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Glori Fickling Pathetically vacant for too many years, the restaurant site at Holiday Inn, has finally been blessed with a promising new tenant. Boldly constructed within a mere four months, The Shoreline Restaurant is the ambitious creation of Tom and Susan Winch whose impressive culinary credits most recently include a long tenure in Las Vegas where they very successfully held forth as Food and Beverage directors at the prestigious Bellagio. This followed their launching in 1989 of no less than five restaurants at The Mirage.

?Meatless Mondays? originated during World War I when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urged families to avoid eating meat on Mondays to conserve food for the troops and feed starving populations in Europe. There was also a project called ?Wheatless Wednesdays.? The program came back into play at the beginning of World War II because meat was being rationed, and it became a way for women at home to support the war effort. Currently, ?Meatless Mondays? has reemerged as a national public health campaign in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University to help prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer.

Sign up to get city email alerts E-notifications are available for artists or community members interested in getting information about art news in Laguna. Other available notifications include traffic alerts, council agendas and job opportunities. To get the email alerts, register at http://www.lagunabeachcity.net/portal/default.asp . * Brooks Street to be closed on Halloween In addition to the city's annual closing of Oak Street in the 400 and 500 blocks on Halloween, now the city will block off areas of Brooks Street as well as part of a trial program.

Area 1 Reef Point: A Huntington Beach man was arrested on suspicion of DUI near North Coast Highway at 10:01 p.m. Oct. 26. Aster Street: A Newport Beach man was arrested on suspicion of DUI at 3:05 a.m. Saturday. Aster Street: Vandalism was reported in the 300 block at 9:35 a.m. Saturday. Cliff Drive: A person reported that a blond female slept on their porch in the 800 block at 7:06 a.m. Tuesday. The subject reportedly told her to "get out of her house.

As the Asian population of Orange County has grown, so has the number of its ethnic restaurants. If you are willing to venture outside of Laguna, you will find an astonishing variety of styles and tastes from Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and, of course, from all regions of China. Exploring and tasting is one of the great food adventures offered by life in O.C. However, there are times when you just want to eat good old-fashioned Chinese food close to home; you know, the kind we grew up with, the type they serve at China Bistro 1. It is so familiar to us you could almost call it comfort food.

As the Asian population of Orange County has grown, so has the number of its ethnic restaurants. If you are willing to venture outside of Laguna, you will find an astonishing variety of styles and tastes from Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and, of course, from all regions of China. Exploring and tasting is one of the great food adventures offered by life in the O.C.   However, there are times when you just want to eat good old-fashioned Chinese food close to home; you know, the kind we grew up with, the type they serve at China Bistro #1. It is so familiar to us you could almost call it comfort food.

With Marc Cohen?s culinary empire expanding, we were curious to see if his first venture, 230 Forest Ave., has been able to maintain its quality, as many restaurateurs these days have been stretching themselves too thin, like Wolfgang Puck and Daniel Bouloud. With Opah in Irvine and Aliso Viejo, and now Watermarc in Laguna to claim his attention, he?s got a lot on his plate. Yet, he still seems to be cookin? with gas. Mark Singer?s contemporary architecture still retains its hip, cool vibe.

On April 7, 1986, we opened A La Carte, Take Away Gourmet, with Elle in the kitchen whipping up "homemade" mayonnaise and chicken pot pie while Terry was out front reading the manual on how to operate a cash register and intermittently dashing back to the kitchen to make sandwiches. At the end of an excruciatingly busy day, and after washing dishes, scrubbing pots and mopping the floors, we collapsed happy and exhausted on the kitchen floor, at the number of people that came through the door on that first day. Twenty-one years later, they are still forming lines to get in and more than a few of them have been customers since that chaotic beginning.