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The Nine O’Clock Players present “Peter and Wendy” at The Assistance League of Southern California, 1367 N. St. Andrews Pl. The story is a retelling of the classic tale of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. Weekend performances are open to the general public for $12 per ticket. Performances are at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 2. Call 323-469-1970 or visit www.nineoclockplayers.com.

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Barbra Streisand will return to the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., for a two-night engagement on Fri., Nov. 9 at 8 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m. The perfor-mances will also include jazz saxophonist Chris Botti and Italian vocal trio Il Volo. Visit www.hollywoodbowl.com.

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The world premier of Wall-fisch’s Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 will be performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on Sun., Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Go to www.hap-penings.ucla.edu.

Beethovenat UCLA

Founding Bon Jovi mem-ber Richie Sambora, writer of many rock anthems of a gen-eration, will perform live on Nov. 13 at the Fonda Theatre, 6126 Hollywood Blvd. Tickets

Sambora at Fonda Theatre

Opening of “Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy”—the work of Michel-angelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), one of the most popular artists of the past, ri-valing in fame both Michelan-gelo and Leonardo da Vinci. At Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wilshire Blvd., lacma.org.

Caravaggio and his rivals

Actress Jennifer Garner interviews Ina Garten, author of the popular cookbook series, "Barefoot Contessa" Thurs., Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 743 S. Lucerne Blvd. The $42 admission includes a signed copy of her new book. Call 626-499-5320 or visit vroman-sbookstore.com.

'Contessa' at Ebell

WORKS BY Caravaggio, who revolutionalized painting in Rome in the late 16th century, are in an exhibit coming to LACMA.

BARBRA STREISAND to per-form two nights.SPARTACUS screens Nov. 16 at LACMA as part of 'Odyssey.'

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The Academy of Motion Pic-ture Arts and Sciences joins

LACMA Wed., Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, 8949 Wilshire Blvd. for “2012: A Kubrick Odyssey.”

The event launches both LAC-MA’s Kubrick film retrospec-tive and the Academy’s exhibi-tion “The Ultimate Trip.”

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for the 9 p.m. show are $40. For more information, go to www.fondatheatre.com.

Take a trip to the Ice Age at Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Blvd., Puppet shows fea-ture a life-size saber-toothed cat Wednesdays and Saturdays. Visit tarpits.org for showtimes.

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Dining Guide cover Enjoying pasta and fish entrees at Marino’s Ristorante, 6001 Melrose Ave., are Ellen and Steve Sletten. Noted for its Italian cuisine and upscale ambiance, Marino’s is open for lunch and dinner. Photo by Bill Devlin

RACHAEL YAMAGATA is coming to the El Rey.

FATEFUL MEETING of East and West in "Il Postino" director's turn at "Madame Butterfly."

Rachael Yamagata, the “troubadour of heartbreak,” brings an intimate show—expect strings, seated venues and wine—to the El Rey The-atre at 5515 Wilshire Blvd. on Tues., Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. The singer songwriter’s essence calls upon the styling of Todd Rundgren, Carole King and Joni Mitchell. Tickets can be purchased at www.theelrey.com.

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The Ruskin Art Club hosts its first annual Chili Cook Off, featuring Laurel Ann Bogen and Charles Harper Webb. The Nov. 18 event takes place at 2 p.m. at 800 S. Plym-outh Blvd. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors. See www.redhen.org.

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Come to a Holiday Global Bazaar Sat., Nov. 24 noon to 5 p.m. in the Craft and Folk Art Musuem Courtyard, 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Handcrafted gifts from 20 vendors will be featured along with a curated selection of fair-trade goods and works by local and global artisans. cafam.org.

Before rock'n'roll, before swing, hip hop and country there was the blues. Hear The Marcus Shelby Quintet play Blues and the Pursuit of Fre-dom on Thurs., Nov. 29 at

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8 p.m. at the Skirball Cul-tural Center, 2701 N. Sepul-veda Blvd. Visit skirball.org for tickets.

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LA Opera presents “Madame Butterfly,” starring Oksana Dyka and Brandon Jovanov-ich, from Nov. 17 through Dec. 9 at the Dorothy Chan-dler Pavilion. Tickets range from $18 to $94 per seat. For more information, call 213-972-8001 or visit www.LAOP-ERA.com.

