One thing is certain as the Pacific Wine & Food Classic returns to Newport Dunes in Newport Beach, CA, this fall: you won't go either hungry or thirsty at it. There are 19 wineries pouring more than 100 wines and nearly 30 chefs from area restaurants, including a Champion of the Food Network’s “Chopped!” The Pacific Wine & Food Classic was voted #1 on USA Today’s … [Read more...]
Pacific Wine & Food Classic Cancels 2021 Event
Next Event Scheduled For First Weekend In October 2022 One of America's top food festivals – the Pacific Wine & Food Classic at Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort in Newport Beach, CA – has been canceled for 2021. The beachside event that features the bounty of Southern California with wines, cocktails, and food from the region’s top chefs had been scheduled for … [Read more...]
Billy’s At The Beach In Newport Beach Super Bowl LVI To-Go Specials Include Mai Tais
Billys at the Beach tiki-style restaurant and bar on the harbor in Newport Beach is offering a pair of to-go food and drinks combinations for Super Bowl LV. And yes, the drinks are its famously strong Mai Tais. The Halftime Aloha Kit is $89 and contains four of Billy’s canned World Famous Mai Tais and a choice of two entrées including the Beach Burger, Fish and Chips, … [Read more...]
Party Flashback: Remembering The Taste Of Newport In Newport Beach, CA
Annual Fashion Event Drew In Orange County Singles For Three-Day Food & Drink Festival By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Much like Manhattan Beach to the north used to look forward to the Surfest/6-man event as a seasonal social highlight and even bikers and bare-butts the whacky Mooning of the Amtrak in Laguna Niguel to the south, the city of … [Read more...]
Albert Pujols Grand Marshall Of 2018 Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade
110th Annual Top Holiday Event Features Angles Star Player The 110th annual boat parade in Newport Beach, CA, is already a guaranteed hit – a home run, in fact – but it is adding to its already-potent lineup for 2018. Los Angeles Angels slugger Albert Pujols will be its grand marshal on opening night. This annual event, one of the best holiday boat parades in … [Read more...]
OCtoberfest OC 2018 Newport Dunes Tickets & Full Information
German Celebration Comes To Newport Beach There's a new Oktoberfest celebration now in Orange County, CA. In addition to the traditional one at Old World, there is now one at Newport Dunes in Newport Beach. This one runs on Saturdays and Sundays thru Oct. 21. The hours are Noon-8 p.m. Tickets range from $27 to $99 for a one day pass and $90 for the entire … [Read more...]
John Wayne Yacht Wild Goose 2018 Cruises & Schedule Newport Beach
Sunset Cocktail & Dinner Cruises & Champagne Brunch Aboard The Duke's Yacht With maps of the stars homes, the Walk of Fame and celebrity sightings, The Los Angeles area is full of opportunities to get close to Hollywood. And in Newport Beach, you can literally stand in the footsteps of one of the giants of the movie industry, John Wayne. His yacht, the … [Read more...]
Why You Should Dock Yourself At Lighthouse Bayview Cafe Newport Beach CA
Gourmet Food & Good Cocktails With A View To Match By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Food & Drinks Blogger There's a dock out front, and if you like, they will bring the food out to you on your boat. Or you can sit on one of its two sun-soaked decks – upstairs or ground level where you can al-most reach your toes out to the sand. It's Lighthouse … [Read more...]
Newport Beach Duffy-Style Electric Boat Rentals Pricing & Information
Electric Boats Are Available From Electric Boat Rental By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Lifestyle Blogger You've seen them on the water, the oversized dingys with the covered canvas top and people sitting inside eating, drinking and socializing while spending a great day cruising the bay in Newport Beach, CA. They are the iconic symbol of Newport Beach, much … [Read more...]
Newport Beach Lifestyle Blog: On The Water In An Electric Boat
Electric Boat Rental Puts You In This Orange County Top Social Scene By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com California Lifestyle Blogger They cruise along in Newport Harbor, more numerous and noticeable than even the giant yachts that surround them. They are the small cute-looking electrically-powered vessels covered with a distinctive awning and filled with people … [Read more...]
