I shared a lovely ladies lunch with friends yesterday. We went to the Lakeside Restaurant located in the Los Encinos State Historic Park in Encino.
After a bit of a slog in freeway traffic, we relaxed at an outdoor table where we could watch the ducks and geese paddle around on a pond that's fed by a natural spring. Kind of a little oasis in the busy San Fernando Valley.
Poor photos due in part to the dappled sunshine filtering through the trees and partly to my own ineptitude 
I had the Short Rib Panini with a house salad. Half of the panini was dinner.
The lady to my left ordered the beet & pear salad with shrimp:
The lady to my right ordered a steak burrito with fresh fruit:
Not pictured was a vegetarian flatbread ordered by the lady across the table from me because this lady draws the line at getting up and walking around the table to take pictures of other people's food 
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A good time was had by all.
