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  • Food

    March 28, 2013

    Yeh Won Is for Lonely Stomachs

    [Hole In the Wall] This Garden Grove restaurant serves Korean food for the masses

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2013

    Long Beach Lunch: The Original Park Pantry

    For more than 50 years, Long Beach's Park Pantry has occupied the southeast corner of Broadway and Junipero, baking sugary breakfast pastries and serving classic diner eats to the local hoards. In that time, however, a lot around it has changed. Many of the city's other hometown American-food havens ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2013

    Banh Mi Che Cali Opens Gigantic Restaurant in Fullerton Next To Lee's Sandwiches; Let The Banh Mi Battle Begin!

    A banh mi turf war is brewing in Fullerton. Banh Mi Che Cali, which we've written about here on these blogs and featured on our Best Of lists, Favorite Dishes lists, and lists of other lists, has opened what has to be their biggest, most gigantic store yet...and this one also serves pho in an a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2013

    On The Line: Walter Cotta Of Alegria And L'Opera, Part One

    We've heard of chefs operating multiple restaurants, but who frequents more than one daily? When your two concepts are on the same stretch of Pine Avenue in Long Beach, the answer is Walter Cotta. Depending on the time of day, Cotta will bounce between the Latin flair of Alegria and Italian hospital ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2013

    Eleven46, New Vietnamese Restaurant in Foothill Ranch, Offers Beignets!

    A new Vietnamese restaurant in isn't news, especially in South County, the new pho frontier. But a Vietnamese restaurant that serves beignets in South County? You don't see that everyday.

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2013

    Sunday Brunch: Morning By Thasos

    In our ongoing quest to locate a solid first meal of the day, we were introduced to the cuisine of Nathaniel Nguyen. We should preface this by mentioning that brunch is served inside a Greek restaurant across from South Coast Plaza. It's offered on weekends from 8 a.m. to noon at this location only. ... More >>

  • Food

    March 21, 2013

    Usmania's Crazy for Kahari

    [Hole In the Wall] This Westminster spot brings Pakistani food to a county sorely needing it

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2013

    Pho Sapa Opens in Lake Forest

    Lake Forest residents have one more choice to add to the ever-growing collective of Vietnamese restaurants here. Pho Sapa opened recently in the space vacated by the first incarnation of Chili Chutney, at Jeronimo and El Toro. The restaurant is advertising two specials to get people in the door ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2013

    Geeta Bansal Interviews Pierre Albaladejo About Alain Senderens, Legendary Michelin-Star-Shunning French Chef!

    Every Monday, Clay Oven Irvine executive chef/owner Geeta Bansal shares an interview that she's done with some of the heavyweights of European cooking. Today, she regales us with a chat with Alain Senderens. Enjoy!

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2013

    Crave Restaurant & Cafe Opens in Old Tommy Pastrami's Space in Santa Ana

    As Gustavo reported back in January, Judy Fleenor of Cafe Chiarini fame was planning to open a new restaurant called Crave on 4th Street in the former Tommy Pastrami space. The restaurant has now opened (actually, it opened about a month ago).

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2013

    This Week In Food: A Wine Fountain, the Femme Fatale, and F'ing Huge Tortillas

    It's Friday ladies and gents, but before you go out and drink yourself to oblivion or find something more productive to do, let's take a look at this week in food. Edwin went to Two 40 South in Brea and experienced a wine fountain! I don't mean an actual fountain, which would really be in poor tast ... More >>

  • Food

    March 14, 2013

    Bella Cuba's Mojo Rising

    [Hole In the Wall] This Santa Ana spot makes fabulous Cuban cuisine

  • Food

    March 14, 2013

    Two 40 South's Wine-a-Whirl

    How fun are the vino-vending machines at the Brea bistro? Very!

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2013

    A Love Letter to the Best Waitress in O.C.

    I've been served by hundreds of waiters and waitresses over the course of five years as a food writer in Orange County. Most encounters are unremarkable for better or worse, and that's a sign of good service in my book. We once had such an inattentive waiter at the now-shuttered Carino's that I actu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2013

    Long Beach Lunch: Panvimarn

    "Lakewood Village" is the type of quaint, planned downtown area that was originally built for the soccer moms and AARP members living in suburban Long Beach, but its orthopedic shoe store and secondhand book shop have become surrounded over the years by amenities for the rest of us. More specificall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2013

    Revolving Sushi Restaurant To Open in Fashion Island

    Up to now, the closest thing to a sushi bar you could get at Fashion Island was Hana Grill at the food court. Blue C Sushi will change this soon. It is a revolving sushi joint where the plates of sushi roll by on a conveyor belt, just as it does at all the other kaiten sushi restaurants in our count ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2013

    On The Line: Chris Sarkissian of Medii Kitchen, Part One

    Chris Sarkissian is best known for a chain of pizza joints called Pepz. Learning about his new venture with Medii Kitchen, we realize this wasn't a cautious step forward, but more of a well-educated step back. We've got a lot of ground to cover in this week's On the Line.Your earliest food memory:My ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2013

    Five Types of Diners Who Need To Be Blacklisted From Restaurants Forever

    There is a social contract implied when you dine in a restaurant in this country. The social contract is pretty simple: "Don't be an ass." It shouldn't need to be said, really, but apparently restaurants are special places where manners aren't needed and you can act however you like.Anyone who's eve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2013

    Geeta Bansal Interviews Legendary Catalan Chef Carme Ruscalleda of Restaurant Sant Pau!

