What entrée goes best with whacking a ball?
El Segundo’s California Smash is a restaurant, bar, and indoor pickleball center As someone who has been reviewing restaurants for four decades, I’m quite used to a menu with terms I don’t understand and dishes that reflect a culture different from my own. Our dining party is often the only one not speaking Chinese, Spanish, or some other language, and I’m mesmerized by the rhythms of a different language even though I don’t understand it. The music in these eateries is alien too, the soundtrack of a world I don’t usually inhabit. I have come away from a meal with the tunes of another hemisphere going through my head. I had some of these feelings during a recent dinner in a quiet area of El Segundo at the restaurant called The Kitchen inside California Smash. California Smash is an indoor pickleball facility, and the menu has some inside jokes that use the slang of that game. We had to ask our server about a cocktail called the “dink and drive,” and apparently dink is like a drop shot in tennis and dink is the sound it makes. As for the sonic profile, the sound system was playing breezy instrumentals with additional percussion provided by the players at nearby courts. Casual…
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