Two of the most commented recent entries I wrote on this blog was about the planned opening of Sol Cocina in Newport Beach and Andrei's in Irvine. Those commenting (including myself) had mostly pot-shots about why it's called “Cucina” and not “Cocina”.
Then other commentors came to correct the misspelling that's been put out there. They confirm that it is, thankfully, going to be called “Cocina”, not “Cucina”.
And in the case of Andrei's, they added a disclaimer on their website that they weren't open yet, after my post went up lamenting the fact that the website misled me into thinking they were already open when they weren't.
Well, finally, because of more comments written on those entries, we now know that both are officially opening to the public today, July 15th.
As far as new comments on this post, I expect they will now undoubtedly be about how the food is.
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.