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Haven’s New Spring Dishes Embrace the Season’s Vibrant Ingredients

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By Greer Wylder
April 26, 2021

Executive Chef Craig Brady at  Haven Craft Kitchen+Bar welcomes spring with new dishes  featuring the season’s most vibrant ingredients. Among the new dishes currently found on the menu at Haven is Chef Brady’s Jonah Crab Agnolotti featuring hand-made herbed pasta, crab and mascarpone filling, English pea cream, and lemon butter. “This Agnolotti is rooted in nostalgia as it pays homage to a dish I had made back in Boston,” explains Chef Brady, who developed a love for making pasta while at Boston’s Posto, an authentic VPN-certified enoteca. “While it features hand-made pasta, this dish is very evocative of spring, with bright mint and sweet English…

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Fly N Fish Newport Beach Restaurant Week

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By Greer Wylder
April 23, 2021

The most delicious time of the year in Newport Beach is here! Join Fly N Fish Oyster Bar and Grill on the Balboa Peninsula for the 15th Annual Newport Beach Restaurant Week Dine Local. Support Local through Sunday, May 2. With prix-fixe lunch and dinner menus featuring their award-winning Clam Chowder, elevated coastal entrees, and more, this is a culinary event not to be missed! To view Fly N Fish’s complete Restaurant Week menus, visit flynfishoysterbar.com. Reservations for tented outdoor and limited indoor dining are available by phone at 949.673.8400. 2304 W Oceanfront, Newport Beach.

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Poppi Seed Market: Mother’s Day Edition at SOCO + The OC Mix!

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By Greer Wylder
April 23, 2021

If you’re looking for a special way to shop + celebrate Mother’s Day, you’re in luck!  Poppi Seed Market, a local market celebrating the art of handmade every day, is popping up al fresco at SOCO + The OC Mix on Sunday, April 25.  From 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., come out to support your local maker community and fill your home (and life!) with quality, handcrafted items made by talented creators and artisans. With over 35 locally-owned boutiques and makers, you can shop everything from apparel, candles, home décor, plants, baked goods, jewelry, leather goods, bath & body, and…

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Tuesday Night Dance Bollywood at the Plaza

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By Greer Wylder
April 22, 2021

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is kicking up the heat on the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza dancefloor with its popular Tuesday Night Dance series featuring Bollywood on May 4, 11, 18, and 25. They’re ideal during this time of quarantine and stay-at-home because, once you’ve mastered the steps during the classes at the Center, they can be handless, distanced, and energize any room with the music and moves so unique to both dance styles. Classes are 6:30- 7:30 p.m., with check-in at 6 p.m. Spaces are just $10 each, and 28 spaces are available. Immediate sign-ups are encouraged because…

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SPLASHES Launches High Tide Dinner Series with Super Pink Moon

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By Greer Wylder
April 22, 2021

Inspired by Surf & Sand Resort's oceanfront location, the SPLASHES culinary team has created a High Tide Dinner Series with a specially crafted menu and wine pairings that align with each month's full moon–beginning with April's Super Pink Moon, followed by the Flower Moon in May, and beyond. Sample menu highlights for the inaugural Hide Tide Dinner include green gazpacho amuse bouche featuring spiced prawn, pickled onion and crisp sourdough. House cured King Salmon will follow with a compressed pink lady apple, espelette yogurt, beet horseradish gel and Everything Bagel crumb, paired with a California Schramsberg Brut Rose.   The…

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