L.a.'s Legendary Restaurants

"L.A. s Legendary Restaurants" is an illustrated history of dozens of landmark eateries from throughout the City of Angels. From such classics as Musso & Frank and The Brown Derby in the 1920s to the see-and-be-seen crowds at Chasen s, Romanoffs, and Ciro s in the mid-20th century to the dawn of California cuisine at Ma Maison and Spago Sunset in the 1970s and 80s, "L.A. s Legendary Restaurants" celebrates the famous locations where Hollywood ate, drank, and played. Author George Geary leads you into the glamorous restaurants inhabited by the stars through a lively narrative filled with colorful anecdotes and illustrated with vintage photographs, historic menus, and timeless ephemera. Over 100 iconic recipes for entrees, appetizers, desserts, and drinks are included. But "L.A. s Legendary Restaurants" contains much more than the fancy, high-priced restaurants favored by the Hollywood cognoscenti. The glamour of the golden age of drive-ins, drugstores, nightclubs, and hotels are also honored. What book on L.A. restaurants would be complete without tales of ice cream sundaes at C.C. Brown s, cafeteria-style meals at Clifton s, or a mai tai at Don the Beachcomber? Most of the locations in "L.A. s Legendary Restaurants" no longer exist, but thanks to George Geary, the memories are still with us. "