Newport Beach Lifestyle Blog: Dive Bars & Yachts
A Southern California Culture Clash? Not Here By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com California Lifestyle & Travel Blogger As you go down Pacific Coast Highway towards what is called "the peninsula," past luxury car dealers and boat yards filled with yachts, you know you're in a high-rent district of Southern California. And the next thing you know you're having a … [Read more...]
Lighthouse Bayview Cafe In Newport Beach Now Has A Full Liquor License
Creative Cocktails & Bottomless Mimosas Are Served At This Waterfront Restaurant Drinks are now being served at the Lighthouse Bayview Cafe in Newport Beach, CA! While the restaurant overlooking the water always had beer, wine (excellent wine, it is well worth mentioning) and probably the best wine-based Bloody Mary you'll ever have, it now boasts a full array … [Read more...]
Newport Beach Restaurants Lighthouse Bayview Cafe Food & Drinks Review
A Review Of Dining & Drinks With A View In Orange County, CA By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Foodie & Nightlife Blogger Within the sometimes wild crashing of the waves, there sits serenity. While places like Sharkeez, Woody’s Wharf, American Junkie and long-time standards like Mutt Lynch’s and Blackie’s are like The Wedge when it comes to nightlife … [Read more...]
The Beachcomber In Newport Beach Unveils New Summer Cocktails
Rum Drinks, A Spicy Margarita & Endless Summer Add To The Atmosphere In Crystal Cove Already known for its Pimms Cup and awesome 18-ounce Bloody Mary, the Beachcomber bar at Crystal Cove just outside of Newport Beach, CA, has created eight new summertime cocktails. Inspired by summer on the coast and life at the beach, the new cocktail menu features a modern take on … [Read more...]
Newport Dunes Newport Beach Summer Concerts 2017 Dates, DJs & Tickets
A Vegas-Style Dayclub Party On The Back Bay From July To October Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort is once again hosting its Summer Concert Series with music from DJs and live performers from July until October in the Back Bay of Newport Beach, CA. Put on by Social Management Group in collaboration with Weedmaps: THE BEACH Concert Series features five concert dates … [Read more...]
Fourth Of July Newport Beach 2018 Fireworks At Newport Dunes
Independence Day On The Back Bay Involves Live Music, Beer & Wine Garden, Food Trucks And Water Sports The Fourth of July in Newport Beach, CA, is primarily known for house parties along the rented beachfront homes – as well as the city's efforts to shut them down – but there's also a party happening across Pacific Coast Highway. Newport Dunes hosts Independence Day … [Read more...]
Pacific Wine & Food Classic 2017 Newport Dunes Everything You Need To Know
Newport Beach Event Features Chefs, Wineries & Cocktails More than 100 wines, plus area chefs and mixologists, combine to mix it up for a two-day festival along the back bay of Newport Beach, CA, at Newport Dunes. Here's everything you need to know about this event. Dates: Aug. 19-20 Times: 2-5 p.m. VIP entrance is at 1 p.m. Location: Newport Dunes on the … [Read more...]
Side Door Bar At Five Crowns Corona Del Mar Hosting Cheese Lovers Takeovers
Third Wednesdays Of The Summer Months Features Upscale Cheese Offerings Near Newport Beach Full of character, the SideDoor bar as part of the Five Crowns restaurant in Corona Del Mar, CA, will be full of flavor for a series of cheese lovers events in June, July and August. The Five Crowns, widely known in the area known for its award-winning cheese and charcuterie … [Read more...]
Newport Beach’s A Market Features Wine Wednesdays Monthly Wine Tastings
Pairings Of Fine Wines & Foods Here's a fun thing and potentially social activity to do in Newport Beach, CA. Especially if you're a local. A Market, a combination breakfast and lunch restaurant and food and wine store, holds monthly wine tastings, It does this, appropriately enough, on #WineWednesdays, a popular social media hashtag. These events take place the … [Read more...]
