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On The Line: Brooke Des Prez Of Sidecar Doughnuts & Coffee, Part One

When we gave Brooke the option of meeting somewhere besides their much anticipated Sidecar Doughnuts, she requested Noah Blom's ARC at The OC Mix. It was at that moment that we knew (like we have with the previous bakers interviewed) that she had her finger on what's trending. We couldn't turn down ... More >>

On The Line: Roy Hendrickson Of Zimzala, Part One

Calm. That's the vibe we get from chef Roy Hendrickson. Perched in the Shorebreak Hotel, Zimzala's bustling exhibition kitchen is between both lounge and dining room. But for our interview, we converse at a quiet table in the back before lunch service. With experience that includes stints at Sam's S ... More >>

[UPDATED, W/IN-N-OUT STATEMENT--WON'T STAND FOR COW HATERS] Claim: In-N-Out Buys Its Cheese From Cow Abusers

Updated, with new information at the bottom...ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 10, 11 A.M. If there is one fast-food company that gets universally positive coverage, it's In-N-Out--hell, even anti-fast-food crusader Eric Schlosser praised their practices at the end of his epic Fast Food Nation (and how cool that ... More >>

More The Habit Burger Grills Coming to OC

The Habit Burger Grill, the slowly expanding Santa Barbara-based burger empire nipping at the heels of In-N-Out and Five Guys, has just opened in Huntington Beach, its sixth restaurant in Orange County. And now reader Mike has just noticed that it will also be taking over the Burger King at the corn ... More >>

[W/PHOTOS] What Burger Will Grow Mold First: McDonald's, In-n-Out, or TK Burgers? An Experiment

McDonald's just isn't real food. So, it would make sense that something so fake, so artificial, and so full of preservatives would not be able to house mold. So, we at the OC Weekly, being as eager to jump on the McDonald's hating bandwagon as everyone else - decided to put this rumor to the test.

And Now There's An In-N-Out Spoof Of 'Gangnam Style'

Just when we thought the "Gangnam Style" phenomenon couldn't reach any weird new heights (it's already been translated into Klingon and performed by a middle-aged mother), we stumble upon this.

On the Line: Alessandro Pirozzi of Mare Culinary Lounge, Part One

To get Alessandro to sit still for our meeting was next to impossible. Somewhere between emails, planning the daily special (sea bass with a white wine sauce made with grapes in their garden), and coordinating the staff schedule, we went over the questionnaire. What was the first thing your Nonna Id ... More >>

Vegetarians Petition For In-N-Out To Make A Veggie Burger

One of the travails of becoming a vegan, as Ari Solomon has found, is that your choices are pretty limited at In-N-Out. The LA-based activist once enjoyed the chain's burgers but can no longer eat them. So in an attempt to make In-N-Out more vegetarian-friendly, he started a petition that calls for ... More >>

Game of Burgers: Fast Food Fiefdom, Second Round!

This bracket ain't fancy-schmancy, but it's got some great burgers worthy of your stomach space. (And some not-so-great ones.) Read on!   

Savori Is the Next Burger Generation

[Hole In the Wall] This Fountain Valley restaurant shows what happens when Vietnamese kids get into the burger business

Hot Dog or Hamburger? Get 'em Both Together at Freddy's in Victorville

This can't be a new idea--undoubtedly, the hot dog and hamburger combo has been cooked up by stoners before--but I can't ever recall a fast food chain putting America's two greatest meat products on the same bun.The restaurant is Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, a Midwest chain whose sole ... More >>

Red Robin Opens At The District in Tustin

You might remember the place as the short-lived Marmalade Cafe (though even that outlasted Pablo's) at The District in Tustin. Now the Red Robin chain has taken it over to give In-N-Out and Five Guys some burger competition.If you're thinking that this location is too close to the other Red Robin at ... More >>

Foxy Shazam's Alex Nauth Talks About the Time He Found Entire Pizza in His Pants

Cincinnati's Foxy Shazam is in the middle of a busy 2012. They released their fourth LP, The Church of Rock and Roll. The glam rockers bounced around the major label circuit for years before landing on I.R.S./EMI in 2011 and are having their greatest success to date. Catching up with the band before ... More >>

On the Line: Austin Lee of Itriya Cafe, Part Two

Austin manages to bring food into the non-food portion of our interview, but what can you do? At least he taught us another combination to order at In-n-Out. This jack of all trades keeps us interested with anecdotes that ultimately lead back to great cuisine. On a completely unrelated note, Lee als ... More >>

Three New Restaurants Open In Huntington Beach

​There's a been a flurry of new restaurant activity in Surf City lately. I've noticed three to be exact. Here's a quick rundown:Pizza Lounge takes the place of a departed Beach Pit BBQ at 301 Main Street (Suite 107) and is the sister of the Pizza Lounge in Laguna Beach. Along with the usual sus ... More >>

