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zukor@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Karen Zukor) writes:

>Yes, let's mourn LA restaurants we knew, and loved!
>I embrace this topic!
>
>My entries:
>Cafe Jacoulet, Pasadena
>It was so difficult to bring myself to order anything but the
>marvelous raspberry duck, but I was rarely disappointed if I did.
>I had the most amazing appetizer of mussels in marinara sauce, which
>sounds pedestrian, but was haute cuisine at its finest.
>They DEFINED creme brulee.
>(Barrie eulogizes their brunch, with lox and bagels.)
>They were successful.  Oh why, oh why, did it have to end?

Well, the way I heard it was that the chef (who had
trained alongside the chef from Shiro's under some
great L.A. culinary luminary whose name slips me)
married an Italian woman and thus got interested in
taking things in that kind of ethnic direction (thus
the name change to Tra Fiori and the nouvelle treatments
of polenta and all that stuff).

I was further told, though (by a Tra Fiori waiter),
that one of the original owners moved south and opened
a new Cafe Jacoulet on Coronado Island.

Anyone know anything about that?

Frank
frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov