Dining
Lulu’s Caafe in Rancho Santa Margarita
03.23.23
Renowned chef Pascal Olhats has helped consult for Lulu’s Caafe, a new restaurant owned by Mr. Samrat Bhosle and his wife Susan.
It is a fine dining-casual restaurant with a relaxing setting open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Rancho Santa Margarita. It mostly served French Cuisine and American favorites. Some of the menu items are influenced by Pascal’s specialty dishes served in his past owned restaurants.
Popular dishes include a Lyonnaise omelet, breakfast burrito, brioche French toast, and eggs Benedict for breakfast.
For lunch, there’s French onion soup, Croque Monsieur, ham and cheese baguette sandwich, warm baguette French dip sandwich, spinach salad with grilled chicken tenders and roasted pepper dressing. And for dinner, there’s steamed beet salad with goat cheese and roasted walnut, sauteed shrimp scampi Magali, authentic Plymouth style fish and chips, Trout almond meuniere, pan-seared salmon orange basil sauce, sauteed beef ribeye au Poivre, Chicken breast with olives and roasted tomatoes, thyme crusted seabass with seafood essence chardonnay sauce.,
The restaurant serves beer and wine with a well-balanced wine list to pair with the food menus.
Open 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. breakfast to lunch, Tuesday to Sunday; 3 to 6 p.m. happy hour, Tuesday to Saturday; and 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday. Closed Monday
LULU’S CAAFE is at 22312 El Paseo, suite A, Rancho Santa Margarita. 949.329.6233
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Spanish Tasting With Classical Guitar at Wine Craft
03.22.23
On Sunday, March 26 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Wine Craft in Laguna Beach will be welcoming in spring with a Spanish wine tasting paired with Seafood Paella. We will taste 6 Spanish wines that will undoubtedly be amazing with the amazing Valencia-style Seafood Paella. In addition, classical guitarist, Nick Yrizarry will perform his classical impressions, many of which are Spanish.
- Vindegour Cava Reserva Brut Nature
- Dominio de Punctum Verdejo
- Quaderna Via Navarro DO Especial Tempranillo/Cab Sauv
- Vinedos Ruiz Jimenez Tempranillo Blanco
- Aranleon Crianza Monastrell/Tempranillo/Cab Sauv
- Amor Amor Tempranillo/Petit Verdot
Price for this tasting is $45
Wine Craft is at 662 South Coast Hwy in Laguna Beach.
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