Going Back to Malibu Jack's
One of Malibu Jack's matchbooks. Source: Reddit . The reader's willing suspension of disbelief depends on believable detail, driven by plot and characterization. I have the perfect locus of nostalgia and a watershed moment when a happy time and place crashed, burned and ended. First, the location. I and my dear friend, artist, Chris Dorosz , keep talking about Malibu Jack's, a California-style restaurant which opened in 1985 in the ByWard Market in Ottawa, Canada . Picture this: Lost Boys and Less than Zero were in cinemas; Miami Vice was on the television. Everything was covered with neon and palm trees. Malibu Jack's tapped into the fad and Ottawa's teenagers converged there for crab croissant sandwiches, cheeseburgers, homemade potato chips and tacos. People remember the restaurant on Reddit ; and some of its recipes are still circulating online . One of the busboys, Stephen Beckta, was so impressed by his experience there ...
