#HAPPIEST HOUR NACHO TOWER MAC#

#HAPPIEST HOUR NACHO TOWER MAC#

Items include mac and cheese, fried Brussels sprouts, a burger, loaded tater tots, street tacos and buffalo wings. (Tip: Not new, but the Fireside menu also has late night specials Friday and Saturday from 10 p.m. 690 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach (adjacent to Fashion Island). During the three hour period, diners can get a burger, fries and craft beer for $10. The 50 percent off specials, which include discounts on select wines by the glass, draft craft beer and cocktails, are available at Aqua Lounge, and Oak Grill’s bar and Fireside patio.Īqua Lounge also hosts a “Burgers & Brews” special Monday through Friday from 4-7 p.m. Other items on the menu include fried spuds, hummus and pita bread, tomato and mozzarella, and two thin crust pizzas. Lai, who oversees both menus, has added four new dishes: warm artichoke and parmesan dip with tortilla chips (HH price: $7.50) ahi tuna wonton salad with Asian carrot slaw ($8) bison sliders with smoked gouda and fries (HH price:$8) and burrata fundido served with a crispy baguette (HH price:$8.50). (That same menu can also be found at Aqua Lounge.) The regular happy hour menu, offered daily at both restaurants from 3 to 7 p.m., features 50 percent off several appetizers found on the al fresco Fireside bar menu. Oak Grill and Aqua Lounge, separate venues at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach, have tweaked happy hour offerings under new executive chef Peter Lai. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG) Island Hotel: Burger, fries and beer, oh my The Happy Hour crowd of suits, ties and well-dressed woman in high heels gather around Aqua Lounge’s 360-degree bar on Thurs., Oct 12. to sunset in the restaurant’s newly revamped cantina, with its sleek 65-foot long bar top made of Koa wood from Hawaii.

Happy hour is held Monday through Friday from 5 p.m. The Sunset Celebration Menu includes a variety of bar bites ranging in price from $6 to $12, with blistered Shishito Peppers ($7), Nueske’s Bacon Sliders served on fried steam buns ($8), oysters on the half shell ($6), pomegranate goat cheese tacos ($6) and pork belly tacos ($8). Over the summer, the iconic Laguna Beach institution introduced its first-ever happy hour. If the test stores do well, the remaining Yard House restaurants will likely adopt the new happy hour pricing in January, Weerheim said. Other restaurants participating in the happy hour test are in San Jose, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina, Indiana and Florida. Weerheim said other restaurants in the chain will continue to offer tiered pricing with select appetizers priced at $5, $6 and $7.Īppetizers on the throwback menu include poke nachos, spinach cheese dip, chicken nachos, chicken lettuce wraps, sliders, onion ring tower, fried cheese curds, fried calamari, egg rolls, boneless wings and fried macaroni and cheese. “Right now it’s really a test to see if people even embrace it,” said Jennifer Weerheim, vice president of brand management for Yard House, whose headquarters moved from Irvine to Florida five years ago. The menu also includes $2 off beer, wine, spirits and cocktails. Marketing officials say returning to the old 50 percent off menu simplifies choices for customers.

The restaurants have scrapped tiered pricing introduced after Yard House was purchased by Florida-based Darden Restaurants. Thirteen locations including restaurants in Irvine, Newport Beach and Costa Mesa are testing a 50 percent off menu from 3-6 p.m. Yard House, born in Southern California and now owned by the parent company of Olive Garden, has reintroduced its old happy hour program at select restaurants.

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