La Martina's is on Goodman near Baush and Lomb and the main entrance is on the side of the building (shown above). It is a really comfortable restaurant, so comfortable that it almost seemed like we had walked into a home and interrupted a private party. We ordered a glass of Chianti and found ourselves eavesdropping because the handful of people that were eating here were talking so loudly. The conversation was mostly about the unusually cold winter.

Billy Joel was on the sound system and then a bunch of commercials. It turned out to be WARM 101.3. We ordered Chicken French with Artichokes. It came on a bed of mushrooms and escarole. It was fantastic. We had enough left over to have the same meal the following day.On the way out the door, the woman who either manages this place or owns it was doing a fashion show for the small group of people left. She was pulling clothes from a big shopping bag and holding them up to her rather large frame. There were $7 blouses and $5 sweat shirts and $9 dress tops. The whole bag cast $54 or something. (See Free Clothing Trend) They were from a store in Culver Ridge Plaza.