My continued favorite food happening is 2008 OC Weekly Best Restaurant Avanti Cafe's International Tuesdays, where $11.50 gets you a three-course meal of cuisines rare to these parts. This month's theme: regional cuisines of India, as follows. Note "Veronica" and "Bart" are the junior chefs at Avanti to owners Mark Cleveland and Tanya Fuqua in name only; they can outcook most any chef in Orange County:Brahmin Veronica's PUNJABTuesday, January 6Dal Maharini - Punjab lentil soupSabzi Pulao - Veget
Spring may have sprung, and Michelle Obama may be receiving bountiful media coverage for her new White House kitchen garden, but Orange County has its very healthy-food hero in the form of local movie producer and director Carrie Gallison.Gallison recently completed Orange County Treasures: The People's Farm, a 23-minute documentary that chronicles the history of South Coast Farms (the oldest working farm in OC) and the people of San Juan Capistrano, who helped stop it from becoming "another str
The 16th Annual Wild & Crazy Taco Night will be held this Thursday.
1550 Superior Avenue, Costa Mesa 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM VIP Party 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
$60 - advance registration onlyVIP Party $150 - advance registration only
There's limited availability, No tickets sold at the door
For those who haven't been, this is the charity event to benefit Share Our Strengh, which pits some of OC's best chefs against each other in creating the...well, the wildest and craziest tacos (no, Kogi won't be
Cleveland: Ex-cellent!I'm still mad at Avanti Cafe for stopping their International Tuesdays, so that just means I now try to visit once a week instead of every other day. I usually visit in the evening, when Mark Cleveland relieves his co-owner Tanya Fuqua in a transition as seamless as a Jamaican 4x100 relay baton passing. They've made Avanti the place for innovative vegan cooking in Orange County since 2005, and the two concoct the best drinks this side of Memphis at the Santora. We nabbed