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Tired of all the election hoop-la? Still one of the undecided? Well you won’t be after you see November by David Mamet. It’s a unanimous thumbs up. This hysterical farce centers on President Charles Smith, played wonderfully by Ed Begley, Jr. He’s facing re-election and he’s fading in the polls, sound famil-iar? He has an opportunity for a little positive spin by pardon-ing the country’s Thanksgiving turkey. Keen on having a presi-dential library he attempts to parlay that seemingly altruistic act into a last-ditch effort to find his place in political history. Along the way he deals with his lesbian speechwriter Cla-rice Bernstein (Felicity Huff-man), his long-suffering aid

Archer Brown (Rod McLach-lan), turkey handler (Todd Weeks) and an Indian, Dwight Grackle, with more money than he knows what to do with played by Gregory Cruz.

Director Scott Zigler keeps the Mamet dialogue hum-ming in this one act. The sce-nic design of the oval office by Takeshi Kata is terrific. Through Nov. 4, Mark Ta-

per Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., 213-628-2772. 4 Stars

* * * A few steps away at the Ah-manson Theater you can take in Seminar by Theresa Rebeck. Four young writers have gath-ered in an upscale New York apartment to learn more about their craft at the knees of their guru Leonard (Jeff Goldblum). They’ve paid an exorbitant amount of money to have, for the most part, their work be-littled, insulted and dismissed. Or in the case of Douglas (Lu-cas Near-Verbrugghe) horror of horrors, be told he should take his work to Hollywood. In addition to pretentious Douglas, there’s sensitive Mar-tin (Greg Keller), sex-pot Izzy


“SEMINAR” cast at rehearsal are, from left, Greg Killer, Jennifer Ikeda, Jeff Goldblum, Aya Cash and Lucas Near-Verbrugghe.

Election spoof, writing class are themes of current fare


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(Jennifer Ikeda) and the won-derful Kate played with manic self-concern by Aya Cash. There are some surprises and some pedestrian outcomes and some comedic “bits” that

are a throwback to sitcom tele-vision. Ms. Rebeck is the cre-ator and writer of the TV show “Smash.” Mr. Goldblum plays his usual likeable, predictable self and director Sam Gold keeps the action moving. Through Nov. 18, Ahman-son Theater, 135 N. Grand Ave., 213-628-2772. 3 Stars

* * * It is said that if you are sub-mitted to a totally black envi-ronment for long enough you can learn to see in the dark. If you’d like to try out this the-ory, see Theatre in the Dark. That’s right folks, for a little over an hour and a half, the audience and the stage is in inky blackness, occasionally illuminated by brief tableaus. In a series of 16 short one-act plays, one can listen to Ni-jinsky talking about and danc-ing The Rite of Spring, ants creating maps, a runaway train in a tunnel, being born, plus a ghost story or two just in time for Halloween. There’s a trip to Whole Foods about midway with some refreshments for the audience. Each play has a different director and the en-semble cast does yeoman duty in numerous roles. An opening announcement insists you stay in your seat with specific instructions on what to do if you panic. Part in-surance disclaimer, part hype, and part necessity because the blackness becomes tedious with a slight edge of claustro-phobia, if you’re so inclined. Sound becomes your touch-stone and the sound design by John Zalewski is brilliant. Using live sound effects and pre-recorded music it puts the plays in perspective. In case you’re wondering, a rather ingenious way of keep-ing the actors from bumping in to each other is revealed during the curtain calls. Through Dec. 16. On Nov. 3 “More Dark” opens and the plays then run in reper-tory. Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., 310-477-2055. 3 Stars


