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Westin South Coast Plaza Ranked One of World’s Best Hotels on Expedia Insiders’ List!
Expedia® travelers have ranked The Westin South Coast Plaza among the world’s best hotels on this year’s Expedia Insiders’ Select(TR) list. The list formally recognizes individual hotels worldwide that consistently deliver excellent service, a great overall experience and a notable value.
“Delivering our guests superior service is a top priority at The Westin,” said Jennie Hoffman, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing. “We are pleased that our efforts have been acknowledged by Expedia travelers and look forward to maintaining our high level of service to future Expedia’s guests.”
The 2010 Expedia Insiders’ Select(TR) list is compiled based on the more than one million Traveler Opinions hotel reviews collected by Expedia, combined with a value rating and the local market expertise of more than 400 Expedia employees in local markets worldwide, resulting in an easy-to-browse list that provides travelers with a powerful way to find the perfect hotel using the trusted insight of other travelers like them. The list showcases the diverse selection of travel destinations and hotel properties. Read More
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Costa Mesa Marriott Lures Art Festival-Goers With Great Weekend Packages
The Costa Mesa Marriott Hotel invites travelers to express their culture and style by planning a weekend getaway to shop and gallery hop. Interested parties can book now to take advantage of the Escape! Shopping Package starting at just $139 per night. www.marriott.com/SNAST.
The Escape! package includes complimentary shuttle service to the popular South Coast Plaza as well as breakfast for two and a free in-room movie. Additionally, visitors can shop one of the festivals taking place near the hotel this summer – Art-a-Fair and Festival of Arts. Both events feature renowned arts and craftsmen selling their wares. The Costa Mesa Marriott hotel is located just a few miles from Laguna Beach and Canyon Park, where the Festival of Arts and Art-A-Fair take place. Read More
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Ladies Who Lunch Dine at Scott’s Restaurant & Bar
Located directly across the street from South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California, Scott’s Restaurant & Bar is hard to miss. However, over the years I had never tried it, let alone stepped inside. Most everyone I know that frequented Scott’s raved about the seafood. Since I was never much one for fish, I always skipped over it in my mind as a dining destination. After becoming completely vegetarian, a friend once suggested Scott’s and after looking over a menu that was most definitely a meatatarian menu, I dismissed it once again.
Then last week, I went to Scott’s for a cocktail meeting. I didn’t think much about it, since we were only going for cocktails, not food. I somehow had it in my mind that Scott’s was an old and stodgy restaurant and I certainly hadn’t thought of it as a world class restaurant. Little did I know that I was in store for a wonderful evening that would dispel all of my preconceived notions of this restaurant. Read More
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South Coast Plaza Installs Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles
Actor and Environmental Activist Ed Begley, Jr. to attend Ribbon Cutting Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
South Coast Plaza is the first shopping center in the United States to install state-of-the-art Coulomb Technologies electric vehicle charging stations. The ChargePoint® Networked Charging Stations are available for all customers of South Coast Plaza and will be unveiled during a ribbon cutting ceremony that is open to the public. The charging stations are located in the lower level parking structure by the Crate and Barrel Home Store at 3333 Bear Street. Read More
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Tapas and Wine at Hi-Time
Guest post written by Dave Lieberman of the OC Weekly
The problem with wine tasting is that the palate-cleansing oyster crackers they give out are short on flavor (which is probably the point). Wine lovers in Costa Mesa, however, have an option, at least Fridays in April.
The Barcelona on the Go tapas truck will be parked at Hi-Time Wine Cellars in Costa Mesa every Friday in April from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Hi-Time will be offering wines in their tasting cellar (at the back of the store and down a ramp).
It isn’t quite the same as standing in a bar in the Barri Gòtic with a glass of excellent cava screwed into your hand and a plate of navalles (razor clams) on a tiny table in front of you while the room gripes about the latest foibles of the Generalitat, but it’s as close as you’re going to get in OC.
I haven’t been back to Barcelona on the Go since their opening, but you might want to order your food first, then ask to have it brought down into the wine cellar as you do your wine tasting. Their croquettes are very good, their tortilla española (a room-temperature potato omelet called a truita in Catalan) is nicely done, and their excellent orange flan is a steal at $3.
Hi-Time Wine Cellars, 250 Ogle St., Costa Mesa; (949) 650-8463. Barcelona on the Go will be there from 4:30-8:30 p.m. on April 9, 16, 23 and 30.
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