It may not be obvious, but the new restaurant Mamón Hillside Eatery, located just a few doors down from the Inka Mama’s flagship location in Foothill Ranch, is also a Peruvian restaurant. Well, sort of. There are hints of Peru everywhere, but only if you’re paying attention. I’m pretty sure I saw bottles of Inka […]
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Is Eleven46 Kitchen the Chipotle of Vietnamese Cuisine?
We all seem to think we know how to run a restaurant regardless of whether we've ever owned or operated one. So when you find yourself in a restaurant that deviates from this ideal, even just a little, you start playing the role of an armchair Gordon Ramsay or Robert Irvine. You think you know […]
Embarcadero: The San Francisco Treat
You're on the 241, heading as far east as you can go before hitting the Cleveland National Forest. The LA radio station you're tuned to begins to crackle with static. You look at your navigation system and realize you're now geographically closer to Lake Elsinore than you are to Disneyland—yet you're still in Orange County. […]
Feast On Urban Kitchen Grill & Wine Bar's Suburban Splendor
There are still some of us in OC who can't locate Foothill Ranch on a map, or we think there's nothing there besides row after row of squat office parks, faceless warehouses and cookie-cutter tract homes. It's the model of modern suburbia, the section of Orange County where everything is so new that what's not […]
Always a Cover-Up at Wal-Mart. Always
Six months ago, the Orange County district attorney’s office announced it had won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Wal-Mart for illegally dumping hazardous waste—everything from pesticides, chemicals, paints and aerosols to acid, fertilizer and motor oil—at 236 stores throughout California. The settlement, a whopping $27.6 million, is among the largest payouts involving environmental abuses in state […]
Fundraiser for Amber Pangan
Help the fight against cancer! At OC Chili's locations: 15% of your bill will be donated to aid Amber and her family with medical bills and expenses. Chili's locations: Irvine, Foothill Ranch, Mission Viejo, Aliso Viejo, Huntington Beach, Orange, Yorba Linda, Buena Park. Wed., Aug. 25, 11 a.m., 2010
Fire Officials Seek Information on OC Arsonist
The folks over at the Register are doing a fine job reporting on the massive Orange County arson fire that’s threatening to keep firefighters at work for another two days as winds approaching hurricane force continue to pound the region. Residents in Foothill Ranch are the latest to see their neighborhood in the path of […]
New Reviews
WE RECOMMEND: SUPERBAD See “Nerd Love.” (Countywide) ALSO SHOWING: 7 DAYS This film was not screened in time for our reviewers. (Edwards Westpark, Irvine; AMC 30 at the Block, Orange) AMERICAN FUSION This film was not screened in time for our reviewers. (Regal Foothill Towne Center, Foothill Ranch; AMC 30 at the Block, Orange; Edwards […]
This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
A million-dollar balloon. The imminent closing of Wild Rivers. Crony-loving, no-bid-contract-granting City Council members. Irvine isn't exactly endearing itself to the rest of Orange County these days. But there's one thing that can redeem the land of Agran: New York's Upper Crust Pizza. This mini-chain (other locations stand in Foothill Ranch, Laguna Niguel and Long […]
Foothill Ranch
This is the real foothills—great rolling sunburned berms of midget mountains—but we're passing lightly over it because it's not a city. Yet. Foothill Ranch is serviced by Lake Forest and so lacks its own agencies like a cop shop or a city hall, a sad mall (Westminster), a haunted ship (Long Beach), an evil sheriff. […]
The Lion Speaks Tonight
Concerned over possible reprisals and rampant taxidermy, a broad coalition of wildlife and trademarked animal pitchmen pleaded for calm in the wake of a vicious Jan. 8 attack by a mountain lion that left a Foothill Ranch man dead and a Santa Ana woman clinging to life. “It's unfair to paint all mountain lions as […]
Ask the Soup Nazi
Illustration by Bob Aul Away with anemic consommés and bland, canned broths. Give us instead the world in a bowl, a symphony for the senses, a porcelain canvas upon which a chef's vision is writ large! The following five fit this finicky bill. •CBS SEAFOOD RESTAURANT, 7212 Orangethorpe Ave., Buena Park, (714) 670-1601.Everything from shredded […]
Lake Forest
Photo by Keith MayIf Lake Forest feels sprawling and lacking in any central downtown area, that's because it is and does. Incorporated in 1991, the city called Lake Forest—once known as El Toro—now includes the annexed Foothill Ranch and Portola Hills. It's composed of a number of small residential areas built around two lakes, connected […]