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Some of the audience had even come in period dress and at this stage of the evening didnвЂ™t take too much persuasion to get up and dance. Rat PackвЂ™s one man band performed a number of duets, before Carlos took on a short solo set. This charming, polite and seemingly reserved man who so often serves us with our food on a Monday becomes a suave and confident performer with a great voice on stage and he and Mr. Somehow he seemed to change outfits before our very eyes, instantly becoming Dean Martin in a red ВґButlinsВґ style jacket and here we had Little Old Wine Drinker Me and ThatвЂ™s Amore amongst plenty of others before he was joined by Carlos Lemo, the alter-ego of the restaurant owner who is pictured prominently, with an intriguing biography, on the Вґwall of fameВґ of the little stage area. In his dinner suit he played the room, wandering round the tables as he sang, glad-handing many of our fellow diners. He didnвЂ™t try to recreate the voice, (who could?) but instead captured much of the wonderful phrasing of Old Blue Eyes on songs like AinвЂ™t That A Kick In The Head, Fly Me To The Moon, and of course My Way. He very wisely sang pretty much the songs we would expect from the two artists and his Sinatra was excellent. The first surprise was that there were not three rat packers, nor even two, but instead there was one quick-change artist playing Frank and Deano making the odd reference to an absent Sammy. Two other staff members serving the food were charming and polite and good fun and then, when the music began, they left us to enjoy our meals and enjoy the show.Д®ven with my love of Rat Pack music I wasnвЂ™t quite sure what to expect, and when Roy and Beth told us they had seen a fantastic Rat Pack revue in Las Vegas a few years ago I wondered whether tonightвЂ™s show could live up to any of our expectations. We know the owners and staff at this family run restaurant pretty well now and it was lovely that during the meal the young son Jorge and his good lady came over and said hello, as did both JorgeвЂ™s parents. Lowry and Gracie Fields in the North West. IвЂ™d be very interested in working with local schools on creative writing workshops about the great man, in much way I used to visit schools in England to help them celebrate L.S. We wondered what might come of The Cabildo of Lanzarote meeting with its local councils to agree on acts of commemoration of the centenary of the birth of CГ©sar Manrique. Throughout the various courses the four of us chatted away to catch up on all the news we had of arts and culture on the island. My steak was perfect for me and the potatoes and vegetables tasty and fresh. Our other starters included sardines and the main meals were another steak, grilled chicken, and a cherne fish meal. With a pint of beer and a couple of bottles of wine, this was living the dolce vita so whilst I always welcome readers to these pages, I hope my doctor is not a subscriber to Lanzarote Information. Tonight, with more time, I ordered the goatвЂ™s cheese, quince and walnut starter and a well-done solomillo. Being creatures of habit we have stuck for months now with my scrambled eggs on toast, followed by the most delicious apple cake and ice cream and Dee has a spinach and chickpea Tapa and we each have a bottle of water.

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Because we normally eat here around mid-day on a Monday, as we go to shop at Lidl about a mile away from the Matagorda front, we have not previously studied the full menu. This was wide ranging in all things Italian from pizza and pasta to pescado and carne.

Nevertheless, our friends politely requested that we move further indoors from the table that had been reserved for us and the staff immediately beckoned us to follow as they quickly pushed two tables for couples in to one table for four, and presented us with our menus.

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Tonight the front windows were closed against a night that was chilly by LanzaroteвЂ™s standards but when measured against news reports of snowy conditions in the UK, still seemed positively equatorial. The venue itself has a distinct Italian flavour and an obvious musical identity with the walls adorned by photographs and paintings of musicians: some, famous international stars and some anonymous but all representative figures of Italian music.