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Mama’s Opens At Mercantile West in Ladera Ranch

By Greer Wylder

May 20, 2021

Mama’s Comfort Food & Cocktails, the popular Orange County restaurant known for its top-quality breakfast, lunch, and dinner comfort foods with a twist, has opened at Mercantile West in Ladera Ranch.Providing 4,000 square feet of interior space with an inviting 1,700 square foot patio, Mama’s Comfort Foods & Cocktails serves a similar menu to the existing Mama’s locations in Huntington Beach and Los Alamitos. The friendly, casual setting offers a full bar of creative cocktails, unique craft beers, and hard-to-find wines by the glass and bottle.Mama’s serves breakfast all day, with signature dishes including Jeff’s Breakfast Bomb (served on a King’s Hawaiian…

The Greer’s SoCal Show at The Board Club

By Greer Wylder

September 18, 2018

It’s the inaugural Greer’s SoCal Show where we spotlight the best in SoCal living. We visited The Board Club in Newport Beach, a surf club founded by Peter Belden that gives members unlimited access and exchanges to an array of quality surfboards from established shapers throughout California. As a member, you can pick up by for a 7'2" single fin, an old school longboard to the latest high-performance shortboards. It’s like having the ultimate quiver for all wave conditions. Membership also includes social events and activities, networking opportunities, surfboard design education, surf coaching, ocean skills and fitness training, photo and video surf…

Introducing ARC Pizza House

By Greer Wylder

January 05, 2018

The husband-and-wife team, Chef Noah and Marín von Blöm have introduced ARC Pizza House featuring a menu of unique wood-fired pizzas, at Costa Mesa’s South Coast Collection. This new concept is now an extension of the acclaimed restaurant, ARC, and is located in the space formerly occupied by Restaurant Marin, which will be relocating to a new home on the Newport Beach Peninsula in early 2018, when the von Blöms’ DirtySexyHappiness Hospitality Group will debut a new culinary concept.Chef Noah Blöm brings his signature style to create eight original pizzas. Offerings range from The House Pizza Pie with housemade sausage, pepper and mushroom, and The…

Beloved Cuban Eatery, Habana at Irvine Spectrum

By Greer Wylder

January 02, 2018

Easily the most exciting restaurant of late is the new Habana Irvine at Irvine Spectrum. For over 20 years, Habana at the Lab in Costa Mesa has offered outstanding and authentic Cuban fare, and now with Habana Irvine, there’s just more to love. Habana Irvine offers an exciting and romantic vibe—complete with an onsite bakery and exclusive cafecita. It's the next best thing to being in Cuba in its heyday.Lead by executive chef Alex Moreno, Habana offers Cuban-inspired fare, ranging from seafood ceviche starters to a hamburguesa a la Habana, a grilled 8 oz. beef patty, American and Manchego cheeses,…

Michael’s Pizzeria at Dine Out Long Beach, Restaurant Week 2.0

By Greer Wylder

February 16, 2017

For anyone who loves pizza, you are in for an incredible pizza experience at Michael’s Pizzeria, a sister restaurant to Michael's on Naples rated the #1 restaurant in Long Beach. It boasts two locations in Long Beach: on Naples Island and in Downtown Promenade. And now is the perfect time to plan on dining at Michael’s Pizzeria. It's participating in Dine Out Long Beach, Restaurant Week 2.0, the city’s premier dining event from February 19-25.This is not your typical pizzeria, Michael’s Pizzeria sources locally grown, organic vegetables, they grow their own herbs and tomatoes, and who else makes their own…