e always wanted a family restau-
rant … Where he could do his 
own cooking when needed and 
cater to the dining desires of those who 
look for his type of restaurant.
Today, as he celebrates another anni-
versary of his prominent eatery, Moe’
s On 
Ten, southwest corner of Haggerty, Novi, 
owner Moe Leon looks back on the days 
when he had a smaller menu … Today, his 
appetizers alone attract attention … like 
tuna sashimi, crab cakes, buffalo shrimp, 
etc. … or soups like Italian fish chowder 
… soups on special for that day … and, of 
course, his own chicken soup, which Moe 
himself makes with pride and joy, fresh 
vegetables and pasta … Nobody but Moe 
can make that soup for fear of something 
being lost in its preparation.
His prior chefs were not overly big on 
seafood items … Now, there is the huge- 
selling whitefish almondine, broiled with 
lemon butter sauce and topped with roast-
ed almonds … Also, Lake Erie perch with 
sliced almonds, pecan-encrusted Canadian 
walleye … Salmon Oscar topped with 
lump crab meat and bearnaise sauce.
London broil or New York strip steak, 
both chargrilled and topped with mush-
rooms and onions, herbed chicken, jumbo 
sea scallops, turkey dinner, chicken marsa-
la, etc. …. served with smashed potatoes, 
soup or salad and vegetable.
Big sellers include shrimp and spinach 
Alfredo, seafood marinara, roasted red 
pepper and chicken Alfredo, etc.
It is open seven days a week Monday-
Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. with 

seating for 170 plus 12 stools … Moe’
s 
wife, Debra, and son Michael work the 
front of the restaurant meeting and seating 
people.
Yes, Moe’
s On Ten is the same spot that 
each year gives free turkey dinners to any-
one, needy or otherwise, on the day before 
Thanksgiving … What better person to 
own and operate a restaurant than one 
whose life has been a true dedication to 
one placed in a popular realm of together-
ness dining.
“I always dreamed of having a family 
dining restaurant with an upscale feel and 
reasonable prices. Nobody will ever change 
this,” Moe says as he continues to thank 
both new and old customers who applaud 
his many years of honest service.
THERE WAS A TIME when true mom-
and-pop restaurants were many and con-
sidered “one-in-a-million” types of eateries 
… Home-cooking, along with featured 
specialties, prevailed … Every visit seemed 
to be like a home visit … Mom or Dad did 
much of the cooking or greeted the folks 
with pride … Especially the cooking and 
presentations … They were so proud of 
their cuisine that Mom or Dad would peek 
out from the kitchen to look for smiling 
faces enjoying every bite of their presenta-
tions.
But sadly, many have faded away … 
The children of the moms and pops may 
have obtained educations in other fields … 
Helping to run a family restaurant was not 
their thing, numerous family-oriented and 
operated restaurants went by the wayside 
except for perhaps a precious few, as the 

song would say.
SOMETHING NEW … Mini Reader 
Reviews of 150 or fewer words about your 
favorite or recent restaurant will now 
be accepted … What you had and why 
you and/or those perhaps in your party 
enjoyed the dish or dishes … Negative 
wording will not be accepted … Please 
send only via email to dannyraskin2132@
gmail.com.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE … A rabbi and 
his two friends, a priest and a minister, 
played poker for small stakes once a week 
… The only problem was that they lived in 
a very conservative blue law town.
One day the sheriff raided their game 
and took all three before the local judge 
… After listening to the sheriff’
s story, the 
judge sternly inquired of the priest, “Were 
you gambling, Father?” 
The priest looked toward heaven and 
whispered, “Oh, Lord, forgive me!” and 
then said aloud, “No, your honor, I was not 
gambling.”
“Were you gambling, Reverend?” the 
judge asked the minister. 
The minister repeated the priest’
s actions 
and said, “No, your honor, I was not.”
Turning to the third clergyman, the 
judge asked, “Were you gambling, Rabbi?”
The rabbi eyed him coolly and replied, 
“With whom?”
CONGRATS … To Marian Adelson on 
her birthday … To Jules Rogovin on his 
40th birthday. ■

Danny’
s email address is 

dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.

Family-owned 
and operated, 
Moe’
s On Ten
still delights.

Moe Leon

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S ON 10

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