By the time this blog is
published, it will be the end of an era for Avanti Café on 17th
Street in Costa Mesa. We have sold
our restaurant location and are entering a new and exciting new phase for
Avanti Natural & the Avanti Natural Kitchen.
Starting
in late summer, we’ll be doing culinary consulting, recipe, menu & product
development as well as creating Avanti Natural Lifestyle content for our Avanti
Natural YouTube channel. We look
forward to engaging w/ members of the Southern California community that share
our interest in all things environmentally conscious and naturally
delicious. If you have a topic or
guest suggestion for our youtube talk show, please contact us. We’re excited to broaden our scope and
talk on a wide variety of subjects w/ active people interested in creating a
better environment for us all.
Our
other big project will be the Avanti Natural Kitchen cookbook, which will
feature many recipes you’ve enjoyed here at Avanti Café. The book will launch as an ebook in a
whole new concept geared toward serious foodies and beginners as well. All recipes will have complete
tutorials, ingredient info and culinary nutrition tips. And all will be based on the Avanti
Natural philosophies of natural cooking & living.
Make
sure to follow Avanti Natural on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram and like
Avanti Café and Chefs Mark Cleveland and Tanya Fuqua on Facebook too. You’ll find everything that is going on
w/ us posted daily.
We’ll
also be doing catering, events & pop ups locally. And feel free to send new and exciting opportunities our
way. We plan to take the Avanti
Natural concept of creating food that is BOTH Healthy AND Delicious to
restaurants, delis & quality food purveyors far and wide.
Our
nine-year run here at Avanti Café has been the high point of our careers so
far. And now it’s time to take the
skills that we have honed within these four walls to a wider platform and
larger audience.
As we bid everyone a fond adieu
from the Avanti Café restaurant location here are a few photos of some of our
culinary triumphs
Two organic sprouted corn tortillas stuffed w/ garlic pate, lime dressed
napa, green & red cabbage & topped w/ a selection of our original
seriously HOTsauces
Summer Omelette Brunch Special
(photo: Avanti Natural)
Summer vegetable filled omelet w/ tomato basil cream sauce & fresh
citrus, cilantro, basil & dill pesto + golden & red cherry tomatoes w/
sake simmered scallion & edible petals
A classic from our Holiday Menus (photo: Anne
Watson Photography)
Roasted whole
kabocha pumpkin. Stuffed w/ garnet yam, white bean, brown rice pilaf, chives &
your choice of pistachio or gorgonzola
The full on
amazement of the Avanti Margarita Pizza (photo: Avanti Natural)
Avanti tomato
cumin, garlic shallot baby arugula & spinach, Avanti cheese blend, fire
roasted tomato sauce, smoked mozzarella
And of course the line up of Avanti sweet treats (photo: Avanti
Natural)
Featuring the mighty Avanti Chocolate walnut
brownie, the very best Snickerdoodle in the galaxy, superb Tangy oat chew, epic
Chocolate chip pecan & uber chocolaty Chocolate truffle cookie
Eating Healthy & Delicious is a Win Win Win
Situation!
Eat, Live & Party Well
Blog post by Chef Mark Cleveland
Avanti is the longstanding leader in organic,
sustainable, local, flavorful cuisine in Orange County, CA.
Meaning 'forward' in Italian, Avanti Natural is a
culinary philosophy that integrates the best of traditional European and Asian
healthful eating with the latest nutritional information for optimum health.
Our successful restaurant Avanti Café was located on
17th St in Costa Mesa from 2005 through 2014. Follow us on social media to see what
is new and in store for Avanti in our culinary futures.
At Avanti Natural, we believe that you don't have to
sacrifice taste to eat healthy; you can Eat Well & Live Well
