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    April 21, 2012

    The Best Of Coachella: Friday, April 20, 2012

    See also: *Our complete Coachella coverageThe first weekend of Coachella: cold, damp, and wet. The second weekend of Coachella: hot, sultry, and steamy. Here are our scribes' picks for the best of what they saw on Friday, April 20 at Coachella.

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Pizza e Vino Owner Planning New Restaurant in North County

    ​When Steve Dickus opened Pizza e Vino a few years ago on Rancho Santa Margarita Lake, I wondered how he would stay in business. His Neapolitan pizzas are the best in South County, but opening a high-end pizzeria in the middle of a recession in one of O.C.'s most remote locales seemed crazy (Ortic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Eating Good Mexican-American Food In... Greenwich Village?!

    ​I hate driving past signs advertising New York pizza. With a couple of very rare exceptions, it's almost never any good, but people have this einredenish--this self-imposed delusion--that places advertising New York pizza will actually be able to produce the chewy, slightly sour crust, the tangy ... More >>

  • Food

    February 2, 2012

    Chow, Bella, at Ciao! Deli and Pizzeria

    [Hole In the Wall] The Costa Mesa dive perfects Italian-American classics

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    10 Great Pizzerias In Orange County

    ​We'll start at the end of the mystery, like the film Memento: Why didn't I include your favorite in this list of 10 great pizzerias that we Weeklings love? Because that's what the comments section is for, dear reader. Without further delay, here are 10 great pizzerias in Orange County!

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Five Shitty Corporate Ripoffs of Regional Food Favorites

    ProfessorSalt.comWhat real bagels should look like​ You know what bugs me about chain restaurants? It's the way they co-opt the names of distant regional foods and market their shitty versions as the real thing to people in a different part of the world who don't know any different and grow up thi ... More >>

  • Food

    October 27, 2011

    Mozza Offers Pizza By Batali

    Mario Batali and Nancy Silverton's long-awaited Newport Beach outpost of their pizza hut finally opens

  • Food

    September 15, 2011

    Pie-ology Has Pizza Possibilities

    [Hole In the Wall] This Fullerton shop lets you customize your pie

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    [UPDATED, With Mini-Review!] Pizzeria Mozza Newport Beach Open Today. NOW!

    ProfessorSalt.comMozza's Ipswich clam clam pizette​UPDATE: September 2, 4:15 pm. So after we broke the news of Mozza's opening late in the evening, we rushed over as soon as we could and fought our way to the hostess station to put in our name. Apparently lots of Newport locals were keeping watch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Five Signs Of a Real New York Pizzeria

    Flickr user nicksherman​If I had a dollar for every time I've been into a "New York Style" pizzeria and walked out amazed at how awful people are at interpreting the seminal food of my misspent youth, I'd be able to retire and never write another word again.It's amazing--people will attempt to clo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Pizzeria Mozza's Newport Beach Branch to Open Next Week?

    Mozza Facebook ​On Saturday afternoon, Joe Bastianich (business partner to Mario Batali and many, many restaurants) made an appearance at Hi-Time Wine Cellars to promote the soon-to-open Pizzeria Mozza. In addition, the shop held a special tasting featuring the family wineries of La Mozza and Bas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    A Slice of New York Pizza to Open Second Location

    ProfessorSalt.comA Slice of NY Pizza's Seal Beach location​Huntington Harbour residents will soon have a new neighbor: Seal Beach's A Slice of New York Pizza will open its second location, next to Trader Joe's in the Huntington Harbour Mall. According to employee Eric Hodgin, the expected opening ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Pie-Ology Pizzeria: The Study Of Kustom Pizza

    ​If Costa Mesa is the county's epicenter for the noveau pizza movement best exemplified by Pizzeria Ortica, then North County is the land of the dinosaur joints, where places like Cortina's in Anaheim and Placentia's Tony's Little Italy haven't changed their pie recipe in decades, if ever. Fast-fo ... More >>

  • Food

    November 18, 2010

    A New York Slice of Mind at Al's New York Café

    [Hole In the Wall] Costa Mesa pizzeria offers a beautiful slice of the Big Apple

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Killer Pizza, Part Two: Oven Technique

    Photo by Flickr user Jeff Kubina​ In Part One, we talked about how to ferment a wet pizza dough recipe slowly in your refrigerator. This week, we'll talk about tips and tricks to shape that dough and turn your home oven into a reasonably good replica of a brick-lined deck oven like you'd find in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Locally Grown Finale Featuring Reel Big Fish at the Grove of Anaheim

    Meg Strouse/OC Weekly​Check out our Reel Big Fish slideshow here!Chase Long Beach, Starpool, Suburban Legends, Reel Big FishSeptember 18, 2010Grove of AnaheimThird-wave ska, that unapologetically goofy genre, was born and raised in Orange County. Turn on the radio in the mid-1990s, and there was n ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    Taste of Downtown

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  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Domino's Calls Out Papa John's

