10 Essential Laguna Beach Restaurants

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • December 20, 2013
Laguna Beach is the New York of OC's restaurant scene. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Proof: Katsuya, that high-priced, high-concept sushi joint that has branches at LA Live and Brentwood, didn't last more than two years here....
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