Diane Armitage
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Laguna Beach Restaurants Open for Dine-In on Sunday. May 24th
Note: The photo attached is my file photo from @royalhawaiianlb LAST SUMMER, NOT TODAY! Social distancing will change this scenario obviously but you can still toast your Lapu Lapus! Laguna Beach restaurants OPEN for dine-in and/or patio service SUNDAY, May 24th -...
Breaking News: State Approves Dine-In For Orange County
Breaking News: The State has just approved Orange County “stage 2” approval for all restaurants dine-in, retail shopping with social distancing, manufacturing, offices, outdoor museums. Green light! This is not immediate ... ALL businesses must have prepared plan,...
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Pet Parade & Chili Cook Off – Emphasis on Chili, Please!
For the record, if you want to compete in the annual Chili Cook Off contest in the Board of Realtors' Pet Parade this Sunday (Sept, 30th), you'd better be prepared to put up or shut up. For starters, it's a $1,500 entry fee to cook up your chili fixins ON SITE and...
Ohana Fest 2018 Will Undoubtedly Wow Again
Ohana Fest 2018 is back for its 3rd year at Doheny State Beach, beginning Friday afternoon, Sept 28th through Sunday, Sept. 30th. Some tickets are still available for an ever-growing amazing line-up of music at TheOhanaFest.com; the vast majority of tickets were sold...
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El Ranchito Laguna Beach: Three Generations of Love
A couple years ago, I realized that months were passing between visits with one of my good friends, Rhonda. So, we established a standing monthly “Soup Date” at Avila’s El Ranchito Laguna Beach to ensure we maintain contact in our busy lives. There’s just nothing...
The Café Zoolu Waddle: Make It Yours (With Pride)
The only thing pathetic about a visit to Café Zoolu has absolutely nothing to do with their impeccable service or food. It’s about how you waddle out of that place after experiencing dinner there. As you waddle to your car, you tell yourself you'll walk around the...
LBBest Co-Sponsors Lumberyard Gift Card for $100
Given that the Lumberyard Restaurant in downtown Laguna Beach is definitely a "best of" Laguna Beach entity, it only made sense to help Owner Cary Redfearn promote a Lumberyard Gift Card $100 Summer Giveaway. Just sign up at our site here (right hand column) to be...
230 Forest Avenue Heads Into Her 20th Year
It’s hard to believe that 230 Forest Avenue Restaurant & Bar is nearly 20 years old. Recently, she’s had a bit of a face lift – new lighting, new art on the walls, new tables, a new swanky back bar – but the girl still stands at the same spot, with the same...
Best Hamburgers in Laguna Beach: True Decadence
This past week, after receiving numerous suggestions from Facebook readers, I began my search for The Best Hamburgers in Laguna Beach. (I also increased my number of spin classes at the Art of Fitness, I’ll have you know.) Now, a brief editorial note: I’ve learned...
Driftwood Kitchen Anchors History & Innovation in One Gesture
For months I’ve been waiting for this moment. I’ve finally walked through the doors of the new Driftwood Kitchen, the eagerly anticipated restaurant in the old Beach House location. At one point in our rich Laguna Beach history, the Beach House was our grand dame...
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Sawdust Festival Wraps Up Season With Free Admission Nights
Once again, the Sawdust Art Festival has enjoyed a stellar season of both visitors and record numbers of purchases of every imaginable kind of artwork from our local Laguna artists. Now that the Sawdust Festival is already down to its last two weeks (last day is Aug....
Sunday WalkAbout: Monarch Beach & Salt Creek Beach
Every now and then, I do a walkabout with my camera for my beloved Mama. She loves to see the life down here. Shouldering Laguna Beach's south side, this is a walk along the Monarch Beach Golf Links from the St. Regis to Salt Creek Beach and its surfers at the...
Outrigger race this Saturday is a rare sight to see
This weekend on Saturday, Aug. 9th, all 32 of the Southern California Outrigger Paddling Clubs begin the most strenuous part of their summer season - the 9-man relay race. It's the annual Whitey Harrison Canoe Classic sponsored by the Dana Point Outriger Club. This is...
Photographer Mike Altishin Freeze Frames Amazing Moments
As you know, Laguna Beach Best never receives payment of any kind to promote what we consider the "best of" Laguna Beach here. That wouldn't be fair to you, the reader. So, when we promote people like the guy I'm about to mention, rest assured, this is a serious...
Jazz Wednesday Almost Sold Out (Again) This Wednesday
When LagunaBeachLive.org made the decision to move its popular summer Jazz Wednesdays from the Hotel Laguna, its founders weren’t sure they were going to be able to fill “all that new space.” “When we moved from the Hotel’s Rose Garden to The Ranch, we went from 135...
Best Surf Camp for Kids: Sli Dawg
Any Laguna Beach surfing parent will tell you – if you want to have your kid learn how to surf, you take him or her to “Professor Sli Dawg’s Surf School, which takes place on the beach and in the waters of Thalia Street Beach. That’s right. Pro surfer Steven Chew and...
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