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wo totally different 
Italian restaurants with 
completely unlike Italian 
dining selections … By the same 
owner … with totally dissimilar 
menu selections and pricing.
These are the dining roads 
taken by Luciano 
Del Signore … 
whose Bacco 
and Casa Pernoi 
eateries have 
adopted separate 
styles, choices and 
pricing.
Bacco, on 
Northwestern Hwy., between 12 
and 13 Mile roads, Southfield, 
with regular Italian choices, 
and Casa Pernoi on Maple 
Road, between Woodward and 

Old Woodward, Birmingham, 
supplying its varied picks of 
excellent palate and stomach 
satisfactions rarely if ever seen at 
an Italian eatery anywhere.
Although both are celebrat-
ing birthdays, Bacco number 
19 this past March and Casa 
Pernoi its first in September, 
this new concept on their 
parts … of both regular and 
ultra-selective dining … is not 
the reason … Many persons 
have suggested it … and with an 
owner like Luciano Del Signore 
also being an excellent chef, his 
presence behind the scenes is 
totally welcomed … Luciano 
creates dishes and works daily 
in the kitchens … like at Bacco 
where he oversees the specialty 
Carciofi salad, Cavatelli Lamb 
Rago, whole roasted branzino, 
etc. … or at Casa Pernoi with its 
specialty house-made bread bas-
ket holding five types of bread, 
Italian sausage, stuffed peppers, 
charred octopus, Steak Siciliano, 
baked Orata, etc.
This presence of two dining 

cultures with like backgrounds 
but completely different food 
presentations … both with 
menus available for dining in or 
carry-out … are indeed heartily 
welcomed. 
WITH THE NOTICING of 
so many line cooks from out of 
town, who have come here and 
gotten jobs as head chefs, much 
simple dining has gone out the 
window … These mainly young 
men and women work in other 
cities on a restaurant’
s line and 
go to places where restaurants 
will open by first-timers and 
try their best to come up with 
concoctions never before heard 
of … I keep harping about this 
because of running into so 
many who hardly know about 
most of the good things to eat 
and try to get by on their limit-
ed knowledge.
Actually, simple dining items 
are easy to come by … A good 
proven chef knows that many 
years ago, simple dining was big 
because it included numerous 
dishes that the mom-and-pop 

restaurants used to make but are 
hard to find today.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE 
SHORTS … The fellow never 
worried about his marriage 
until he moved from Chicago 
to Los Angeles and discovered 
he had the same milkman … 
Two guys are at a golf course 
when a gorgeous girl passes by 
… One says, “Take away her 
lips, take away her hair, take 
away her figure and what has 
she got?” … “My wife,” groaned 
the second golfer … A diplo-
mat is a man who can convince 
his wife that she looks fat in 
a fur coat … She had such a 
turned-up nose that every time 
she sneezed, she blew her hat 
off … She had such buck teeth 
that every time she kissed a fel-
low, she combed his mustache 
at the same time. 
CONGRATS … To Paula 
Grandon on her birthday … To 
Pam Smith on her birthday. 

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

Danny Raskin
Senior Columnist

Luciano Del Signore
Bacco and Casa Pernoi,
different, but both spectacular.

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