How To Celebrate John Wayne’s Birthday On His Yacht ‘Wild Goose’
Special Cruise In Newport Beach Features His Wife, Children & Captain For The Duke's Cancer Charity Foundation By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger Here's a way to walk – quite literally – in a Hollywood legend's footsteps, hear some great live music from a rising Nashville act, take a cruise around the Newport Beach harbor, see a sunset and have cocktails all at … [Read more...]
Mother’s Day Newport Beach Brunch & Dinner Five Crowns Menu
An Upscale Experience With Great Food For Mom The upscale Five Crowns restaurant in Corona Del Mar, CA, is offering a special Mother’s Day brunch and dinner. It is serving menus created exclusively for Mother’s Day by Executive Chef Anthony Endy. The brunch includes the Pride of the Crowns salad, Crab and Avocado Mash and a Lobster Bisque. Mains introduce Whole Wheat … [Read more...]
Back Bay Bistro Mother’s Day Newport Beach Brunch Menu, Price & Mimosas
A Full Buffet Overlooking The Water In Newport Dunes The beautiful Back Bay Bistro in Newport Beach, CA, is having a full Mother's Day brunch that includes bottomless mimosas. Here are the details, menu and pricing. The date is Sunday, May 14 and the hours are 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The Back Bay Bistro lives up to its name as it's located on the Back Bay of Newport Beach – … [Read more...]
Beachbomber Cafe & Bootlegger Bar 5-Star Food In A Sandals & Shorts Location
Come As You Are Beach Bar Serves Spectacular Food & Drinks At Crystal Cove In Newport Beach, CA By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Bar Blogger The Beachcomber Cafe and Bootlegger Bar in Newport Beach on the Southern California coast is not really a kick-off-the-sandals kind of place. It's really a put ON the sandals kind of place, for you'll likely be coming right … [Read more...]
Memorial Day Los Angeles 2017 Includes The Newport Dunes Beerfest
Newport Beach Craft Beer Festival Also Features Tribute Bands & Local Food Trucks You’re going to be drinking beer on Memorial Day Weekend anyway, so might as well do it with a couple thousand other people at a craft beer, festival, right? The Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort is again hosting the Newport Beach Beerfest on Saturday, May 27. Lasting from 7-10 p.m., it … [Read more...]
Newport Beach & Balboa Island’s Most Famous & Legendary Bars
Dive Bars & Locals' Legends Southern California Watering Holes Few places in Southern California have as many long-standing and legendary bars as Newport Beach. Perhaps it's because this beach community has a long history of having colorful characters. Here's a list and descriptions of the most famous of these legendary watering holes. The places are listed … [Read more...]
My Day In LA: The Grammy Museum. Riding A Ferry & A Way-Cool Beach Bar
Travel Blogger Gets A Summer Of Love Tour With San Francisco Tourism & Food And Drinks At The Beachcomber In Newport Beach By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger The variety of life in Los Angeles is one of the great things about being in this city. My PubClub.com colleague and I experienced that in a fun-filled day and night that took us from a busy … [Read more...]
Back Bay Bistro In Newport Beach Easter Brunch Menu & Pricing
Bottomless Champagne & Mimosas On Easter Sunday In Southern California Looking for a place for a big, good Easter Sunday brunch in Orange County, CA? One with a wide variety of great food, coupled with bottomless champagne and mimosas? Then head to the Back Bay Bistro in Newport Beach. It's having its Easter Brunch starting at 9 a.m., on Easter Sunday, which in … [Read more...]
Back Bay Bistro In Newport Beach Hosting Wine Pairing Dinner
Hi-Time Wine Cellars & The Wine Series Take March Out Like A Lion Pairing Back Bay Bistro's menu with its setting right on the back bay of Newport Beach, CA, is good enough, and on Thursday, March 30, it's pairing both of these elements with a special wine dinner that takes the month of March out like a lion. In a lamb-type of environment. The restaurant has … [Read more...]
