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May 3, 2012
Umami Burger Brings Something Savory This Way
Adam Fleischman's phenomenon finally opens in OC
Blogs
April 20, 2012
Cheri Sicard's New Cookbook Will Turn You Into a Cannabis Kitchen Magician!
Cheri Sicard has been a seasoned food writer and lover of good recipes long before she became a medical marijuana patient and activist. She created and launched the popular cooking website FabulousFoods.com and has authored books on the subject including last year's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eas ... More >>
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March 28, 2012
San Gabriel Noodle House Lauded by Jonathan Gold To Open in Irvine
Irvine's Culver Plaza is already going to be the first OC site of Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot, a San Gabriel Valley staple which is supposed to open any day soon. And now it looks like there will be another SGV import coming our way, slated to do business around the corner from the 99 Ranch.
Blogs
March 9, 2012
Another Lauded LA Ramenya Coming to Costa Mesa
Did you hear about the ramenya that Jonathan Gold dubbed one of LA's 99 Essential Restaurants coming to Costa Mesa? No, not Ramen Yamadaya, which has been open for months. I'm talking about Jinya, the other slurp peddler that has restaurants in Studio City and the Miracle Mile of which Gold said ... More >>
Food
March 8, 2012
The Orange County Bartenders Cabinet Shake It Up
The group of county libation crafters is teaching you to drink as you've never drunk before
Blogs
January 20, 2012
LA Weekly's Gold Standard is Back on March 4
Gold Standard is an annual event put on by our sister paper LA Weekly featuring restaurants handpicked by food critic extraordinaire Jonathan Gold. It's a chance to sample some of the most exciting dishes our neighboring county to the north has to offer, all in one swoop, so you can later restaur ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2011
Bigmista's BBQ Coming to Long Beach!
Photo by Gary WalkupYou may not know it, but Bigmista's Barbecue is kind of a big deal. Listed on Jonathan Gold's 99 Things To Eat Before You Die 2010, the BBQ competitor-turned-caterer sells at farmers markets across far-flung parts of L.A. They've been geographically inconvenient for us behind ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
Gourmet Grill Masters Opens in Irvine
Edwin GoeiPulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold described the chicken at the previously mobile-only Gourmet Grill Masters this way:"The chicken at Grill Masters stands a cluck or two above the rest: extravagantly seasoned fowl cooked on rotating spits, perfumed with smoke, slow-roasted ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2011
"Food and the Art of Consumption" Exhibit to Debut This Weekend at Cal State Fullerton
We usually don't talk about art here at SaFII, unless it involves Star Wars-themed food and other foodie nuttiness. But Cal State Fullerton is about to launch an exhibit with food as its subject: "Acquired Tate: Food and the Art of Consumption," which opens this Saturday. It's a collection of art ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2011
OC Register Food Review Simultaneously Slams and Ignores Little Arabia
The Orange County Register's food coverage has been strangely trifurcated for a couple of years now, and that's not a good thing. Us Forkers totally love Jeff and Claudia over at Food Frenzy, giggle at Nancy Luna's Fast Food Maven blog, and howl at the carousel of news reporters that the Register ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2011
Santa Monica Farmers Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Good Food Festival & Conference
In the world of farmers markets in Southern California, none is more legendary than the system that runs the Santa Monica Farmers Market. KCRW-FM 89.9's Good Food with Evan Kleiman offers their updates from the Wednesday version, head Laura Avery is a Southern California food legend, and more tha ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
The Kimchi Chronicles With Hugh Jackman Premieres This Week on KCET
Remember The Kimchi Chronicles? The PBS documentary on Korean food featuring Roller Gi--I mean Heather Graham, Wolve--I mean Hugh Jackman, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and his wife Marja (who is half Korean) as host? It will finally start to air tomorrow, July 7 at 7 p.m. on KLCS and July 8 at 2 p.m. ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
Jonathan Gold's Choice for Best Roast Chicken to Roost in Irvine
Image from www.grillmasters-chicken.com LA Weekly's Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold describes it this way: "The chicken at Grill Masters stands a cluck or two above the rest: extravagantly seasoned fowl cooked on rotating spits, perfumed with smoke, slow-roasted and glistening w ... More >>
Food
June 16, 2011
101 Noodle Express Teaches You Chinese 101
It replaces Irvine's Nice Time Deli, but is it worthy of the legend?
