10 Essential Fountain Valley Restaurants

Izakaya With SeoulSushi and bulgogi burritos live together in perfect harmony, side-by-side at TustinNs Haru Izakaya Is it just me, or is every other Japanese joint opening these days an izakaya? The trendy Japanese equivalent to the gastro-pub...

According to Izakaya Ku's menu, the mackerel dish would be seared tableside. But I didn't expect the waiter to show up with a hand-held flamethrower. I admit inching away in my seat a little when it whooshed on as though it were an acetylene...

A guy walked into Izakaya Meijiya one quiet Sunday night. “Takeout?” he asked. Since the waitress didn’t show up for work, it was up to the chef, a young man in his thirties with an affable, easy way about himself, to oblige the potential customer...

It's always a good thing when I find that there are more restaurants opening than closing when I do these end-of-month reports. Restaurant closures are sad.  Anyway, on with the post. Herewith is the roll-call of stuff we wrote about and/or...

What's better than two Honda-Yas in Orange County? Three Honda-Yas, that's what. The izakaya we named in more Best Of Issues than I care to count right now has announced it's opening a so-called Honda-Ya Box in Costa Mesa at the former site of...