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The Taste of Laguna Food & Music Festival

By Greer Wylder

September 10, 2021

The Taste of Laguna Food & Music Festival combines two of the community's favorite events, Taste of Laguna and KX FM's annual concert, into one mega evening for foodies and live music fans! This limited event on October 14 will sell out, so get your tickets now at The Festival of Arts Laguna Beach.More than 30 local restaurants and award-winning chefs will showcase their most popular menu items, signature recipes, and specialty dishes. The festival stage will feature a unique concert, stay tuned for this year's lineup! Whether you come early or stay late, this year's party is going to…

Award-Winning Chef Built Community Through Cooking

By Greer Wylder

August 22, 2021

Award-winning, plant-based chef and entrepreneur GW Chew aka Chef Chew, the Founder and CEO of Something Better Foods Inc., has built a community through his cooking and reimagined soul food with Better Chew (plant-based protein solutions with a taste, texture, and appearance to satisfy a craving for meat). With celebrity fans ranging from rapper T-Pain to comedian Tony Baker, a $500,000 equity investment from ICA, and products available in WHOLE FOODS, Chef Chew is on a mission to bring better food to food desert communities nationwide.Inspired to begin living a healthy lifestyle, Chef Chew switched to a plant-based diet in 2001 and started experimenting with…

New Butcher Shop Brings High-End Meats & Deli to Newport Beach

By Greer Wylder

August 19, 2021

Mario’s Butcher Shop & Delicatessen, a new neighborhood concept specializing in high-end cuts, wood-grilled and smoked meats, house-made charcuterie, and chef-driven menu offerings, is now open at Plaza Newport (at Jamboree Road and Bristol Street), serving the communities of Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Irvine.“This concept is meant to serve the needs of the community with the convenience and reliability of a high-end neighborhood butcher shop where families can pick up everything they need to enjoy a complete meal at home,” said Chef-Owner Mario Llamas, who has more than two decades experience as a chef and butcher. “Our made-to-order burgers and sandwiches, grab-and-go…

Inaugural Long Beach Burger Week

By Greer Wylder

August 02, 2021

Long Beach residents and visitors alike are in for a treat as dozens of local restaurants and food retailers will offer unique over-the-top Burgers and value-priced Burger Offers when the inaugural Long Beach Burger Week just launched through August 8. Organized by local non-profit Long Beach Food & Beverage and thanks to a generous grant from the City of Long Beach, executive director Terri Henry, who brought the original restaurant week to Long Beach with partners in 2014, felt that in addition to encouraging local and surrounding "foodies” to enjoy what the expanding Long Beach culinary community has to offer, events like Burger…

Sugar ‘n Spice the Original Frozen Banana Shop Ships Nationwide

By Greer Wylder

July 06, 2021

Balboa Island’s beloved Sugar ‘n Spice, the Original Frozen Banana Shop, is going strong this summer. They also just partnered up with Goldbelly and are shipping their iconic treats nationwide. Now you can order your favorite treats and send them to friends and family just about anywhere. ️As the story goes, Sugar ‘n Spice’s Frozen Bananas were invented by accident in the 1940s when owners Bob and Dot Cook’s 12-year-old son, Don, accidentally stuck some bananas in the freezer instead of the fridge. Instead of being thrown out, they dunked them in chocolate and rolled them in toffee crumbs, and…