Thoughts

Karena is usually in the mood to eat out. After all, we're young. We live in a big metropolitan city that amazing places to eat of all different kinds of food. We're DINKs (double income, no kids).

So, this week, we decided to do just that, albeit, we still didn't go anywhere especially fancy.

On Wednesday night, we went to Old Towne Pasadena to eat at Cheesecake Factory. The crazy part of that night was that a shooting had occurred across the street earlier in the evening and when we arrived, the TV crews were everywhere. In fact, we found out what happened while a TV reporter was interviewing an eyewitness. And we ended up being seated right by the window right in front of the TV news van, so we got to see how they broadcast live and edit the footage. That interesting part of the evening made up for an otherwise horrible night at Cheesecake, where the food they served tasted bad and the service was even worse. But if you ever go there, we recommend the Thai Chicken Pasta and the Chicken Madeira.

On Thursday, we had the privilege of having dinner with Mike and Sabrina at Mimi's Cafe. In spite of their raising their prices, it's still one of our favorite places and usually our first choice when meeting up with friends or family for dinner. In fact, since moving to Glendale 4.5 years ago, we've eaten at that particular Mimi's Cafe with Raymond & Sandra, Karena's sister Rani and her aunt Eva, Ryan and Enoch, Albert, Simon and Suzanne, and a few others. If you go, we recommend the Meat Loaf, the Pot Roast, and the French Onion Soup.