Ristorante DaVinci gets it perfect–almost

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
My boy and I had been having a airly wretched month—2007: Has yours blown too?—when my boss palmed me a Franklin and told me to take the kid to DaVinci. Did the gorgeous ristorante take away all the pain? Well, no. After I ate a plate of venison [...]

Secret lives

PHOTO by VINCENT E. SOLIZ
Ristorante DaVinci, atop a hangar at Long Beach Airport, is a marvelously prosperous-feeling place, all 20-foot, rounded windows under a two-story ceiling. It’s even got a columned rotunda in the middle of the restaurant floor. Really, I wouldn’t be surprised if Olivia Newton-John and her rolling-skating muses showed up and [...]