Speaking of The Marketplace, where the planned Bonefish Grill will make landfall, the second Islands is also being slated to open there, except on what's officially the Irvine side of the shopping center, behind On The Border.
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It will, as I mentioned, be the second Islands in Irvine (the other is on Barranca & Culver), and it won't be the only burger joint of note in the plaza. G Burger, as we revealed before, is going to open its Irvine store a short hop away at the food court next to Thai Spice.
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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.