Studio at Montage - Laguna Beach

This place cannot get more romantic, or even comfortable with good people surrounding your dinner table. When deciding where to dine this past spring, hotel restaurants don’t always come to mind – unless we are talking about Mosaic Bar and Grille at the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, where high-level service is presented in a relaxed setting overlooking the Pacific Coast. Upon entry into the resort, you approach the hotel lounge and a sweeping view of the coast. This combination only improves after you order a few of the Montage’s featured cocktails. We enjoyed a cucumber cooler (made from the resorts signature, cucumber-infused vodka) and a cosmic flower (Grey Goose, Elderflower Liquor and a splash of pineapple). After your drinks are in hand, take the long way to Mosaic: a stroll down and around the pool, along the coast and into the restaurant.
We started with Seared Ahi Tuna with Lentils, Hamashi Sashimi with Caviar-lime dressing and Crab Leg Risotto with Mascarpone Cream (to die for). For the Main course, there was a lot of good choices to choose from, we ended up ordering Pan Seared Turbot with semolina gnocchi and market spring onions very very good,The Alaskan Halibut with sauteed asparagus and eggplant marmalade was different but very tasty, and last but not least the Sauteed Farms Duck Breast with maitake mushrooms with cummin scented sauce, it was superb.
We could not eat any more, but the waiter suggested the Chocolate Palette, a chocolate pate with pistachio cream and chocolate serbet, which by the sound of it you already know what it taste like: Heaven.
Mosaic is an outdoor restaurant, attire and clientele ranges from very casual (which I didn't stand for that supposedly they have a very strict in their dress code), to very trendy California Women, to families enjoying a meal after a day at the pool, or just friends having a good ol' dinner by the beach. If you have a date this Summer and wanna be impressed or want to impress, save up for this delightful cozy little place by the beach. It's worth it.

 Studio at Montage

30801 Coast Hwy. Laguna Beach, CA 92651
(949) 715.6000    |    www.studiolagunabeach.com
Price: $$$$

Gray Fall's into Summer with Chanel.

Today is the first day of Summer and yet, fall falls into our hands. And the neon and pastel nails we thought so chic last week suddenly seem passe, as we gasp over and grapple for the moody, muted shades that will bring our nails into a Fall-soft-effect.

Chanel has released their Fall 2010 makeup collection, rife with chocolate grays, deep plums and smoldering khakis. Headlining the Le Vernis Nail Colous collection (which I can't get to get enough of) in Paradoxal, a dark-violet that the company thinks will the "the new statement-maker of the season." My personal favorites are: Black Velvet and Particuliere.
Chanel's nail polish is one of the few that do last in your nails. Think O.P.I/Essie quality but better. What do you expect for $25 a bottle. Sometimes you can find equal colors but not quality, take it from me. Tried it. Didn't work. I Heart Chanel for eva!

Another term for BC. Beauty Call. MINX

If you haven’t heard of all the buzz around Hollywood about Minx Nails you’re probably hiding under a rock. Minx Nails is the hottest nail trend in tinsel town! All the hottest celebrities have been seen Minxed on red carpets, photo shoots and the biggest events in town. Look for yours on your local town. They do last about 5 days, if you basically don't use your hands for your usual everyday basis things like, open your trunk, wash dishes, try to get a tan ha! They will peel, you just use your blow-dryer or your nearest flash light to melt the MINX.
I found mine already, have you gotten yours? Get them before they get outdated or even worst..overrated.

Don’t Slump or Sit: Stand & Collaborate. FUERZA BRUTA. DF

Back in 2002 someone dearly recommended me an amazing off-broadway show called De La Guarda, creators from Argentina, showed in NY's Union Square at the Daryl Roth Theater. The water, music, yelling, singing, interacting with the performers, it was the most unique and exhilirating experience I have ever witness. FYI, I went back for the following 3 years in a row, even the Las Vegas one.

Well, I've had been waiting and mourned the absence of De La Guarda,and while walking by Union Square in 2006, I saw the ads for the international sensation where they could be lifted into the air at any moment, will happily greet the arrival of Fuerza Bruta, an often-astounding new theatrical experience co-created by four De La Guarda veterans at that show's former home, the Daryl Roth Theatre. I had to go! That isn't to say there isn't a certain level of audience interaction here. Once again, patrons stand for the entire show, are often forcibly moved around by the staff (mostly to prevent being pummeled by a piece of oversize equipment) and are periodically pelted by water, paper, and styrofoam, the show's most used element. At the very end, as well, the empty theater is briefly turned into a dance club, complete with an overenthusiastic DJ and music so loud, you might want to ask for earplugs, (The staff may be one step ahead of you, as they offered one of my friends a pair midway during the show.) I didn't mind at all! At no moment in Fuerza Bruta is more attention-getting than when a 45-foot-wide clear-bottom swimming pool descends from the ceiling, complete with four very athletic women swirling around. The piece de resistance arrives when the pool is lowered just enough so that audience members can touch it -- which, of course, they do. (The act kind of gives new meaning to the term copping a feel.)

One wishes the bag of tricks in Fuerzabruta was a little more full -- more than one sequence gets repeated -- and that the segues between acts were a little more seamless. But there are far worse ways to spend an hour in New York City. Now my fellow Mexicanos, go and get more excitment in your heart throbbing DF life because it's live until June 26th!

Carpa Santa Fe
Av. Vasco de Quiroga Nu. 200. Col. Santa Fe, Mexico DF 08400
http://fuerzabruta.com.mx/