Lindsay Smith-Rosales might very well be the only chef in Laguna Beach who actually was born and raised in our fine town. For this very fact we should all be extremely grateful, as Lindsay is serving up one of the finest menus at our own Laguna beach-based Nirvana...
At times like these – the holidays and the soon-to-come long summer season – even Laguna Beach residents here can feel like a number. Most of the restaurants can’t help themselves – they’re simply overrun. But, as a 14-year resident … and as many residents who have...
A couple years ago, the Catsouras family (owners of The White House Restaurant & Nightclub) was on a family vacation to the Greek Islands. As they were having lunch one day, they struck up a conversation with a nearby couple to discover that this twosome had...
You know I always tell it to you straight, so I’m going to admit something here before getting into the meat of this review … When Café Vienna closed on April 15, 2012, several hundred of us down here in SoLag lost our minds. Where were we going to have coffee now?...
Vincenzo (“Enzo”) Romeo is the kind of guy you like instantly. Walk into his restaurant, Romeo Cucina on Broadway, and you might as well have walked into the kitchen of his own home. Having been born above his father’s restaurant, Enzo doesn’t see that your restaurant...
There are people who make cocktails in this town and there are people who invent them. Since its opening day three years ago, Broadway by Amar Santana set itself above the regular cocktail crowd with serious mixology that introduces phenomenal liquors, cognacs,...