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Mom & Me Spa’lebration
04.16.15
Spa Gregories is offering April specials that we love. One of our favorites is the Mom & Me Spa’lebration Package available in Newport Beach and Rancho Santa Margarita.
No matter if you bring your mom, grandma, aunt or friend, you can give a spa day with someone she loves. Celebrate your bond with your choice of one-hour massage or facial per person, plus a $15 retail voucher. $189 (a $223 Value.)
Spa Gregories is at 200 Newport Center Dr #100, Newport Beach. 949.644.6672.
Spa Gregorie’s Day Spa & Salon is at 30212 Tomas, Ste. 150 in Rancho Santa Margarita. 949.858.9455.
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Sunday Suppers at LUCCA
04.15.15
By popular demand, Lucca in Irvine is bringing back its family favorite Sunday Supper on Sunday, April 19 from 3 to 6 p.m. with a special 10-year anniversary dinner. Chef and co-owner Cathy Pavlos replicates her beloved family Sunday suppers she’s maintained since the 1950s. This dinner will feature a four-course menu with Lucca’s time-honored signature dishes, paired with wines hand-selected by her husband and restaurant co-owner Elliott Pavlos.
Chef Cathy will recreate one of her earliest culinary experiences with "A Sunday Supper That My Grandmother Would Have Loved."
The dinner starts at 3 p.m., and will be served family-style on the patio for $85 per person (plus tax and tip). The talk of the table will be a 50lb porcetta!
Prior to the Sunday Supper, Chef Cathy will lead a group through Irvine’s UCI Farmer’s Market on Saturday, April 18 to find the freshest, most flavorful ingredients to be used on during her dinner. Those interested in joining Chef Cathy at the market may email her directly at luccacafe@gmail.com.
LUCCA’s ‘Sagra della Porchetta’ Feast!
Antipasto starts with crispy calamari steaks with lemons, Lucca’s antipasto platters, salumi, artisan bread,
lots of garlic bread
with
Campo al Mare Vermentino 2011 Bolgari, Italy.
Pastas plates include rigatoni all’Amatriciana (with Lucca’s own housemade bacon),
studded with torched yellow tear drop tomatoes, freshly grated pecorino cheese, four cheese raviolis, nutmeg, sage brown butter, walnuts, smoked mozzarella
paired with Rubio San Polo Montalcino Sangiovese 2012 Tuscany, Italy.
Main is a Snake River Farms all natural 50 lb porchetta, roasted all day, charred fennel, rappini alla romana rosemary potatoes in porchetta pan drippings, and garden greens with the first of the season heirloom tomatoes, balsamic vinaigrette
paired with
Tenuta di Biserno Insoglio ‘Del Chingale Toscana.’
Dessert is tiramisu with cafe Lavazza.
Seating is limited. Guests must make reservations in advance by calling 949.725.1773.
Lucca is in the Quail Hill Village Center at 6507 Quail Hill Parkway in Irvine.
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