One Sentence Movie Reviews: “Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s”
Off The Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s (1997): “What gives a life meaning is never for us to judge”
Notes: Documentary on the closing of the legendary Chasen’s restaurant, which entertained presidents and celebrities in Beverly Hills for 59 years. Focuses on the staff who from the general manager to the coat check girl, eached worked there over 30 years apiece.
I only went there once, for dinner on my 20th birthday, and I miss it. Heartbreakingly sad.