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family outing. It’s Rooty Tooty tummy-time at IHOP where kids now eat free every day from 4 to 10 p.m. with the purchase of each adult entrée. Most popular are the silver-dollar and Rooty Jr. pancake specials, according to the Miracle Mile IHOP staff. Health-conscious families can try the w h o l e w h e a t pancakes w i t h blueber-ries or f r e s h f r u i t s u b s t i -tuted for f r e n c h fries on lunch or d i n n e r o r d e r s . For a hip night ad-venture, eat late at this 24 hour restaurant, then let the kids run through LAC-MA’s Urban Lights streetlights, two blocks away. IHOP is lo-cated at Wilshire and Hauser. Enter through the back door of Marie Callender’s for children to savor the aromas and sights of this restaurant’s famous bakery with racks and racks of pies cooling straight out of the ginormous oven. Kids eat free here too on Tues-days and Saturdays with each adult entrée. Yummy on the kids’ menu is mac & cheese, pasta alfredo or marinara, and the GobbleGobble dinner, each with a slice of pie. Apres dining, walk over to the turtle/koi waterfall pond playground one block over at Curson and 8th to round out your evening. Scrumptious pie followed by parents-resting-on-benches with kids-mesmerized-by-tur-tles equals one copacetic fam-ily. 5733 Wilshire Blvd. Children can experience a piece of local history at Du-par’s, one of the original L.A. coffee shops established at Farmer’s Market in 1938. Du-par’s is famous for hotcakes—the best in the U.S. per Es-quire magazine! Other breakfast, lunch or dinner kids’ menu choices are French toast, scrambled eggs, grilled cheese, hamburgers, chicken strips or roasted tur-key dinners complete with fresh fruit or potato salad, bev-erage and ice cream for only $6.25. A great meal deal at an iconic restaurant. Of course, every visit to

Farmer’s Market must be followed by a ride on the old-fashioned trolley car. Way-cool is Johnny Rocket also in Farmer’s Market and at the Petersen Automotive Museum with its Rockets Kids Menu of two mini-burgers, or two mini-hot dogs, or one of each, or mac & cheese. Each

c o m e s w i t h c h i l d -s i z e d fries and a bever-age. For the com-p l e t e 1 9 5 0 s diner ef-fect, up-grade to the kids-size milk s h a k e . 6333 W. 3rd St. and 6060 Wilshire

Blvd. Larchmont Village offers the homey main street envi-ronment in short supply now-adays. At Louise’s Trattoria, chil-dren can be part of the warm Italian tradition of family din-ing. Louise’s kids’ menu offers white, tomato/cheese, pep-peroni or BBQ chicken pizza; penne, spaghetti or ravioli pasta; chicken tenders; or a salad entrée. Families love the sidewalk tables at this friendly restaurant, rated one of the top 10 best Italian restaurants in L.A. by City Search. 232 N. Larchmont. Teach children about the new food movement at Café Gratitude at 639 N. Larch-mont. A 100 percent organic vegan restaurant, Café Grati-tude promotes a sustainable and earth-conscious lifestyle through its menu, events, workshops and blog. This bus-tling cafe’s kid menu offers a black bean and cheese que-sadilla, a cheesy brown rice or quinoa dish, or apples with almond butter—all in the $5-7 range. Follow your delish meal with a long stroll down Larchmont Blvd. where kids enjoy the quaint pleasure of meeting school friends and in-teracting with the many side-walk café dogs. Satisfying meals at these area restaurants followed by simple forms of entertainment will create the family routines that become lasting memo-ries. And you don’t have to sit next to a clown.

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Dining & Entertainment GuideLos Angeles Drama Club benefit at the Magic Castle The Los Angeles Drama Club will present “Tempest in a Teacup,” an afternoon of Shakespeare and Magic, at Hollywood’s Magic Castle on Sun., Nov. 11 at 7001 Franklin Ave. The event, scheduled from 2 to 6 p.m., will include food and drinks in the Inner Circle, as well as magic performed by Rob Zabrecky in the Peller Theater. Guests will then move to a larger theater to enjoy an hour of Shakespeare’s finest works. Celebrity guests scheduled to perform with the club members include Jason Alex-ander, Jeremy Piven, Dominic Monaghan and more. The event is supported by The Shakespeare Youth Fes-tival, Los Angeles. Each year, club members rehearse and perform three plays at the Lost Studio., 130 S. La Brea Ave. Proceeds will benefit Shake-speare in the City, a free youth outreach program for under-served communities in Los

Angeles and literacy and per-formance residencies in Los Angeles schools with limited arts funding. Blaire Baron Larsen, Brook-side, founded the Los Ange-les Drama Club in 2004 with member, Sophie Heyman-Uliano. Julia Walker Wyson is executive director. For more information and tickets, visit www.losangeles-dramaclub.com.

