Breakfast is a Good Bet at this 'Normal' Restaurant
Breakfast is a sood bet at this 'normal' restaurant
ByCONSTANCI CRUMP
T's a normal kind of place, the Flim
Flam Dell and Restaurant. That
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inn Arbor, home of the ar-
'w country might be the
"e and the home ol the
Arbor is land ol the nacho
ii thechapati.
flood the place
and the windows, it's almost blinding. It's
pretty big for a coffee shop, or maybe just
better arranged than most- At lundilime-
it's lull of hullabaloo, hustle-bustle and
hurly-burly.
The permanent menu Is vast, in the dell
style, and has an arMitional sheet in the
seldom-.' oh medium. (The
sight o! ; iite paper caused
an immcfi-uf .^•si.-.^-ade flashback in
one Crumpet.)
Daily specials run the gamut from cot-
fee shop to ethnic - the blue plate classic
beef tips over noodles to shish-ka-bob
with rice, totally predictable to deja-vu -
pork tenderloin with apple sauce to mush-
room burger with cheese. (Did the mush-
room burger, a.k.a. Nemo burger, move
' 1300 to the Film Flam when Everett's Drive-
Si closed?)
Italian dinners have th.1 . ,., ' •
section. Although no It;i
dence in the kitchen, g"
Italian necessary to set-.-o -;-..._^ ..-..
in Ann Arbor? (Argiero'sexcepted.)
The Crumpets were hungry, but the
One of the menu's best ideas is only car-
ried out halt-well: the specialty salads
available as half-orders, but the prices
are reduced by only 10 per cent, or in one
case, 10 cents. An exception is the reduc-
tion on the shrimp half-salad - $3.05
marked down from $4.05.
Breakfast is one of the best bets: hash
browns come out of the freezer, so they're
a little dry, but butter comes alons to w
vide needed moisture (and
calories and cholesterol.) The i
ing Crumpet's eggs were cookfi.
ly. Rye toast was normal.
If you eat before 11 a.m., the Film Flam
has lots of breakfast specials. One regu-
lar Crumpet say "' „ ii ^ it place to go
with kids - "you don't feel like you're to-
posing the kids on other people and it's
:'••<• deal if you want a lot to eat." T'-
i" Crumpet, a northside dweller,
!iat the northeast side of town is I,
•...breakfast places.
The Dinty Moore sandwich
beef, lettuce, tomato and Rus^
ing - is sizable and good. Ti
beef was a little dried out, maybe tror
the microwave. Pickles are a little too
squishy for my taste, but have a good dill
fiavnr pnfato salad is good, made on the
• — .,alty or sweet.
i.li-style sandwiches looked
Flim Flam Deli and Restaurant
2707 Plymouth Road
In Plymouth Mall Shopping Center
994-3036
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high on my most favorite list.
The dessert display is not calculated to
thrill Crumpets, a group notoriously ad-
dicted to fresh pastries with loads of
chocolate and whipped cream, or, tailing
yea! dessert availability, fruits and
.-i.-„...,. «» n... i.-i,,^, Fiani, only the rice
.1 originated within a
,. 10 Baskin Robbins tor
If your circuits are suffering from sen-
sory overload and you don't have time or
energy to go home tor tea and cinnamon
FOOD
SERVICE
ATMOSPHERE
out of 10
out of 10
5 out of 10
HOURS:6 a.m. lo 10 p.m. daily
LIQUOR:None
PlASTIC:None
PRICES:lni
hro, M with 1c
toast, Flim Flam may be your bag. It
isn't exciting, but it's decidedly normal.