Steve’s is a back room no more. The 15-year-old eatery behind the swinging saloon doors of a grocery in Harper Woods is still open for lunch, but owner Steve Kalil has moved the main operation to the booming “Nautical Mile” of St. Clair Shores.
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There could be no greater reward for an herb, after a life well-lived, than to mingle with the freshest tomatoes and most fragrant olive oil in a tabbouleh salad at Steve''s Backroom.
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Specializing in Middle Eastern favorites, Harper Woods firm sells goods via restaurants, stores.
HARPER WOODS -- Stephen Kalil's reach extends far beyond his backroom. Customers can savor his Middle Eastern foods at a 20-seat luncheonette in Harper Woods, a 140-seat restaurant in St. Clair Shores and at hundreds of supermarkets in southeast Michigan.
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Those who have long clung to the cult of the original Steve's, a tiny back-shop hideaway in a Middle Eastern grocery in Harper Woods, rejoice! Owner Steve Kalil and his partner James Giftos, of National Coney Island fame, now operate a 140-seat relative palace across from Lake St. Clair in St. Clair Shores.
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