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Affordable Luxury of OC Based Voluspa
12.18.15
Orange County based Voluspa can enhance your holiday experience with its hand-poured, paraben-free candles, custom designed diffusers and room and body mists.
Voluspa is affordable luxury. All of its stylish scented collections make perfect gifts.
One of our favorites is Voluspa's Vermeil Collection, ideal for the winter that comes in beautiful speckled vermeil pastel glass jars and tins, in scents of Incognito (blend of amber, black patchouli and oud); Prosecco Rose (a blend of sparkling pink prosecco and rose petals); Branche Vermeil (silver cypress, cedar and pine needle), Bourbon Vanille (French bourbon, vanilla bean), Casa Pacifica (California driftwood, sea salt, shore brush); Aurantia & Blackberry (aurantia tree, ripe blackberry, acai); and Makassar Ebony & Peach (Makassar ebony wood and peach nectar).
Another perfect collection is Voluspa’s Maison Holiday Collection, with four holiday inspired fragrances: Blanc de Blancs, Visions of Sugar Plum, Spruce Cuttings, and Cinnamon Maison Candle-cinnamon, Ceylon & Copal. We especially love the iridescent polished glass jars with lids that provide an elegant glow. All of the jars can be reused for flowers or jewelry.
Voluspa can be found at retail stores, or online at Voluspa.com.
Dining
Ruby’s Diner Founder Opens Lighthouse Cafe
12.18.15
Ruby’s Diner founder, Doug Cavanaugh, just opened The Lighthouse Café at Newport Beach’s new Marina Park on Balboa Boulevard, a 10 plus acre waterfront development. The Lighthouse Café is serving breakfast, lunch and dinner daily focusing on fresh, light California coastal cuisine with lots of seafood options.
It’s set in middle of the 24,000-square foot sailing and community center, complete with a park and picnic areas next to a 23-slip marina.
Lighthouse Café’s menu is overseen by 25-year-old executive chef and Orange County local Ryan Sumner, formerly a sous chef at The Beachcomber in Crystal Cove.
“Ryan represents a new breed of creative chefs who have a fresh perspective on meals their parents enjoyed and what their contemporaries would find appealing,” Cavanaugh said.
Menu highlights include bouillabaisse; pan seared Dover scallops, sea bass and manila clams served over angel hair pasta with ginger chili butter sauce. Appetizers highlights include ahi tuna wonton tostadas and beer-infused mussels marinieres.
Lighthouse Café also has an upstairs patio that flows around a lighthouse structure.
There will also be a walk up window serving a limited menu for those enjoying park and picnic visits. For boaters, Lighthouse Café will feature a special to-go menu available in the spring.
Open 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
1600 W. Balboa Blvd. 949.933.1001.
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