Too <i> Haute</i> to Handle

Call me outdated, but when I saw your cover stories I thought immediately of those great traditional L.A. restaurants Scandia, Cock ‘N Bull, Tail of the Cock, the Brown Derbys, Perino’s, Smith Bros. Fish Shanty, Captain’s Table, Le Restaurant, all long gone.

Then I realized you were lamenting all the nouveau trendy restaurants of the ‘80s, so expensive and so status-conscious they couldn’t even last a decade. More than any of them, I miss the above and the Hungry Tigers, the Frascatis, the Diamond Jims, the Carolina Pines and, way back in the middle ages, Mike Lyman’s.

R. A. LEE

Los Angeles