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Mutt’s Brings All-New Americana-style Brunch to Newport Beach

By Greer Wylder

August 10, 2022

Mutt’s Eastbluff has reinvented its weekend brunch with all-new dishes and drinks. The Newport Beach hotspot loved by locals for its welcoming atmosphere, larger-than-life Schooners of beer, and eclectic-yet-approachable American cuisine has a new culinary team bringing savory eats, sweet treats, and lively morning libations to its popular weekend menus. As residents of Eastbluff themselves, husband-and-wife owners Alex and Meghan Murray created Mutt’s to serve as a central gathering place for their community. Now in their second year, the duo continues to build upon their restaurant’s popularity and success with all-new offerings at brunch. Available Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m.…

Celebrate Bosscat Kitchen & Libations and TEN Sushi + Cocktail Bar at Lakeshore Irvine

By Greer Wylder

August 08, 2022

Business park, Lakeshore in Irvine, is the new home of Bosscat Kitchen & Libations and TEN Sushi + Cocktail Bar in their two, brand newrestaurant locations one mile from their previous Newport Beach location. The Grand Opening party for Bosscat Kitchen & Libations and TEN Sushi + CocktailBar Lakeshore will take place Wednesday, August 10th from 5-7 p.m. and is open to the public to come enjoy. There will be food samples from both concepts, live music, and of course, some whiskey tastings! To RSVP and for more information, please visit bosscatkitchen.com and.tensushicocktail.com/rsvp.Keeping with its exact concept, Bosscat Kitchen & Libations…

Khan Saab Desi Craft Kitchen Launches Mocktail Happy Hour

By Greer Wylder

August 03, 2022

Khan Saab Desi Craft Kitchen, a Michelin Bib Gourmand award-winning 100% Halal eatery in Fullerton, has launched its late summer happy hour. Now through the end of September, the restaurant’s popular alcohol-free craft mocktails will be offered at buy one get one 50% Mondays through Thursdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m.The late summer happy hour encourages guests to escape this season’s heat waves and enjoy refreshingly cold, spiritless drinks paired perfectly with the restaurant’s melded cuisine that incorporates flavors and cooking techniques of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The “sober curious” movement of cutting down, or out, alcohol use is continuing…

Taste of Talay - Montage Los Cabos’ Favorite Thai Restaurant Pops Up at Montage Laguna Beach

By Greer Wylder

August 03, 2022

This summer, Montage Laguna Beach’s Studio Garden will transform into Talay, a signature pop-up culinary experience from sister property, Montage Los Cabos. Talay is known for its lush outdoor setting, a pumping heartbeat of laid-back beats curated by the chef himself, and lines out its door filled with both locals and resort guests eager to taste its authentic Thai dishes. Montage Los Cabos has become known for some of the best culinary pop-ups to date with the world’s most accomplished chefs, such as Dominque Crenn and Chef Mauro Colagreco so, it is only fitting that the next pop-up would be its…

Bud & Gene’s Pops Up in the Former Ruby’s Diner at Huntington Beach Pier

By Greer Wylder

August 01, 2022

A new pop-up restaurant, Bud & Gene’s just opened at the end of the landmark Huntington Beach Pier, in the former home toRuby’s Diner. Bud & Gene’s serves a casual, seafood-focused menu highlighting the day’s catch, plus a separate take-out window for beach-inspired eats, by Chef Jason Witzl, best known for Long Beach favorites Ellie’s, Lupe’s De La Mar, and Ginger’s. Bud & Gene’s is named for Delbert “Bud” Higgins and Gene Belshe, two friends who became inspirational Huntington Beach watermen and longtime public servants. After observing a surfing demonstration by Duke Kahanamoku in nearby Corona del Mar in the late 1920s,…