The Dose

Up A Lark Creek!

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By Greer Wylder
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

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By Greer Wylder
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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WELCOME TO SURF CITY USA, PLANET BEAUTY! JOIN THEIR GRAND OPENING PARTY!

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By Greer Wylder
July 31, 2013

Welcome to Surf City USA, Planet Beauty! Join their Grand Opening Party! Orange County’s best-loved beauty boutique, Planet Beauty, is celebrating its grand opening in Huntington Beach this Saturday, Aug. 3, with giveaways, savings and pampering treatments. Nestled next to neighborhood hot spots Starbucks and Pure Barre in the Seacliff Village Shopping Center, this brand new Planet Beauty boutique will provide the first-class customer service that loyal fans have experienced for over two decades. The store carries a prized selection of Orange County’s most must-have beauty products, including: Rodial, Pureology, Dr. Perricone, Clarisonic, GHD, Dermalogica and Jane Iredale. Stop by…

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A Wonderland of Jewelry

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By Greer Wylder
July 30, 2013

Jewelry lovers will feel like a kid in candy story upon entering A Jewelry Wonderland in Costa Mesa. It’s in this ultra-feminine, light and airy boutique that you’ll find high-end to affordable fashion jewelry lines such as Chan Luu, Judith Jack, CC Skye, Echo of the Dreamer, Mars and Valentine and Alexis Bittar. The statement necklace, the stretch cuff, delicate necklaces, crystal bangles, the pendant necklace, and stacked rings, they’re all at A Jewelry Wonderland. And what’s even better? They also carry great fashion accessories like Chan Luu scarves, headbands, and designer sunglasses on sale at 50% including, Tory Burch,…

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Where to Find Modern Vintage Heirlooms

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By Greer Wylder
July 29, 2013

The newest home furnishings shop in Newport Beach, Heirloom at Wescliff Court features vintage treasures, mostly Hollywood Regency style, collected by owner Milena Sefferovich. Three years ago on a whim, while living in Phoenix, Sefferovich drove a truck to Pasadena filled with her vintage pieces and sold everything at the Rose Bowl Flea Market her first day. She was on to something great. Shoppers loved her eye for sophisticated one of-a-kind pieces, lighting, lacquered and refinished furniture (she refinished woods herself) and affordable glamour. Today she’s the proud owner of Heirloom, where she can display her design aesthetic and rare…

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