The Dose

Get Freshii With Us!

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By Greer Wylder
August 25, 2011

Looking for a new place to eat? Freshii is a healthy casual restaurant that just opened its first Orange County location at The Bluffs shopping center in Newport Beach. Freshii offers custom-made salads, burritos, wraps, rice bowls, yogurt parfait, or soups perfect for a quick breakfast, lunch or dinner. At breakfast try a bacon, egg and cheese wrap, a spinach and goat cheese wrap, slow cooked oatmeal, yogurt parfaits and more. At lunch or dinner choose from a Bangkok burrito (brown rice, grilled chicken, carrots, cucumbers, mushrooms, bean sprouts and warm peanut sauce); vegan wrap (spinach, avocado, carrots, broccoli, cucumbers,…

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Women Are Wonderful!

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By Greer Wylder
August 24, 2011

Spa Gregorie’s in Newport Beach will be celebrating women of all ages in a major way Monday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. with its 5th annual "Women are Wonderful: In Full Bloom" event. It’s a women’s expo featuring beauty demonstrations, exhibits, presentations, spa gifts and the evening benefits local charities. More than 50 vendors will be participating, including spa and wellness experts (like Clarisonic and Epicuren) as well as local boutiques, fitness studios, fashion and more. Experience high-end service demos including tanning and shimmer applications, a Spa Gregorie's custom skin analysis and facial prescription, and a Nuface Brow Lift demonstration;…

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Sustain Us with Wines!

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By Greer Wylder
August 23, 2011

With organic foods on our minds now more than ever, where does that leave us with wine? Easy enough to find some local restaurants incorporating sustainable, organic and biodynamic wines on their lists such as True Food Kitchen at Fashion Island and Seasons 52 at South Coast Plaza, now we’ve found that Laguna Beach is home to the Organic Wine Cellar, an importer, distributor and online retailer. Founder Brian Cuddy has built this family-run organic wine company that started with domestic organic wines and now works with producers throughout Italy, including major wine-producing regions of Veneto, Piedmont, Tuscany, Apulia, Abruzzi,…

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All Shoes on Deck!

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By Greer Wylder
August 22, 2011

Fashion Island just opened the largest Sperry Top-Sider store on the West Coast. Sperry Top-Sider, the 75-year-old nautical lifestyle brand claims, the title as the inventor of the world’s first modern boat shoe, and its new store in Fashion Island offers a collection of Sperry men’s, women’s and children’s lifestyle and performance footwear, as well as unique curated apparel and accessories like tote bags and board shorts made from recycled sailcloth. The store features authentic nautical design and a self-select stockroom, called “the boathouse,” meant to mimic the feel of a working boathouse. Sperry Top-Sider is between Nordstrom Court and…

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Costa Mesa Restaurant Week!

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By Greer Wylder
August 19, 2011

In full disclosure, we’re partial to Costa Mesa. It’s home. And so we’re extra excited to announce Costa Mesa’s Restaurant Week. It’s time to try the city’s stellar new and established restaurants and take advantage of three or more course prix fixe menus at value prices. Twenty-eight premium restaurants have joined the inaugural Costa Mesa Restaurant Week continuing through Friday, Aug. 26. It’s difficult to choose where we want to eat first. South Coast Plaza’s fave restaurants are on the list including AnQi, Charlie Palmer, Hamamori, Seasons 52, The Capital Grille, Nello Cucina, and Quattro Café; plus there are other…

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