A new coffee bar is being constructed in Irvine's Diamond Jamboree next to Urban Seoul. Called Byul, it is most likely a Korean coffeehouse, which might mean sweet-potato lattes, patbingsu, as well as sandwiches served in cute-as-a-button surroundings to appeal to a specific demographic. Or it could be just a quick service coffee stop.
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Whatever it turns out to be, it makes the plaza's Jamboree-adjacent island of stores completely dedicated to food. The previous tenants were a cell phone store and what I think was a watch shop.
The arrival of Byul also means that only two of the shops in this island of seven stores remain the original tenants.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.