Valentines Day Dinner

Another year, another Valentines with my sweetheart. I took her out to a little french resturant, La Vie, in San Gabriel. As most resturants on Valentines day, it was packed. After we were seated, I noticed my wife kept looking over my shoulder at the patrons coming in and being turned away because the restaurant was booked for the evening. I was sure glad we were able to be seated. I actually made a reservation the week before, but when we arrived they were unable to find it. Luckily, we were seated anyway. Otherwise, I would have had to complain to the owners about how bad there reservations system was. They used a notebook and just scribbled in the reservations on the page. It wasn’t organized at all. My wife counted 10 couples who didn’t have reservations and were turned away by the time we left. The food was good as usual. I normally order the rack of lamb but I couldn’t pass up the prime rib special they had. My wife ordered the Cod but later said she preferred the Chicken Cordon Bleu (her usual). We both had dessert for change. As with the dinners, the desserts were very resonably priced (about $4.00 each) and I really liked the what I had. It was a banana and vanilla ice cream dessert but it was the sauce that was so tasty. The next time we go there I’m thinking of ordering the escargot. I always see other people ordering it there and I’m curious to see if I’ll like.