Andiamo, 676 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township, MI

This establishment, remembered by locals as the place where Jimmy Hoffa went to meet a few people for lunch on that fateful day in 1975, has changed hands since then to become part of the local Italian restaurant chain Andiamo.  Getting in is not a problem for handicapped patrons, as the attentive valet parking staff is there to unfold your walker or wheelchair and/or hold the door open.  Likewise, the main floor seating is completely handicapped accessible.  The only problem is access to the lower level, which houses the banquet rooms and the bathrooms.  It's not completely inaccessible, as there is an elevator, but it's the slowest, tiniest elevator you'll ever see in your life.  Big enough to fit one wheelchair and one (slender) person pushing it, it takes what seems like over a minute to travel the12 feet or so between floors.  Plus, its operation is kind of complicated, with the entrance and exit doors on opposite sides, and two sets of doors (one hinged, one accordion-fold), with printed instructions on the wall.  So if grandma has any cognitive or vision deficits in addition to the mobility problem, don't just slide her into the elevator and assume you'll see her downstairs.  Once I went to a program for people with MS in the lower-level banquet room.  As people straggled in there wasn't much problem with elevator access, but when the program was over and many of the attendees needed the elevator up, the line was so long I took my chances and hauled myself up the stairs on foot rather than wait for all those people to do the slow ride, one at a time, back to the main floor.