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Your Essential OC Happy Hour Guide Where to go for the best deals and drinks
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July 22, 2010
Hmm. The happy hours feature on our food blog is called “Drunk After Work,” and the print headline of this list of OC’s most alluring weekday... More >>
We've Got an App for That
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July 22, 2010
Technology has improved nearly every aspect of our life, and now, at long last, it has been applied to mankind’s greatest venture: the search for... More >>
Mother's Market Explains It All Baffled by soyrizo and seitan? Not anymore!
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July 22, 2010
Founded in 1978 by people “who practiced yoga together”—which might just be another way of saying “hippies”—this Costa Mesa natural-foods market... More >>
Cooling Off At Mariscos Mocorito
[Hole In the Wall] Orange's new Sinaloan dive helps you attain an aguachile summer
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July 22, 2010
What is it with great Mexican seafood restaurants picking horrible locations in Orange? The second location of Ostionería Bahía continues to live... More >>
Panvimarn's Exploding Crabs Misadventures at Long Beach's Saturday-night-destination restaurant
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July 15, 2010
From the outside, Panvimarn doesn’t look like much. You’d guess it’s a mom-and-pop hole in the wall with sticky menus and chafing trays from... More >>
Piaggio Gourmet Goes Mobile
[Hole In the Wall] Jose Piaggio takes his Argentine restaurant wherever he roams
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July 15, 2010
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve devoted a post every Tuesday on our Stick a Fork In It food blogto reviewing a gourmet food truck. The... More >>
Meatballs for the Masses at Rustica Nothing wrong with the familiar and comfortable, if you do them right
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July 08, 2010
For all the worldly sophistication chef Grant MacPherson is supposed to bring to Rustica, the new Italian restaurant that replaced Francoli at... More >>
Little Arabia Grows Up
[Hole In the Wall] Andaluz Restaurant and Bakery spins a sublime shawarma
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July 08, 2010
One of the first food reviews I wrote for this rag was an overview of the Arab restaurants on Anaheim’s stretch of Brookhurst Street, between La... More >>
Well Seasoned at Four Seasons Hot Pot So what if it's summer? Making your own soup is fun!
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July 01, 2010
Don’t be surprised when you find yourself the only soul dining at Four Seasons Hot Pot. With summer just beginning, Four Seasons will be as... More >>
Breakfast By the Boulevard at Pop's Cafe
[Hole In the Wall] Old-time-diner comfort fare in heart of downtown Santa Ana
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July 01, 2010
For a city that’s nearly all Mexican, Santa Ana sure takes its American breakfasts seriously, and its long section of Main Street serves as a... More >>
Chicken Maison Won't Be Cooped Up The menu at this Middle Eastern rotisserie spot goes way beyond the titular bird
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June 24, 2010
Two things are required any time someone reviews a Mediterranean/Middle Eastern restaurant that offers rotisserie chicken. First, there must be a... More >>
Twirly Birds at Don Pollo
[Hole in the Wall] Rotisserie chicken, Mexican-style
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June 24, 2010
I must be honest: As a Mexican, I think we do chicken best al carbón—slathered in citrus juices and patted down with spices, then left to the... More >>
Higher Ground at Canyon Rich Mead's new 'creative Californian' restaurant doesn't fix what's not broken
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June 17, 2010
We were finishing up our meal at Canyon when an older gentleman at the next table said to his server, “Get me the manager.”When Rich Mead, chef... More >>
The California Challenge at Pepe's
[Hole in the Wall] In which you will face a burrito of mythic proportions
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June 17, 2010
Of all the beats of journalism, food writers are probably the most notoriously flowery with their prose, their love of metaphors, similes and... More >>
Buy Me Some Sushi and Cracker Jack [Summer Guide] A rundown of the best non-chain eats at the Big A
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June 10, 2010
Summer goes with baseball; baseball goes with beer, hot dogs and . . . sushi? Yes, as you might have already heard, these days, there is more... More >>
Butter Up, Angels Fans! [Hole In the Wall] Four places to eat before a Halos game (and one to visit afterward)
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June 10, 2010
While Edwin found the places inside Angel Stadium where you should eat (I still get a kick from buying ice cream in little helmets, even if the... More >>
Soju Think You Can Drink? The menu at JuJu Pocha exists to absorb the sneaky fuck-you-up-ness of the yogurt soju
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June 03, 2010
I blame the innocent-looking little metal teapot in which JuJu Pocha serves its yogurt soju. It obscures the amount you’ve had to drink and the... More >>
Burrito Korner
[Hole in the Wall] Liquor, breakfast burritos and sandwiches: What more could you want from Qwik Korner?
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June 03, 2010
As Main Street in Santa Ana turns into Main Street in Irvine—just before it shoots underneath the 55 freeway—you enter a geographical time warp.... More >>
Harry's Deli: A Cult Above Quality and Internet savvy have turned Harrison Kho's sandwich shop into a phenomenon
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May 27, 2010
Remember the name Harrison Kho. Right now, you might not know who the guy is, but then, two years ago, you didn’t know about Roy Choi or his... More >>
Binh Dan's Got Your Goat
[Hole In the Wall] The Little Saigon eatery knows what to do with this underappreciated ungulate
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May 27, 2010
Little Saigon is a place of little consensus, and arguments about food have created a dining scene of almost-Balkan divisions. Everyone has a... More >>
Get Fired Up at Inka Grill The Costa Mesa location boasts a drool-worthy wood-fire roasted chicken along with other Peruvian dishes
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May 20, 2010
You notice the wood-fire aroma the moment you walk into the new Inka Grill in Costa Mesa. It’s a campfire kind of smell, the sweet scent of... More >>
The Goat That Stares at Men
[Hole in the Wall] The La Cascada truck in Santa Ana offers birria at its best
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May 20, 2010
The Santa Ana lonchera La Cascada surely has one of the stranger ads in Orange County’s dining scene. A vinyl banner hanging from its side... More >>
Drive-In to Distraction at Ruby's Why eating in your car should be an act of desperation, not a conscious choice
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May 13, 2010
If there’s such a thing as a nostalgia factory, it would be Ruby’s. OC can be proud that the chain started here 30 years ago when owner Doug... More >>
Zen Sushi Gives Life to Triangle Square
[Hole in the Wall] At long last, your moment of Zen
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May 13, 2010
Years ago, the Weekly’s then-calendar editor consistently relayed messages to me from Sushi Zen in Costa Mesa. They left e-mails and voice... More >>
House of Great Views and Values The House of Big Fish and Ice Cold Beer left out those two crucial facts from its name
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May 06, 2010
First, hats off to whoever came up with the name House of Big Fish & Ice Cold Beer. As the cliché goes, it is what it is.The brainchild of Chris... 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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