Blogs
May 17, 2011
New Dumpling Restaurant Replaces Nice Time Deli in Irvine
Edwin GoeiWell that was fast. Two weeks ago, Nice Time Deli, Irvine's decades-old Taiwanese stalwart for pork chop rice and other comfort food standards closed. Now, its replacement is already packing them in. Good-luck plants crowd one corner and red paper lanterns dangle outside as a hastily hu ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2011
KCRW Global Street Food Fest SOLD OUT--But Win a Pair of Tickets NOW
Piaggio on Wheels will be there this Sunday, and so can you!SOOOOO...remember that panel I'm going be on this Sunday in Santa Monica, alongside KCRW-FM 89.9's Evan Kleiman, celebrity chef Jet Tila, and Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold? If you're interested, tough tamales--event is ... More >>
Food
April 14, 2011
There's Something About 320 Main
Cameron Diaz eats at this Seal Beach stalwart, and so should you!
Blogs
April 13, 2011
2-Year-Old Gets Served Alcohol at Olive Garden
Last week's Jonathan Gold article notwithstanding, Olive Garden's got a more serious problem on its hands as news broke in Florida that the restaurant served a 2-year-old sangria instead of orange juice.
Blogs
April 7, 2011
Pulitzer Prize Winning Food Critic Jonathan Gold Reviews...The Olive Garden
Sometimes an April Fools prank can backfire on the prankster. It happened to Jonathan Gold, our esteemed colleague and Pulitzer Prize winning food critic at the LA Weekly. His planned joke on his longtime food photographer Anne Fishbein to meet him at Olive Garden didn't go exactly as planned. ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
320 Main Makes Jonathan Gold's List of LA's 55 Best Cocktails!
Seal Beach: Not LA, but who cares?LA Weekly's Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold's list of Los Angeles' 55 best cocktails is essential reading, not so much for the drunk aspect but to hear him drop history bits after history bits on cocktails, restaurants, and so much more. But noth ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Announcing Stick a Fork in It's First-Ever Intern: Javier Cabral, aka The Glutster!
It's rare that any publication ever gets celebrity interns, but we at SaFII are blessed with that scenario: Today is the first day that Javier Cabral joins our ranks!Cabral is better-known in food-blogging circles as the Glutster, and has already scored mentions in Jonathan Gold's column and the New ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
Why Orange County Is the Capital of Bolivian Cuisine in the Western United States
Order of salteñas from Rollie's--SO good...I was surprised to read last week's installment of "Ask Mr. Gold" in our sister paper LA Weekly. In it, someone asked the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic of he knew where to buy salteñas, the legendary empanada originally from Argentina but long cla ... More >>
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February 13, 2011
Rick Bayless Blocks Mexican-Food Blogger Bill Esparza from Following His Twitter Account
Any of the more than 108,000 followers that celebrity chef Rick Bayless has on Twitter knows that the U.S.'s most-famous cook of Mexican food has spent the weekend in Baja California scoping the scene for his PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time. "Super-busy scouting n Baja morn2nite 4 season 8 ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
2011 LA Weekly Gold Standard Final Restaurant List
In case you missed our announcement to get a discounted ticket for the 2011 Gold Standard, it's not too late to get yourself in. Tickets are still available, but they are expected to sell out. Clear your calendar for Sunday, March 6, and get your tickets now.Restaurant list after the jump!
