Harborside Restaurant & Grand Ballroom Restaurant Review
Balboa Pavilion
400 Main St. 
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Newport Beach, CA 92661
949-673-4633 | Menu
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Cuisine
Open
Lunch & Dinner daily, Brunch Sun.Features
- View
- Romantic setting
- Kid-friendly
- Private room(s)
- Full bar
- Outdoor dining
- Valet parking & parking lot
- Resort casual
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 Harborside Restaurant & Grand Ballroom is housed inside one of Newport Beach's most famed landmarks, the Balboa Pavilion. Built in 1905, this towering Victorian structure overlooking Newport's sparkling harbor holds a restaurant, bar and 500-seat ballroom upstairs. Guests sit dockside gazing at the blue water, boats, rolling hills and mountains. The extensive menu by chef Joel Lambert is built mainly around fresh seafood, as well as traditional California and American favorites with French and Asian influences. Start with the crisp and tender calamari, the clam chowder or a classic spinach salad with egg, toasted pecans, blue cheese and bacon-shallot vinaigrette. Entrées feature lots of salads (Cobb, king crab Louie), seafood (baked halibut, Alaskan king crab legs, red snapper, lobster tails) and roasted meats (pork rib, filet mignon, Prime sirloin, New York steak, pot roast). The three-course prix-fixe “first seating” menu featured Monday through Friday provides value. The wine list, although not large, is respectable with about two dozen selections available by the glass. On Sundays, come for the buffet brunch with free-flowing Champagne. Happy hour in the bar runs daily from noon-7 p.m., and features $4 appetizers, beer, wine and cocktails.
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