Greer's Daily Dose
Five Guys and A Burger
08.10.11
The DC-area burger chain with a cult like following, Five Guys Burgers & Fries, has hit Orange County big time with seven locations, most recently one opened at Fashion Island in Newport Beach.
Five Guys is famous for its ultra simple menu, just grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, grilled veggie and cheese sandwiches, French fries and Cajun fries, Coke and water.
Not sure why you need this many options, but they say there are 250,000 possible ways to order a burger. Five Guys prides itself on fresh ground beef burgers and a menu that’s completely trans-fat free.
Other Orange County locations: in Costa Mesa at 3030 Harbor Blvd. 714.549.0135; in Huntington Beach at 18645 Beach Blvd. 714.861.4448; at The District in Tustin at 2427 Park Ave. 714.259.0124; at the Tuskatella Shopping Center in Orange at 1549 E. Katella Ave. 714.532.5544; in Laguna Niguel at 32341 Golden Lantern. 949.493.1463; and at College Plaza at 444 N. State College Blvd. in Fullerton. 714.525.5955.
Fashion Island’s new Five Guys is at Atrium Café. It’s open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. 949.219.0655.
Learn About Wine Tonight!
Want to learn how to taste wines like a pro? Attend an advanced Learn About Wine event at Wednesday at 6:45 to 9 p.m. at The Bluewater Grill at The District at Tustin. At the Palate Builder class, hosted by wine expert Ian Blackburn, you’ll learn how to decipher the smells, flavors, and tastes of up to 20 diverse wines.
Costs $95 per person; or $69 for an advanced online special. Just use code word "FAN". LearnAboutWine members pay just $49. On the wine menu you can try artisan reds and whites including single vineyard wines, old versus new world reds.
Bluewater Grill is at the District at 2409 Park Ave. in Tustin. For more information, call 310.451.7600.
Crabby Tuesdays!
08.08.11
Experiencing a culinary delicacy doesn’t get much better than at Crab Tuesdays at AnQi at South Coast Plaza. It's a rare weekly foodie event hosted by celebrity Chef Helene An, the matriarch and executive chef of all An Family restaurants.
She travels from Beverly Hills to cook her famous garlic roasted crab that she perfected at Crustacean in Beverly Hills and San Francisco decades ago, served with her legendary garlic noodles. (Even Anqi’s Chef Ryan Carson doesn’t know her garlic roasted crab and garlic noodle recipe.)
Chef An prepares the meal in her secret kitchen that only family members and chefs who have worked with the family for more than a decade can enter. The crab Tuesdays experience is limited, so it’s best to reserve your Dungeness crab order, a minimum of 24 hours in advance.
The roasted crab dish is available in the shell ($48) or shelled ($53) that’s easier to eat. We’ve tried both tasty versions, and it’s hard to decide which is better. However in the shell is preferred by the An family. Along with the crab, you can order appetizers and others courses, such as the char-grilled jumbo prawns with saffron fries, fra mani chorizo, manilla clams, piquillo pepper fumer, and quinzoi liaison a la carte.
AnQi by Crustacean is adjacent to Bloomingdale’s at South Coast Plaza, 3333 Bristol Street in Costa Mesa. 714.557.5679.
The OC Look!
In celebration of Orange County’s stylish set (and for a much needed cause, funding research for diabetes) Orange Coast magazine will present the 2011 OC Look event Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. at a residence at Ritz Cove in Dana Point. The party will unveil this year’s honorees from surf industry vets to philanthropists and artists.
OC Look is also a stylish way to raise funds for the Dream Guild in support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. OC Look is open to the public and everyone will be treated to an evening full of style and fashion complete with handwriting analysis by Mont Blanc, beauty bars offered by M•A•C Cosmetics and Kenneth Brown Salon, signature cocktails by Agave Underground Tequila, and decadent and delicious fare by 24 Carrots Catering.
Also at the event, check out Chloe’s most beautiful women’s styles, Saks Fifth Avenue’s men's fashions, and South County Lexus’s hottest cars. Tickets to attend the 2011 OC Look Party cost $75 each and can be purchased online or by calling the JDRF office at 949.553.0363.
51 Ritz Cove Dr. in Dana Point.
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