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Tues Update: 3/24/2020 A Quick Summary on Laguna Restaurant To-Go Offerings (where creativity reigns!)
For the last two weeks, our Laguna Beach restaurants have been grappling with decisions on whether to temporarily close or try the take-out/delivery route. Last Friday, I reported that nearly 80 Laguna Beach restaurants were opting for take-out and delivery. Since...
2020 OC Restaurant Week Starts Sunday, March 8th
OC Restaurant Week is just around the corner with dates set for Sunday, March 8th – Saturday, March 14th. For locals here in Laguna Beach, this can be a bane or a boom, depending entirely on the opinion you chose. On the bane side, this always designates a much...
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Laguna Beach Live Fundraiser Concert Benefits Kids
Laguna Beach Live! presents a special fundraiser concert on Wednesday, April 25th, starring Leslie Lewis Paris Quartet, to support the non-profit's youth program Live! Music & Kids. Singer Leslie Lewis and pianist Gerard Hagen have been making beautiful music...
Montage Hosts Swank Taste of the Nation May 20th
For a return visit, Taste of the Nation is circling back around to the Montage Resort this Sunday, May 17th for its “No Kid Hungry” endeavor through the Share Our Strength foundation. This is not a small endeavor by any stretch. For 27 years, Taste of the Nation has...
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Mother’s Day in Laguna Beach Prediction: Stellar
Driving through Laguna Beach and running the beach and Heisler Park couldn't have been more satisfying today. We have gorgeous blue skies, balmy weather and plenty of restaurants and retailers prepping for the big weekend - Mother's Day in Laguna Beach is officially...
Chris Keller’s New Juice Bar in Laguna Beach is Just Around the Corner
Chris Keller, the Casa Resorts partner and magical mind behind The Rooftop, K'ya Bistro, House of Big Fish, The Marine Room and many other successful operations is at it again. This time, he has plans for a small juice bar in the grandest location of Laguna...
Restaurant Directory: Mother’s Day Dining in Laguna Beach
The busiest restaurant day of the year is fast approaching. Unless you live in a cave somewhere, you know that this coming Sunday, May 12th is Mother's Day. Here's a quick list of the restaurants that will be open for Mother's Day dining in Laguna Beach. Sunday is...
The Broadway, Newest Brunch Contender is Perfect for Mother’s Day
Given that The Broadway by Amar Santana is one of our most creative menus in Laguna Beach, it’s no surprise to see their new brunch menu with items as far ranging as Chicken & Waffles to Red Wine Braised Short Ribs with Pinot Poached Eggs. Chef Amar just can’t...
White House Restaurant – Little Known Breakfast Gem
The White House Restaurant has called Laguna Beach home since 1918, and it fires on all cylinders – breakfast, lunch, happy hour, dinner and late-night live music. This review, though, is strictly about its breakfast and brunch menu. I honestly don’t think many locals...
Sundried Tomato Laguna Beach Consistently Delivers
Sundried Tomato Bistro – For the last year or so, I've been on a Perfect Steak Salad Hunt. It doesn't seem that a mix of beef, greens and dressing could be such a terribly difficult thing to put together, but I can assure you - after 30 or more tries - it must be much...
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Buy Your Own Elephant This Weekend!
For a couple months now, elephants have been roaming freely in neighboring Dana Point. This Sunday, they're ready to be adopted into many lucky homes, with proceeds benefitting the endangered Asian elephant (the live version). SEE THE GALLERY OF JUST A FEW OF THE...
3rd Annual Holiday Palettes Contest Begins With Bigger Prize Booty!
If you've been a reader of LagunaBeachBest.com for any length of time, you know I'm a die-hard holidays fan. Three years ago, I implemented an easy "seek and find" contest to celebrate the many original painted holiday palettes by our Laguna Beach-based artists. (...
Huge Orchid Sale at Laguna Nursery
Now through Nov. 30th, buy beautiful, long-lasting orchids for your holiday tables from Laguna Nursery and save 30% on any selection! Undoubtedly the largest purveyor of orchids in Laguna Beach, Ruben Flores' Laguna Nursery does an annual Orchid Festival just in time...
Film Star Val Kilmer at Laguna Playhouse as “Citizen Twain”
Suffice to say that every talent that stands on the stage at the venerable Laguna Playhouse is a powerhouse talent. On Nov. 21st, we're all in for a real treat with film star Val Kilmer in a 4-evening run of "Citizen Twain." This one-man show explores Twain's wry...
Visiting Monks Completing Sand Mandala Sunday
Our visiting monks continue to work tirelessly on the "Buddhist healing" sand mandala at the Neighborhood Congregational Church. Their work is so crazily intricate and careful as they hunch over their work in progress for hours at a time. Tomorrow, Sunday, the monks...
Many Great Activities in This Weekend’s “Art & Nature” at Laguna Art Museum
The Laguna Art Museum has a flurry of activities happening this weekend for adults and kids alike, and this is some kind of creative going on! Both a festival and a conference, this weekend's Art & Nature's largest draw (I mean this quite literally) will be Jim...
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