Berkeley Dogs Hot-Dogs It

[Hole In the Wall] The East Bay transplant brings its luscious wieners as part of our wave of outside regional chains

Five Ballsy In-N-Out Copycats

In-N-OutSee that trademark logo? Anybody? ​Trademark lawyers for Irvine-based In-N-Out are busy folks. The iconic burger chain has spawned ripoffs across the world--and that means war.  But the company is smart, and understands that where there's a clone, there's a hungry market. In response ... More >>

On the Line: Pedro Resendiz of Tamarindo Truck, Part One

Photo by Meranda Carter​We meet up with luxe lonchera owners Pedro and Sarah Resendiz of Tamarindo Truck after their SoCo lunch stop one afternoon. Our humble chef was excited to share his thoughts on epazote, chiles and things that crack him up. Get to know our friends who can't sit still [Editor ... More >>

K. Flay Talks Beginnings, Book Reports, And Hamburgers

Courtesy Bailey Blues​Kristine Flaherty (better known by musical moniker K. Flay) isn't your average rapper-singer-songwriter. After graduating from Stanford with degrees in psychology and sociology, she decided to take her then-hobby of writing and performing music more seriously. Besides the occ ... More >>

G Burger Hits the G Spot

George Makri's La Habra burger stand straddles the comfortable center between dives and boutiques

Mandoorang Dumpling House Is the In-N-Out of Korean OC

[Hole In the Wall] This Buena Park diner offers great dumplings and other late-night Korean munchies

CBS LA and Food & Wine Put Out Best Burgers List

Edwin Goei​For some reason both CBS Los Angeles and Food & Wine Magazine published a list of their favorite burgers around the same day this week. The former focused on LA burgers; the latter cast its net nationally. Why burgers and why now? The answer is hits. Putting out such a list, of ... More >>

Get Everything on In-N-Out's Secret Menu--as Your Desktop Wallpaper!

Serious Eats​In case you needed another reason to love In-N-Out . . .Putting customer service to the ultimate test, Serious Eats writer J. Kenji Lopez-Alt decided to order everything on the chain's secret menu in one visit. Here's how the cashier reacted: 

Dirk Nowitzki On In-N-Out: 'Too Good to Pass Up'

Dallas and its people are in a hubbub over In-N-Out, scheduled to make its debut in Texas there soon. The March issue of D Magazine (that city's version of Orange Coast) even commissioned a lengthy piece by a certain local food writer who thinks they're God's gift to fast food that extolled the Irvi ... More >>

This Week In Food: New Forker, Taco Bell Fake-Beef Allegations and Hungry Monkeys Go Wild!

Flickr user Phillie Casablanca​The big story in the OC food world was the $5 million class-action lawsuit against Taco Bell alleging the chain sells fake beef, but other, better things happened this week. After the jump!

Ron Artest: Only Reason He Plays for the Lakers Is In-N-Out

Flickr user bridgetds​I like the Lakers, but despise Kobe Bryant. Ron Artest? Total weirdo, which makes him a class act in my book. And now another reason to like him: another In-N-Out nut.

Orange County No Longer the Promised Land for Fast Food?

​Taco Bell, Del Taco, In-N-Out, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.--the list of fast-food chains with headquarters in Irvine is among the largest in the country. They came to our land of plenty not just because of a friendlier business environment, but also because Southern California has always offered delive ... More >>

Long-Stalled In-N-Out Opens Friday in Costa Mesa

Edwin Goei​You may have not realized it, but there was a long hard slog to get the In-N-Out that replaces Kaplan's Deli off the Harbor exit of the 405 approved through the proper authorities.  It opens on Friday.As the Daily Pilot reports, "The approval process was lengthy, requiring both the ... More >>

Alert To Minors: Don't Be Out Past Curfew on Nov. 18

​Kids, here's some advice. The night of Thursday, Nov. 18 is a very good time to stay indoors. Police departments will conduct what they're calling the "largest-ever Orange County curfew sweeps." Cops in nearly every city--Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden Grove, ... More >>

Double Up at Apollo Burgers

[Hole in the Wall] Another local answer to Five Guys

This Week in Food

flickr user Adam Kuban​ Find out how Five Guys measures up to In-N-Out and more of what you missed this week in Stick a Fork In It after the jump!

Dueling Dishes: Five Guys vs. In-N-Out

Edwin Goei In-N-Out​This week in Dueling Dishes: Washington D.C.-based Five Guys Burgers and Fries versus the home team, In-N-Out. A Five Guys opened in Orange last week, the first of many more planned for OC. If you've read about Five Guys anywhere, you won't go a few sentences without so ... More >>

Is There A Hidden In-N-Out In New York?

