As I was contemplating our Easter dinner last week, I thought of the Kings Arms and Queens Arms restaurants in L.A.
They used to have the best orange sauce for ham. It was the best sauce I have ever tasted and I have never been able to duplicate it. It was what I always wanted when my parents took us there in the 1950s. I took my wife to the Queens Arms after we married in 1969.
I know I go way back, but it was fun to remember some of the old places like the "Tail of the Cock," the "Pump Room" and the "Samoa House" (I can remember when it was still on Van Nuys Boulevard.)
I guess it shows us how old we are although, if my memory is correct, the recipe for the barbecue sauce from the Samoa House was bought by Pitts & Chris and is still available.
Ken Gott
–Thanks for sharing! How about it? Anybody got the Kings Arms’ recipe for orange sauce?
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… this was just up the street from Fletcher Jones Chevrolet and the famous Ralph Williams Ford…Ventura Blvd. also had a Tail O’ the Cock restaurant and a Dino’s (Dean Martin’s) restaurant / club… ahh, the valley!!!
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Ah, Tail O’ The Cock, Ventura Blvd long about Coldwater Canyon. Dark and plush inside, really swank in a kinda country manor kind of way but the best part was the little themed hot dog stand out on the sidewalk just slightly to the east called…what else? Tail O’ the Pup! Great dogs and open really, really late.
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My father was an African American waiter who worked at the Ventura Blvd restaurant and I was a young child, maybe 3 – 5 yrs. old. I remember my Dad introducing me to Nat King Cole in front of the restaurant and telling what a great man he was. Dad used to talk about the stars that used to come there. I don’t believe the place was integrated at the time – late 50’s, early 60’s – a memory . . .
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