By Molly Freedenberg
To take a page from Dani Leone’s book, I have a new favorite restaurant. It’s Gitane, opened by the same people who brought us Cafe Claude, and it’s fantastic. Of course, I might be a bit biased. The name “Gitane” means “gypsy woman,” and indeed, the restaurant’s interior and menu was designed with gypsy culture in mind. Having been told my whole life that I’m descended from gypsies and horse thieves (on Mom’s side, from the Slavias), I felt a kinship with this place before I’d set foot inside the deceptively small building. Plus, in a town brimming with neuvo Californian, Asian fusion, Pan-American, and upscale Southern cuisines, there was simply something refreshing about someone doing something I’d never heard of before.
