Quick Bites: New bar in Carmel, plus free movies, Thai food.

Carmel is getting a new bar and grill. Really.

Alert the Carmel Residents Association!

The former Le St. Tropez will become Mulligan Public House, from the same team who ran Brophy's Tavern before it sold, led by Erin Reimer.

Plans for the remodel went to the city Monday.

They look promising, with a big 11-seat bar along the longest wall, to the right as you walk in from Dolores Street. 

A bunch of six-tops will fill the other side of the space. 

Twelve taps will flow drafts like Guinness, Harp, Firestone and Ratel Cider.

Flatscreen TVs will bring the sports.

A lot of the Brophy's menu will persist, including the Philly, sliders, nachos and wings.

New items will include a bacon flight (with beer pairings), an "Irish clam pot" over mashed potatoes, Alaskan king crab legs and things that take advantage of the pizza oven.

Mulligan will also do prime rib Fridays.

The biggest surprise is the property enjoys a sizable patio for a beer garden.

The current copper bar will migrate out there, where a fire pit also awaits.

Conservative open date is by the end of the month.

Reimer is returning 100 percent of the front of the house and around 80 percent on back of house.

"I'm so excited about getting my regulars back," she says, "and just getting our family back together."

I will definitely take a Mulligan.

More food news nibbles appear below:

• Monterey County Vintners & Growers have debuted the first-ever Monterey Wine List Awards. Get the winners on the blog, www.mcweekly.com/edible.

• Naked Juice is doing something neat: For every person who takes a fruit or veggie selfie and hashtags it #drinkgooddogood, they're donating 10 pounds of produce to food deserts, which affect nearly 24 million Americans. 

• Local food and wine, raffle, and creativity drive "Arts for a Cause: An Evening for the Soberanes Fire Relief" 6-8pm Aug. 25 at Cafe Lumiere in downtown Monterey.

• Next Saturday, Aug. 20, from 9am-1pm, all Cinemark & Century theaters will be showing free movies for its Community Day.

• Former Wills Fargo exec chef Greg Karjala, who replaced Jerome Viel, didn't stick around for more than five months.

• Hospitality veteran Jonathan Bagley-Rowe is now restaurant and bar manager at Rio Grill in Carmel.

• Brad Briske has officially left the building at la Balena (and il Grillo), where he helped create a beautiful thing with Italian-inspired sea/farm/field-to-plate thing. He's starting Home in Santa Cruz, which will be its own destination soon. Adolfo Barraga steps in after three years working closely with Briske.

• I'm hearing good things about Siam Marina Thai Cuisine (883-9399), which took over for Coconut Thai in the former D'Anna Thai space this spring.

• Come 2-6pm Sunday, Aug. 28, it's a special afternoon at Folktale Winery & Vineyards to benefit Soberanes Fire relief: 20 local restaurants, more than 30 wineries and breweries from Monterey and beyond, live music, and silent and live auctions.

• The Wharf Marketplace (649-1116) now has $5 Fridays, locals only, for its salad bar.