RESTAURANT ROUNDUP:

Zinc Cafe and Market, a vegetarian restaurant in Corona del Mar, has introduced wine and cheese nights every Friday.

The restaurant, 3222 E. Coast Hwy., offers a wine selection from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, along with a tasting menu of cheese, vegetables and more. Valerie McDaniel, the Zinc wine and cheese educator, hosts the events. The menu for this Friday includes three Spanish wines and three kinds of Cabernet Sauvignon from different regions.

Zinc has been hosting the wine and cheese nights for more than three months, and General Manager Tyler King said the turnout had grown steadily.

Call the restaurant at (949) 719-9462 for more information.

Resort’s Pelican Grill expands menu

The Pelican Grill, a restaurant already open at the planned Resort at Pelican Hill, expanded its menu this week with a number of new entrées. Newly added to the menu are seared crab cakes, king crab pizza, large fettuccine with seared scallops, short rib tortellini, fried tomato BLT sandwiches, pulled-pork sandwiches, Alaskan halibut, grilled chicken breast with crawfish tails and other items.

The restaurant at 22800 Pelican Hill Road South, which opened Nov. 2, is part of the first phase of the Irvine Co.-owned resort, which is set to open in full later this year.

The Pelican Grill is open from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily for lunch and 5 to 10 p.m. daily for dinner.

Call the restaurant at (949) 467-6800 for more information.

— Michael Miller