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There's Something About 320 Main Cameron Diaz eats at this Seal Beach stalwart, and so should you!
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April 14, 2011
When you picture what Hollywood movie stars might be doing right now, you expect something fantastical, like blasting CGI aliens or running away... More >>
Pho Thanh Lich: The Undisputed Best Pho in OC
[Hole In the Wall] Bow before your pho king-god and try the winner of our recent Final Pho tournament
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April 14, 2011
After about a collective 30 or so bowls of pho consumed over three weeks in our Final Pho tournament, us wackos over at our Stick a Fork In It... More >>
Commonwealth Lounge and Grill Bring Fullerton Flavor The concept has spearheaded the revival of downtown Fullerton. But will it work in Zooport?
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April 07, 2011
The two-story property at 2406 Newport Blvd. should be a sure-fire customer magnet. It's on the Peninsula, right on the water's edge, bordered by... More >>
Soho Is Where the Taco Is
[Hole In the Wall] Reyna Market in Santa Ana is home to the Zambranos, the best taqueros in Orange County right now
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April 07, 2011
There I was a couple of weeks ago, rumbling down McFadden in deepest, brownest Santa Ana in a rusted VW Bus. I was lost, searching for a mythical... More >>
Koba Tofu Grill Offers Lovable Lava This new Irvine entry in the Korean chain offers many soft-tofu soups that burn and roil, but, boy, are they delish!
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March 31, 2011
You haven't really lived until you've sucked on raw crab. At the newest Koba Tofu Grill in Irvine, the spicy blue-crab dish called gae jang... More >>
Pee-Wee's Is Beach Burger Bingo
[Hole In the Wall] This Huntington Beach fave offers great burgers and hot dogs, and its regional specialties are even better
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March 31, 2011
Politically, I'm an open-borders type of guy—but that only somewhat extends to my culinary side. I welcome immigrants and their various food... More >>
Alessa In Laguna Beach Not Alessa Version of the Original Alessandro Pirozzi's third restaurant makes for a flawless trilogy of Italian food
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March 24, 2011
I had not a single shred of doubt that the third and newest Cucina Alessa was going to be as good as the others. Even before it opened, I likened... More >>
Saigon Bakery: OC's Banh Mi Champeen?
[Hole In the Wall] This Westminster eatery specializes in the Vietnamese sandwich and other baked goodies.
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March 24, 2011
Right now, the biggest thing happening in the Weekly's food universe is on our Stick a Fork In It blog: the Final Pho! Edwin, bloggers Dave... More >>
Battle of the Dance Is Cheesy Good People who go to OC's newest dinner show should focus on the show and less on the dinner
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March 17, 2011
Battle of the Dance isn't the disaster that is the yet-to-debut SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark. A reported $10 million was spent to convert an... More >>
Punjabi Tandoor Is Nom Nom Nirvana
[Hole In the Wall] This Anaheim restaurant does wonderful interpretations of Northern India cuisine
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March 17, 2011
The big trend in Orange County Indian dining over the past couple of years has been the spread of its southern dishes—dosas and idli and thali... More >>
Habuya Represents the Perfect Prefecture This Tustin dive dazzles as the first Okinawan restaurant in Orange County
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March 10, 2011
Until now, only a handful of OC restaurants has flirted with serving the cuisine of Okinawa, an island prefecture of Japan. Though it's a sushi... More >>
Morangak Has the Seoul of OC's Little Korean
[Hole In the Wall] This Garden Grove restaurant is famous for its Korean barbecue—but there's more
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March 10, 2011
OC's Korean community is as vibrant as any in the United States. Irvine has Sukhee Kang, the first Korean-American mayor of any U.S. city.... More >>
Hapa J's Puts You In an Aloha State of Mind This San Clemente Hawaiian restaurant will make you recall your fondest vacation memories
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March 03, 2011
In an idyllic, sparsely inhabited town named Hawi on Hawaii's Big Island, there's a breezy restaurant in a converted plantation house. I can't... More >>
Taqueria Rigoberto's Is the Loncheros' Lonchera
Eat like a taco-truck employee at this Santa Ana chef favorite
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March 03, 2011
Great news, gentle readers: Your favorite paper's food section and KCRW-FM 89.9's Good Food With Evan Kleiman are teaming up to hold our... More >>
Taco Asylum Sells Twittered Tacos The Haven Gastropub creators try their hand at a gourmet taco stand
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February 24, 2011
I don't envy the work the Haven Gastropub wunderkinds—Greg Daniels, Wil Dee and Alkesh Patel—have ahead of them. They're planning a second... More >>
Gendershe Has Bur, Baby, Bur!
