Dominique's Kitchen

When the cat's away the mice will play. In this case we are dealing with one mouse. The mouse is Amy. Since her husband went on a fishing trip, Sandi and I thought she should get out of the house and have dinner with the girls.....and what better place to celebrate than to to have dinner at Dominique's Kitchen.

We were greeted by the very charming Liza, Dominique's wife who made us feel at home as usual. Our server, Robert who has been there for years was courteous and attentive as always. He immediately brought us wine glasses for the wine we brought. He then served us the white bean with shaved Parmesan salad and warm French bread which we immediately devoured. For appetizer, we had the flambéed Brie cheese with a slice of apple in the bottom. We then realized that we needed to eat that with the bread we just devoured. Luckily, Robert was quick to notice that we needed more bread.

Amy decided on one of my favorite dishes, Pan Seared Sole Fillet with sautéed spinach. One of the specials for the evening was Pork Meatballs with Truffle Polenta. Sandi wanted to order the Sole so she suggested we split the Sole and split the Meatballs. I asked Robert how many balls were there in an order and he said: three. Since I've never had them before, I decided to have all three balls. In other words I did not want to split my balls. So Sandi decided to have her very own balls as well. Everything was delicious as always. The meatballs were nice and tender and went very well with the polenta. Amy ate half her fish, Sandi ate one meatball and I unfortunately didn't have anything to take home.  We all ate too much bread and the cheese of course took up too much room in our tummies.

We had to share a dessert and that was their famous Baked Alaska. While we were having our dessert, Amy had a phone call from her husband in Mammoth to check up on her. She seemed pleased to inform him that she was not home and that she was at Dominique's with me and Sandi.

It was another very pleasant evening at Dominique's Kitchen. They recently celebrated their 4th year anniversary. The restaurant is still there and is going strong. It's hard to beat good food, service and reasonable prices. Cheers to Dominique and Liza. May you have many many more successful years to come.

Dominique's Kitchen is at 522 Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach, California.