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Memphis Cafe Debuts Summer Menu

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By Greer Wylder
July 12, 2019

Memphis Café celebrates summertime with a flavorful new menu crafted by co-founder and Executive Chef Diego Velasco. Starting Sunday, July 14, experience a vibrant menu features an exclusive addition of five new dishes and three craft cocktails each taking your taste buds on a culinary adventure. The Fried Washington Oysters offer an interesting twist on a breadless oyster po boy, and the Spice Crusted Striped Bass, served with a scallion-ginger pancake, is reminiscent of chicken and waffles - a southern classic at Memphis Café. For dessert, Chef Diego recommends the blackened rib cap steak, a melt in your mouth, savory…

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Burger Week Comes to Orange County July 14-20

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By Greer Wylder
July 12, 2019

This month, Orange County will experience its inaugural Burger Week from Sunday, July 14th through Saturday, July 20th. Presented by The Fork Report, the event highlights burgers from nearly 60 participating restaurants countywide. Diners will be able to explore a variety of burgers, ranging from classic to creative, featuring various proteins from beef to plant-based, on menus priced at $10, $15 and $20 and luxe burger menus at $25. Burger Week menus from participating restaurants online at burgerweek.com.   Collaboration Burgers---Nearly a dozen participating restaurants feature a collaboration burger co-created by their Chefs and Neil Saavedra, host of The Fork Report! These burgers showcase over-the-top burgers made with ingredients…

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RENOWNED CHEF, ROSS PANGILINAN opening eatery at LONG BEACH EXCHANGE

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By Greer Wylder
July 11, 2019

Long Beach Exchange, East Long Beach’s dynamic destination for shopping and dining, will open ReMix Kitchen Bar in the fall. It’s a new concept created by locally renowned chef and restauranteur, Ross Pangilinan. ReMix Kitchen Bar at Long Beach Exchange will be the award-winning chef’s third restaurant concept in Southern California and will offer customers a uniquely different dining opportunity centered on New American fusion flavors.  Pangilinan’s first two restaurants, Mix Mix Kitchen Bar in Downtown Santa Ana and Terrace by Mix Mix at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, are acclaimed dining destinations that have been recognized among Orange…

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Tommy Bahama Restaurant, Bar & Store Unveils New Look

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By Greer Wylder
July 11, 2019

Tommy Bahama Restaurant, Bar & Store at Corona del Mar Plaza unveils its new light and bright remodeled look just in time for summer. Tommy Bahama, an innovator in the combined restaurant and retail experience, has been a mainstay in the Newport Beach community since 1998 and this dramatically redesigned space with its fresh indoor/outdoor feel is the perfect fit for the Orange County lifestyle. The Tommy Bahama Restaurant, Bar & Store remodel is part of the Corona del Mar Plaza renovation, which will be completed later this year. Tommy Bahama Restaurant, Bar & Store has an all-new reconfigured patio…

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Blue Bowl Coming to Long beach Exchange

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By Greer Wylder
July 10, 2019

Long Beach Exchange, East Long Beach’s premier shopping, dining and lifestyle destination, just added Old Navy that will celebrate its grand opening on July 27, and Orange County-local acai bowl shop, Blue Bowl. These new additions will help to further bolster the list of clothing and eatery options for Long Beach shoppers. Blue Bowl will be the newest addition of unique eateries inside The Hangar at Long Beach Exchange. Co-founded by a military veteran and a health food insider, Blue Bowl offers customers a variety of superfood menu items including “create your own” acai and pitaya bowls, coffee, kombucha and more.…

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