 NOVEMBER 21 • 2019 | 69

People fl
 ocking in to Detroit 
Wing Company.

the best of everything
Raskin

Flying High

H

e grew up waiting on 
tables … His grand-
parents opened the 
popular New Hellas restaurant 
in Greektown, Detroit, back 
in 1901 … and he has owned 
his own Coney 
Island operation.
Gus Malliaras 
is the reason 
why so many 
people today 
may ask what 
a Detroit Wing 
is … Has the 
Detroit Red Wings hockey 

team gone into the chick-
en-eating business? … The 
scattering of locations, five of 
them, by Gus may be one of 
the very few, if any, where five 
locales all feature only chicken 
wings and a wide selection of 
sides from which to choose 
… including best sellers garlic 
parmesan, honey BBQ wings 
and many others … Every 
item on the menu is made to 
order from scratch at each 
location.
His Detroit Wings are 
in Southfield (Greenfield 
and West Nine Mile Road), 
Detroit (inside the MGM 
Hotel & Casino), Chesterfield, 
Eastpointe and Taylor … All 
locations are carry-out only … 
A few seats at the locales are 
available for people waiting to 
get their orders.
It is a many-faceted oper-
ation with 17 homemade 
sauces from which to choose 
… Also sides with the clas-
sic wings, boneless wings or 
chicken tenders … or the sides 
by themselves … made to 
order are mac ’
n’
 cheese, fries 
topped with homemade beef 

gravy stewed for more than 24 
hours, fries topped with choice 
of sauce and cheddar cheese, 
homemade dill potato salad, 
homemade chili in bowls, 
homemade cole slaw, home-
made cornbread muffins, etc. 
… Even desserts like home-
made cheesecake, New York 
style, etc.
Detroit Wing Company 
opened in 2015 … and has 
become a major player in 
home dining goodness, sud-
denly winning many honors.
TOO BAD SO MANY del-
icatessens of yesteryears are 
gone … Old Tyme, Billy’
s, Ben 
& George, Irving’
s, Liberman’
s, 
Boesky’
s, Four Roses, Sabra, 
Flashenberg’
s and other good 
ones who served the real thing 
… with no slicer shavings! … 
Also, semi-delis like Darbys … 
They are fondly remembered 
by many for a worthy hot 
corned beef sandwich … with 
honest-to-goodness slices … 
not hidden shreds of beef.
FOLKS LIKE THE delicious 
lettuce wraps at Shangri-La 
in West Bloomfield’
s Orchard 
Mall on Orchard Lake and 15 

Mile roads that rank up there 
among the best … Customers 
fill the five per order cold and 
crisp lettuce leaves with a great 
mixture of water chestnuts, 
shitake mushrooms, bamboo 
shoots and chicken … A true 
standout among many fine 
presentations.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE … 
The Jewish lady called her 
newspaper and asked for the 
obituary section department. 
The obit gent asked, “What 
can I do for you?” 
“I’
d like to place an obitu-
ary,” she said.
“How would you like it to 
read?” 
“Irving Cohen died.”
 “That’
s it? But you get four 
lines in the obit. It’
s included 
in the price.” 
“
Alright. Irving Cohen died. 
Cadillac for sale.”
CONGRATS … To Lana 
Gilberman on her birthday 
… To Joe and Lois Sposita on 
their anniversary. 

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

Danny Raskin
Senior Columnist

FOOD PHOTOS VIA DETROIT WING FACEBOOK

Gus Malliaras

Reservations at www.thewhitney.com
 (313) 832-5700

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Monday-Friday 
11am – 2pm

Lunches start at
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