Dinner and a movie. We’ve all done that hundreds of times, right? It’s an American institution. In New York, they have dinner and a show, but the choices are somewhat limited in the rest of the country. That is, everywhere but Los Angeles. And in the “Only in L.A.” category falls my dinner last night, but we’ll get to that in a second. First, a little background.

Last September, as my fiance and I were ramping up for our wedding, we went out for our last dating anniversary at a restaurant we’d wanted to try ever since seeing the head chef on Top Chef Masters. That chef was Suzanne Tracht and the restaurant was Jar. It was fantastic. Everything we ate that night was just crazy good and if the place wasn’t just a tad above our normal eating out budget, we’d be there every week. We did however, sign up to be on the mailing list.

Cut to 5 months later and we decided that instead of fighting all the crowds on Valentine’s Day, we’d wait a couple weeks and hit up Jar again. Come to find out it was also right around our three month wedding anniversary, it seemed perfect. (Yes, we’re big on anniversaries. Any excuse to go out to eat, really.) Read more