Marionettes usher in holiday season with 'Nutcracker' The Bob Baker Marionette Theater will kick off the holi-day season with the return of "Bob Baker's Nutcracker" playing Sat., Nov. 10 through Sun., Jan. 27. The Theatre, downtown at 1345 W. First St., has been hosting events for children of all ages since Baker and his business partner, Alton Wood, turned a scene shop into the family entertainment land-mark in 1960. The marionette version of the classic ballet "Nutcrack-er" has been presented there since 1969. Employing more than 100 marionettes, the per-formance features Clara and the Nutcracker Prince, Sugar-plum Fairies, Mouse King and many more. Shows run Tuesdays through Fridays at 10:30 a.m..; Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $20; children under age 2 are free. Birthdays can be celebrated at performances. Call 213-250-9995 or go to bobbakermarionettes.com.

The tale of Peter Pan will be told and sung by the Nine O’Clock Players Theatre for Children at performances that run through Sun., Dec. 2 at the Assistance League of Southern California, 1367 N. St. Andrews Pl. “Peter and Wendy” is a re-telling by Carol Weiss of J.M. Barrie’s classic “Peter Pan.” It tells the tale of Peter Pan, Wendy, Captain Hook and the

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Restaurants have been pop-ping up right and left this year. Here is a rundown of some of the area’s newest additions. Muse on 8th, formerly Café Muse in Hollywood, has moved south to 759 S. La Brea Ave. Jennifer Ritchkoff, the owner, describes the new din-ing spot as “a neighborhood café in the heart of the city.” It serves up organic coffee, tea and espresso, sweet treats from local bakeries, as well as healthy vegetarian and vegan cuisine. The café provides free Wi-Fi, books, games and news-papers, and displays a rotating art gallery of work by local art-ists. Thursdays are open mic nights offering music, stand-up comedy or book readings. For more information, go to www.museon8th.com or call 323-933-6873. Apollonia’s Pizzeria, located at 5176 Wilshire Blvd., offers artisan pizzas created from fresh, hand-tossed dough and toppings made with “locally grown ingredients,” said Justin

De Leon, a photographer and avid pizza-maker. The meat se-lection includes an exotic sau-sage menu, such as the “Dirty Agent” rattlesnake sausage with tomato, onion and garlic, alligator and basil, duck and bacon, and chicken tequila. The pizzeria also offers gluten-free crust and a vegan cheese option. For information, go to www.apolloniaspizzeria.com or call 323-937-2823. “Lou,” located in a mini-mall at 724 Vine St., is under new management with a name change as well. Now called Bosc, manager Troy Stevens declares, “we’re just changing the name, everything else stays the same,” which means that “the comforting food, interest-ing wines and homey setting [that] drew [him] here” will remain intact. For more infor-mation, call 323-962-6369 or go to bosconvine.com. Hamburger Hamlet XP, an “express” version of the tradi-tional Hamburger Hamlet res-taurant chain, opened at 217 N. Larchmont Blvd. in June. The menu features hamburg-ers, cheeseburgers, turkey

burgers and veggie burgers. Also on the menu are a chick-en sandwich, salads, fries, and milk shakes. For information, call 323-465-9603 or go to www.hamburgerhamlet.com. C+M (Coffee and Milk) is a new craft coffeehouse from the Patina Restaurant Group at the Los Angeles County Mu-seum of Art. It features artisan coffee, pastries and signature milk sorbet treats. Freshly baked cookies and pastries by pastry chef Josh Graves are found in abundance (includ-ing the “Milkwich,” a milk sor-bet treat sandwiched between your choice of the day’s fresh-ly-baked cookies). Open daily at 10 a.m. (closed Wednes-days). 5905 Wilshire Blvd. For information, call 323-857-6180. Cyndi Finkle, owner of Art-works Studio & Classroom, lo-cated on the corner of Larch-mont and Melrose, and her friend and business partner Mel Cain, have opened Cof-fee + Food in the former Wild Oats Café location at 5630 Melrose Ave. The café features salads and sandwiches using

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high quality, a multiple Oscars candidate. The end credits are worth sitting through to see pictures of the real-life people who lived through this ordeal alongside the actors playing them. The similarity in looks is remarkable, which is why I’m, well, remarking. Cloud Atlas (7/10): Seem-ing to channel reincarnation, at almost three hours this epic

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fare and sipped assorted bever-ages at 40 restaurants, hotels and bars. He’s also learned quite a bit about the city’s dark side. The British journalist sought to show a different side to the city he learned about when he was a tour-ist. He wanted to document actual places where you can go inside and cozy up to the

