Sin is Pretty: Laguna Beach boutique embraces oddities and artful goth flair
Denise Levesque runs Sin is Pretty on South Coast Highway in Laguna Beach since October. The store blends vintage clothing, jewelry, home items, and striking oddities like an ether machine from a shuttered Santa Clara mental hospital, a mourning table, and albino taxidermy. Levesque, 31, grew up in Laguna Beach and spent nights in Hollywood's goth scene. Now sober for a decade and a mother, she continues collecting bones from local canyons to craft silver jewelry featuring vertebrae earrings and a coyote toe necklace.
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Denise Levesque
Levesque
South Coast Highway
Laguna Beach
Santa Clara
Hollywood
Laguna Canyon
Sin is Pretty: A macabre shop of Victorian curiosities
Levesque runs Sin is Pretty in Laguna Beach offering goth Victorian inspired fashion and antique curiosities. Her curiosity cabinet features items such as hair jewelry from mourning periods, animal eyes, skeletons, embalming jars, extinct pheasants, and a Victorian mourning table.
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Levesque
Prince Albert
Starfish blends Asian flavors at Laguna Beach eatery
Laguna Beach's Starfish, by Nancy Wilhelm of Tabu Grill, offers Amerasian dishes from Korean to Thai under one roof in Aliso Creek Shopping Center. The turquoise, art deco Asian space features a horseshoe bar, leather banquettes, lattice windows, and dim mood lighting. Menu highlights include filet mignon at $34, Korean galbi at $9 for three, and Wagyu sliders at three for $12, Vietnamese Kobe beef patties on sweet buns.
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Nancy Wilhelm
Starfish
Laguna Beach
Aliso Creek
Wilhelm
Tabu Grill
Coast Highway
Montage
Wagyu Bank
Starfish Laguna Beach menu notes and specials
Starfish at 30832 S. Coast Highway Laguna Beach serves lunch 11 to 4 and dinner from 5 daily. The menu features a dozen small plates plus rolls noodles salads and raw bar items with house specials like wild mushroom garlic noodles eight dollars and katsu glazed five spice baby back ribs half rack fourteen full rack twenty eight priced and described. Cocktails offer hand muddled infusions such as yogi blossoms.
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S. Coast Highway
Laguna Beach
Starfishlaguna.com
Word on the Street Laguna Beach Business Pick
Brett Hillyard praises Whole Foods Market in Laguna Beach for its kind staff, broad healthy selection, and reliable availability of desired items. Rod Rudolph concurs, noting he is heading there.
Local eateries and shops list Laguna Beach contacts
Check them out for yourself. House of Big Fish and Ice Cold Beer on 540 S. Coast Highway with phone 949-715-4500 and site houseofbigfish.com. La Sirena Grill at 347 Mermaid Street with 949-497-8226 and lasirenagrill com. Whole Foods Market at 283 Broadway with 949-376-7888 and wholefoods market.com. Wahoo's Fish Taco at 1133 Coast Highway with 949-497-0033 and wahoos.com. Laguna Surf and Sport at 1088 S. Coast Highway with 949-497-7000 and surfandsport.com.
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Alex Cilento
Laguna Beach
House of Big Fish
S. Coast Highway
Houseofbigfish
la Sirena Grill
Mermaid St
Lasirenagrill
Whole Foods Market
Broadway
Wholefoods
Coast Highway
Wahoos.com
Laguna Surf and Sport
Surfandsport.com
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