Blogs
January 17, 2011
Tickets for LA Weekly Gold Standard On Sale This Week
[UPDATED Monday January 17 5:30pm] $10 discount for early bird tickets, now through January 20 at 10am! Details after the jump!The third-annual LA Weekly Gold Standard food-and-wine event happens on March 6 at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Curated by Jonathan Gold, the rest ... More >>
Food
December 30, 2010
Grab Bag o' Goodies
Nine great posts from our Stick a Fork In It blog you might've missed
Blogs
November 1, 2010
Cupcakes Out, Pies In: Someone Gets Paid To Predict Food Trends
Flickr user vpickeringWhere food trend predictions come from...We're coming up to the end of the year, which means it's time for would-be tastemakers to make all sorts of bold and useless predictions about what the new trends are. That people pay to hear this nonsense is hysterical (though the fa ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
An Open Letter To Jean-Luc Naret of the Michelin Guide
Flickr user lwrNo longer to be seen in Los Angeles...Last week, John Mariani of Esquire magazine interviewed the just-retired director of the Michelin Guide, Jean-Luc Naret. The 2011 New York guide is heading for press, and there will be a Chicago guide next year as well, and Mariani caught Naret ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2010
Five Authentic Mexican Dishes That Would Make Rick Bayless Scream, Or: For an Aztlanista Approach to the Question of "Authenticity" in Mexican Cuisine
Chico's Tacos in El Paso: The Most Mexican Restaurant in AmericaRick Bayless came to and left Orange County last week, and none of Weeklings were able to attend, busy as we are with our normal lives (Dave, Edwin, and Shuji, their 9-to-5s; me, skinheads and pedo-priests). Sucks, because the battle ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Rick Bayless to Appear at Macy's South Coast Plaza This Thursday
Of course. The one time Rick Bayless, one of the most influential people in the history of Mexican food in the United States and one thin-skinned man, I will be on assignment and unable to attend. FUCK. He'll be at Macy's at South Coast Plaza this Thursday, starting at 6:30 p.m. From the pr ... More >>
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September 3, 2010
This Week in Food
Flickr user Thomas Leplus Five ways to prevent cooking catastrophes and more of what you missed this week in Stick a Fork In It after the jump!
Blogs
August 29, 2010
Jonathan Gold Lectures at Marche Moderne About Mexican Food "Authenticity," Laughs at Rick Bayless
Frontera Grill is sabroso, though...Updated after the jump: Rick Bayless responds! And isn't happy...and one of the kings of LA food blogging has even funnier things to say about Bayless... Last Thursday, the CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California (formerly the California Chicano News Media Asso ... More >>
Columns
June 24, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Frontera Grill is sabroso, though...Updated after the jump: Rick Bayless responds! And isn't happy...and one of the kings of LA food blogging has even funnier things to say about Bayless... Last Thursday, the CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California (formerly the California Chicano News Media Asso ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2010
Paletas: Beyond Fudgesicles and Grape Popsicles
Willy BlackmoreVanilla with Quince CandyThanks to Jonathan Gold's tweeted enticments and the return to clear skies and heat, I've had paletas on the mind today. After walking around the block a few times hoping to hear the peddling sounds and ringing bells that are the siren song of the bicycling ... More >>
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March 19, 2010
One Blogger's Quest To Eat Every Nasi Bungkus In LA
Edwin GoeiA fellow food blogger named burumun has entitled her most recent post "The Nasi Bungkus Roundup: 5 Banana-leaf Wraps, 60 miles." In it, our intrepid author scoured Southern California eating the Indonesian dish of rice, meat and veggies wrapped inside a banana leaf and wrote ... More >>
Food
January 28, 2010
Valhalla Table's Sausage House Concept Comes From LA, but the Most Inspired Items Hail From Indonesia
Edwin GoeiA fellow food blogger named burumun has entitled her most recent post "The Nasi Bungkus Roundup: 5 Banana-leaf Wraps, 60 miles." In it, our intrepid author scoured Southern California eating the Indonesian dish of rice, meat and veggies wrapped inside a banana leaf and wrote ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
Ruth Reichl, Jonathan Gold & Laurie Ochoa Talk With Evan Kleinman At The Skirball
Photo Courtesy of Zocalo Public SquareAn event held Tuesday night at the Skirball in L.A. brought together some giants in food writing. First and foremost, there was former editor of Gourmet Ruth Reichl who was joined by Pulitzer prize-winning L.A. Weekly food critic Jonathan Gold and forme ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2009
