Day on the Green

Wines:Noir

Bea:2004 Robert Sinskey, Vin Gris, a rose Pinot from Silverlake Wine
Cliff / Cathy:

Guests: Bea Landen (hostess), Cliff, Cathy, Greg Stone, John Conaty, John’s mother: Kay Conaty.

Bea Landen had invited us to join her on Saturday to join her to go to hear a performance of Leonard Bernstein and related Broadway show music at Festival on the Green. It is an outdoor venue in Arcadia at the Los Angeles Arboretum. Her friend Tony has a season subscription with great parking and a table for 6.

Bea had never been to Clementine so she spent part of Saturday with us as we picked up food for the big night. Cliff and Cathy had preordered food from Clementine and Cheese Store of Silverlake.

Cliff and Cathy picked up Bea and first we drove to Gallery of Functional Art one of our favorite places owned by our friend Lois Lambert. We have furnished our house with many items from GFA. From there we drove to Clementine to pick up our food. We had lunch there, and had several varieties of salads. It is always good. From there we went to Boule on La Cienega where we picked up some pastries for Sunday morning. Very fancy very pricey store. We like their Sticky Buns but for the rest of the pastries, for our tastes Clementine is better.

From there we went to the Cheese Store of Silverlake where they had created a , cheese platter with 6 different cheeses (Goat, Camembert, Grapes, olives, etc.). There was a huge basket of Breads and crackers to go with it.

Bea picked us up and we drove to the Arboretum. Tony not only had a great table for us, but VIP parking that made it very easy. He also provided a well stocked picnic basket.

After being led to our table, Cliff / Cathy / Bea proceeded to set the table and start on the Champagne. Greg, John and Kay arrived shortly after. Kay had baked John’s favorite desert Lemon Meringue Pie.

We started on the Cheese Course. From there we had a great salad from Clementine of Tomatoes, buffalo Mozzarella and basil.

For the main course we had Grilled Chicken breast slices and a faro salad. The chicken was a little dry, but good. The faro was excellent, Greg especially liked it!

For desert we pigged out! Clementine had provided us with an assortment of cookies, brownies etc. We also devoured Kay’s wonderful Lemon Meringue Pie.
The performance by the California Philharmonic was fun. Most of the music were war horses from Broadway that we knew. In addition they had two singers: Teri Bibb, soprano and Kevin Earley, baritone. Kevin has a huge big voice and overpowered Teri. West Side Story songs of course were wonderful as was Les Miserables.
As the night progressed under the stars it started to cool off. John and Greg had brought a magic pillow that converts to wine holder or a blanket. They had two of them and gave them to Cliff / Cathy. We appreciate it. A very nice night under the stars.