Sage on the Coast is serving its last meal tomorrow, Saturday, April 17th. After that, the restaurant will be changing concepts and without Rich Mead at the helm.
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There have been rumors that the new place will be called Avalon Grill, but when I contacted the restaurant, they stated that neither the name nor the concept have been decided.
Chef Mead, on the other hand, is said to be already busy on his next project. Tentatively called Canyon, Mead's new venture will be in Yorba Linda, with a soft opening sometime in early May and a target debut date of May 10.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.