BROADWAY DEBUT

When foodies learned that Amar Santana was leaving his post at Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale’s South Coast Plaza, the culinary community waited with bated breath for news of his next project. And we all gave a collective sigh of relief—followed by a cheer—upon the announcement of Broadway by Amar Santana.

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COAST MAGAZINE

Amar Santana, former executive chef at Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale’s South Coast Plaza is readying his own new restaurant, Broadway by Amar Santa, in Laguna Beach. The restaurant is not on Broadway, but on Glenneyre in the building once occupied by Michael Kang’s famed Five Feet. An August opening is

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OC IN SITE | BROADWAY BY AMAR SANTANA: EAST COAST MEETS WEST COAST

Before he was earning acclaim as the executive chef at Charlie Palmer’s at Bloomingdale’s South Coast Plaza, Amar Santana was building a passionate zeal for cooking through the hyper-competitive kitchens in his native New York City. So when he and business partners Rich Cadarette and Ahmad Labbate had the opportunity

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A STANDING OVATION

I don’t do restaurant reviews, so I have no rating system like five stars or 10 spoons. But, after dinner at Broadway by Amar Santana, I felt like giving the chef and staff a standing ovation. Fortunately, my wife is a little more reserved and told me to sit down

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BROADWAY BY AMAR SANTANA DEBUTS IN LAGUNA BEACH

Amar Santana was executive chef at Charlie Palmer in South Coast Plaza before taking over Laguna Beach’s former Five Feet space to open Broadway by Amar Santana, a pricey New American serving the likes of housemade charcuterie, roasted bone marrow with marinated anchovies and crisp seared duck breast with caramelized

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START SPREADING THE NEWS

Charlie Palmer lost a good chef in Amar Santana, but to know the guy’s upward career path is to have anticipated his inevitable departure. Santana began cooking at 16 in New York, went to the Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park on a full scholarship and got hired after

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