MARCH 18 • 2021 | 45
T
hat a Detroit dining
favorite, Café Cortina in
Farmington Hills, should
become one of the nation’s true
Italian old-world restaurants is a
huge dedication to its goodness
and honorable existence.
Celebrating another anniver-
sary this past December since
opening in 1976,
it has received
untold amounts
of accolades for
being among
those dining oper-
ations to serve
Italian dishes very
rarely seen in
other locations.
The story has been told many
times with much reverence
how Rina and her late husband,
Adriano Tonon, founded Café
Cortina and were on a mission to
have an artisan restaurant with a
garden that could harvest vege-
tables, herbs and flowers … How
they purchased the apple orchard
farmland on Ten Mile Road and
built the wonderful Café Cortina.
Today, it not only furnishes
dining in and out of old-world,
standard and favored dishes with
a family tradition feel while con-
tinuing to be one of this coun-
try’s leading culinary destinations
… The Tonon family’s commit-
ment to freshness, quality and
authenticity is apparent in each
dish and jar of Café Cortina’s
critically acclaimed pasta sauces,
pastas, etc.
And few others in America
can boast of an outdoor heated
patio like the shrubbery-filled
beauty seating 75 persons with-
in mandate orders Mondays
through Saturdays from 5-9 p.m.
since reopening of Café Cortina
in June of this year … also,
a magnificent site for private
events of all occasions
Rina and Adriano’s son
Adrian, a vital part of the very
fine Café Cortina dining tradi-
tion … was also appointed by
Mayor Mike Duggan as Detroit’s
first 24-hour economy ambas-
sador.
The interior of Café Cortina
captures the mood of one of
Italy’s most beautiful towns,
Cortina D’
Ampezz … amid a
warm Italian/French decor.
If there were such a thing as
authentic gourmet, passionate
Italian dining, you might say that
Café Cortina has a major claim
on it.
THE FORMER HILL restau-
rant in Grosse Pointe, taken
over by Joe Vicari, will be called
Bronze Door Chop House …
His Bucky’s Tap Room in Shelby
Township (23 Mile & Hayes) has
been retitled Barley Corn Public
House.
IT HAS BEEN NOTED for
years as having among the best
barbecued ribs and broasted and
barbecued chicken in this area,
but Brass Pointe, Orchard Lake
Road, near 10 Mile, Farmington
Hills, has been somewhat of
a sleeper to many who do not
know that it has other food,
too … The ribs and chicken
selections are Brass Pointe main
choices … But it also has 10
Mexican favorites … enchiladas,
tacos, botanas, wet and regular
burritos, nachos, tostados, com-
bination plate, taco salad, stuffed
jalapenos … along with 15 sand-
wiches and three-egg omelets.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE … Two
elderly ladies, Ruth and Naomi,
were discussing their husbands
over tea … Ruth said, “I do wish
that my Ernie would stop biting
his nails. He makes me terribly
nervous.
”
Naomi replied, “My Sol used
to do the same thing, but I broke
him of the habit.
”
“How?” asked Ruth. “I’ve even
asked my son-in-law, the family
doctor, but to no avail … What
did you do?”
Naomi replied, “I hid his
teeth!”
CONGRATS … To Erwin
Eizelman on his 55th birthday
… To Moshe Barash on his
22nd birthday … To Richard
and Judie Moss on their 64th
anniversary.
Danny’s email address is
dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.
RASKIN
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
Danny
Raskin
Senior Columnist
Old World
Italian Gem
Adrian Tonon and Rina Tonon
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