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Fashion Plates at SCP

Luxury dining at unbeatable prices? That's just what you'll find at South Coast Plaza's "Fashion Plates," a 10-day promotion from March 20 to March 29 that features prix fixe, three-course lunches for $20 and four-course dinners priced at $40.

Here's a sampling of the menus offered.

At Charlie Palmer, you'll be served chilled English pea soup; grilled Berkshire pork chop with braised pork belly; pan roasted scallops with green asparagus risotto; and crisp oyster mushrooms; and molten chocolate, hazelnut gelato.

Morton's The Steakhouse is featuring lobster bisque; Morton's salad with blue cheese dressing; single-cut filet mignon, sauce Bearnaise; broiled salmon filet; beurre blanc; and choice of sides (saut?ed garlic green beans, steamed fresh broccoli, mashed or Lyonnaise potatoes).

Pinot Provence is offering ahi tuna sashimi, truffle vinaigrette; roasted baby beets, goat cheese, oranges, toasted pine nuts, lemon vinaigrette; braised boneless shortribs, pommes puree; pan-seared Scottish salmon, spring vegetables, saut?ed pea tendrils; Valrhona chocolate bread pudding, vanilla bean ice cream, cr?me anglaise.

Pizzeria Ortica Farro con frutti di mare (mussels, calamari, shrimp); verdure al forno con burrata fresco (wood-oven roasted vegetables, fresh burrata cheese, basil oil); tortelli di pere e pecorino al burro e salvia (pear and cheese tortelli, brown butter, sage); sogliola con pesto trapanese (roasted sole, tomato-almond pesto); pollo al mattone (jidori chicken griddled under a brick), baba al rhum.

The $40 menus include food only. Dinner service starts at 5 or 5:30 p.m

Participating restaurants at South Coast Plaza, South Coast Plaza Village and the theater district include Antonello Ristorante, Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale's South Coast Plaza, Darya Fine Persian Cuisine, Hamamori Restaurant-Sushi Bar, Leatherby's Cafe Rouge, March? Moderne, Morton's the Steakhouse, Nello Cucina, Quattro Caff?, Pinot Provence, Pizzeria Ortica, Royal Khyber Fine Indian Cuisine, and Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar.

www.southcoastplaza.com

Yum!

Re: Fashion Plates at SCP

  • totally unrelated: ?anyone else have the toy "fashion plates" when they were little? ?you know, you picked a hairstyle, top, bottoms, and shoes and then rubbed it on paper with a crayon to get the outline. ?then you could color it and make it all pretty.

    anyone? ?anyone?

    *crickets*?

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  • imageWan-naBe:

    totally unrelated:  anyone else have the toy "fashion plates" when they were little?  you know, you picked a hairstyle, top, bottoms, and shoes and then rubbed it on paper with a crayon to get the outline.  then you could color it and make it all pretty.

    anyone?  anyone?

    *crickets* 

    Yes although I don't think I would have ever remembered the name of it :D I loved that thing

  • Yes - I loved Fashion Plates!
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  • LOVED playing with those!
  • Yes, I remember fashion plates!!  My mom was too cheap to buy them for me, but luckily my bff's parents spoiled her like crazy so she had a ton of them.  Big Smile
  • I have zero recollection of the toy you are discussing.
    But I want this food.
    Too bad I'm so far.
  • image<3 Lovveeedd these. They had a barbie version too!
  • This was one of my favorite things to play with! I actually got to play with it!

    I got so excited bc I thought they were giving these toys out if you ate there during hte promotion.  =(

  • image10YearsTogether:
    I got so excited bc I thought they were giving these toys out if you ate there during hte promotion.? =(

    Indifferent?

  • i loved those things!!
    BabyFruit Ticker
  • that was my first thought when I saw "fashion plates" - I loved those things!

    those sound like amazing deals, pinot provence is really good (from what I remember).

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  • imageLuckyYoungBride:
    image<3 Lovveeedd these. They had a barbie version too!

    I owned the Barbie version. It was back when Barbie had big 80's hair like Jem .

  • LOL its so weird to me that I have NEVER heard of this toy.
    Lilypie Third Birthday tickers Lilypie First Birthday tickers
  • i'm so happy to hear that i'm not the only one who remembers fashion plates.  considering i'm the senior citizen in this group, that's amazing.
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  • I loved fashion plates too! I even remember the Barbie one they had that was pretty similar, but it was just Barbie's head?

    Thanks for the info Joy, H and I love Quattro Caff?.

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