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Get Your Piece of The Pie

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By Greer Wylder
January 22, 2019

During the month of January, The Pie Hole in Orange is celebrating the new year with fruit, nuts and yogurt and a citrus flair, by introducing a Candied Blood Orange Yogurt Pie and Blood Orange Ginger Latte. The Candied Blood Orange Pie starts with a pecan shortbread crust filled with tangy yogurt sweetened with a bit of brown sugar, topped with blood orange gelée and almonds, then drizzled with spiced orange syrup.  The Blood Orange Ginger Latte is made with the Pie Hole’s housemade spiced turmeric and ginger orange syrup, garnished with a housemade candied blood orange slice. If you’re already…

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Ways & Means Oyster House Supports Bracken’s Kitchen

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By Greer Wylder
January 20, 2019

Ways & Means Oyster House is offering special prix fixe lunch and dinner menus during Surf City Dine Week from January 21-28, 2019, and $1 from every meal sold will benefit local nonprofit, Bracken’s Kitchen. All week, Ways & Means will serve a variety of menus at various price points - $11, $16, and $21 for lunch, and $21, $31, and $41 for dinner. Guests will enjoy Ways & Means’ signature dishes like the Clam Chowder with bacon candy crumbles, basil, and seasoned oyster crackers; Lobster Tacos with blackened Maine lobster, cabbage mango salsa, and serrano cream; Steak & Polenta…

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SCFTA presents Branford Marsalis Quartet & Yuko Mabuchi Trio

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By Greer Wylder
January 20, 2019

Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents an incredible evening of jazz featuring the Branford Marsalis Quartet and Yuko Mabuchi Trio for one performance only on January 25, at 8 p.m.. Led by Jazz Master and Grammy® Award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis, the quartet was declared by the Associated Press as “one of the most cohesive, intense small jazz ensembles on the scene today.” Quartet members include Joey Calderazzo, piano; Eric Revis, bass; and Justin Faulkner, drums. Opening the program is pianist Yuko Mabuchi whose trio of musicians includes Del Atkins on bass and Bobby Breton on drums.   Single tickets start…

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NB Restaurant Week Specials at Balboa Bay Resort

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By Greer Wylder
January 18, 2019

A&O Kitchen + Bar and Waterline are both offering specially curated menus and waterside dining at a discount inside Balboa Bay Resort, Newport Beach’s only waterfront resort. A&O Kitchen + Bar, the resort’s waterfront gastropub known for its carefully curated cocktail menu, is offering a fixed $40 three-course dinner menu with a $10 Old Fashioned made with Woodford BBR Barrel Whiskey. Begin the meal with Pâté with homemade pickles and grain mustard, continue with Braised Short Rib with creamy polenta, gremolata and cauliflower, and end the meal with “Turtle Jar” dessert with caramel sauce, chocolate cake, and candied pecans. Sophisticated…

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Goodwill Store Coming to Cypress

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By Greer Wylder
January 18, 2019

Goodwill of Orange County will open its 25th thrift store in Cypress on Friday, Jan. 18. The 13,000 square-foot store, located next to Cypress Community College, will showcase Goodwill’s popular thrift store shopping experience. Customers can expect a one-of-a-kind selection of clothing for all ages, accessories, housewares and furniture, electronics, sporting goods, and more. The new Cypress location will also feature Goodwill’s first ever drive-thru donation drop-off. The store will utilize the structure set up by the previous tenant and allow donors to simply drive up and a Goodwill attendant will greet and remove items from cars – making donating…

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