This Just In….ELV Banned From All Paymon’s Restaurants

These were the culprits…

…and this was the haiku:

Gummy ganoush plus

Rock hard “Athens” fries equals

Typical Paymon

That resulted in ELV’s lifetime banishment (as of last night via a Facebook communication) from Paymon Raouf’s Mediterranean restaurants around town.

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CHINOIS R.I.P.

The first time I ever ate at Wolfgang Puck’s Chinois was in the summer of 1984. It was at the original on Main Street in Santa Monica, and I recall driving past the front door, looking for the address, and seeing a telephone pole right in front of it with its street light off.

On closer examination, that telephone pole turned out to be Kareem Abdul-Jabbar waiting for his car. Continue reading “CHINOIS R.I.P.”