Take Your ‘Cues From a Grill Specialist at Robert Mondavi Center

No more grilling meats until they’re like charcoal briquettes. Attend Saturday’s class on outdoor grilling by Rosanne Ruiz, chef at the Robert Mondavi Wine & Food Center, and learn tips and recipes for grilling meats, fish and vegetables. The morning session, which begins at 9:30, will include a demonstration and tasting of food with Robert Mondavi wines. The cost is $48 per person, including tax and gratuity. 1570 Scenic Ave., Costa Mesa. (714) 979-4510.

Owner J.J. Shaw inaugurated a buffet lunch at Gandhi Indian Cuisine this week. It’s $6.95, served from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The menu includes tandoori chicken and fish, chicken and lamb dishes prepared with a variety of sauces, a vegetable, pasta with Masala and Makhani sauces, pulao rice, naan, garden salad, and other daily selections. 1621-D Sunflower Ave. in South Coast Plaza Village, Santa Ana. (714) 556-7273.

Down for the count: Le Gourmet Bistro in Irvine is closed. So, too, are La Posada in Fountain Valley and J.C. McLin’s in Huntington Beach.

French Provencal cuisine takes the spotlight at the next Passport Dinner at Monique on Tuesday. The menu includes tapenade Swiss chard and eggplant tart, roasted garlic soup, tuna nicoise or medallion of veal with morel mushroom sauce, and hazelnut praline torte. It’s $28 per person; reservations between 5:30 and 10 p.m. 31727 Coast Highway, Laguna Beach. (714) 499-5359.

Stags’ Leap will be the featured wine at a Gustaf Anders dinner on Tuesday, beginning at 6:30 p.m. After chilled gravad lax at the bar, the four-course dinner will highlight roasted venison with lingonberry truffle sauce, served with 1978 and 1988 Stags’ Leap Petite Syrah. The cost: $59 per person plus tax and gratuity. 1621 Sunflower Ave. in South Coast Plaza Village, Santa Ana. (714) 668-1737.

Larry Cano, whose current Orange County restaurant credits include Cano’s in Newport Beach, Studio Cafe in Corona del Mar and Manana in Fountain Valley, recently debuted Pasta Manana Ristorante & Cantina in Anaheim Hills. He describes it as “a bit of Italy with a taste of Mexico,” which means steak and chicken fajita pizzas, Juan’s smoked chili pasta, snapper Veracruz, Mexicali calzone and scampi caprese. Entrees, which come with salad, are all $9.95 and under. Lunch is Monday through Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; dinner daily, 5 to 10 p.m. and till 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 480 N. Glassell St., next to the Crown Sterling Suites. (714) 632-3232.