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Dining

Coastal Cuisine of Latin America with a View

03.26.14

You will be hard pressed to find a restaurant with a better view in Long Beach, save for the Sky Room in Long Beach, than Fuego at Hotel Maya that’s open for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

The restaurant specializes in the coastal cuisine of Latin America created by award-winning Executive Chef Victor Juarez. Fuego’s indoor-outdoor dining area offers spectacular views of downtown Long Beach and the Queen Mary. Anytime of the year, it’s a local’s favorite for fresh seafood--shrimp, oysters, mussels, lobster and tangy ceviche. They also offer an array of appetizers, as well as tacos, tortas and entrées.

It’s the perfect place in Long Beach to enjoy a handcrafted margaritas, or signature cocktails, with tasty foods, while soaking in the view. Fuego also hosts a festive outdoor brunch featuring Baja-style seafood and savory barbeque with live Latin Jazz.

Fuego is also one of the 50 participating restaurants in Eat LBC Long Beach Restaurant Week from March 30-April 5. Chef Juarez has created a special prix-fixe menu for $38 per person, tax and gratuity not included.

For the starter you can choose from spicy chicken tortilla soup with shredded chicken, roasted tomatoes, cotija cheese, and fried corn tortilla strips; a salad with mixed baby lettuce with Fuji apple with cilantro, red chile pecans, goat cheese, grape tomatoes, creamy chipotle dressing; or corn sopes, masa “boats” filled with black beans, squash, guacamole, lettuce, queso fresco, lime vinaigrette, tequila cream sauce.

For an entrée, choose one of the following: seafood crepas, filled crêpes with jumbo lump crab meat and rock shrimp roasted poblano sauce, black bean corn relish, steamed rice; or fillet of salmon with ancho chili and honey glazed fillet of salmon, spicy black bean sauce jalapeno crème, sautéed greens; pollo a la plancha, a pan-seared chili rubbed chicken breast, sofrito, black bean chorizo risotto; ropa vieja, a Cuban style braised flank steak, black bean suree, fried corn tortillas, cabbage jalapeno cilantro slaw, caramelized plantains, agave cream sauce poblano relleno, a grilled portobello mushroom with artichoke, spinach, Monterrey jack cheese, and tomato sauce.

For dessert, you can choose between coconut flan with cajeta caramel sauce, cinnamon crisp, seasonal berries; or dulce de leche cheese cake with

cajeta caramel sauce, and roasted candied pecans. The dinner incudes

freshly brewed regular or decaffeinated coffee.

Open for breakfast 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday through Friday; brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday; open for lunch 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; open for dinner 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Fuego at the Maya is at 700 Queensway Drive in Long Beach. 562.481.3910.

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20qs

Nasrin Ansari

03.25.14

1. If you had to begin a different career, what would you do?
I would be consulting and developing design for fashion design houses or fashion related businesses.

2. What’s your most prized possession?
My children and now my first grandchild.

3. Where do you find inspiration for your designs?
From nature: looking at the sunset, the ocean on a stormy day, exotic flowers and trees, and colors of the birds in the rain forest.

4. With your success as a fashion designer, what advice would you give someone entering the industry?
To work for different design houses in different fields of fashion and be exposed to all aspects of design, and travel to different countries to expand their vision and refine understanding and views on design.

5. What is the most fulfilling part of fashion for you?
To see the transformation starting from consulting with my client, selecting fabric, design, sketching, fitting up to the end.

6. What can’t you live without?
My family and my inspiring work.

7. What’s next on your "to do" list?
I am gong to Paris, London, and Italy for work on May.

8. Biggest regret?
Being too busy to design and fabricate more fabulous wardrobes for myself.

9. Cause that you’re most interested/involved in?
CHOC Children’s Hospital and American Cancer Society.

10. Your dream day in Orange County?
Seeing on headline news that Orange County is one of the top destinations for fashion like Paris, London, Italy, and New York.

11. Favorite place for breakfast?
Urth Caffe soon to be open late summer 2014 in Laguna Beach for breakfast and all day menu.

12. What was the best day of your life?
When I opened my first studio at Newport Beach about 22 years ago.

13. Last concert that you went to?
Dream Orchestra at UCI’s Barclay Theatre featuring Soprano Opera singer, Golda Berkman.

14. Favorite vacation spot?
Paris and Florence, Italy

15. If you had to live somewhere else, where would you like to move?
Paris, France.

16. Favorite drink?
Vintage Cabernet.

17. Favorite restaurants in Orange County?
I enjoy Pelican Hills Resort, Pelican Grill and Mastro's Ocean Club in Newport Beach

18. Biggest accomplishment?
Watching my couture work walking down the red carpet for the Oscar.

19. What’s your biggest fear?
Hearing my favorite fabric houses or trim companies are no longer in business.

20. Secret most people don’t know about you?
How much my dog means to me.

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