Irvine's Veggie Grill is slated to open it's second Irvine outlet at The Irvine Spectrum, fellow food-blogger Brekkie Fan told me. The original, across from UCI, has become the darling of local vegetarians and omnivores alike, thanks to one of the co-founders of Costa Mesa's Native Foods.
As Brekkie Fan succinctly puts it, “tempeh is the new chicken”; and soon those whose who stream out of Edwards Irvine Spectrum can have it in lieu of Johnny Rockets.
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.