New High-Concept Restaurants Slated for Laguna Beach
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Ah, Laguna Beach. If there were a rallying point where the high-concept restaurants flock, it'd be here. There are at least three new restaurants slated for Laguna's coast this year, all of them fit for a town that seems to demand a new restaurant or bar every weekend.
With plans to introduce Asian-influenced American food sometime in May at the Albertsons plaza, a restaurant named Starfish is the closest to debuting. The eatery is headed by Nancy Wilhelm. If the name sounds familiar, she's the woman behind Tabu Grill and David Wilhelm's former wife.
Then there's Katsuya,
the high-concept sushi bar by Katsuya Uechi and designer Phillipe
Starck that has cornered the market at four high-profile locations in
LA. One will take over the space vacated by
Hush this summer. Uechi and Starck work for SBE Group, which you might
recognize as the company that owns the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills and restaurants the Bazaar and XIV by Michael Mina. SBE is also, by
the way, planning Katsuya locations in Houston and Miami's South Beach.
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