Aki Restaurant with Poppy!

Poppy

Pakkai

Chicken Katsu & Colin

Every Friday we have dinner with my grandfather, Poppy. Poppy is 97 years old...He'll be 98 on May 1. He'd like me to cook, but hates the 14 stairs to get to my front door and won't fix his 1950's stove/oven. So on Fridays we go out for dinner. We are creatures of habit - we can usually be found at Aki Restaurant on Santa Monica Blvd. in West LA. Once in a while we'll go to Chinese, but we all prefer Aki's. It's a "Cheers" moment every time we walk through that door and the food is consistent and good and comforting!

http://www.yelp.com/biz/aki-restaurant-los-angeles

Tonight Poppy had chirashi (bowl of sushi rice topped with sashimi) and a side of shrimp tempura. Lots of chicken and beef teriyaki at the table...both my boys ordered chicken katsu (I have a great everyday recipe for a future post!)...Aunty Dinky had the saba and I ordered the pakkai (Japanese style sweet & sour pork - bone-in).

Tomorrow's Saturday...Is your chicken prepped???