The Dose

Look What’s Coming to OC!

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By Greer Wylder
August 26, 2011

We just found out that the Belgian bakery and café, Le Pain Quotidien, will be opening it first OC location this October at Fashion Island’s Pacific Court. Pretty soon, you’ll be sitting down at a communal table or on the patio enjoying incredible ocean views while having breakfast, lunch or dinner that feature in simple and delicious boulangerie foods. Le Pain Quotidien will offer a selection of soups, salads, tartines (open-faced sandwiches, a house specialty) with its signature breads baked fresh daily. The Brussels-based eatery stays true to its mission by offering high quality, simple and authentic foods, and always…

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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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