OT: Google failed me

[dadiOH]

It is raining here and I had no inside project so have been killing time Googling things.

One of them was a great restaurant in Santa Barbara at the El Encanto Hotel in the early 70s. I was in SB taking photo classes for a couple of weeks at Brooks Institute which was just across the street from the (then) somewhat worse for wear hotel; however, the house restaurant - Cafe Madrid - was wonderful...a very extensive menu, not cheap but not really expensive either and wonderful food; at least I thought so but I was just about the only customer. Does anyone remember it and/or know what happened to it?

As long as I'm on memory lane, here are some other places I miss...

Cafe Bohemia, Chicago. Great roast duck

London Chop House, Detroit. Best calves liver I've ever had.

Jack's, San Francisco. Good everything and waiters that really knew their business.

Musso & Franks, Hollywood (may still be there). Chain restaurants, eat your hearts out!

Ciro's, Honolulu. Always had vichyssoise, always served complimentary antipasto

[willshak]

dadiOH wrote the following:

Sorry DadiOH, none of the foods you mentioned has any interest for me. No Duck, no Liver, no cold soup.

[willshak]

I can go for steak. The only fish I eat is tuna (in the can) and flounder. None of those giant insects that live on the bottom of the ocean either (crab, lobster, shrimp).

[Lew Hodgett]

---------------------------- " ...tuna (in the can)" = cat food.

Lew

[dadiOH]

They have/had steak too. Probably fish too :)

[Robatoy]

I'd rather have catfood...

[Robatoy]

Tuna..as in sushi...wellllll then..

[Country]

the Mac".

I thought maybe Thing from the Adam's Family would show up.

-C-

[Sjouke Burry]

Ah... a small tin of red salmon, when I feel a little undernourished.

[MJ]

According to my Google search - the El Encanto in SB is closed for renovations. No mention of a Cafe Madrid. Perhaps it closed soon after you stayed there.

MJ

[Max]

[Larry Jaques]

I prefer bonito ("chunk light tuna", less mercury) to albacore and red salmon to bonito.

But I'd -much- rather eat fresh Steelhead or Yellowtail.

-- If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. -- Meister Eckhart

[Lobby Dosser]

No, but I spent six months working in Goleta and the Santa Barbara area has to have more good restaurants per capita than anywhere else in the US.

[Lobby Dosser]

BTW, what's Musso? Anything like Beans?

[Lew Hodgett]

-------------------------- At the refinery?

Lew

[Robert Bonomi]

Nit-picking. that's "Addams" with two "d"s. From Charles Addams, who drew the original cartoons -- printed in the New Yorker, among other places.

[Lobby Dosser]

Sonatech.

[dadiOH]

I can see I don't hang out with a bunch of gourmets :)

[dadiOH]

A guy. Ditto Frank.