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Greer’s Pick of the Week
The Sassoon Salon Experience
Sassoon Salon offers a truly exceptional cut and color that will effortlessly complement your personal style for the holidays.
Sponsored by Sassoon Salon, South Coast Plaza
Greer’s Good Life
A+ for A Restaurant
From the darling "valet girls" to the retro luxe interior, the legendary restaurant property has never looked so good. It's serving up a 3 p.m. bar menu daily; Saturday and Sunday brunch (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and dinner nightly from 5:30 p.m. 3334 West Coast Highway in Newport Beach. 949.650.6505
Sponsored by A Restaurant
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JOYEUX NOEL DINING!
The OC's favorite French brasserie-style restaurants, French 75, is offering special menus on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. The restaurants' classic French brasserie ambiance -- with romantic red lighting, stamped tin ceilings and red leather booths -- make the holidays even more festive.
Enjoy classic and contemporary American and European bistro cooking, and at the Rouge Bar, signature martinis, champagne cocktails, beers, an extensive list of wines by the glass.
On Christmas Eve, the restaurant opens from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the regular a la carte menu, and dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. with a special fixed price menu ($70).
To celebrate New Year’s Eve, there are two fixed price menus offered at an early seating, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and a second seating, from 9 to 9:30 p.m. $75 per person, excludes tax and gratuity.
A sampling of the New Year’s Eve dinner includes these tasty first course selections: a dungeness crab and corn chowder with bacon and truffle oil; seared foie gras with pearl onions, mushrooms, dried-cherries, apricots, port wine jus; escargot petit gris with Toulouse sausage, mushrooms, and garlic butter; oysters on the half shell with black pepper Champagne mignonette; a Maine lobster salad avocado, oranges, grapefruit, hazelnut vinaigrette; and butter lettuce salad with tomatoes, toasted almonds, and Roquefort.
Entrée selection include orange and macadamia nut crusted scallops with truffle risotto, honey glazed carrots, beurre rouge; three-way duck with confit, roasted breast, foie gras, roasted potatoes, sun dried cherries; filet mignon and Australian lobster tail with truffle mashed potatoes, baby vegetable; roasted rack of lamb with fingerling potatoes, asparagus, sun-dried cherry sauce; and seared prime New York with grilled asparagus, fingerling potatoes, confit of red wine shallots.
Desserts include white chocolate Grand Marnier soufflé and raspberry coulis; rustic apple tart in caramel sauce with cinnamon ice cream; and tiramisu with Grand Mariner crème Anglaise.
Fashion Island in Newport Beach
949.640.2700
1464 S Coast Highway in Laguna Beach
949.494.8444
13290 Jamboree Rd. in Irvine
714.573.7600
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