700 East Bay Avenue
Newport Beach, CA 92661
Orange County
Phone: (949) 673-9783
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by Talisha M. on I went on Saturday to see Ivano Bellini and Oscar G. I hear Wednesdays are similar with great dance music (no hip hop thank god). I recommend befriending a club promoter like Poplife guys or Shaun Gold to get on a list so you don't wait and you don't pay. If not its a typical south beach roped situation where depending on who you are with or what you look like you might wait a very very long time and maybe not even get in. The places is spectacular and you can move around freely even when its packed b/c of the well thought out layout. It didn't get packed til about 1 am. **Discovery** each bar charges different prices for the same drink! For example down stairs at one end 1 beer & 1 cheap vodka soda was $22 and at the other end 1 beer & 2 cheap vodka sodas was $44. And maybe each bartender charges differently for all I know. So my advice is to ask before you buy and shop around for drinks. In all its a great place for dancing/music and people watching! And if you don't make it inside or feel like waiting to get in there are still a ton of people in the hotel lobby bar so its a win win either way!
by Ryan M. on This has always been one of my favorite places. Atmosphere is awesome. Two bars downstairs with some seating and then a dining room on the top floor. Draws a good crowd too eventhough it's in midtown. (joke) Order the following: 1) Mussels: Made with a coconut, lime/soy broth and served with crusty grilled bread. delicious. 2) Arugula Salad: Has peaches, roasted onions, nuts, and a perfectly flavored citrus vinaigrette 3) Pork Tenderloin: was perfectly cooked and very flavorful. Wasnt dried out like some places can do 4) Pappardelle with duck confit. This is my favorite dish. I also love pappardelle noodles when they are fresh! Bacchanalia's pappardelle may be the only better I've had in ATL. 5) Hanger Steak: not as amazing as the above but good. What underdelivers is their mac and cheese. The waiter was blowin it up like it's the best in the world and he actually said Thomas Keller would be impressed by it. I should have taken that as a warning. It is good, but was served piping hot and I've had better at a lot of places. They do serve it with broiled bread crumbs on top which is a plus. I only had one bad experience there a year ago. We had a fairly large group there for my birthday and the food came out extremely slow and some dishes were either out or not ready in time. it was kind of a disaster in service but I still go back. Last time i went they had a new head bartender who has some specialty cocktails. I highly recommend them. Get the Klink!, the Shiloh Wylde, or the The Pimmps Cup. They added the second bar to serve up simple drinks so the bartender next door can make these wonderful concoctions. Overall, i'm a big fan. And this is a great date spot.
by Lexie Rago on I don't want to harsh anyone's mellow, but I sort of hated both the Player *and* the game (ba dum dum). My friend and I came upon it randomly, starved for some incarnation of chicken (perhaps this was the problem since the burgers seem to get good reviews) and Player's looked to be the place to go. My friend ordered the chicken fried steak dinner and, to quote him as he stubbornly finished the whole damn thing so as to not waste money, "I feel like John Waters should be filming me right now." The meat was gray and had a really gross texture; it was just not very appetizing. Meanwhile, I ordered chicken nuggets and fries. The fries were just okay (I find it hard to ever talk smack on any kind of potato), but the chicken nuggets caused a flashback to elementary school hot lunches and the pre-formed, spring-foam-textured "chicken" nuggets they used to serve. The chocolate shake was actually pretty good, though it was kind of in a fast-food-not-real-dairy-ice-cream kind of way. I liked that they served it in an ice cream soda glass. Maybe if I had been drunk I would have appreciated it more; maybe if I had ordered a cheeseburger it wouldn't have been such an issue. As it was, however, we've decided that today will live in infamy as the Player's Incident of 2007.
