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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks AB.

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Speaker 2: Mike Yardley, Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Francesca, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: How many to talk to you. When I think of Anaheim,

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Speaker 2: I immediately think of Disneyland.

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Speaker 3: Yes you see ears mouse ears, yes, Q, yes, Jos.

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Speaker 2: Yep, that's money to ching. But yeah, Anaheim has become

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Speaker 2: right the foody destination too, right.

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Speaker 3: Indeed, yep, beyond the mouse house. A lot of visitors

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Speaker 3: are lingering in Anaheim because the hospitals and Francesca is

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Speaker 3: just so damn good with all the southern California fields.

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Speaker 3: So whether you're after fust three street eats or gore

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Speaker 3: my glories that I've got all bases covered. And I was

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Speaker 3: intrigued to lem when I was there a couple of

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Speaker 3: weeks ago that the Anaheim area now has over thirty

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Speaker 3: Michelin recommendations you in terms of etery, so you can

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Speaker 3: go berserk. One really good specimen, particularly for brunching, is

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Speaker 3: a place called Poppy and Seed. This has your name

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Speaker 3: all over it because the bar in the lounge for

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Speaker 3: the restaurant, it's all nestled in the greenhouse, so you

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Speaker 3: just like you're sitting in the garden surround it. Oh no,

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Speaker 3: it's very very cool. And all the ingredients and every

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Speaker 3: dish at Poppy and Seed are locally grown, raised, or caught.

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Speaker 3: It is super local. I ended up having a bit

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Speaker 3: of a munch on the very plump shrimp and creamy grits.

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Speaker 3: That was a brunch to remember.

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Speaker 2: So, if you've got all these Michelin star sort of

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Speaker 2: restaurants and things, is it are they easy to get

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Speaker 2: into or if you're heading that way, do you need

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Speaker 2: to be booking an advance and getting quite organized to

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Speaker 2: be able to the best they offer?

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Speaker 3: Very good question. Generally for brunch that's sort of walking,

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Speaker 3: but if you're wanting to dine at night, definitely book

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Speaker 3: and advance absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Okay, why do you think it has grown? Why do

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Speaker 2: you think it's sort of become this there?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, there is a lot of wealth in the

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Speaker 3: Orange County area, so that they've really raised the bar

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Speaker 3: on hospitality particularly. I mean, I was amazed how many

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Speaker 3: new hotels have opened in Anaheim just in the last

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Speaker 3: couple of years post COVID, And yeah, there just seems

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Speaker 3: to be a certain new swink to Anaheim that I

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Speaker 3: had not noticed. Before food on.

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Speaker 2: The go, where's good to grab something to eat?

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Speaker 3: The Farmer's Market is excellent, and there was one tip

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Speaker 3: I would give at the market, I would say go

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Speaker 3: for the Internata fish tacos. They are just so good.

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Speaker 3: And then just down the road there is this amazing bakery.

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Speaker 3: It's a Japanese bakery called Oka Yamacobo Bakery, and I

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Speaker 3: just discovered so many new snacks there that I had

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Speaker 3: not had before. For example, the Kobocha casted buns Francesca.

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Speaker 3: They are worth a trip to Anaheim alone. And I

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Speaker 3: did not know, but kobocha is Japanese pumpkin, right, And

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Speaker 3: if you want to try this at home, go for

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Speaker 3: it and you're cuffed into a bit of pumpkin. It

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Speaker 3: is such a winning mix. And then also in the

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Speaker 3: area Anaheim's famous packing House, which has been transformed into

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Speaker 3: a vast food hall thousands of vendors. But there is

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Speaker 3: a really cool place called pop Bar, which is a

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Speaker 3: very creative ice creamery with very zany flavors. Things like

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Speaker 3: green Tea KitKat, which is a green tea gelato half

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Speaker 3: dipped in chocolate with KitKat crumble. That was amazing.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like you can sort of satisfy every taste

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Speaker 2: in craving in this place. I was laughing when you

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Speaker 2: mentioned laughing when you mentioned it. You discovered all these

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Speaker 2: new snacks because I've been told by you know, my, my,

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Speaker 2: you know, stop snacking. Frenchies could just eat a decent meals.

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Speaker 2: Stop snacking, and you'll keep your diet of control. And now,

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Speaker 2: of course, all you see the minute someone tells you

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Speaker 2: not to do something, then all you see snacks that

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Speaker 2: you want to eat, left, right and center. Hey, there's

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Speaker 2: a very strong craft be sing too in Anaheim.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they love their craft. They've got dozens of venues,

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Speaker 3: and I checked out a couple which I really liked.

