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This time I'm covering places to have Saturday lunch and Sunday brunch (or Sunday lunch). I've tried to include the most casual of lunches and midday spreads and those where you'll sigh at the sight of the food and the surroundings and want to linger and luxuriate.
After a busy week bringing in the paycheck, finding a nice midday meal on the weekend can indeed be either entertainment (and sometimes high camp) or total relaxation.
Those restaurants serving weekend lunch and brunch sure were happy to see me running myself ragged for this edition of Fifi's Best, since they too think not enough people know where to find a daytime meal on those two days. I covered as much territory as I could, but I'm merely one mortal in a paradise of food; alas, there was not enough time to continue unabated. If I've missed a restaurant dear to you, please give me a call at the Business Journal, and I'll do my best to visit them in the near future so that thereafter I have their address and concept in my archives. I wish you joy at the table.
ACCENTS
4500 MacArthur Blvd.(in Sutton Place hotel),
Newport Beach
(949) 476-2001
Saturday lunch and Sunday buffet brunch.
Combine a lovely garden cafe with a sophisticated bistro and you have Accents. Linen drapes the tables set among stands of potted trees, with a soothing still-water pool alongside. No hotel provides more stunning art- paintings and sculptures in bronze, acrylic, and mixed media-along the pathway to the dining room. It's quite beautiful.
On Saturday, lunch comes from the regular menu. It contains intrigues as diverse as a refreshing teriyaki vegetable salad and a Waldorf-style salad that pleases the palate with its nice taste and the psyche with the memories it rekindles. There's a take on Chinese hot and sour soup, this one studded with shellfish. While there are sandwiches, the salmon burger is so-o-o California. Baked Chilean sea bass with caviar sauce is a heartier entree. Ditto the barbecue ribs with pineapple chutney and lamb chops with Roquefort mashed potatoes.
The Sunday buffet brunch has become famous over the years. It's $29 without champagne, $34 with (the selections are good French ones that change monthly; this...