Starlight Café was a tiny Italian bistro on Venice Boulevard in West Los Angeles. It was opened on a shoestring budget by some kids who didn’t know enough to be called fearless, unconscientious might be a bit more appropriate. It is a story revolving around great Italian food and the adventures involved in running a restaurant. Starlight Café is the first in a series of personal tales. It includes triumphs, failures, struggles and some of the happenings in between these crests and valleys. I hope that you enjoy reading it as I enjoyed living it. Everyone one of us has a tale to tell, this one belongs to me, it belongs to those who have lived it with me and finally it belongs to you. the reader, whom I hope will be able to take something of value from my story, or at the very least a chuckle and a smile.