Back Bay Bistro Newport Beach A Scenic & Delicious Lunch Destination
A California Restaurant Where The Food Meets The View By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger When the food meets the view, then you know you've got something in a restaurant. And both are great at the Back Bay Bistro along the back bay at Newport Dunes in Newport Beach, CA. Located next to a boat ramp with stand-up paddleboarders silently slapping along the … [Read more...]
Five Crowns Restaurant Tasty Spring 2017 Menu Food Blogger Review
Tri Tip, Grilled Octopus, Halibut & #CheeseLover Cheeses & Creative Cocktails By Kevin Wilkerson, PuClub.com Blogger I have long known of the Five Crowns restaurant in Corona del Mar as a place for fine dining, but had never actually been to it until I went to sample its new spring menu. And while I could barely get past the cheese table, I was at least as … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Day Dinner At Lighthouse Bayview Cafe Newport Beach CA
Three-Course Fixed Menu At A Romanic Spot On The Water Valentine's Day is all about romance – for couples anyway – and a dinner on the water certainly qualifies as romantic. Knowing this, Bayview Cafe in Newport Beach, CA has put together a three-course fixed menu for that evening. Prepared by Executive Chef Ryan Sumner, it features 10 seasonal dishes that will be … [Read more...]
Newport Beach New Year’s Day Champagne Brunch At Back Bay Bistro
Omelette & Crepe Stations, Seafood & Bottomless Mimosas After NYE The best follow-up to a great New Year's Eve is a big champagne brunch on New Year's Day. And the Bay Back Bay Bistro in Newport Beach, CA, doesn't drop the ball when it comes to providing it. Located – as the name implies – on the back bay of Newport Beach, it features a huge feast with … [Read more...]
Newport Beach Boat Parade Prix Fixe DInner At Lighthouse Bayview Cafe
Waterfront Restaurant Offering 3-Course Meal With A View Of The Boats The Lighthouse Bayview Cafe is offering a 3-course prix fixe dinner during the highly poplar Newport Beach Boat Parade, Dec. 14-18, in Newport Beach, CA. The restaurant, located on the bay with a full view of the parade, offers different selections for all three courses. It starts with a choice of … [Read more...]
Why Newport Beach & Orange County Is The Perfect Los Angeles
Pristine Roads & Waterways But Cheers To The Longstanding Dive Bars By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger When you live in Los Angeles County and drive down to Orange County, you realize this is how things should be in L.A. The freeways have more lanes, the roads are wider and there's always turn lanes with turn lane signals. The streets look as if they … [Read more...]
Discovering Hidden LA Gems In Venice & Newport Beach
The Back Bay, Venice Beach Canals & Even Waterfalls In L.A. By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger & LA Resident You would thank that, after some 20 years of living in Los Angeles, I would know every nook, cranny, "secret" and hidden place the city has to offer, that it would be a routine as shots of the Hollywood sign during a sporting event. But Los … [Read more...]
Newport Beach Biking: Back Bay, Balboa Peninsula & Bars
Top Orange County Scenic & Fun Bicycle Rides California has great places for scenic driving, but there are a few locations where you're better off to park the car and get on a bicycle. Newport Beach is one of those areas. PubClub.com took a long loop around Newport with a long-time local and here's where we went, which serves as a perfect guide to anyone wanting … [Read more...]
Fourth Of July Huntington & Newport Beach Locals Party Guide
A Parade, The Piers, Fireworks, Bars & House Parties In The OC By "Mr. OC," Special To PubClub.com There's plenty to see and do here in the OC on 4th of July, as this Summer Humpday Holiday draws crowds from all over the Southwest to party in our Shangri-La by the Sea. We start off bright and early @ 10am on the 4th with the hometown parade in Huntington Beach. With … [Read more...]
John Wayne’s Birthday Cocktail Cruise On The Wild Goose
Have Drinks On Board The Duke's Yacht In Newport Beach For those who have some True Grit, here's a good way to spend John Wayne's birthday: Aboard his yacht for a cocktail cruise! Wayne's former yacht, the Wild Goose, is in Newport Beach, CA, and its owner, Hornblower Cruises, is offering sunset cruises on and around his birthday. The Duke was born May 26 in … [Read more...]
