Both the L.A. Times' S. Irene Virbila and the O.C. Register's Jeff Overley reviewed Il Dolce in Costa Mesa yesterday. If you count my own review a few weeks ago,
this recent critic pile up has turned into a perfect storm of
attention for this little Italian/Argentinean pizzeria that could.
And it looks like the forecast for the place is mostly sunny. For sure,
it will be much more difficult to get a seat there now. The place is
tiny.
But since I've got this storm metaphor going, if there was a butterfly on this classic case of the butterfly effect, it would be our tipster and buddy Craig Medici,
who first snapped the first pics of the place as it was getting ready
to open and told us of its goodness, which I posted on this very blog.
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.