Olive Pit, Detroit 1970s
Product Description
We’re guessing the customers of this restaurant in Detroit, Michigan, liked a martini before dinner to whet their appetites.
This stylish menu cover was created for the Olive Pit, an Italian restaurant run by father and son John and Bernie Cocuzza.
The illustration depicts a cold, crisp martini with an olive speared on a sword swizzle stick in one corner. In another there’s a swizzle stick acting as a flagpole for the tricolore or la bandiera d'Italia and piercing another olive. Two interesting fonts spell out the name of the restaurant.
Though the place is still fondly remembered on discussion boards today from people who went there with their families, there’s little information apart from the names of the owners and the fact that the location had previously been a German restaurant called Kragers.
Pizza, pasta and fish freshly caught from Lake Erie were on the menu. Also, two types of frog legs.
Each order includes a print of the interior menu.
All printed in USA.