    Every Monday, Clay Oven Irvine executive chef/owner Geeta Bansal shares an interview that she's done with some of the heavyweights of European cooking. Today, she regales us with a visit with Carme Ruscalleda, the renowned Catalan chef. Enjoy!

  • Food

    March 7, 2013

    Tony's Deli Sits at the Crossroads of Anaheim

    [Hole In the Wall] This sandwich spots makes old-school sandwiches

  • Food

    March 7, 2013

    ARC Restaurant Is Smmmmokin'

    Noah Blom's latest restaurant, in Costa Mesa's OC Mix, is a throwback to a time when cooks used firewood and only firewood

  • Food

    March 7, 2013

    Eva Madray: The Curry Chef

    See our full OC Weekly 2013 People Issue

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2013

    Long Beach Lunch: Sal's Gumbo Shack

    Despite the prevalence of Louisiana Fried Chicken locations in Long Beach (a fact that continues to baffle me, as most are also under the same roof as a "Chinese food to go" establishments), there are few places that actually serve Louisiana-style soul food. BBQed meats slathered in sweet and spicy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2013

    On The Line: Alfonso Ramirez Of Pinot Provence, Part One

    Ch-ch-ch-changes happen all the time in the restaurant industry. Chefs leave, and are replaced by someone with a vision more aligned with that of the establishment. Alfonso Ramirez helms the kitchen within Westin South Coast Plaza's fine-dining establishment, Pinot Provence. Where have you worked in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2013

    Dishcrawl Launches Downtown Long Beach Event Exclusive Chef Leak

    For the voracious foodie, indecisive eater and social butterfly alike, Dishcrawl is for the first time spreading its bar-crawl-for-food concept to the eclectic restaurants of downtown Long Beach.On March 12, Dishcrawl reps will escort ticketholders to four locations across downtown's dining and ente ... More >>

  • Food

    February 28, 2013

    Restaurant Mary: Proud Maria

    [Hole In the Wall] This Santa Ana favorite makes homestyle Mexican food for abuelitas and families

  • Food

    February 28, 2013

    Xa Sweet & Savory Café Brought the Chicken First

    The 2-month-old Orange restaurant gets awesomer by the day

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2013

    10 Late-Night Restaurants that UCI Students Are Grubbing At Right Now

    Since the founding of Harvard back in the 1600, college students have always frequented the open-til-two or the 24-hour restaurants, whether it was grog they were seeking or ramen, either as a study break or after a long night of partying at the generic frat house. Six hours of sleep and under ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2013

    Geeta Bansal Interviews Sebastian Mazzola, Chef at 41° in Barcelona

    Every Monday, Clay Oven Irvine executive chef/owner Geeta Bansal shares an interview that she's done with some of the heavyweights of European cooking. Today, she regales us with a visit to Barcelona, where Sebastian Mazzola is making his name at 41°. Enjoy!

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2013

    Diamond Knot Industrial IPA, Our Drink of the Week

    When a Total Wine & More store PR rep first contacted me about displaying things I like to drink in their adult beverage stores, I balked because, let's face it, who cares what a news and film blogger consumes? But when I discovered my old pal Greer Wylder of the Greer's OC dining, fashion and t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2013

    This Week In Food: Taverna Blu, Pot Tamales, and Bootlegger's on the Move

    Hello ladies and gents, let's take a look at this week in food... Edwin reviewed Taverna Blu, the new Greek restaurant in the Irvine Spectrum, and it seemed to prove that dining at the Spectrum has turned over a new leaf. Yum! Then he moved on to funny things and shared a story about Guy Fieri, and ... More >>

  • Food

    February 21, 2013

    Fu Wing Low: Young At Heart

    [Hole In the Wall] This Fountain Valley restaurant is a Chinese-American classic

  • Food

    February 21, 2013

    Taverna Blu Brings Opa!

