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NYE Champagne and Bites at Farmhouse
12.27.17
Farmhouse owner and executive chef Rich Mead is hosting a special New Year’s Eve celebration on December 31 from 6 – 10 p.m. Enjoy a Champagne toast in the beautiful terrace overlooking the scenic garden below with gourmet bites and a festive photo booth to capture the memory.
Each New Year’s Eve ticket purchased includes a glass of Champagne and a signature New Year’s Eve cocktail, a selection of highly curated cheese and charcuterie with an assortment of crudité and access to the Farmhouse photo booth in the beautiful garden setting. Dinner reservations may be made separately.
NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY MENU BITES:
Cheese, Charcuterie and Crudité
An assortment of hand-selected cheeses, cured meats and seasonal vegetables accompanied by lightly toasted bread from Rye Goods Co. along with nuts, fresh and dried fruits and chutney. Highlighting Farmhouse’s signature cheese: Alpenblumen, a firm but creamy gruyere style cow’s milk cheese produced in Austria and covered with local, edible flowers.
Champagne and a Signature New Year’s Eve Cocktail
A festive, surprise cocktail hand-crafted for the occasion by Anthony Laborin, head of Cocktail R&D
Cost is $50 per person. *Each ticket purchase includes two drink tickets, appetizers, unlimited photo booth photos, tax, and gratuity. Dinner reservations to be arranged separately.
To purchase tickets, please visit toast-to-new-years-eve-at-farmhouse. For dinner reservations call 949.640.1415.
Farmhouse at Roger’s Gardens is at 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road in Corona del Mar.
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LIGHTHOUSE BAYVIEW CAFe’S ALL NEW FULL BAR MENUS
12.27.17
Imbibe with your favorite spirits on the bay at Lighthouse Bayview Café. Boasting a brand-new full liquor license, Lighthouse has unveiled all new bar menus for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner.
The Rise & Shine Bar Menu features refreshing cocktails, epic bloody mary’s and during weekend brunch bottomless mimosas, and the lunch/dinner menu ranges from classic cocktails to creative concoctions.
The Rise & Shine Bar Menu selections include The Duffy Cruise with vodka, fresh lemonade, Triple Sec, sugar rim; the Lighthouse Sparkler, with vodka, lime juice, clover honey syrup, sparkling wine. Mimosas, Champagne Mimosa served traditional, Hawaiian, cranberry or strawberry lemonade. (Bottomless mimosas available during Saturday and Sunday brunch, add to any entrée for $10). And, Cabo Morning, with tequila, lemonade, lemon juice, Triple Sec.
Lunch & Dinner Bar Drink menu includes a Lighthouse Margarita, Patron Blanco Tequila, lime juice, agave nectar, Grand Marnier; Dark N’ Stormy, Goslings Rum, lime juice, ginger beer; Passion Mule, Stoli Vodka, lime juice, passion fruit, agave nectar, ginger beer; Eastern Standard, Absolute Elyx Vodka, lime juice, simple syrup, cucumber, mint; Negroni, Bombay Sapphire, Campari, Sweet Vermouth; Lighthouse Breeze, Bombay Sapphire Gin, grapefruit juice, cranberry juice, soda.
Lighthouse Bayview Café is on the waterfront of Balboa Peninsula’s Marina Park within a sailing and community center with a park and multiple picnic areas. It offers dock space for boaters to access the park from the water. You’ll love its harbor, mountain and city views, access to the sand, and the Café’s modern beach ambiance and innovative menus.
Open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Lighthouse Bayview Café is at 1600 W. Balboa Blvd. in Newport Beach. 949.933.1001.
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