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, bellobysandronardone.com Dolce diavola pizza at Bello in Newport Beach (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG) Brick The wood-fired pizzas here contain distant strands of Neapolitan DNA. The carne pizza is particularly good, topped with housemade Italian

, brickrestaurantgroup.com The carne pizza at Brick in San Clemente (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG) Centro Pizzeria This is some of the best square-cut Sicilian-style pizza in O.C. It’s sort of like focaccia on steroids. The best of the bunch is the

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, 714-546-7405, mastrosrestaurants.com The porterhouse steak with shoestring potatoes at Mastro’s in Costa Mesa. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/Orange County Register/SCNG) 7. Brick (2018 ranking: 7) More than any other Italian restaurant in the region, chef

, brickpizzeria.com The carne pizza at Brick in San Clemente includes housemade sausage, porchetta and two types of salame (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG) 6. Vaca (2018 ranking: 2) One the one hand, Amar Santana and Ahmed Labbate’s Vaca is the

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is ready. Just be prepared for some dirty, puzzled looks from the people in line. Calling the 120 pepperoni pizza at Burattino Brick Oven Pizza the 120 pepperoni pizza was always intended to be a marketing gimmick. And it worked. "It kind of just

something that vaguely resembles a circle, then baked in a 600-degree brick oven. I ordered mine with the black garlic marinara, which incorporates chef Lee Kim's 120-day fermented garlic. The ink-black paste is mixed with marinara to create a pungent, sweet

It was just over a year ago that the folks who operate a taco truck in Santa Ana called Tacos Manuel took the leap and opened a brick-and-mortar in Anaheim. The kitchen at the restaurant isn’t much bigger than the kitchen in their truck. The menu is

but for now there are no plans for new brick-and-mortar locations in California,” he said. “We have found it simply unworkable while offering the quality of product and service that we have always aspired to.” Konbi locations Konbi Ni, 1463 Sunset Blvd

brick-and-mortar locations in California,” he said. “We have found it simply unworkable while offering the quality of product and service that we have always aspired to.” Konbi locations Konbi Ni, 1463 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, (213) 278-0007Konbi

I was indoors. A couple of months ago, El Cevichazo only operated out of a food truck. This space—which the owners recently claimed from a failed Subway—is its first brick-and-mortar, but the food is the same. And the menu still reflects the Sinaloan

when you dare crisscross cultural lines. In the past few years, Dos Chinos has done well combining Vietnamese and Mexican cuisines into burritos, parlaying its success into two brick-and-mortar locations. Meanwhile in San Francisco, KoJa built an empire

he's finalizing terms for a bricks-and-mortar restaurant, wanting his customers to have more time and room to sit down and enjoy his family's food. Inspired by his latest trip to Mexico City, where he spent a month in December, he plans to introduce

than follow these trucks’ Twitter feeds. Why should I bother? Once nature and economics culls out the weak, all the best food trucks end up as permanent brick-and-mortars. And when the fittest of those survivors—such as Dos Chinos, Taco María and

Slapfish—became full-fledged restaurants or food-hall vendors, they emerged fully tested with predictable hours and a place to sit. Free Range Cafe is a good example of what I’m talking about. It’s the first brick-and-mortar from Free Range LA, a food truck

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