Alexander's Land & Sea Grill is expected to open in its place sometime in mid-March 2013
Green Oak resident Frank Ghneim wasn't looking to buy another restaurant, but it kind of just fell into his lap. The owner of Captain Joe's Grill in Whitmore Lake recently purchased The Brighton House for $450,000. The restaurant, located on Grand River east of US-23, had closed in July 2011. Alexander's Land & Sea Grill is expected to open in its place sometime in mid-March 2013. "It's going to me more like a steak and seafood menu, with a twist of Mediterranean," Ghneim said. "We'll be mixing that stuff with American. It will be similar to Captain Joe's, but it will be different. It's not going to be the same menu - it will be completely different. I don't want to compete with myself." Brighton was the only place Ghneim said he was …
The Brighton restaurant will offer a raw bar 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays.
As if The Wooden Spoon wasn't unique enough as part bistro, artisan market and farmers market, the restaurant is now adding a raw bar into the mix. Wednesdays through Saturdays from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., diners will have the choice of five different types of oysters, shrimp cocktail, ahi tuna, lobster cocktail, sliced and cooked octopus, pastrami salmon and more. The Wooden Spoon now boasts the only raw bar of it's kind in Livingston County, according to Stephen Pilon, The Wooden Spoon's co-owner and executive chef. "Nowhere else - that I know of - are you going to be able to get anywhere from lobster cocktail to oysters to pastrami salmon all on the same menu. Which is a raw bar menu. And to compliment it, we also have lobster bisque and …
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