The Michigan Daily/New Student Edition - Thursday, September 5, 1991 - Page 5
- Local delis: a paradox in erms
by Noah Finkel
and Eric Lemont
Daily Staff Reporters
Editor's Note: Mr. Finkel and
Mr. Lemont wrote a weekly column
called Out to Lunch during the
school year. While both have grad-
uated, their legacy lives on.
Following is a reprinted version of a
story the duo did on local delis.
For those hailing from the East-
ern seaboard or selected spots
throughout the country, delica-
tessens near campus do not fit the
classic bill. Almost everything
about local delis departs widely
from the purest definition of a deli:
basically, a place to get a good
corned beef sandwich on rye.
Like military intelligence, jum-
bo shrimp and honors communi-
cations majors, Ann Arbor delis are
an oxymoron. Working within these
parameters, we have nonetheless set
out to review three local delis: Park
Avenue, Zingerman's and Amer's.
Park Avenue
In the name of balance and fair-
ness, we try to bring out both the
good and bad points of each restau-
rant we review. As for Park Avenue,
well, we tried.
Let it be said that, yes, you can
get a decent sandwich at Park Av-
enue. In fact, the restaurant, located
just south of Olga's on State Street,
offers a broad spectrum of tradi-
tional deli fare and a separate menu
devoted exclusively to a myriad of
salads.
And Noah liked the pickle.
Unfortunately, Park Avenue
breaks several cardinal rules of
delis:
The rye bread has a slight
sourdough bread taste to it. If your
rye bread tastes like sourdough,
what are you left with?
It plays classical music in the
background, has modern art on its
walls and decorates its tables with
flowers in Quibell mineral water
bottles. A cardinal rule is never
decorate a table with anything other
than salt and pepper shakers and a jar
of yellow mustard.
It presents the possibility of
bumping one's head on an overhead
plant. Plants, real or otherwise,
should not be in a deli. Period.
Zingerman's
Give Zingerman's credit for be-
ing the Founding Father (Founding
Parent to most on campus) of local
delis and the closest to the real
thing. People far and wide used to
make an exodus of biblical propor-
tions to this restaurant, at the cor-
ner of Detroit and Kingsley streets
in Kerrytown, before the recent
openings of newer, closer delis.
Even now, long lines are sure to
be found during the weekend brunch
hours.
The menu's palate pleasers in-
clude just about everything - from
creative salads, to matzo ball soUp,
to knishes, to a varied assortment of
deli sandwiches.
What separates Zingermar's
from other local delis and puts it on
par with national eateries is its
flexibility. While sporting a large
corned beef sandwich as good as any,
it also offers brunch favorites such
as whitefish salad, smoked fish and,
alas, scallion cream cheese.
And Noah liked the pickle.
And if you have a craving for a
certain sandwich and are unable to
find it on the expansive menu,
Zingerman's will do its best to ac-
commodate.
Amer's
While Zingerman's has the best
deli in Ann Arbor, Amer's, which
opened just last summer on Church
Street next to Rick's American
Cafe, provides a more than adequate
substitute.
Amer's suffers, however, from
an identity crisis. It cannot decide if
it wants to be a traditional deli-or
an Espresso Royale Cafe Goes Cold
Cut.
Delis and coffee houses simply
don't go together.
See DELIS, Page 9
The Ann Arbor Public Library will soon have even more than books, magazines, cassette tapes, video tapes, and
compact discs, to offer its visitors - an addition is being built on the back.
Students discover oti
--by Karen Pier
With Harlan Hatcher Graduate
!Library's 2.7 million plus volumes
and the Undergraduate Library's
(UGLi) 210,000, one might wonder
9 why students would need to know
,about another library.
When you want to do most re-
:,search, you go to Harlan Hatcher
and the UGLi. When you want more
fun and general interest books than
,the University libraries, as well as
compact discs, cassettes, records, and
dart prints, you go the main branch at
the Ann Arbor Library.
It appears that many people do.
Clerk James Galow, himself a U-M
grad, said "tons" of University stu-
dents come to check out a variety of
material - fiction, magazines, and
"sleazy stuff."
The library's approximately
100,000 volumes are mostly general
interest, much more so than those on
the first floor of the UGLi. Kitty
Kelley, Ian Fleming, and Jane
Austen all rub elbows at the. Ann
Arbor Library.
The first floor of the library has
rows upon rows of mysteries, both
hard cover and paperback, from P.D.
,James to Arthur Conan Doyle. Next
to them are two bookcases crammed
with science fiction, which bumps
against the teen section.
The teen section has magazines,
as does the sci-fi section and the ...
which raises the one problem with
"the Ann Arbor Public Library main
branch: the separation of magazines.
When you enter the library, di-
rectly across from the circulation
desk, is a free magazine rack. There
are popular ones like Time and Peo-
ple, and then there is an old copy of
Student Lawyer. The sci-fi and mys-
"tery section has magazines like
Ellery Queen mystery magazines.
The general magazines are found
by walking through the front room
and into a back annex. Approxi-
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reach the magazine room, a small
teenage section offers selections
such as Seventeen, YM, and Rolling
Stone.
If you want an issue further back
than the last few months, you'll
find it on the second floor.
The second floor also has a mag-
azine search computer and clippings
put into binders by subjects. Regu-
lar newspapers are found on the
first floors. Big papers like The
New York Times and The Detroit
News are well-represented, as well
as papers with much smaller circu-
lations, like the Saline Reporter.
Music, recorded word, and videos
are also found on the first floor in a
small roof right before the circula-
tion desk.
The collection of music is eclec-
tic, ranging from symphonies to
rock. However, the videos are much
more limited in subject matter.
zerlibrary
Don't go if you're looking to take
out Pretty Woman. The videos pre-
dominantly consist of Shake-
spearean plays, "how-tos," and
tapes of television shows like
"Nova" and "Cosmos."
The audio tapes also have a lot of
titles like "Stress Management and
language tapes. The second floor
stocks seemingly endless display of
reference books--Yellow Pages
from all over the country.
Reference librarian Jane Sheen
said the library probably helps
many students from Washtenaw
Community College and Eastern
Michigan University.
However, another reference li-
brarian, Ruth Holderman, said that
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