text: Bill Roberts' new Bloomfield Hills restaurant to open Monday
  Restaurateur Bill Roberts will open his newest location — the eponymous Bill's in Bloomfield Hills — for lunch at 11 a.m. Monday.
  The restaurant occupies the former Fox Grill site, but its interior has been gutted and redone, and its front patio has been expanded and improved.
  Architect Ron Rea of Birmingham reimagined the restaurant space as a comfortable, retro-inspired spot with a nod to the history of the neighborhood around Woodward and Long Lake Road. The corner was home of the former Fox & Hounds restaurant, now demolished, and the old Kingsley Inn, redone as the Radisson Hotel Detroit-Bloomfield Hills.
  "It's terrific," Roberts said today of the new place. "It's just what we wanted to accomplish. Ron nailed it on the head once again."
  The menu also will have retro touches, he said, with dishes ranging from caviar pie and pasta with Bolognese sauce to escargot and frog legs. But others, such as quinoa chicken Waldorf salad, are "retro with a twist," he added. There will also be a signature burger — called Bill's Burger — made with four cuts of beef in a custom grind.
  The restaurant will be open daily for both lunch and dinner, he said, and reservations will be accepted for lunch.
  Breakfast will also be served, but a date has not been set for its introduction.
  A few construction details remain undone, Roberts said. The restaurant's sign and awning are not yet installed — the sign is coming Tuesday — and finishing touches still are needed to the patio, which has been tiled and surrounded by arborvitae. Still to come are a 5-foot surrounding glass wall to reduce noise and a custom-made entrance gate.
  Other Roberts Restaurant Group venues are the Beverly Hills Grill in Beverly Hills; Streetside Seafood, Birmingham; Town Tavern, Royal Oak; Roadside Bar & Grill, Bloomfield Township, and Café ML, Bloomfield Township.
  Roberts noted that he had opened three locations — Roadside, Café ML and Bill's — in 30 months, with Rea as his architect each time, and was pleased that "they are so different and all have their own personalities."
  Bill's is at 39556 Woodward. When its telephone is connected next week, the number will be 248-646-9000, he said.