Laguna Beach Restaurants
Laguna Beach restaurants and dining experiences are as numerous
as the art galleries in the small, eclectic beach village.
Since there are so many from which to choose, I'll just tell
you may favorite upscale, medium and down-scale restaurants
that offer both a decent dining experience plus yummy food.
The upscale Laguna Beach restaurants have to include Splashes
at the Surf & Sand resort, Clae's restaurant at the Hotel
Laguna and the Studio at the Montage Resort. Splashes offers
excellent Mediterranean fare such as grilled swordfish. Clae's
restaurant is known for their seafood and one can get fresh
lobster, mahi-mahi and salmon there.
The Studio offers such delicacies as caviar and oysters,
sunchoke soup, crab leg risotto, duck breast, lamb chops and
halibut. They also offer separate wine and cheese menus.
Laguna Beach has an over abundance of medium-scale restaurants
so I'll just list my favorites according to cuisine. For American
food try the Cottage Restaurant on north PCH and the White
House just south of Main Beach. Las Brisas is perhaps the
most famous Laguna Beach restaurant because of its view, but
the Mexican food it serves is a bit underwhelming.
For Asian dining try Five Feet Restaurant right downtown,
especially their whole authentic catfish. I'm also going to
tell you may super secret favorite which is a Thai restaurant
called Thai Brothers.
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It's sort of downtown, but I'm not
going to tell you exactly where since I don't want you
to go there as I don't want it to get TOO popular.
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As far as California Nouveau the Sorrento Grille & Wine
Bar is medium to upscale and is located in the downtown section
of Laguna Beach near the library. Other downtown restaurants
include 230 Forest Avenue (guess where this is located), Sundried
Tomato Café. The Mosaic Bar and Grille is also worth
checking out at the Montage Resort in South Laguna Beach.
The French restaurant worth dining at a block from Main Beach
is C'est La Vie. If you're going to go Greek then go to the
Aegean Café on south PCH. And, for medium scale Mexican
restaurants try Javier's Cantina & Grill also a little
south of Main Beach on PCH.
As for cheap eats, I know it's a chain by BJ's restaurant
right across from Main Beach is one of my favorites. The same
with Wahoo's Fish Tacos. Another of my fav's is Coyote Grill
in South Laguna Beach, which I believe is not a chain but
I'm not perfectly sure.
Anyway, these are my top picks for Laguna Beach restaurants,
dining and food. Do with it what you will and enjoy the cuisine.
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