Flickr user klara​The cruel April Fool's joke notwithstanding, has an In-N-Out been installed in a former yogurt shop on 23rd and Park Avenue South?

Gabriel Caliendo of The Lazy Dog Cafe, Part One

Kimberly Valenzuela​With the recent opening of Lazy Dog Cafe in the Irvine Marketplace--the chain's third OC location--word is spreading about the little chain of restaurants with rustic decor and an eclectic menu. The man behind the food at all Lazy Dog Cafes is Executive Chef Gabriel Caliendo. P ... More >>

This Week in Food

Ah, the good old days.​ Fake cops, food trucks and In-N-Out price hikes, oh my!Get the scoop on what you missed this week in food after the jump.

In-N-Out Has Raised Its Prices

Edwin Goei​You might have noticed it, or maybe you didn't: In-N-Out quietly raised its prices by 10 cents on April 1st. It's one of those incrementally minute things that you don't realize has happened until eventually, ten years later, you think to yourself, "Wow, a burger here used to be less t ... More >>

Shitake Mushroom Burger at TK Burgers

Grace LeShitake Mushroom Burger​ Hamburgers: The classic all-American food of convenience... and ultimate vegetarian deterrent. If we've learned anything from Fast Food Nation, it's that eating too many of them is bad. Veggieburgers--not too great for you either, but, damn, can they hit the spot. ... More >>

New Yorkers Get an In-N-Out...NOTTT!

Photo courtesy of Burger Conquest​April Fools jokes don't get funnier when the prankees are New Yorkers who have been famously jealous of our In-N-Out burger.  Gothamist has the story of a few jokesters (affliated with CollegeHumor.com, it seems) who put up sings on a shuttered building annou ... More >>

Five Guys Coming to OC!

Five Guys​That's right, the East Coast burger chain is expanding beyond its only LA-area locations in south LA County. According to the Fast Food Maven, Five Guys' first OC store is slated for Tustin Street and Katella Avenue in the city of Orange, with an anticipated opening date of April 1.Five ... More >>

[Hole in the Wall] Burger (and Patty Melt) Heaven

Orange County Beer Festival Coming on Sunday, August 30!

The booze-up, held at Irvine Lake from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., will feature the county's best breweries, plus domestic and international brands, including ones from Hawai'i, Brazil and, of course, Belgium. Look out for The Bruery (from Placentia), TAPS (Brea), Bootlegger's Brewery (Fullerton) and the ... More >>

On the Line: Marc Cohen of Watermarc

watermarcrestaurant.com Marc Cohen's newest restaurant, Watermarc, is a flat out hit, even by Laguna Beach standards.  If you haven't heard of it, you will.  And if you haven't had his food, you need to.Here are his answers for our list of 8 frivolous questions.1. Dish that you cook that ... More >>

Huh? Starbucks And Subway Top Zagat's Latest List

The survey from the "burgundy bible" rates this duo the best fast-food coffee and most popular fast-food mega-chain, respectively. Which makes me wonder if the reviewers--more than 6,000 of them, who visited more than 100 chains across the country--are living in a parallel universe. One in which Sta ... More >>

In-N-Out Wants 65-foot Billboard; Costa Mesa, Not So Much

According to the Daily Pilot, In-N-Out wants to put up a 65-foot freeway sign at the site of where Kaplan's Deli used to be; right off the Harbor exit from the 405.The Costa Mesa Planning Commission doesn't like that idea so much.  They denied In-N-Out's request.  Next, the burge ... More >>

Square Burgers Suck

Great bar food should be the rule, not the exception. Important, but often overlooked, on the spectrum of gastronomic delights is the pairing of a great beer with a great (and specific) specialty bar food item: a burger, thick, salty fries, fish and chips, fried calamari, onion rings...You get the p ... More >>

In-N-Out Burger in Trouble With Health Departments!

It's all about the grilled onions. I decided to end a day of puttering around my apartment by getting some air and taking my Sunday Times up the street to the In-N-Out Burger on the corner of PCH and 2nd in Long Beach. For whatever reason, I was in a grilled onion mood for my Double Double, except ... More >>

In-N-Out Turns 60-Years-Old Tomorrow

In-N-Out, one of the best chains in history is celebrating its 60th anniversary tomorrow. This Southern California original always amazes me in that during the 60-years it's been cooking, quality or service hasn't declined. Also, there's the consistency. No gimmicky items such as a pastrami or gu ... More >>

Poetic Toro

The tasting menu at Sushi Shibucho: A review in haiku

Political Soup

He hates Commies, loves Double-Doubles

In-N-Out Urge

Best sex? Best food?