Rum, gin, tequila, cognac (read: Hardy’s Perfection at $850), brandy and port in profuse assortment and offered in mixed drinks or straight,.Full, single pages devoted to vodka, whiskey and single malts (including the 25-year Macallan at $100).22 beers from every point of the globe,.While I favor the Montage Lobby Lounge’s Cucumber Cooler, the Lounge bar reads like a small phone book – No, the drinks aren’t “happy Hour” cheap, but I’ve paid similar prices at other restaurants and bars in Laguna Beach that don’t have anything close to the view or cosmopolitan energy of this great place. While there are any number of languages moving around this Lobby at one time, and while there’s really no rhyme or reason to sudden swells in thirsty patrons, the servers are sophisticated, friendly and fast. While I never want to impose or overstay my welcome, I’ll often trot up to this renowned Laguna Beach hotel’s Lobby Lounge in late mornings and early afternoons to simply sit, observe and bask in the flow and vibe while writing yet another column for this blog o’ mine. (In fact, Michael and Toni, the husband-wife team of the fantastic Café Zoolu in Laguna Beach, normally pull up the same chairs at the bar every Monday night because it’s approximately where their living room used to be when they once lived at the Treasure Island Trailer Park years before the Montage began building.) I love the Lobby Lounge at the Montage because its staff treats royalty, dignitaries, guests and local schlepps like me all alike.
Throughout this expansive Lobby, you have more couches, and sinkable chairs around low-slung tables. And, if standing in awe at the ocean-side, open balcony isn’t enough, you’re welcome to grab a table and chairs at the patio, which sits just to the right of the front-and-center balcony. And to the other side, you have an opulent bar stretching from one side of the room to the other. To one side, you have an enormous fireplace with cushy chairs, couches and small tabletops. At the same time, though, it’s extremely cozy and comfortable. When you first enter The Montage Laguna Beach hotel from the street, this sprawling Lobby Lounge is … well … breathtaking in both decor and ocean view opulence. Although there are many establishments up and down our coastline that work to show off our beautiful blue sea and skies, the Montage has done a fabulous job framing this memorable picture.īetween the two gentlemen at Montage management’s top – James Bermingham, the VP and Managing Director of Montage Hotels, and Todd Orlich, the General Manager – someone must have been listening when it was said, “You only have one chance to make a first impression.” As I sit here, I see people from Brazil, Cape Cod, and Casper, Wyoming make their way to the deck here at the center-point of the Montage Lobby Lounge.
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As I tap away on another LagunaBeachBest blog entry on my little Mac Air, a parade of people marches past me, heading to the enormous open slider doors, entranced and enchanted with the open ocean right out there.īecause I live on the same beach as the Montage and have the same views from my own living room, I forget what it’s like to be a stranger to this town and see the Pacific Ocean framed in this fashion. I love sitting in the Montage Resort’s Lobby Lounge in Laguna Beach.
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