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Common Room Roasters Cappuccino (Drink of the Week)

Melbourne born roaster Ed Moffatt opened Common Room Roasters last year with Jeremy Creighton in a Newport Beach industrial park near Hoag Health Center. They roast beans behind glass on a Joper machine and...
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Top Newport Beach Food + Drink

Newport Beach is a coastal city that rests on beautiful Balboa Bay and combines 10 interconnected neighborhoods, including Balboa Peninsula, which juts into the Pacific and delivers a surfer-friendly vibe, ritzy Corona del Mar,...
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Soda Orange County

Drink of the Week: Provenance Earl Grey Manhattan Cream Soda

In the Newport Beach highlands, not far from the glitz of Balboa Bay, Proven-Ance is a Napa-style, farm-to-table restaurant in Eastbluff Village Center. Chef Cathy Pavlos has a 1300-square foot garden at her disposal,...
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Bluefin Melon Float (Drink of the Week)

Malls rarely get ritzier than Crystal Cove Shopping Center on Newport Coast, which is where fashionable Orange County residents descend to consume on a grand scale, whether it’s clothes or culinary delights. At Bluefin,...
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Coffee Orange County

Kean Coffee Shakerato (Drink of the Week)

Coffee may not scream relief during a heat wave, but Kean Coffee is where I landed during a summery streak that sent Southern California temperatures soaring above 100 Fahrenheit. The Italianate Newport Beach cafe...
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Coffee Orange County

Interview: Kean Coffee co-founder Martin Diedrich

Not many coffee professionals can say they wielded a machete while leading expeditions to unearth Mayan ruins, but that’s exactly the case with Martin Diedrich, who owns two Orange County outposts of Kean Coffee...
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