[Hole In the Wall] Orange County's first Somali restaurant impresses with its fried bread and other specialties
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February 24, 2011
While Orange County has always hosted an embarrassingly small African-American community, actual Africans are beginning to arrive on our shores... More >>
Roots Gourmet for the Home Team Coffee, sandwiches, empanadas and more make this delicious Long Beach eatery hard to classify
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February 17, 2011
Roots Gourmet is hard to pigeonhole. Is it a coffee joint or a sandwich shop? Is it a Latin restaurant that serves vegan food or a dessert place... More >>
Da Luau Is Da Kine
[Hole In the Wall] The Irvine eatery excels at Hawaiian island rarities
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February 17, 2011
Restaurateurs and reinvention may go together like a burrito and a flour tortilla, but I really don’t understand the phenomenon. I can’t... More >>
Northern Exposure at Clearman's North Woods Inn The snow-covered log cabin of La Mirada still serves the meals that have made us obese and happy for a half-century
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February 10, 2011
If I asked you to point me to the nearest snow-covered log cabin, I would be able to tell a little bit about you by the answer you gave. A person... More >>
Taqueria La Bamba Is El Queso Grande
[Hole In the Wall] The stellar quesadillas lead the pack of Mexico City specialties at this Fullerton fixture
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February 10, 2011
In terms of diversity, Fullerton probably has the best selection of Mexican restaurants in Orange County, besting even Santa Ana. It's the... More >>
The Kickin' Crab Joins the Crustacean Nation A new Santa Ana Vietnamese-Cajun seafood joint joins the trend and tries to break the curse of its location
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February 03, 2011
From the looks of the location, the low-slung building on Bristol Street near Macarthur Boulevard in Santa Ana ought to be a prime spot for an... More >>
Cafe Lotus Lives La Vie Vietnamese in Newport
With great French and Vietnamese offerings, this place is better-suited for Little Saigon than the Hoag Hospital crowd
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February 03, 2011
I worry for Café Lotus, snugly hidden off Old Newport Boulevard, in the shadow of Hoag Hospital, an afterthought for drivers hurrying toward PCH,... More >>
Bistro Anju Has an Iron Chef Hideki Saito weathers drunkards and the clueless alike at his Laguna Niguel eatery to deliver greatness
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January 27, 2011
The six people who sat at a table in the back of the restaurant were obviously drunk on too much sake. Their increasingly rowdy voices were fast... More >>
Tastes of Greece Gives 'Em Hellenic
[Hole In the Wall] This Laguna Niguel eatery might be the smallest restaurant in OC—but its Greek dishes are stunners
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January 27, 2011
Two reviews of Laguna Niguel restaurants in one issue? Hey, the last time I reviewed one of the bland 'burb's eateries was in 2004, so we might... More >>
DG Burger Is Damned If You Do Charlie Palmer's downmarket burger at South Coast Plaza tries not to eat up all the profits
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January 20, 2011
One of the most memorable things you can eat at Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale's South Coast Plaza isn't the foie gras or the steaks; it's the... More >>
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At Inka Mama's, Mami Knows Best
There used to be a different Peruvian restaurant at the very spot Inka Mama's has recently claimed as its fourth Orange County location. By all accounts, it did a very… More >>
Pho Quyen: Absolutely Sweet Little Saigon
We're now reaching a point in Little Saigon's history where the old-school places are slowly but surely changing. Some are closing shop; others are moving to richer environs in South… More >>
For a Hot Time In Old Huntington, Go to the Black Trumpet Bistro
The eateries you'll see on the 5-mile stretch of Beach Boulevard as it extends from the 405 down to Pacific Coast Highway can have the randomness of what sticks on… More >>
Chixy Natural: Twirl-a-Bird
"Hey, man, you still going to use that?" the surfer-ish type guy asked as I scarfed down my meal at Chixy Natural. Oh, my lack of manners! This Costa Mesa… More >>
Urban Seoul's Bulgogi Nation
It's impossible to talk about Urban Seoul without mentioning Roy Choi, the creator of Kogi, the pioneer of luxe loncheras, America's unofficial ambassador to everything hipster ethnic, last seen traipsing… More >>
Delicias Peruanas' Great Chicken Salad?
You know what is the most overlooked city in Orange County? Lake Forest. It's a seeming no-man's-land between North and South County, a place where the politics are dirty, the… More >>
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