Meet La - Culver City

My new girlfriend treated me until the day of fun and pampering for my bday back in October, and we stumbled over this tres chic restaurant, which was newly opened in downtown Culver City. The restaurant is quite small, but fortunately they have a very nice terrace. The ambience is really beautiful – very reminded to sit in a real Parisian cafe. (Yes, that is, the table size and the space between the tables are more similar to in France – so you have to be comfortable with “intimacy”. Both my friend and I are Francophile so that none of us thinks: we were greeted by the owner Sebastien, who, together with his co-owner Mrs. Cecile and the terrace series Creator / Waiter (also Sebastien treated us as a newly coined French license. Sebastien has my girlfriend in Francais...ooh, la, la! while we sat on the fresco with heated lamps to keep us warm. One of the Sebastiens’ serendipitly composed us some champagne, just like the other brought the most beautiful Amuse Bouche (that is “Amuse Mund” literally, so its quite a petite appetizer, the standard in most French restaurants of strawberries trizzled with chocolate and I can’t remember what other kind of shrimp. I will give a fuzzy picture of this with friendly permission of my incredible SUCKY new Nikon camera (thanks to ALOT Ashton Kutcher! . We started our praying a tete with a wonderful beet salad that consisted of 2 types of beds with goat cheese on a bed Frisee Lettuce with walnuts, drowned with Orange Honey Champagne Dressing It was unique because I don't often enjoy Beets. The goat cheese was incredibly rich, esp with all the beet. It was delicious, but I found the taste quite strong with this combination of beet and goat cheese to be. Next came our main courses. My friend had the Assiette Halibut with Bearnaise Sauce. I had the special of the night, that was short rib from the bone on a bed of Polnta with Parmesan cheese. That was my first ime trying Polnta based on corn. Interesting. The short ribs were absolutely divine. It was one of those experiences in which the flesh like Buttah fell away from my knife! My goodness then Dessert came: Chocolat fondant avec la glace à la vanille. (I admit, I just learned the difference between a fondant and fondue! – the joys of learning French nuances! At this point, we both have spent quite a bit of this food organ in our mouth. Sebastien, the owner, brings two glasses of Port, which he wants to compose. My friend and I feel that we have won the lottery by stumbled on this wonderful institution! Wow! Our judgment? Service, attention / interaction with us, and the (taste, ingredients, presentation of food was superb (in my French accent! . We were both next to ourselves about this find! Everything was excellent! Oh, and hey, is this a good time to clarify that my girlfriend I'm referring to is a friend, the female Cuz is me right now? Although, after the amazing day she treated me, I felt like I should have pulled her out well this night...!