This ever-popular, influential restaurant (once referred to as the Spago of Pasadena) sports all-American fixtures like brick walls, a carved-wood bar, and a prominent fireplace. The food wanders farther afield, incorporating influences from Italian to Southwestern to Japanese. In one sitting you might have black bean soup or a tiger shrimp corn dog with Thai aïoli, then filet mignon or whole fried catfish with yuzu-ponzu sauce, and s'mores for dessert.
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