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PALM SPRINGS: STARS DAY AND NIGHT Choices vary from niche restaurants like the Wild Goose (328-6775) which specializes in wild game beautifully prepared and Lord Fletcher's (328-1161) which delivers solid British fare that is remarkably well done to romantic places like the Villa Royale's Europa with its intimate Mediterranean ambiance to Melvyn's which projects to many a mixture, Hungarian and Hollywood. The restaurant that brings inn all the discriminating diners is, of course, the Zagat top rated Le Vallauris restaurant, 385 West Tahquitz Canyon Way (760-325-5059 levallauris.com) run for 27 years by Paul Bruggemans, now with the help of brother Tony, a former hotelier. Clientelle over the years has included such diverse and probably hard to please persons as Walter Annenberg and Frank Sinatra, ex-president Gerald Ford and Merv Griffin, Lee Iacocca and Hubert de Givenchy. Dinner on Le Vallauris's patio is one of the great endings to a Palm Springs vacation. |
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| Others might be to visit the new Air Museum up by the airport (778-6262) or to take an escorted jeep trip with Desert Adventures (800-440-JEEP red-jeep.com). perhaps one guided by Morgan Levine, called "Wind in her Hair" by the local Cahuilla Indians whose culture and history she has explained in 14 years of ecotours in the desert. | |
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But the unique, definitive event in this glitzy
city is the Palm Spring Follies now in its tenth season at the Historic
Plaza Theatre, 128 South Palm Canyon Drive (760-327-0225 palmspringsfollies.com).
Riff Markowitz, the former movie and television producer, who created
this entire extravaganza using talent above the age of 50 for every
part including "Long-Legged Lovelies") compares the show
with razor wit like a cross between Cesar Romero and Don Rickles.
He teases his mostly older audience by telling jokes such as: the
elderly man in the Singles bar whose pickup line is, "Do I
come here often?" and by pointing out priorities have changed
of late in Palm Springs since many young people (aged 50 to 60)
have moved in: Now you can get a pizza faster than an ambulance.
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The headliner at a recent visit was the still lovely
Gloria DeHaven. Tony Martin is the main performer April 4 through
May 27, when the season closes, the desert warms up and the town
again becomes that bargain for vacationers. |
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