Good Food's Map of Holes-in-the-Wall Includes OC Dives
For local foodies, Good Food needs no intro; for everyone else, it's a long-running show on KCRW-FM 89.9 hosted by famed L.A.-area chef Evan Kleiman on everything food--books, recipes, trends, articles, and holes-in-the-wall. The main voice in the latter field, of course, is LA Weekly's Jonathan Gol ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2009
For Immediate Release: LA Weekly, Editor to Part Ways
The LA Weekly is announcing that Editor in Chief Laurie Ochoa and the paper are parting ways after eight years. A former intern, contributor, and special sections editor at the LA Weekly from 1984-1988, Ochoa returned to take over the editor in chief role in 2001. LA Weekly wishes her luck in all ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
OC Weekly Receives 8 SoCal Journalism Awards Nominations
The OC Weekly--as in ORANGE COUNTY Weekly--plot for Los Angeles media market domination has been slow to achieve but persistent, as evidenced by the impressive showing Weeklings make on the Los Angeles Press Club's list of finalists for the 51st annual SoCal Journalism Awards.Winners will be announc ... More >>
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April 10, 2009
L.A. Weekly Starts Their Own Food Blog
Our sister paper, L.A. Weekly, debuted their very own food blog last week. Called Squid Ink, it features the return on Ask Mr. Gold, where resident Pulitzer-prize winning critic, Jonathan Gold, reprises his popular food advice column.We welcome the esteemed Mr. Gold and crew to the food bloggin ... More >>
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December 17, 2008
Eating Food with a James Beard Award Winner
One of the pleasures of belonging to Village Voice Media is that the company hosts the best roster of food critics in the country--but you don't have to believe my boosterism? Who's the only food critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize? Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly. Who's going to be releasing a memoir of ... More >>
Food
October 23, 2008
The Pastrami Sandwiches at Tommy's Are Massive, Glorious Gut Bombs
One of the pleasures of belonging to Village Voice Media is that the company hosts the best roster of food critics in the country--but you don't have to believe my boosterism? Who's the only food critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize? Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly. Who's going to be releasing a memoir of ... More >>
Food
July 10, 2008
[This Hole-In-the-Wall Life] Thai This Now: Siam Taste of Asia
One of the pleasures of belonging to Village Voice Media is that the company hosts the best roster of food critics in the country--but you don't have to believe my boosterism? Who's the only food critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize? Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly. Who's going to be releasing a memoir of ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2008
Kyochon Chicken Opens in Stanton
Of all the trendy foods to hit L.A. recently, nothing has intrigued me more than Kyochon Chicken, fried chicken as done by Koreans. Jonathan Gold's Pulitzer-prize winning taste-buds swears by it ("Current fried chicken mecca", he writes), while food bloggers, Chowhounds, and Yelpers alike have gon ... More >>
Food
May 8, 2008
Score Some Awesome Pot (Roast) at Suzanne Tracht's Long Beach Satellite Restaurant
Of all the trendy foods to hit L.A. recently, nothing has intrigued me more than Kyochon Chicken, fried chicken as done by Koreans. Jonathan Gold's Pulitzer-prize winning taste-buds swears by it ("Current fried chicken mecca", he writes), while food bloggers, Chowhounds, and Yelpers alike have gon ... More >>
Food
January 31, 2008
Beneath the Batter
A synergy of cultures at Mario's Peruvian Seafood
Blogs
September 27, 2007
Stupidest Accusation of Plagiarism Ever
We here at the OC Weekly have been accused of many things over the years: libel, slander (whenever one of us appear on radio), lies, Commie-sympathizing, Reconquista cheerleading, selling ours souls to New Times, and—most memorably—"Satan instrument,"what Congressman Robert K. Dornan called the ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2007
Weekly Writer Wins Pulitzer Prize
Food critic Jonathan Gold of our sister paper LA Weekly has won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, it was announced today. The Pulitzer Board noted Gold's "zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater." The two other excellent nominees were both from the L ... More >>
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March 3, 2005
The Curtain Strikes Back
Meson G Shows LA How We Do it in the Culinary OC

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