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Day spa holding open house Saturday

Rejuvenation Oasis Day Spa is holding an open house to display its newly renovated spa and introduce new staff from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, at 384 Forest Ave., Suite 27, Laguna Beach.

Free continental breakfast, coffee and mimosas will be available, and live music featuring Andy Rigopoulos.

Open house specials include 50% off selected products, and 25% off everything else, plus free chair massages and discounted treatments.

Parking is free in the underground structure. For more information, call (949) 494-7637.

Laguna Inn makes culinary cook-off with crab dish

Casa Laguna Inn & Spa’s Cale Falk will cook his Dungeness crab benedict with Choron sauce, fried shallots and curry oil, at the Inn-Credible Breakfast Cook-Off, designed to recognize the best inn breakfast in North America.

The finalists from bed-and-breakfasts and inns in North America will compete for gold, silver and bronze medals during a live cooking competition, at Select Registry’s Annual Conference in Nov. 10 at the Williamsburg Lodge in historic Colonial Williamsburg, Va.

Casa Laguna is one of six finalists for the culinary competition. Select Registry is an association representing more than 400 country inns, B&Bs; and unique small hotels across the country.

“The degree of talent and creativity in all of the entries reflects a clear commitment to excellence from our member inns,” said Keith Kehlbeck, executive director of Select Registry. “The exceptional culinary skills displayed are indicative of the many fine qualities of Select Registry properties, renowned for their firm commitment to quality and hospitality.”

Other finalists in the professional category are:

?North Carolina Granny Smith Apple & Sweet Vidalia Onion Quiche, submitted by April Wilson and Amanda Greene of the 1906 Pine Crest Inn in Tryon, N.C.;

?Provencale eggs benedict with caramelized onion tartlet, Merquez sausage, vegetable stew and a garden sorrel hollandaise, submitted by Alain Borel and Scott Myers of the L’Auberge Provencale of White Post, Va.

Select Registry plans to create a special cookbook compiled from the recipes. For more, visit www.selectregistry.com/cook-off.