Blossoms & Brass | Costa Mesa
Located outside of Collage at South Coast Plaza, next to Bloomingdale's. It's a small drinks and dining bar, with outdoor table seating and indoor bar seating. The interior design is pretty cute (gold ornamentation, accents of purple and mint green) but I forgot to take a picture of all that. I was here for a nice girls' night out and we shared... Fried calamari (left) & fried pickled bok choy (right) for happy hour The fried calamari was super yummy! I could have reached for more 🤤 The fried bok choy—at first impression, I forgot I was eating a vegetable because it tasted so much like a parmesan chip. Both of these have Japanese seasonings... they both had togarashi, and the pickled bok choy was additionally in Japanese arrabbiata sauce and with a few shiso leaves. Blossoms rigatoni The color of this pasta sauce comes from the pink wine miso pesto! I'd say this was not bad. I'd eat it again. The rigatoni was very al dente, and the flavor of the sauce tastes