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the best of everything
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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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