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    Italian chain favorite Piatti to open first Orange County location
    • March 10, 2025

    Moving into the former Cabana space on Ocean Avenue, Piatti, a small, California-based Italian restaurant with eight locations, will open its first Orange County eatery in Laguna Beach.

    Piatti opened its first restaurant in 1987 in Yountville, with locations to follow in Danville, Mill Valley, Sacramento, Seattle, and two in San Antonio, Texas.

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    Menu highlights will include beef carpaccio and whipped burrata di Stefano, salads, soups, pizzas, pasta dishes like the spinach and ricotta tortellini and rigatoni bolognese, and heartier entrees like eggplant parmesan, sea bass, chicken mattone puttanesca and dry-aged New York steak. Desserts will include such red-joint staples as tiramisu to buttermilk panna cotta and flourless chocolate torte.

    Guests can also look forward to an Italy-forward wine list, amaro cocktails, mocktails and more.

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    The restaurant will accommodate up to 126 diners, including, as its name suggests (piatti is plural for “patio”), plenty of outdoor seating.

    “Piatti was founded in California three decades ago and we are thrilled to expand our Southern California footprint with the opening of our newest Italian eatery only steps from the sand in Laguna Beach,” said Tim Harmon, CEO of Palisades Hospitality Group, which owns Piatti. “As a neighborhood trattoria designed to bring people together, we feel Piatti will be perfectly at home in Laguna Beach with its charm and deep sense of community.”

    Piatti will be open for lunch and dinner. While a formal date has yet to be announced, Harmon noted that he hopes to open “this spring.”

     

    ​ Orange County Register 

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