Illumination Foundation’s OC Chef’s Table To Honor Anaheim Emergency Shelter’s Leadership
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – ORANGE, CA. – Feb 19, 2019 – The 6th annual Illumination Foundation OC Chef’s Table returns this year on Sunday, March 3rd, 2019. Presented once again by the Disneyland® Resort, the event will be Illumination Foundation’s largest yet with 41 of...
Rumari’s Amoré Lasts Through February With Special Menu
Heading into my dining review last week, I circled the block a couple times before I realized there was a spot right there in front of the restaurant. I whipped into the space, put the car in park and gathered my camera, notebook, purse and key to make my exit. At the...
Laguna Beach’s best chocolate store – Chocolate Soldier
If red “heart” boxes of stale chocolates aren’t your Valentine’s style, Laguna Beach’s Chocolate Soldier is for you. Squeezed into the little alley between the Sapphire Restaurant and Tootsie’s/Laguna Beach Books at the old Pottery Shack, Chocolate Soldier will...
Popular Restaurateur and Chef Maro Molteni to Operate Royal Hawaiian
Popular Restaurateur and Chef Mariano (“Maro”) Molteni has announced plans to operate the iconic Laguna Beach-based restaurant, Royal Hawaiian at 331 N. Coast Highway. The restaurant closed temporarily on Tuesday, Jan. 22nd, with plans to re-open shortly after Maro...
Laguna Chefs Share the Love on Valentine’s Day
Yesterday, I was talking to one of our Laguna chefs about Valentine’s Day. Oddly, reservations for Valentine’s Day tend to occur well in advance, while Mother’s Day reservations tend to happen at the last minute. Imagine that. If you’re one of the few who’s still...
Chef Fabio Ugoletti: N10 – Five Questions, Five Minutes
Q: So how did someone from Tuscany end up in the heart of L. A. at one of its top restaurants? Chef Fabio Ugoletti: After years of being a chef, I began consulting and training chefs all over Italy, and I used to teach at culinary schools, too, as a guest speaker....
Popular Chef Maro Molteni Will Operate Royal Hawaiian
Chef Mariano (“Maro”) Molteni still remembers the November day when Mo Honarkar suggested that Maro take over the Royal Hawaiian space as the new restaurant owner/operator. “All the hair stood up on my head,” he says with his wide grin. “The Royal Hawaiian … now,...
Casting Call for Pageant of the Masters 2019 Show
Can you stand still for 90 seconds? The Pageant of the Masters is looking for volunteer cast members fr next summer’s show, The Time Machine. Individuals of all sizes and ages are needed to be cast members in the world’s most famous presentation of...
This Week’s OC Chef’s Table Interviews – Mastro’s, Cali Fresh, Trevor’s, Slapfish, Villa Roma
I know this might sound like a really odd thing to say, but after 30 years of interviewing and marketing some of the most iconic individuals in the world, I still find chefs to be some of the most unique human creatures on our planet. Every time I interview a chef, I...
South of Nick’s Margarita Making a Run for Champ Title
Last night, I stopped in at South of Nick’s with my good friend, Ali North. It was early – 5:00ish – and we had an unexpected number of seats available to us. (If you’re a fan of South of Nick’s, you know that an empty seat is a rarity.)...