When our Anne Marie first broke the news that Bruxie was planning an Irvine location at Heritage Plaza (corner of Culver and Walnut), there was a lot of speculation about where it would actually end up. Would it be next to The Habit? Where Ace Donuts is? Where, where, where? That was the question.
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Trusty tipster and reader Mike posited at the time that it had to be where Fujikan was, right behind Wendy's. And he proved himself right when he wrote to me that Bruxie just put up banners at the old Fujikan spot, which they are gutting at this very moment.
Now the next question is not “Where, where, where?” but “When, when, when?”
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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.