Spaghettini Restaurant Jazz Club Brunch

Tune in to our Southern California radio station, 94.7 The Wave, on a
Sunday morning and you'll hear them broadcasting jazz from this Seal
Beach restaurant. Between songs you hear the hustle and bustle of
diners soaking in the smooth tunes while sipping on some good bubbly.
Determined to go, we got a hotel room across the street and moseyed
over the next morning. It wasn't quite what we'd pictured, only because
the radio personalities were set up in the lounge, so the majority of the
diners couldn't see them, even though they could still be hear the
restaurant. Needless to say, we sat in the bar. We soon realized that the
radio hosts weren't really what one comes here to see anyways, it's the
buffet. Don't get me wrong, the music makes lingering here for hours
over endless glasses of Domaine St. Michelle Champaign easy to do. I'm
usually a bit leery of buffets, but the high price tag of $45 a person put
customers on their best behavior, and the display was beautiful. My
favorites were the Salami Salad, the Crab Salad, a Bowtie Chicken &
Broccoli Salad, a Pesto Penne with Pinenuts & Chicken Salad, Brie with
fresh raspberries, a Whole Steamed Salmon and Chocolate Covered
Strawberries. There was much, much more including a number of
imported cheeses, Carved Smoked Ham, Black Forest Ham and Turkey
with Stuffing and a dessert table with such temptations as Tiramisu,
Cheesecake, cookies and Espresso. The waitress suggested filling up on
the buffet and packing up our entree to take home which really is the way
to go, but we'd stayed for several hours, paced ourselves and fit it all in.
Choosing an entree proved to be tough, since everything sounded
appetizing. I struggled between the Chicken Florentine with creamed
spinach wrapped in pastry and served with hollandaise sauce and the
Crab Benedict which I decided upon was delicious with tomato slices and
baby asparagus. My dad's New Zealand Lamb Chops with brown sugar
cinnamon sweet potatoes turned out to be another awesome choice, try
it with the mint jelly, mmmm! Brunch is served from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00
p.m. and kids under 12 are $10.95. Though it's a splendid way to spend a
Sunday afternoon Spaghettini has live jazz seven days a week serving up
Northern Italian cuisine.

Located at 3005 Old Ranch Parkway in Seal Beach.

Telephone (562) 596-2199