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Vintage and Healthy: Wild Strawberry Cafe

By Greer Wylder

July 20, 2015

One of our favorite local spots in Newport Beach, the charming Wild Strawberry Café is off the beaten path---on Newport Center Drive—and once you go, you’ll adore the European cafe ambiance with fresh flowers, music and healthy and delicious dishes served on vintage plates. It’s the perfect place to take a break from your busy day to splurge on a pastry: almond croissant, delicious scones, brownies, cookies, apple strudel and more with an espresso, Nutella latte, or chai tea latte. Or, you can enjoy an open faced tuna sandwiches, roasted turkey with cheese and pesto, the award-winning pastrami sandwich, kale…

Travel Channel’s Top 10 The Beachcomber

By Greer Wylder

July 16, 2015

How great is it that the Travel Channel chose a local spot, The Beachcomber at Crystal Cove for Best Brunch in their top 10 “Travel’s Best: Summer Foods” for 2015? The TravelChannel.com relied on culinary experts, award-winning chefs and “foodies” to scour the country to find the most incredible summer eats and The Beachcomber was the only spot in California to make the cut. The Beachcomber café is right on the beach in the Crystal Cove area of Newport Coast – perfect for all day dining—breakfast, lunch and dinner. At brunch, you can indulge in a trio lemon ricotta blueberry pancakes…

True Food Kitchen’s New Summer Menu

By Greer Wylder

July 13, 2015

You can feel good about eating healthy at True Food Kitchen Newport Beach and its summer menu is in full effect! True Food Kitchen offers ingredients that are sustainable and locally grown and the menu only highlights ingredients with natural health benefits based on the principals of Dr. Andrew Weil’s anti-inflammatory diet New natural refreshers include the Black Peach Sparkling Tea with black peach tea, lemon & cane sugar and the Sparkling Watermelon Soda with watermelon, lime, cane sugar & sparkling water New starters include Smoked Steelhead Dip with Greek yogurt, lemon, pickled onion, kalamata olive and spiced pita chips. New salads include Heirloom Tomato & Watermelon…

NEW WEEKDAY HAPPENINGS AT THE NORTH LEFT

By Greer Wylder

July 13, 2015

When it comes to weekday dining and cocktail happenings, The North Left from Chef/owner Ryan Adams of Three Seventy Common Kitchen+Drink at the historic Art District of downtown Santa Ana is going all out for summer. The modern American fare eatery has introduced three ongoing specials – Two for Tuesday featuring freshly shucked oysters and a glass of white wine; Farm to Forage on Thursdays highlighted by an ever-changing ingredient-driven special prix fixe dinner menu; and a new Summer Cocktail program including four drinks that feature house barrel aged whiskey. Two for Tuesday On Tuesdays starting at 5 p.m., you…

After Five Years, New Bruxie Menu

By Greer Wylder

July 06, 2015

For the first time since Bruxie opened its first location five years ago in Old Towne Orange and introduced new fans to the Bruxie waffle sandwich, chefs and co-founders Dean Simon and Kelly Mullarney just added new menu offerings, to expand from its renowned Bold Fold signature waffle sandwich. All Bruxie locations have added new Signature Salads, Crispy Chicken Tenders, additional Chicken & Waffle offerings, and two new Bruxie Burgers. Here's a partial list on new meny offerings: Signature Salads Made with farm fresh produce, scratch made dressings and served with a Bruxie Waffle crisp. Traditional Greek Romaine hearts and…