A very happy "happy hour"

We had so many laughs last night with Erna and Marvin at Catalan's Happy Hour.  I think part of it was lots of things going wrong and that made it very funny.   We began going to Trilusa first but it was completely full.  It seems you can actually reserve so we have reservations for next Wednesday so a pleasure deferred.  Then we went to Fisherman's in Rancho Mirage which has  a huge number of tables but was completely full too.   Everybody in Palm Springs seemed to be doing happy hour yesterday.

 Catalan was next door and we have dined there a couple of times.  They make a very good paella which is something you don't get that much outside of France or Spain or in my home kitchen.  We were impressed with their happy hour menu....wine at $3....we had a very nice pinot noir and all appies at $4 and we had all of them between us except the shrimp...salt cod potato fritters,  calamari with lentils,  pork skewer,  duck fat fried potato chips with blue cheese sauce, escargot style mushrooms,  bocconcini and heirloom tomatoes,  and chorizo strips....yum.

Forgot to take photos but snagged these from the Internet.

Doesn't the paella look wonderful!

Mid 80's and sunny yesterday....perfect temperature for me.