Happiness only real when shared. In the movie, Into the Wild, the main character graduates from a prestigious university only to abandon a seemingly promising future in law, leaving behind…
When you’re at a Latin-American restaurant and piña coladas are on the menu, you’re almost obligated to order it. So, at the risk of being branded a cocktail conservative who’s…
DAMA’s food menu lists an intriguing variety of “Small Plates” and a much shorter catalog (i.e., five dishes only) of “Large Plates.” It almost seems like customers are being subtly…
What a bizarre, chaotic, surreal, random, incomprehensible place Los Angeles is. In any other city, a lovely restaurant like DAMA would be situated alongside others of its kind, and one…
If I were ever placed on death row and it was my execution day and I was asked what I wanted my last meal to be and I could have…
Sometimes a person is in the mood for wine, and sometimes, one has a hankering for cocktails. I was in a cocktail kind of mood, so, even though nothing on…
In terms of the food, the evening was something of an educational adventure for me, as I’m almost completely uninitiated into the delights of Mediterranean cuisine. For appetizers, we shared…
We had been shopping at Glendale Galleria, and, with half an hour till our 6 pm reservation, we directed our feet in the restaurant’s direction and continued our leisurely chat…