Eileen Likes To Eat

Roy’s Restaurant
641 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626) 356-4066
http://www.roysrestaurant.com

My parents enjoy going out to eat, but most of the time they go to the same Chinese restaurants or noodle & dumpling places over and over.  I like taking them out to try different cuisine.  Most of the time they will say something like “Chinese food is much cheaper and better value… blah blah blah.”  But I know they are happy that I am taking them out to eat.  They just don’t want me to spend too much money.  That’s family love.  ^^

I picked Roy’s Restaurant in Pasadena to take my parents for dine LA Restaurant week.  Valet parking was $7.  But we found free parking in the building’s parking garage.  The gate was opened and nobody was there.  So we just parked.  Lucky!

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Vito Restaurant
2807 Ocean Park Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 450-4999
http://www.vitorestaurant.com

We went up to Santa Monica to have dinner with Dr. P’s friend Arthur last weekend.  Santa Monica is far, I mean farrrrrr, from Orange County.  It was 50+ miles from our house to the restaurant!  Dinner was at Arthur’s favorite restaurant, Vito.

We got there a little earlier, and sat at the bar to have a drink while waiting for Arthur.  There were quite a few silver haired customers sitting at the bar for early dinner.

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