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Friday Slide Show: A Holiday Dinner
27 December 2024
It's not all doom and gloom around here. The other night two friends escorted us from the nursing home to have dinner at an old favorite now known as Original Joe's Westlake.
The place was packed with diners when we arrived for an early dinner at 3 p.m. But we had a reservation and were ushered to a table right away. An elegant elderly waiter in a tux greeted us after the bus boy had put water and bread on the table, much as if it were decades ago.
That's part of the charm of the place. Even after a two-year remodel, it still echoes the past with its elegance and large plates of rich food.
It is its own cuisine, unlike any other place. Everyone we have talked to about it has a favorite dish and it's a different dish from everyone else's favorite dish. Sometimes we wonder if it has more to do with a memory than the kitchen.
Despite the remodel, which updated the bar and the Cascade Room while leaving the main dining room much the same, sitting there evokes memories. You are five years old eating too much bread before the huge dinner arrives. Or on a date in high school, trying to impress her with your fork and knife skills. Or a young married worried about the bill. Or around a large table with generations of your family after a wedding or a funeral or just a birthday.
You sit down, you unfold your starched white napkin, you sip your drink, you slip back into the past.
It's not all doom and gloom.
