RESTAURANT ROUNDUP:

The Five Crowns restaurant in Corona del Mar is replicating a 16th-century dinner this month with one minor change: There will be forks available at the table.

In the Elizabethan era, English diners considered raw fruits and vegetables a health hazard and stewed or boiled them well. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding were staples of a hearty meal.

Fish simmered on the stove in ale. The Five Crowns, which debuted a special fixed-price menu to coincide with the release of the movie “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” is providing all of the above — and it’s also offering customers a full array of utensils, which wouldn’t have been the case 400 years ago.

“It’s a great opportunity for dinner and a movie,” said Susan Ballou, a spokeswoman for the Five Crowns. “See ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age,’ and then go to the Five Crowns and have a 16th-century meal.”

The menu, available through Oct. 31, features a choice of entrees between roasted prime ribs of beef in port wine jus with Yorkshire pudding, wild salmon filet simmered in ale with parsley, rosemary and thyme and a side of sherried prunes.

There will also be a compound of — cooked — spinach and red cabbage with assorted fruits and vegetables, as well as a spinach and artichoke pie and rice pudding.

The Five Crowns is at 3801 E. Coast Hwy. in Corona del Mar.

Call the restaurant at (949) 760-0331 for more information.

Vegan restaurant plans raw food workshop

118 Degrees, the raw food restaurant that opened at the Camp on Bristol Street this year, has announced plans for a special event Oct. 27 in which families can make pizza and tour other compassion-themed stores around the shopping center.

From 3 to 5 p.m., children and adults can make pizza out of raw ingredients — not including cheese, sausage or pepperoni — and enjoy their delicacies for free. The event will also include a hula-hooping contest and a tour of the restaurant Native Foods and the clothing store Humanitaire.

Call the restaurant at (714) 754-0718 for more information.

— Michael Miller