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Bloody Mary at Back Bay Tavern at Whole Foods Market Newport Beach, Our Drink of the Week!

Earlier this week, I attended a special dinner by Clay Oven Irvine executive chef-owner Geeta Bansal at Whole Foods Market's Newport Beach location. It's a snug space that's encyclopedic in its offerings but not as intimidating as the cavernous Tustin location. But what I didn't expect was its Back ... More >>

Geeta Bansal Doing Pop-Up At Whole Foods In Newport Beach

Clay Oven chef, and now Stick A Fork In It contributor Geeta Bansal, is doing another pop-up event, this time at the Back Bay Tavern in Whole Foods at Fashion Island. It'll be on Wednesday March 6th. Mrs. Bansal will offer a 5-course dinner focused on modernist Indian cuisine, with guests arriving a ... More >>

On The Line: Dean Kim of OC Baking Company, Part Two

"I don't consider myself old in any way, but I'm old school now. Even Dee (Nguyen), Mike (Rossi) . . .we're old."One of the best things about interviewing a well-connected baker is the exchange of information. Dean reminds us that the community of chefs is full of friends and customers. Can you beli ... More >>

Eat This Now: Kickin' Ketchup

Written by our resident Brit, Jack Grimshaw... Sexy, ketchup ain't. If your shining moment is being the punch line of a joke (albeit one told by the delectable Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction), then you have, in PR and advertising lingo, an image problem. And Dana Point's Beach Cities Ketchup aims to ch ... More >>

On The Line: Geeta Bansal Of Clay Oven, Part One

Geeta Bansal doesn't sit still. Her travel plans to visit chefs Europe are around the corner, and they've just finalized plans for another dinner collaboration-- and that's just for October. Most recently, they served wild boar at Taste of Newport. Plans to prep their signature Thanksgiving turkeys ... More >>

Lots Of OC Chefs (And Fabio!) To Give Cooking Demos At The New Whole Foods Laguna Niguel

A new Whole Foods is coming to Laguna Niguel on May 16, and it's a fancy one. It's one of those places where you can spend all afternoon (and definitely all your money.) There's a wine and beer bar (with 12 local brews on tap), a pizza station, a juice bar, a taco eatery and a huge outdoor patio wit ... More >>

5 Foodies To Follow on Pinterest

​Pinterest is not just another social media time-suck that leaves women wishing they had more money, vacation time and hours in the day to crochet coffee mug cozies. For food lovers, it's a pretty incredible source of inspiration for daily meals, parties, kitchen tools--everything. Since the site ... More >>

The District in Tustin Loses 3 Restaurants

Edwin Goei​I noticed in walking around The District in Tustin last week how deserted the place was. No, not the Costco part or the part where Target and Whole Foods continue to snarl up traffic; but the area around the theater. After the failure of Borders and Chaparosa Grill a few months ago, ... More >>

Soy Nail Polish Remover Allows You to Say 'Adiós' to Acetone

[Trendzilla] Kaia House, Priti NYC and Karma Organics offer options

On the Line: Keith Stich of Wildfish Seafood Grille, Part Three

Photo by Meranda Carter​We wrap up our interview with Wildfish's Keith Stich with an easy-peasy ahi main course. [Editor's Note: While the exact amount of fish isn't stated in the recipe, Stich said that 6 ounces of ahi feeds one person.] While things are marinating, take a look back at parts one ... More >>

Hundreds March To Trader Joe's Headquarters In Monrovia To Demand A One Penny Per Pound Raise For Florida Farm Workers

Marisa Gerber/ OCWeekly​Three vans of people -- many from El Centro Cultural de Mexico and others from Justice for Janitors and an inter-faith group -- carpooled from Santa Ana to Monrovia today for a protest at Trader Joe's headquarters. The crew of 30 or so from Santa Ana convened with abou ... More >>

Fast Food Sushi vs. Supermarket Sushi

Edwin GoeiSushi Boy's Sushi​ Fast food sushi. If there's a better food oxymoron out there, I think it'd have to be "veggie burgers". But that's disingenuous of me to say. I've actually enjoyed more "fast food sushi" than veggie burgers. Most of the time, it's Sushi Boy; not usually for the sushi, ... More >>

The Power of Whole Foods: Almost One Million 696,132 Living Social Deals Sold So Far

​UPDATE, SEPT. 13, 10:30 P.M.: The Washington Post is reporting that the Whole Foods Living Social deal was their most fastest-selling offer ever: Approximately 115,000/hour, which breaks down to 30 deals/second.ORIGINAL POST, SEPT. 13, 2011, 11:23 A.M.: Around here, Whole Foods is referred to as ... More >>

Prankster Fakes A Whole Foods Opening in Silver Lake; Two Real Ones Coming To OC

​So over in LAist, there's much about ado about nothing. Literally nothing. They report that someone apparently took the time to put up a banner announcing the arrival of a new Whole Foods in Silverlake, at an abandoned Circuit City...as a joke. The website posits "It's an odd thing to joke about ... More >>

