Cucina Alessa Opens Third Restaurant in Laguna Beach

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • December 17, 2010
Did you know that Cucina Alessa, the excellent Newport Beach Italian restaurant that begat a just-as-good Huntington Beach offshoot (both of them, coincidentally listed on Dave's Top 5 favorite restaurants of 2010) opened another sister restaurant...
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