RESTAURANT ROUNDUP:

Native Foods, the vegan restaurant located at The Camp alternative shopping center, plans to celebrate Halloween Saturday with a jack-o’-lantern contest and a special macabre menu.

From noon to 4 p.m., customers can bring in pre-carved pumpkins and compete to win three top prizes, with judging beginning at 2 p.m. First prize is a $50 Native Foods gift card and a frozen Holiday Wellington — a pastry filled with sausage seitan, roasted yams, caramelized onions, portabello mushrooms and more — while the second-prize winner nets a $25 gift card, and third place gets a Native Foods cookbook autographed by chef and founder Tanya Petrovna.

Manager Lynda Sheklow said the pumpkins would remain on display through Halloween, although the restaurant wasn’t likely to use them for food.

“We tend to use organic pumpkins for our soups and pies, so probably not,” she said.

The event, which is Native Foods’ first-ever pumpkin-carving contest, will also include live music, gifts for costumed kids ages 12 and younger and a special menu of Transylvanian Ghoulash, hairball and guts salad and road-kill cobbler. The guts and road kill, needless to say, will be created with meat substitutes.

South Coast Plaza debuts holiday bakery

Wonderland Bakery, a confectionary shop nearing its second anniversary in Newport Beach, plans to open a second location this week at South Coast Plaza.

The bakery, which offers cookies, cakes, chocolates and other desserts, is scheduled to have a soft opening Saturday followed by a grand opening Nov. 1. While the first Wonderland Bakery focuses on food, the new one — dubbed Wonderland Bakery Adventure — also offers toys and other collectibles.

The store, located on level one of the Macy’s Home Store Wing, is open during regular mall hours from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Call (714) 545-5030 for more information.

— Michael Miller