louise on the left (coast)

I specifically asked people (whose taste I still trust and respect) for the name of a place to eat at which would not be generic "or Hooters" to entertain someone from out of town while they were in the area, which is how I found Miceli's Restaurant. Here's my review of dinner out. Micelis' Restaurant  is definitely not your run-of-the-the-mill, urban strip mall eatery, like the over-priced crap on Universal City Walk.  However, it is the kind of Italian dive I could imagine shooting Bonnie Blakely in.   Add to this it also hosts what I would call the worst lounge bar in the world. I mean, to me, nothing says "nice dinner out" like trying to order pasta over screeched show tunes from "Annie" while being accompanied by a lounge band. The bizarrely over-priced Italian ambience does not stop there, either, in fact the entire restaurant looks  like a 1984 backdrop to a summer stock version of "Lady and the Tramp."  Red candle