    The Greek restaurant proves Irvine Spectrum's dining scene is not what it used to be

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2013

    Guy Fieri Neglects To Register Domain Name; Hilarious Parody Site Parks There

    Ah, Guy Fieri, with the constant mocking of your hedgehog hair, that scorched-earth Pete Wells review, and people are going to your NYC restaurant ironically, it seems that you can't get a break. Perhaps you (or your company) shouldn't have neglected to register the domain name GuysAmericanKitchenan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2013

    On The Line: Steve Parker Of The Tulsa Rib Company, Part Two

    Read our interview with Steve Parker of The Tulsa Rib Company, Part One.And now, on to Part Two . . . .When you're not in the kitchen cooking, what are you doing?Training for triathlons, back packing and gardening. Unfortunately, training has gone downhill the last couple of months. I used to do Oly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2013

    Michael's Pizzeria Opens In Downtown Long Beach

    Michael's, which began as a very good fine dining Italian restaurant on Long Beach's Naples Island (and still is), is opening its third pizzeria today. This one is at Downtown Long Beach's Promenade. According to its Facebook, the mayor will be there for a ribbon cutting at 11:30 a.m.

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2013

    On The Line: Steve Parker Of The Tulsa Rib Company, Part One

    As he awaits final inspections for the new home of The Tulsa Rib Company, Steve Parker finds time to answer our questions. "We've had 32 years to get prepared," he says of the decision to move after so many years in the same Orange strip mall, "so we should be alright on it." Special thanks to Liz P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2013

    Geeta Bansal Interviews Elena Arzak, Best Female Chef in the World

    Every Monday, Clay Oven Irvine executive chef/owner Geeta Bansal shares an interview that she's done with some of the heavyweights of European cooking. Today, she regales us with a visit to Luxembourg, where René Mathieu wows both royalty and commoners alike. Enjoy!

  • Food

    February 14, 2013

    Nubia Cafe Is the Jewel of Little Arabia

    [Hole In the Wall] This Anaheim hookah lounge bests its competition with great food

  • Food

    February 14, 2013

    Thanh Ha's Crepe Expectations

    The Vietnamese crepes at this Westminster restaurant are a worthy challenger to those at the venerable Van's Restaurant

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2013

    Bobby Deen Loves His Mama But He's Not Dishing Up Her Meals.

    Sometimes there is just that one family you look at and think, I wish I could be related to them. For a lot of us who watch cooking shows religiously, it's the Deen family. Bobby Deen is lucky enough to be part of that family and while it seems like they get along so famously while the cameras are r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2013

    Long Beach Lunch: Rocco's Deli Italiano

    Gruff New Yorker attitudes don't last long on the laid-back, breezy streets of Long Beach, but there is always room for a cured-meat-filled, Italian-style sandwich with some East Coast sass. Signal Hill's Rocco's Deli Italiano just opened a second location in the East Village Arts District, and its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2013

    Four Local Valentine's Day Alternatives

    If you haven't booked something by now, you're screwed. At least, that's what most people think. If you believe there needs to be roses and grand gestures of champagne and caviar on Thursday, you're wrong. Unless your someone special is that high maintenance, and then it's a Catch-22. Instead of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2013

    Tortilla Tuesdays: La Tortilla Factory

    I am a gabacho. While I have many non-gabacho food-shopping habits (markets in Tijuana, an intimate familiarity with my local Northgate, a love for nopales, etc.), when time is of the essence, I resort to the dreaded White Folks Supermarket--you know, Vons, Albertsons, Ralphs, et al.The problem is t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2013

    Ten Great Rice Dishes in OC (and Long Beach)

    We've made a list of great sandwiches, even devoted an entire issue of our dead tree edition to notable noodle dishes, but what about rice? We often take it for granted because, well, because it's rice. But rice is essential, rice is good, rice is the giver of life and what makes these next ten dish ... More >>

  • Food

    February 7, 2013

    Buns N Rice: The Chosun Ones

    [Hole In the Wall] This Costa Mesa deli is slowly introducing office drones to Korean cuisine

  • Food

    February 7, 2013

    Rebel Bite's Headquarters

    This Long Beach luxe lonchera settles down to become a great restaurant

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2013

    Long Beach Lunch: Sushi Boy

    The only cool thing about slaving all day at a computer buried inside one of the many faceless Irvine office parks is that one hour of freedom where you get to drive to the nearest retail corner and get a plastic plate full of fast casual ethnic food at lunch-special prices. In my glory days of boun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2013

    Savannah Chop House's Classy Spread for Super Bowl Sunday!

    Is it really the end of January? Well, if you're undecided on where to watch the Harbowl (since we shouldn't refer to the other name, per this article) this weekend, one joint has an answer.Savannah Chop House wants to fill your belly with two polar opposite options on Sunday. Take your pick between ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2013

    Pastor Stiffs Applebee's Server, Uses Tithing As Excuse, Gets Server Fired

    A server at a St. Louis Applebee's served a large party, which caused the restaurant's point-of-sale system to kick in an automated 18 percent tip.This didn't sit well with Pastor Alois Bell of Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries Church (what is it about certain churches that makes them string ... More >>

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