DINING BEAT : WAITER MAKES CAREER OF IT.Byline: Larry Lipson Taix waiter Bernard Inchauspe, one of the nominees for Service Person of the Year by the California Restaurant Writers Association (CRWA CRWA Charles River Watershed Association (Massachusetts) CRWA Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 (UK) ), is one of the few waiters in this town who feels he has already landed his big career break. ``I am a professional waiter. I am fulfilled with what I do,'' he says. A French Basque born in the Pyrenees in Southern France Southern France (or the South of France), colloquially known as Le Midi, is a loosely defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean Sea, Italy, and Switzerland south of the , Inchauspe left the rural life for Lourdes, and later Paris, to be a waiter. Arriving in this country in 1962 and hampered by his unfamiliarity with English, he secured a job as busboy with Taix, the 70-year-old French country restaurant that was in the process of moving from downtown to its present 1911 Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. location. Soon he regained a waiter's position and has served Taix patrons ever since. He will learn if he's a winner at the CRWA's annual awards banquet March 9 at the Wyndham Bel Age Hotel. Ticket information: (213) 851-1023. Five-course celebration For the 10th anniversary of his La Pergola pergola Garden walk or terrace typically formed by two rows of columns or posts roofed with an open framework of beams and cross rafters over which plants are trained. Its purpose is to provide a foundation on which climbing plants can be viewed and to give shade. , 15005 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, chef-owner Tino Pettignano is cooking a special five-course dinner accompanied by Fontanafredda Italian wines for $55 (tax and tip included) on Monday starting at 5:30 p.m. There will be open seating for the event and attendees will get the chance to win raffled hand-crafted Italian ceramics. Sparkling brut Brut, Brute (both: br  t), or Brutus (br Contessa Rosa with antipasto will be followed by a Gavi white with smoked Scottish salmon and sweet Maui onions. A trio of pastas (rigatoni rig·a·to·ni n. Pasta in ribbed, slightly curved, large-sized tubes. [Italian, from rigato, past participle of rigare, to draw a line, from riga, line, gorgonzola, penne puttanesca and farfalle far·fal·le n. Pasta in the shape of bow ties. [Italian, pl. of farfalla, butterfly, of imitative origin.] Noun 1. pesto) will be paired with red Barbera d'Alba as the next course. And rich, red Barolo wine accompanies lamb chops and mushrooms in a sauce made with the same Barolo wine. Sweet Asti will be poured with the house specialty dessert, torta della nonna alle mandorle (``Grandma's cake with almonds''). Reservations: (818) 905-8402. Happy-hour spread Happy Hour (5 to 7 p.m. weekdays) is no buffet grabfest at Monty's Steak House, 5371 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Woodland Hills. Instead, complimentary appetizers (oysters, shrimp three ways, pizza, meatballs, tacos, chips, potato skins, mushrooms, chicken wings, quesadillas, pastas) are served to seated patrons by white-coated waiters on trays. Information: (818) 716-9736. |
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