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“Chainé! Chainé! Chainé!” artistic director Marat Dau-kayev calls out rhythmically to students as they move across the dance floor in a straight line of quick turns. “Chaine” is a succession or chain of turns requiring precise technique propelled by unwavering mo-mentum, and also describes the progressive development of the Marat Daukayev School of Ballet since its inception in the late 90s. Starting with a handful of students as an emigré from the former Soviet Union, Marat Daukayev now directs a school of 375 students, des-ignated Best School by Los Angeles magazine. Located at Dance Arts Academy, 731-735 S. La Brea, it has expanded by 2,700 square feet to accom-modate its impressive 4,000–piece costume inventory and support spaces. This year the school also opened a Conservancy Pro-gram grooming teens for pro-fessional ballet careers. School students enjoyed appearing as the ballet class featured regularly in the popular se-ries “Bunheads” on ABC Fam-ily TV. “With films and several TV shows about ballet lately, there is a huge new interest in ballet as an art form,” explains executive director and Marat’s wife Pamela Daukayev. International TV audiences know Marat this year from his coaching of “So You Think You Can Dance” finalists Che-hon Wepsi-Tscopp and Eli-anna Girard. A former Kirov

ballet principal, achieving the rare status of “Peoples Art-ist of Russia,” who still helps train professional ballerinas, Marat coached Chehon and Elianna in a classical ballet set to Tchaikovsky’s adagio from “The Nutcracker” which won them the competition. “It was a great moment for ballet!” said Pamela. However, the most note-worthy accomplishment, ac-cording to the Daukayevs, is their own dancers’ improve-ment—artistically and per-sonally. “More students are matriculating through the school’s levels with their abili-ties increasing,” Pamela de-scribes. On breaks, children in the lower levels watch those in the upper levels, looking for-ward to the day they can mas-ter the skills required to move up to soloist roles. Sometimes the best students’ autographs are even sought. MDSB stu-dent Isabella Franco placed second, Junior Division, in the Youth America Grand Prix, a

sitting split-legged in the stu-dio lobby, keeping up with homework while stretching muscles. “It’s not surprising that our alumni who chose college over ballet careers are at Colum-bia, Stanford, Berkeley. In the study of dance, children learn to do more than they thought possible, have incredible dis-cipline, focus and love for the

work process.” Brought up as a young teen in the exacting Kirov system, Marat avoids forced ‘stage tricks’ for his students’ choreography, in-stead encouraging the natural development of teens’ emo-tional expression and cultural refinement. Tickets to the annual “Nut-cracker” performance on Dec. 14, 15 and 16 at the CSULA Luckman Theatre, are available at www.maratdaukayev.com.

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Bands, floats, dancers, tele-vision celebrities and Santa Claus will all join in the fun as the Grand Marshal guides the parade along a U-shaped route on Hollywood Blvd., Vine Street, and Sunset Blvd.

JACK, a professional the-atre company at Park LaBrea, will present “2 Short Films; 2 Short Discussions,” on Mon., Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. The first film, “Honesty, Pencil, Rose,” is a 16-minute short story of the shifting re-lationship between daughter and father as the father ages and wrestles with loss of mem-ory and loss in general. The film was an official selection of the International Family Film Festival. The second film, “Art Gal-leries and Back Alleys,” is a 26-minute documentary that chronicles the artistic process as two Chicano visual artists

representing two different generations of an art move-ment collaborate in the trans-formation of a hybrid vehicle into a piece of art. JACK is a producing and performing ensemble that cre-ates theatrical and multimedia experiences. The name is an acronym of the initials of its members’ first names (Jens Kohler, Annette Reid, Carlos Carrasco and Kent Minault). The films will screen in the Park LaBrea Activities Center Theater, at 475 S. Curson Ave. Admission is free. For further information, e-mail [email protected] or call 213-986-JACK.