Whole Foods Scrambles To Do Damage-Control After One Region Buckles Under Islamophobic Pressure

Whole Foods​Whole Foods wants to get one thing straight: Addressing a report from our sister paper Houston Press--Whole Foods: "We Should Not Highlight Ramadan"--which set off a maelstrom of attacks on the haute-hippie market, the corporate-run @WholeFoods has spent the day doing damage cont ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Ventura Limoncello

Dave Lieberman​Ventura County produces more lemons than any other county in the United States. A drive inland along Highway 150 from Santa Barbara to Santa Paula goes past thousands of acres of lemon trees, but limoncello, the lemon liqueur that's on every bar shelf in Italy, was never produced lo ... More >>

This Week in Food: Cone-Ing, Breastaurants, and Tamal vs. Tamale!

​Always awesome weeks here, so jump after the jump to learn what made us jump this week!

"Whole Foods Parking Lot" Video: Miracle of Filmmaking!

Everyone's posting this, so we should as well--along with our own Whole Foods Nazi experience!

Five Tastiest Non-Farm Animals to Throw on The Barbie This Memorial Day Weekend

Flickr user Another Pint Please...As if the Weekly had the budget to buy us lobster...​Tired of the same old burgers and dogs you grill every Memorial Day? Steaks and chicken don't lift your kilt like they used to? Here's some ideas for things to throw on the grill this weekend that your frie ... More >>

How to Smoke Turkey Legs

Flickr user tribbles1971 ​It's that time of year for ye olde Ren Faire in Irwindale. I'm as much a fan of smoked turkey legs as the next period-garb-wearing faire-goer, but it's not worth wearing 60 pounds of ethnically-correct samurai-warrior armor so I can gnaw on a turkey drumstick.This week: a ... More >>

Ben & Jerry's Truck Brings Free Ice Cream to SoCal, Now Accepting Locations

@BenJerrysWest​Now these boys can come over anytime. Ben & Jerry, makers of yummy and wittily-named ice cream, have a truck that will hand out free scoops throughout SoCal for the next six weeks. There are only a couple OC stops on the schedule so far--Whole Foods in Tustin on June 1 and ... More >>

Food Profiling: Avocados From Orange County Produce

​There's an area in Irvine that's a bit of a mystery to most. If you drive Jeffrey Road as far northeast as possible, the road is restricted beyond Portola. However, if you look up into the hillside, you'll see them: avocado trees. This quickly explains why the neighborhood's name is Orchard Hills ... More >>

Filed Under Awesome: An Angry Birds Gingerbread House

Flickr user zero-livesThe Chinese zodiac may point to the tiger but all those who've played that addictive mobile video game know this has indeed been the Year of the Bird. As a holiday tribute, Flickr user zero-lives built an Angry Birds gingerbread house. (Let's hope the supplies weren't pur ... More >>

Whole Foods Recalls Ginger Bread House For Possible Bacteria Contamination

Flickr User Andrew Kelsall​If you think it's safe to chow down on that stale gingerbread house you've been eyeing for the past month, you may want to just let it foreclose. On Christmas Eve, Whole Foods Market recalled the houses made by Rolf's Patisserie, a Chicago-area bakery and one of its sup ... More >>

Olive Gourmet Grocer Is the Anti-Whole Foods

This Long Beach storefront offers specialty products and delicious hot food without demanding your paycheck. Imagine that!

Six Dollars Too Much And Bad Besides: The Whole Foods Bánh Mì

Dave Lieberman​Orange County's third Whole Foods opened in mid-October in the Bella Terra complex at Beach and Edinger in Huntington Beach. This didn't stir up much sentiment around these parts, since most of us at Fork live closer to the organic juggernaut of a Whole Foods in Tustin, until we dis ... More >>

Self-Caffeination As It Was Meant To Be Done

Our coffee culture, sadly, tends to run toward Starbucks and drive-through at It's A Grind. Largely missing from la naranja is the local, artisanal small-batch roaster whose singular focus on the product raises the coffee bar. Sure, we have Martin Diedrich, and the lines out the door at his two coff ... More >>

A Sign That Food Trucks Are Still Hot: Whole Foods Takes Notice

Edwin Goei​ Our sister paper, SF Weekly asks: How do you know when street food is hot? When Whole Foods takes notice.

Champagne With Wild Hibiscus Flowers

​BevMo! carries just about every type of alcohol you could possibly need and if they don't have it in stock, they will special-order it. Their most under-appreciated aisle happens to house all of the non-alcoholic items. There is just about every flavor of rim salt and sugar possibl ... More >>

Mariela Rebollo of Barcelona On the Go, Part 2

Photo by Kimberly Valenzuela​This week, On the Line is featuring Chef Mariela Rebollo of the mobile tapas bar Barcelona on the Go. If you missed yesterday's questions, you can find them here. Tomorrow, Chef Mariela gives us a recipe for octopus cooked with wine and potatoes.

