The Encounter at LAX has closed :-(

Well, what a shame -- The Encounter restaurant at LAX has closed!

http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la- ... z2s65Lm8SZ

The architecture was fantastic; the food... average on a good day. But for a place to sit and watch the comings and goings of an airport and somehow pretend you were living in the 1950s... absolutely wonderful.

But for a place to sit and watch the comings and goings of an airport and somehow pretend you were living in the 1950s... absolutely wonderful.

So they had rationing, bad dentistry and national service on the menu?

It's no joke when the alternative is the miserable T2 at LAX, believe me.

It's no joke when the alternative is the miserable T2 at LAX, believe me.

Agreed on the terminal. Been there, done that, don't want to do it again.

That was really the thing that made it so much fun. You could step out of the terminal, walk in sunshine, see some greenery, breathe the, er, not so fresh air, and just feel removed from the stress of an airport terminal. In a kind of diner-like atmosphere... Given the novelty of walking anywhere in LA, and the horrors ahead of an 11-hour red-eye, I rather liked it...

In a kind of diner-like atmosphere...

Ah, now you're talking my language. y)