Best of OC

Hello and congratulations on your purchase of OC Weekly's Best of Orange County 2005!

But please, don't think of this as another one of those lame "Best Of" publications whose idea of great Italian food is Olive Garden. We'd rather you think of this as a guide to a wonderful and sometimes hidden county you may think you know, but you don't. A place reveling in great food, hot clubs, baseball annies, sea lions, roof-bound strippers, skaters stuck in sand traps and Midgetown, Midgetown, Midgetown! Yes, use this city-by-city breakdown of what's great in OC the same way you' use Fodor's while traipsing through Europe, wearing your I [Heart] Canada T-shirt and looking for the best tacos in Lichtenstein (Dieter's Tacquierastreudalstraza). Please, let this be your guide, albeit a guide with no arms, no legs and mounting credit card debt that makes it a very real flight risk. Enjoy!

Contents

Aliso Viejo

Anaheim

Brea

Buena Park

Corona del Mar

Costa Mesa

Cypress

Dana Point

Foothill Ranch

Fountain Valley

Fullerton

Garden Grove

Huntington Beach

Irvine

La Habra

La Palma

Laguna Beach

Laguna Hills

Laguna Niguel

Laguna Woods

Lake Forest

Long Beach

Los Alamitos

Midway City

Mission Viejo

Newport Beach

Orange

Placentia

Rancho Santa Margarita

San Clemente

San Juan Capistrano

Santa Ana

Seal Beach

Stanton

Sunset Beach

Tustin

Villa Park

Westminster

Yorba Linda