SOCO - It’s Where The Chefs Go

August 08, 2013

This Saturday, spend your morning at SOCO and The OC Mix - where OC's top chefs go to get their produce, olive oil, spices, tools, and more for the week ahead. Start at the SOCO Farmers’ Market which showcases dozens of Orange County farmers who sell their crops directly to the public. Held every Saturday, the SOCO Farmers’ Market features the freshest vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, and more! Read on to see how you can get all of the highest quality ingredients - just like a professional chef does at SOCO and The OC Mix! Every Saturday at the SOCO…

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Teen Vogue’s Back-To-School Saturday Pops-Up in Irvine

August 07, 2013

Irvine Spectrum Center will kick off back-to-school shopping season with TEEN VOGUE Back-to-School Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. showcasing fall’s best back-to school fashion trends. Shoppers can view pop-up fashion displays, watch a runway fashion show and attend various in-store shopping parties. Pop-up style closets will be featured outside Edwards Cinema and Carousel Court at 1 p.m. spotlighting the latest from Nordstrom’s Topshop and Topman departments. Watch models strut down the runway at 3 p.m. in fall’s hottest trends for back-to-school fashion at the Giant Wheel Court with looks from Nordstrom, Macy’s, Active Ride, Aéropostale, Foreign Exchange, Hot Topic,…

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Attention Foodies! The 2nd Annual Golden Dine Out

August 05, 2013

We’re back to the season of the Golden Dine Out, a month long event from the Golden Foodie Awards that invites everyone to vote for their favorite food categories weekly online at GoldenFoodieAwards.com. The Golden Dine Out presents different categories of restaurants and cuisine for each week of voting in August.  Now’s a great time to dine out and then vote for your favorite local chef driven and indie restaurants. Select restaurants throughout Orange County will provide exclusive dining menus customized for the Golden Dine Out which can be found on the Golden Foodie Awards Facebook Page. At the end…

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Up A Lark Creek!

August 05, 2013

Today marks the opening of the much-anticipated Lark Creek Newport Beach at Fashion Island. The restaurant, from the award-winning San Francisco-based Lark Creek Restaurant Group, will serve seasonal, sustainable, farm-fresh cuisine. At dinner, Chef/Partner John Ledbetter, an Orange County native, will prepare heirloom tomato gazpacho with cucumber sorbet and fennel pollen; white shrimp ceviche with avocado, toy box tomato, cilantro, habanero, and lime, with plantain chips; wild King Salmon with saffron and yellow bell pepper broth, poached baby fennel, and olive tapenade; almond wood-grilled steaks like the “1855” New York Strip; and sides like grilled summer corn with fava beans.…

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Baja Med Cuisine Pop-Up Dinner at The Cellar

August 02, 2013

Join the Cellar in San Clemente on Monday, Aug. 5 for a special pop-up experience when Chef Chad White of Plancha Baja Med prepares a memorable vegetable inspired prix-fixe dinner with a wine option. Chef Chad shines the culinary light on one vegetable in each course in a knock your socks off imaginative way. The menu starts with cucumber - Caracol, pickled cucumbers, cucumber-cilantro gel, cucumber leaves, avocado puree, habanero salt. (Rebel Coast Winery, Pink Panda). The next course is all about the tomato, tomato mustard, smoked gnudi, tomato dust, heirloom tomato, and tomato oil. (Rebel Coast Winery, Reckless Love…

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