| Explore different restaurants each month while getting to know other singles in the age group of your choice . . . so even if there's no love connection you'll still have a wonderful time. You'll order off the menu and receive separate checks for your purchases. Our website allows you to view the profiles of those registered for each dinner, tracks who've you've dined with so you meet new people every time, and then let's you send a private message to those you've dined with afterward.
For current space availability, to see who's going, and to register please visit our website at www.TastyLA.com.
This week enjoy dinner at Il Grano:
"“They’re serious about the food” at this West LA “treasure” where chef-owner Sal Marino prepares “fantabulous” Italian dishes with “passion and creativity”, turning out “exemplary” fresh seafood (including especially noteworthy crudo platters) and “top-notch” pastas in an “elegant”, “high-style” dining room; add in “gracious, unhurried” service, and it’s a “stellar experience every time.”" - Zagat.com
"If you have been to Il Grano in the past, and return now, you will think that you have arrived at a different restaurant. The only thing that is the same is the name and, fortunately for our palates, the chef, Salvatore Marino. The door onto the street has even changed its placement, so imagine the rest inside. The room, completely redesigned in white and black tones, is now elegant and is a beautiful showcase for Marino's distinguished cuisine. We have to admit that Marino has learned the lessons of his family, two generations in the restaurant business, quite well. His way to start his preparations is with the meticulous choices that he makes of the ingredients he is going to use. They can only be top quality. All the vegetables are organic. Marino goes downtown himself to select the fish at the Japanese wholesale fish market. He follows the production of each season so everything can only be fresh; therefore the menu changes all the time. Then comes his know-how---and his heart, as he likes to say---to deliver onto your plate a very fine squid ink pasta in sea urchin sauce or the calf's tongue in parsley-basil sauce; a perfectly cooked Alaskan halibut in lobster-saffron sauce or a skate wing with black rice risotto in pea sauce. We like his innovative desserts such as the blood orange semifreddo or the poached pear. The smart Italian wine list includes hard to find and rare old vintages, as well as organic wines from Italy and California. There is a great business lunch---guaranteed in 30 minutes---that includes a first and second course plus dessert for $19." - Gayot.com |