TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Cafe 50s Restaurant in Venice, California

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Cafe 50s Restaurant in Venice, California

Now and then we eat at Cafe 50s, a 1950's style family diner. It serves cheeseburgers, other sandwiches, salads, 24-hour breakfast, soups, chocolate malts, and so on. It has a large jukebox belting out oldies music; the booths have small jukeboxes which no longer work. The walls are plastered with old posters and pictures of famous personalities from that era: Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Bobby Darin, Burt Lancaster, and there's a provocative one of Gina Lollobrigida with her very low neckline.

Cafe 50s is a chain; the one we go to is located at 838 Lincoln Blvd, Venice; but we also go to the one on 11623 Santa Monica Blvd.

I like their calico salad; the hamburgers are all right; the Monte Cristo is good but very high in calories.

(I just checked, the Cafe 50s on Lincoln has a 4 out of 5 stars on Yelp --- not bad.)

Sunday morning here, Folks, and we're done with the Heat Wave. I'm resting, so this is all for now,

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tags: food, eating, diner, dining, restaurant, Southern California, Venice, Los Angeles
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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.