Santa Pub Crawl Newport Beach 2015 Dates & Bars
Balboa & Newport Pier Bars To Be Filled With A Ho-Ho-Ho Holiday Party The 2015 edition of the popular Santa Pub Crawl in Newport Beach is set for Saturday, Dec. 12. Just how popular is it? There are actually two pub crawls to accommodate all the participants, which total around 500 people bar-hopping through Newport Beach in Santa costumes. One crawls around the … [Read more...]
Newport Beach Side Door Sunday Brunch Gets Positive Review From Mr. OC
Two Forks Up Says Orange County's Man About Town On Restaurant's Hip New Scene Perhaps he was too busy sampling the craft beers that rotate on a regular basis, or enjoying one of the menu items such as waffles and duck, to offer much more than a few quick texts. And they were all positive. Mr. OC, Orange County, CA's man about town who seems to know what places are … [Read more...]
Hip Newport Beach Sunday Brunch Comes To Five Crowns’ Side Door
Rotating Menu, Craft Beers, DJ And Live Art Make For A Unique Experience One of the best ways to start a social Sunday is, in my opinion, with a champagne brunch. With brunch, you don't have to get up too early and you can stay late. It's really like a European-paced dinner. You take your time and soak in the atmosphere of your surroundings. And now the Side Door, part … [Read more...]
The End of the El Torito Bar Era in Newport Beach
Orange County's Legendary Taco Tuesday Pick Up Bar Closes It was the quintessential Southern California party place, pick-up bar disguised as a restaurant in an upscale mall near the beach. And it played its role like a conqueror for a quarter of a century. But now, the legendary El Torito Grill in Newport Beach's Fashion Island is closing. The Irvine Company basically … [Read more...]
Taste of Newport Has Hot Headliners Blondie And Devo
80s Punk Bands Playing on Saturday of the 24th Annual Music, Food and Singles Festival in Orange County The past has seen Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Huey Lewis and the News, the Doobie Brothers, Styx and Pat Benatar, but now the Taste of Newport may have outdone itself. The 2012 event has Blonde AND Devo. On the same night. These iconic early punk bands of the 80s are … [Read more...]
Sharkeez Party Bus Hermosa to Newport and Long Beach
A Sharkeez-to-Sharkeez Pub Crawl After the Hermosa St. Patrick's Day Parade Every wonder what it's like in those other Sharkeez locations, if any are as popular as the one in Hermosa Beach? Want to check one – or a few of them – out but can't find some friend to stay sober to drive to Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and the Panama Joe's in Long Beach's Belmont … [Read more...]
Taste of Newport Is An Annual Taste of Fun In Newport Beach
All Of Orange County Comes Out The Third Weekend of September for This Annual Event Editor' Update: Alas, this event no longer exits. But keep reading for what it was like and the memories! Every area needs it's "can't miss, must-do, gotta-be-there" annual event. In Newport Beach, CA, the upscale community of "the OC" by the sea, it's the Taste of Newport, a … [Read more...]
Newport Beach, CA 4th of July House Parties Threatened
City Is Way Out Of Line With Plans to Shut Down the Fun and Fine Owners $4,000 I'm ticked off at Newport Beach. What gall the city has to tell people they can't have house parties on the 4th of July. It's ridiculous, childish behavior and has no place in a free society like America. Yet that is what the city has done, having instructed the police to break up any gathering … [Read more...]
Best Places to Party For The Fourth Of July Beaches & Lakes Are Top Destinations
Beaches and Lakes Are Top Spots for Independence Day Celebrations It's red, white and blue time, and Americans are ready to show their true party colors for the Fourth of July in 2019. And the best places to party, according to PubClub.com, are at America's beaches and lakes. That's right. Wet and wild is the way to go this (and every) 4th of July. This is … [Read more...]