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Broadway legend Cook to perform with LA Phil To ring in the Broadway lyr-ic soprano’s 85th year, Barbara Cook and the LA Philharmon-ic will launch the 2012/2013 Songbook Series at Walt Dis-ney Concert Hall. The performance on Wed., Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. also marks the first time the LA Phil will perform a concert in the Songbook Series. Cook and the LA Phil will be joined by conductor Rob Ber-man, as well as her pianist and musical director Ted Rosen-thal. A recipient of the 2011 Ken-nedy Center honors, Cook received a Tony Award nomi-nation for her performance in "Sondheim on Sondheim," and is best known for her 1950s and 1960s Broadway appearances, including Cune-gonde in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, and Marian the Li-brarian in The Music Man. In her concert with the LA Phil, the Grammy-winning Cook will explore the Ameri-can songbook and timeless classics. For more information, go to www.laphil.com.

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SPICY MEDITERRANEAN CALAMARI 17 22Tomato sauce, cheese, garlic, red pepper, fresh calamari

FAJITA PIZZA (Chicken or Steak) 17 22Cheese, bell pepper, onion, cilantro topped with sliced avocado

GRILLED EGGPLANT & BURRATA 16 21Tomato sauce, eggplant, fresh burrata cheese, topped with fresh basil

BERRIS ORIGINAL (Pork) 16 21Chicken or shrimp, tomato sauce, cheese, herbs, prosciutto, onions, & arugula

MARGHERITA 14 19Tomato sauce, cheese, herbs & basil

MEAT LOVER 17 22Tomato sauce, cheese, pepperoni, italian sausage & ground beef

VEGETARIAN 15 20Tomato sauce, cheese, herbs, bell peppers, eggplant, onions, zucchini, mushrooms, olives

LOBSTER PIZZA 20 34Lobster blended in pink sauce, cheese & shrimp

GOAT CHEESE & PORTOBELLO 15 20Garlic oil sauce, cheese, herbs, portobello mushrooms, & goat cheese

CALZONE 13 Tomato sauce & cheese For additional toppings extra (see list below)

MAKE YOUR OWN starts at 14 19

ADD ONE TOPPING 2 3Onions, Black Olives, Fresh Tomatoes, Arugula, Mushrooms,Portobello Mushrooms, Bell Peppers, Artichokes, Eggplant, Jalapenos, Sundried Tomatoes, Pineapple, Gorgonzola Cheese, Feta Cheese, Goat Cheese, Blue Cheese, Fresh Basil, Ricotta Cheese, Fresh Garlic, Spinach, Broccoli, Capers, Zucchini, Caramelized Onion

MEAT TOPPINGS 3 4Ham, Pepperoni, Salami, Italian Sausage, Merguez Sausage, Chorizo, Chicken, Ground Beef, Bacon, Canadian Bacon

SEAFOOD TOPPINGS 4 5Shrimp, Salmon, Tuna, Clams, Calamari, Anchovies, Mussels, Scallops, Fresh Fish

SaladsAdd chicken for 3.60 or shrimp for 4.60

GORGONZOLA SALAD 11Romaine lettuce, cucumber & gorgonzola cheese w/ blue cheese dressing

CHOPPED SALAD 12Chopped lettuce, salami, turkey bacon, roasted turkey, provolone, tomatoes, pepperoncini, red onions, & avocado with a lemon dressing

CAPRESE SALAD 12Fresh tomatoes, burrata & basil with a vinaigrette dressing

BEET SALAD 11Beets, endives, pine nuts, walnuts, tomatoes, goat cheese w/ a balsamic dressing

EXOTICA SALAD 14Arugula, heart of palm, avocado, sweet corn, shrimp, with a lemon dressing

GRILLED SALMON SALAD 14Grilled salmon, dill, cucumber, arugula with a citrus dressing

ENDIVE SHRIMP SALAD 14Grilled shrimp, endives, candied walnuts, with a tarragon dressing

APPLE SALAD 12Apples, endives, spinach, celery, blue cheese served w/ a balsamic reduction

EntreesChoice of steamed or sauteed vegetables, mashed potatoes, or french fries

FILET MIGNON 298 oz. cut served with black pepper sauce

TUSCAN SALMON 19Chopped fresh tomatoes & fresh basil, in a lemon wine sauce

STEAK AU POIVRE 2512 oz. peppered New York strip steak served w/ mashed potatoes & vegetables

STEAK FRITES 2512 oz. New York steak served with french fries

FILLET OF SOLE & SCALLOPS 21Pan roasted, served with braised spinach in a chardonnay saffron sauce

CHICKEN MILANESE 14Deep fried breaded chicken breast

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