Whole Meals to Go at Whole Foods

Grace Le​ Kind of pretty isn't it?Find out if it tastes as good as it looks after the jump!

How Far Can Dexter Holland's Gringo Bandito Go?

What started as a gag gift by the Offspring singer is becoming a serious business

Baked Crispy Bread With Almond Cream at Capital Seafood

Jessica Ford Capital Seafood in the Diamond Jamboree Center of Irvine has all of the necessary qualities of a fine dining establishment--linen napkins, chandelier lighting and attentive servers--without the prices such touches suggest. This most upscale outpost of the mini-chain of Chinese ... More >>

Life on the Veg: Taco Verde at Raw

Anyone that has been grocery shopping will know that one of the worst moves to make is to tour the isles on an empty stomach. Unless you've brought your mother along to help you "just say no," chances are you'll end up with a cart full of crap you didn't come for.I almost suffered this same fate the ... More >>

Dean and Deluca Cancels Fashion Island Store

jorgeq82 @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Not actually coming to a mall near you...​Well, I hate to be the Christmas buzzkill, but the Irvine Company today announced that Dean & Deluca has cancelled plans for the Newport Beach store. The store, which was originally supposed to open in spring 2009, ... More >>

Gift Wrath: Retailers Walk Fine Line at Christmas

Be more jolly!​Gustavo blogged about California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe forwarding to her knuckle-dragging followers an article critical of Best Buy's all inclusive Thanksgiving greeting including a happy Eid Al-Adha wish to Muslims, which naturally forced Babs to conclud ... More >>

Whole Foods Recalling Hazelnuts Because of Salmonella

​Whole Foods is recalling organic and non-organic raw hazelnuts (known also as filberts) sold in bulk at stores in California, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington. So far, according to the company, no illnesses have been reported. You can call 512-542-0656, for more info ... More >>

Five Great Local Foodie Twitter Accounts Worth Following*

Flickr user casch52Okay, so seagulls don't really go tweet but...​ *Aside from our own @OCWeeklyFood, of course. Yes, there are millions (presumably) of food-related Twitterers/Tweeters out there, but most of them are either a) gibberish (check out Jamie Oliver's semi-literate ramblings @jami ... More >>

Dueling Dishes: Costco Pizza Versus Whole Foods Pizza

Edwin Goei​This week on Dueling Dishes: pizza. But not just any pizza: supermarket pizza, bought from opposite ends of the retail spectrum. Yes, it's Costco's pizza versus Whole Foods'. One is unquestionably proletariat, a massive mass-produced pie, sold for price so low ($9.95) it's almo ... More >>

UPDATE: Organic Food "No Better Than Conventional," Study Finds

​As reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition yesterday, the British-commissioned survey, which took its findings from 55 studies made in the past 50 years, claims that eating organic food "will make no important difference to a person's overall health".According to Alan Dangour, one ... More >>

Dishney: Tweets from the Park

Paul Hiffmeyer/DisneylandOur weekly roundup of some of the best--and the worst--tweets from the park that's only sometimes the happiest place on earth. Our favorite goes to user ZombieHorde. Warms our hearts. Follow us @OCWeekly!worship_girl: Texted my daughter 2x to see if she made it to disneyland ... More >>

Flippin' Good Fun For Father's Day

I'm not normally one to plug Whole Foods--love their grub, but it's way overpriced, to the extent that they once charged me 90 bucks for a chicken. Accidentally, admittedly, but the fact that I didn't realize until I got home is pretty telling.But this upcoming event at the District at Tustin Legacy ... More >>

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To Do Tonight 11/7

Fresh Fridays Grand Opening Featuring DJ MomJeans, 9 p.m. Surprise! DJ MomJeans is really Danny Masterson! Tentation Ultra Lounge 4647 MacArthur Blvd. Newport Beach, CA (949) 660-1010 http://www.tenrestaurantgroup.com Bats Day Dark Park Festival featuring Voltaire; Frankenstein; Unextraordinary G ... More >>

[Best of OC 2008 Post Cards] Foodstuffs: Greetings From Rachel Klemek

This Saturday: Irvine Global Village Festival

This Saturday, October 4, is the City of Irvine's Annual Global Village Festival, held from from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. at Bill Barber Park. Festival admission and parking are free. There will be musical performances and of course, lots of dancing, including hula, belly, and break. But what's a fe ... More >>

Snoopermarkets?

In an interview with MTV, famed Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg shared a few of his New Year's resolutions with the kids. No, he's not talking about leaving his weapons and/or marijuana at home before he tries to board airplanes, and no, he's not promising to finally release a rap album that doesn't to ... More >>

Disneyland for Foodies

The new Whole Foods Market fills your belly and lightens your wallet

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Natural Selection

Survival of the fittest at the Natural Products Expo