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Speaker 3: Golden Road Brewing. I definitely suggest that one because it's

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Speaker 3: right across the road from Angel Stadium, the baseball stadium,

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Speaker 3: and they have got the most gigantic beer garden I

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Speaker 3: have ever seen. At Golden Road. Lots of tropical IPAs

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Speaker 3: like mango fruit beer, which at the spot, I have

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Speaker 3: to say. And another really cool place, Villain's Brewing. It's

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Speaker 3: sort of like it's permanently celebrating Halloween at Villain's Brewing.

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Speaker 3: It's all very dark and sort of horror themed. Their

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Speaker 3: signature IPA is called Brethren of Filth and they've got

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Speaker 3: a really good Mexican style lager saka La Bolsita, which

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Speaker 3: I absolutely loved. By the way, if you're looking for

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Speaker 3: a really big, bling, bling dinner in Anaheim, the place

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Speaker 3: I would recommend for a glamour dining and it's stuffed

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Speaker 3: with celebrities. This place, the Anaheim white House, it is

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Speaker 3: just superb, very much Italian based. Whether it's your steaks,

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Speaker 3: your seafood, or obviously pasta, it is dining in excelsius.

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Speaker 3: And the interesting aspect to Anaheim White House is that

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Speaker 3: the guy that runs at Brunos Serrato, his philanthropy is extraordinary.

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Speaker 3: This place also pumps out thirty thousand meals a week,

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Speaker 3: my goodness, for children in need. It's an incredible He's

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Speaker 3: like he's won a CNN Hero Award, he got a

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Speaker 3: blessing from the Pope. He was even knighted by the

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Speaker 3: Italian governments for his philanthropy.

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Speaker 2: The great thing about white House is that's very easy

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Speaker 2: name for you to remember when you get there and go, now,

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Speaker 2: what did Max say? That's good?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 2: What else did you get up to? Did you what

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Speaker 2: about do lover a rooftop bar or eat and speakeasy?

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Speaker 2: You got to speak easy?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they out there are speak easius in Anaheim. So

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Speaker 3: at the packing house there is a ready cool little

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Speaker 3: place called the Blind Rabbit. You will feel like a

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Speaker 3: hobbit at the Blind Rabbit. It's so small, it's like

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Speaker 3: a rabbit hole of a bar, and the exit is

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Speaker 3: through a bookcase if you like. And also I went

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Speaker 3: to a place called Strong Water, which has the sort

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Speaker 3: of speakeasy vibe because you would not know it was

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Speaker 3: there unless you knew. And the thing about strong Water, Francesca,

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Speaker 3: the extravagant fit out is like a shipwreck crossed with

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Speaker 3: a tiki bar. Though it's just magical. Its whimsical, its maritime.

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Speaker 3: The craft cotails incredible for rooftops. The really good thing

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Speaker 3: about Anaheim with your rooftop hospo scene is you also

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Speaker 3: get served up a California sunset and the nightly Disney fireworks,

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Speaker 3: so there's a lot of bang for your back. And

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Speaker 3: I went to a place called Top of the v

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Speaker 3: which is at the top of the VIV Hotel, one

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Speaker 3: of these swanking you ho tels and Anaheim, the menu

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Speaker 3: is basque cuisine, so absolutely delicious, things like serrano ham

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Speaker 3: croquettes and a gouey bechamel sauce, which to me was

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Speaker 3: like the epitome of melt in your mouth.

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Speaker 2: Stop. I'm just getting hungry having this compation.

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Speaker 3: Finally, just finally, just on the thirsty front. Go to

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Speaker 3: top of the V for the sangria menu. I don't

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Speaker 3: think I've had better sangria than at this place. And

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Speaker 3: you could just settle in for a long night, well

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Speaker 3: past to Mickey's bedtime to bring this angria. It's just

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Speaker 3: so good.

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Speaker 2: Are you home eating salads and like protein for a

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Speaker 2: week or two? Hello, you can do very quickly about

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Speaker 2: being home. Final day of the christ Church a MP show.

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Speaker 2: It's a big week for Christis this week, and I

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Speaker 2: know that the show was scaled back, but has it

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Speaker 2: still been popular? Here's Christy had along and enjoyed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, virtually every one of my family's been in

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Speaker 3: the last couple of days and the web has not

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Speaker 3: been ideal. But that being said, it is going to

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Speaker 3: improve this afternoon. It's been quite sharing in christ Shis

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Speaker 3: this morning. But yeah, for your animals and your amusement

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Speaker 3: rides the wood chopping the sharing, it's all go at

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Speaker 3: the showgrounds and ye cander ready the South holand I've

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Speaker 3: really flopped to it in the last couple of days,

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Speaker 3: so I definitely check it out today.

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Speaker 2: Great good to hear Mike. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: more tips on eating and drinking your way through Anaheim,

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Speaker 2: and Mike has a lot of tips how to do

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Speaker 2: this well. You'll be able to find his article on

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Speaker 2: the website News Talks. He'd be dot co dot and

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Speaker 2: zed Ford Slash Lifestyle, Forward, slash Travel Sports Next twenty

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