Happy Hour at True Food Kitchen + Norton Simon Museum [Pasadena]

F-R-E-E, fascinating, fun, FFF>F fellowship + fabulous food!!

Please only answer "Going" if you are joining Happy Hour. If you are planning on only attending First FREE Friday at the Norton Simon Museum please let us know in the comments below. The final count is really important for securing our goal for our private party in the patio.

PART 1:
HAPPY HOUR: 3:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Please arrive 10 minutes early to start looking over the menu.

Pasadena True Food Kitchen
168 W. Colorado Blvd.
Meet in the "private patio".
Parking Options:

1. Park for free at the Norton Simon Museum and walk to the restaurant.
2. 90-min. free parking behind the White Horse Lounge at 41 S. De Lacey Ave. Your return walk from the museum is 1-1/2 blocks longer.
3. $6 Flat rate directly across the street corner of Pasadena Ave. & Colorado Blvd.

We begin our afternoon with our own FFF>F HAPPY HOUR PRIVATE PARTY in the patio at True Food Kitchen. This restaurant is wonderful, and it's the perfect fit for our event. The walk to the Norton Simon Museum is only 7 minutes.

Private Patio Requirements for our large group:
There is a $400 food & beverage minimum plus an added 4% administration fee. If there are 20 RSVP's; please plan on spending a minimum of $21 each + 9.5% tax & 18% - 20% tip. If we meet our goal of 30+ RSVP's; a minimum of only $14 + tax & tip pp will meet the requirement. PLEASE BRING CASH!

True Food Kitchen was founded by world renowned physician and doctor of integrative medicine, Dr. Andrew Weil. His philosophy is that delicious dining and conscious nutrition can go hand in hand, without sacrificing flavor, creativity or indulgence. True Food Kitchen offers sustainable, local and organic meals, including vegan and vegetarian options. "There's no dish on our menu that can't be customized. No matter how you want it, we're happy to make it exactly that way". Apparently Oprah Winfrey loves this concept, and the health-driven restaurant chain too. In 2018 she became a key investor and joined the Board of Directors. I think you'll love it too!!

PART 2:
THE NORTON SIMON MUSEUM:
411 W. Colorado Blvd.
Corner of Orange Grove & Colorado Blvd. at the intersection of the Foothill 210 & Ventura 134 freeway.
FREE parking

MUSEUM: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM.
Please meet at the entrance of the museum. We will break up into assigned small groups of 4-5. Everyone in our group will have name tags so we can keep track of our FFF>F group.

The Norton Simon Museum is known around the world as one of the most remarkable private art collections ever assembled. Over a thirty-year period industrialist Norton Simon (1907-1993) amassed an astonishing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years.

First FREE Friday is the perfect opportunity, especially for first timers, to enter the fascinating world of Norton Simon and his extraordinary art collection.

MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS: July 5th
FILM: 6:30-7:00 PM
The Art of Norton Simon
Narrated by Gregory Peck
Documentary film that recounts Norton Simon's extraordinary success in business and his interest in art, both of which facilitated his becoming one of the world's preeminent art collectors.

TOUR: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
SPEAKER: Educator
Meets in Entrance Gallery. Limited to 25
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Woman with a Book, 1932, Oil on canvas.

SPECIAL EXHIBIT:
Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, the eminent 19th-century historians of French art and society, baptized the 1700s the "century of women." Though 18th-century women made strides in the sciences, literature and the arts, they were most often portrayed in genre scenes pursuing leisurely, quotidian pleasures and tasks. Three superb 18th-century French genre paintings from The Frick Collection in New York are featured in the Museum's 18th-century Rococo gallery among its own works by Chardin and Boucher.

See photos of these 3 magnificent paintings.