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CategoryBroadway in Laguna Beach’s Chef Amar Santana has Returned from a Trip to Spain with New Dishes for a Tuesday Tasting Menu
by Ed Simon | The Los Angeles Beat
Chef Amar Santana and his business partner, Ahmed Labatte of Laguna Beach’s Broadway by Amar Santana, both recently returned from a six-week...
Love Luxe Life: Broadway by Amar Santana
Upon entry into Broadway Restaurant in downtown Laguna Beach, a cocktail was waiting for me on the counter. It was too colorful to miss. “Leave it to be” was the name of this...
Review: Stars Shine on Broadway
by Brad A. Johnson | Orange County Register
It’s dark and foggy the first time I visit Broadway in downtown Laguna Beach. The restaurant’s vertical neon sign cuts through murky...
On Broadway
by Jamie Gwen | Riviera Orange County
Just a few blocks up from the sand in Laguna, in the space that once housed the famed Five Feet, the beach meets NYC at a restaurant named...
OpenTable Hottest Restaurants List Reveals Users’ 100 Picks For Sceney Dining
Do you like your restaurants with a side of nightclub? If so, you may want to visit one of the 100 restaurants included on reservation site OpenTable’s new list of Diner’s...
Culinary Happiness via Electric Pressure Cooker
When Amar Santana tells me I need to buy an electric pressure cooker, I buy one. The chef-owner of the newly opened Broadway by Amar Santana restaurant in Laguna Beach (and...
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...
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...
A Standing Ovation
By Dennis Myers, Writing Chef™
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...
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...