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In article <1992Nov11.212631.19789@convex.com> budriuna@convex.com (AL Budriunas) writes:

>Bruno's on Centinela and Venice Blvd. near the 405 Fwy. has a Brick/stone
>facade with ivy growing around it and iron railings. In the lobby, they have
>a large picture window looking into the pizza preparation area and port 
>of the kitchen. 

	Unless things have changed recently Bruno's is closed.  It has
been closed, except as a fequently used movie set, for about two
years, the parking lots - empty.  When did you eat there last?

	It was opulent, huge, with several dining areas, the large
central room was thirty feet tall with stained glass windows, marble
columns, and a large granite bar.  The food varied from good to
superb, was inexpensively priced, they had their own pastry chef, and
reportedly had the second best cellar in southern California.  They
had a wine book not a wine list, easily 200 choices, priced at near
cost, and they would sell it to good customers by the case.  This I
know.  I ate there once a week for years.  Often, there would be
singers Saturday nights, such as an opera soloist accompanied on piano.

	Unfortunately, I am told that the owner died and that the wife
didn't want to manage the place and so it was closed.  The restaurant
was a personal crusade of the owner.  It's too bad that he's gone.
For the last year or two that it was open, food became more spotty.
Some days they were on top of things, some days not.  The cellar size
began to shrink.  Clearly the keen supervision that once characterized
the place was missing.
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