Thanks for sharing your Labor Day Weekend with us!

Executive Chef Andrew Gruel of the rapidly growing Slapfish empire with restaurants in Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, LAX, and now, Irvine at UCI, is back as today’s special Guest Host.

Next a tantalizing preview of Saturday’s festive and appropriately loaded show and not, with apologies, for dieters. With any luck we will always leave you hungry and thirsty. In our case that’s probably a good thing…

Premium tea is gaining traction at better restaurants everywhere. Steve Schwartz, a Master Tea Blender, is our guest. Steve is serious about tea! He’s the incredibly knowledgeable proprietor of the locally-based, Art of Tea. For starters Art of Tea supplies Bestia, Pizzeria Mozza, Sotto, Son of a Gun, and many more fine restaurants. We’ll also learn about the the intriguing “8 Minute Digital Detox with Tea.”

We last chatted with the Midway Gourmet, Dominic Palmieri, at the beginning of the 125^th Anniversary OC Fair. His standout new item at Biggy’s, located on the Midway at The Fair, was as Bacon-Wrapped Pork Belly on a stick. Now it’s on to the L.A. County Fair through Sept. 27^th. We’ll find out what’s on the menu for the L.A. County Fair and get the post-Fair results for Orange County’s “One Big Party.”

If you’re a fan of bouillabaisse, the celebrated fresh seafood stew from Provence, then you need to plan your evening at Marche Moderne in South Coast Plaza. Nightly from September 10^th through Sunday, September 20^th is their annual Bouillabaisse 2015 festival! It’s an occasion worthy of celebration.

After 25 years in business, The Halal Guys are expanding from New York’s City’s most popular food cart to its first West Coast brick-and-mortar fast casual location in Costa Mesa. In New York the cart is famous for “The Never-Ending Line.” Well-known for its gyro sandwiches, chicken-and-rice platters and mystery white sauce, The Halal Guys menu offers a mix of various Middle Eastern dishes. The area franchisee for SoCal, Thomas Pham, joins us.

East Coasters particularly enjoy their clams of which there are two main varieties. You hear Easterners long for Ispswich Belly Clams. There is also the revered white clam pizza to consider. We’ll now get the basics of Clam 411 from our own, and highly knowledgeable, Chef Andrew Gruel. This is no shell game…

All of this and lots more absolutely incredible deliciousness on Saturday’s show!

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