Hopefully you remember that the first ever Orange County Restaurant Week is going to happen soon (February 22-28).
To remind you, and to get things off to a tantalizing start, some of the chefs from the restaurants involved will be doing free cooking demos at Bloomingdale's Home Store at South Coast Plaza.
It began yesterday with Chef De Cuisine Brian Black from The Loft at The Montage Laguna Beach, doing his barbecue-braised laughing bird shrimp with warm baby spinach and pinenut salad.
The demos will continue through the 28th. To check out the full schedule of chef appearances and dishes they'll cook, CLICK HERE
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.