Best Buys -- Greer Wylder

David Wilhelm’s Culinary Adventures restaurant group is offering a

holiday gift idea for the person who has everything. Holiday gift cards

with a minimum of $250 are being sold that can be used at Chimayo at the

Beach in Huntington Beach, Chimayo Grill in Newport Beach, French 75 in

Laguna Beach, Savannah Steak & Chop House in Laguna Niguel or Sorrento

Grille in Laguna Beach. If you purchase a gift card that can be redeemed

at any of the David Wilhelm restaurants, you’ll receive an additional

gift card as a holiday gift from David Wilhelm and the Culinary

Adventures worth 10% of the total purchase of the original gift card.

There is no expiration on the gift cards and they can be redeemed at any

restaurant for brunch, lunch or dinner.

Each holiday season The Body Shop carries cranberry bath and body

products ideal for gift giving. This holiday season its added more to

chose from its seasonal favorites. There’s a new cranberry bath & shower

gel for $14, cranberry bath beads for $6.50, cranberry lip balm for $5

and cranberry soap for $4. The returning favorites are cranberry shimmer

body lotion for $15, cranberry body scrub for $18 and cranberry body

butter for $18. The Body Shop is at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, and

at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa.

Adventure at Sea Yacht Charters is offering a Sunday cookie cruise

every Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The cruise can be given as a gift for

those who have never been on a bay cruise on a luxury yacht, or as an

after-brunch outing, a business client or as a celebration for a special

event. The price is $20 per person and that includes complimentary cooks

and sodas. A no-host bar is available. The Dream Fleet Yacht departs

begins boarding at 1:45 p.m. It’s at 3101 W. Coast Highway in Newport

Beach. Reservations are required. (949) 650-2412.

Neiman Marcus is selling the Slatkin & Co. holiday scent collection

that includes a gold, red or traditional potpourri for $28, pine cone

potpourri for $16, holiday four pack potpourri for $28, large 40-hour

candle in holiday scent for $28, single six-hour votive candle for $8.50

and a set of four votives for $18. The potpourris are made from

handpicked flowers for as far off places as India, Madagascar and France.

Neiman Marcus is at Fashion Island in Newport Beach. (949) 759-1900.

Serious car collectors can find the rare SL Silver Arrow at Fletcher

Jones Motorcars in Newport Beach, which has the nation’s largest

available inventory of the rare car. Fletcher Jones has a number of

distinctive SL500 Silver Arrows and is the only dealership in the country

that has the ultra-rare SL600 model. The SL Silver Arrow editions have a

unique ultra-metallic paint finish and coordinating two-tone

black/metallic silver leather seats with matching door panels, steering

wheels and shift knob. Garth Blumenthal, general manager of Fletcher

Jones, says car collectors from as far away as Australia are seeking out

the Silver Arrow and some have requested that they be shrink-wrapped so

that they can be stored safely. “We are proud that Fletcher Jones

Motorcars maintains the largest inventory of the high performance Silver

Arrows,” said Blumenthal, who also claims that the Newport Beach location

is the country’s SL capital. “The demand for these historically

significant automobiles has reached a fever pitch among die-hard car

enthusiasts. With the SL body style set to evolve in 2002, these Silver

Arrows will, no doubt, become instant classics and highly collectible.”

The Silver Arrows are priced at $87,945 for the 302-horsepower SL500 to

$136,195 for the SL600. Fletcher Jones is at 3300 Jamboree Road in

Newport Beach. (949) 718-3000.

Scandia Down is having a comforter sale through Dec. 31. A selection

of featherbeds, cold weather comforters and travel comforters are reduced

25% for the sale. Scandia Down is at South Coast Plaza, on the second

level in the Crate & Barrel/Macy’s Home store wing. (714) 549-9046.

Marmi at Corona del Mar Plaza is having a shoe sale on select shoes,

boots, handbags and accessories for fall and winter. Sale items are

reduced 20% to 50%. Marmi specializes in hard to find shoes sizes and

widths. Shoes come in sizes 4 to 12 and a selection of widths from

super-slim to wide. (949) 721-1325.

* BEST BUYS appears Thursdays and Saturdays. Send information to Greer

Wylder at 330 W. Bay St., Costa Mesa, CA 92627, or via fax at (949)

646-4170.