    A while back, Papa John's claimed they used better ingredients in their pizzas than Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut sued them and won a judgment that Papa John's couldn't use the slogan "Better Ingredients. Better Pizza." because it falsely implied that the competition's ingredients were not fresh or wholesome ... More >>

  • Food

    January 21, 2010

    Il Dolce Has Mastered the Sweet Art and Science of Pizza Making

    A while back, Papa John's claimed they used better ingredients in their pizzas than Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut sued them and won a judgment that Papa John's couldn't use the slogan "Better Ingredients. Better Pizza." because it falsely implied that the competition's ingredients were not fresh or wholesome ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Recipe of the Week: Talk Dirty to Me, Cookbook(blog)

    Recipes can be so damn genteel sometimes, especially in the food porn-heavy cookbooks of recent years, where every egg is photographed as if from a golden goose and each step, each direction reeks of timidity. Batters are folded gently. Greens are dressed lightly. Soups are simmered slowly. Even Gor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Il Dolce Pizzeria To Debut This Week In Costa Mesa

    Craig Medici​Look out Pizzeria Ortica: another artisanal-style pizzeria cometh. Fellow chowhound and frequent tipster Craig Medici has clued me on a place which I've only heard about on paper. This one is called Il Dolce and looks to be a contender to be reckoned with. He writes: "I thought ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2009

    Best News EVER? LA's Mozza Might Be Coming to OC

    ​This really is the most exciting thing I've heard in a long time.According to the LA Times' Daily Dish, Mozza is considering expanding its brood into the OC. No word yet on whether we're talking Osteria or Pizzeria or--dare we even think it?--both.

  • Food

    September 3, 2009

    [Hole in the Wall] Calzones Away at Buccaneer Pizza in Santa Ana

    ​This really is the most exciting thing I've heard in a long time.According to the LA Times' Daily Dish, Mozza is considering expanding its brood into the OC. No word yet on whether we're talking Osteria or Pizzeria or--dare we even think it?--both.

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Dance Music Pick of the Week: Sultan at Code

    ​In the early '00s, after the hype of club culture peaked and many Johnny-come-latelys went home, a new generation of DJs and producers ascended. These younger men and women entered club-land for the right reasons--the music--and came armed with digital-production and social-networking skills that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2009

    This Week In Food

    In the last five days in Stick a Fork In It:We worked out that, to the best of our knowledge, no OC restaurants closed in June. That's a first!Edwin chowed down on chicken bowls and rated Flame Broiler's above Yoshinoya's.Chef Steve Samson of Pizzeria Ortica worried us all with his "I would like to ... More >>

  • Food

    May 7, 2009

    [Hole in the Wall] A Little Little Italy at Joey's Luparello's Pizza

    In the last five days in Stick a Fork In It:We worked out that, to the best of our knowledge, no OC restaurants closed in June. That's a first!Edwin chowed down on chicken bowls and rated Flame Broiler's above Yoshinoya's.Chef Steve Samson of Pizzeria Ortica worried us all with his "I would like to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Great Squash Pizza at Mesa

    Everyone's trying to be a fancy pizza man nowadays gracias to the Mozza phenomenon. From Pizzeria Ortica's neo-Italian standards to Avanti Café's inventive pies, it's a welcome addition to the county's pizza scene. Add to the good ones some squash concoction at Mesa.Mesa switches up its menu to mat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Dangerously Good Desserts At Pizzeria Ortica

    It's not often that hubby and I nearly come to blows over dessert (or anything else, I hasten to add), but we had a very close call during a recent meal at Pizzeria Ortica in Costa Mesa. (For Edwin's review of the sleek eaterie, CLICK HERE).Our bellies already filled with pies, we thought we were be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    More Dining Bargains--Fashion Plates at South Coast Plaza

    Seems like the OC can't get enough of dining and drinking deals these days, what with the recent Orange County Restaurant Week, upcoming Happy Hour Week and a ton of other random bargains and promos. Lucky us!This time it's the Fashion Plates event at SCP, a ten-day affair running from March 20 to 2 ... More >>

  • Food

    March 5, 2009

    We Got David Myers' Pizzeria Ortica First. So, Suck It, LA!

    Seems like the OC can't get enough of dining and drinking deals these days, what with the recent Orange County Restaurant Week, upcoming Happy Hour Week and a ton of other random bargains and promos. Lucky us!This time it's the Fashion Plates event at SCP, a ten-day affair running from March 20 to 2 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    His Way

    Tribute to Sinatra

  • Food

    August 2, 2007

    This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

    Breaking Into the Upper Crust: New York's Upper Crust Pizza

  • Food

    March 15, 2007

    This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

    Pizza for Pesos: Chicago Pizza

  • Food

    December 8, 2005

    Deep Dish Deliverance

    Solving the horror of the pizza lunch with Tony’s Little Italy

  • Food

    June 23, 2005

    Beach Cities Pizza

    Solving the horror of the pizza lunch with Tony’s Little Italy

  • Food

    April 21, 2005

    Moonlight Pizza and Chicken

    Solving the horror of the pizza lunch with Tony’s Little Italy

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