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Need help with French wine menu
in article , DaleW at
wrote on 10/28/05 11:51 AM:
> Please do me a favor and report back about restaurant. We'll be in
> Laguna Beach over Christmas, and will be looking for a place for at
> least one night (we mostly eat with Betsy's grandmother). I found
> Mirabeau in Dana Point on web, looks like it might be a possibilty
> (depending what we do about a car).
My newsreader doesn't thread posts in a way that I can tell which respond
directly to which, so I'll try to cover a few things in this one reply.
With apologies to those to whom none of this means anything in the
slightest:
Mirabeau is at the corner of PCH and Crown Valley Parkway, in the Monarch
Beach section of Dana Point. That center is also the home of Salt Creek
Grille, if that helps. I'd be happy to report back on it, but the wife just
has opted out in favor of a San Clemente venue called Iva Lee's instead.
We'll get back to Mirabeau at some future date.
"Vine" (often called "The Vine", but there's no "The" in it) is our favorite
in the area. It could, however, be problematic for Dale as the owner used to
be chef at French 75. Not sure when or whether the food was the problem for
Dale, but those are the facts. Vine's wine list is excellent, though small.
It's mostly West Coast USA small-production gems.
Mongkut Thai (on Del Mar, in San Clemente) is extremely good. I'd bet that's
the Thai being referred to.
230 Forest is, not coincidentally, at 230 Forest. Forest is the main
shopping side street (off PCH) just South of Main Beach in Laguna.
The owner of Mirabeau told me her two favorite restaurants in the area are
Vine and Iva Lee's, so it should be a good dinner any way we do it.
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