100 Favorite OC Dishes, #62: Pineapple Float at Jollibee

I don’t want to sound grateful for the pandemic. It’s been awful, and I welcome its demise. But if COVID-19 hadn’t dramatically disrupted the restaurant scene — and my job along with it — I likely wouldn’t have discovered some of the more...

I did a double-take when the Jidori chicken schnitzel at Ironwood landed on our table with a thud. It's covered end-to-end in golden-brown breading and has a surface area so large you could pick it up and wear it as a scarf. “Do chickens have...

There’s a running joke in the 1993 Sylvester Stallone sci-fi flick Demolition Man that all restaurants in its dystopian future are Taco Bells. The movie is set in 2032, just 15 years from now, and if the current state of our dystopia is any...

Fried chicken and Hainan chicken from Maxwell Chicken Rice I eat a lot of fried chicken. The first season of my show “The Bucket List” is all about fried chicken — all nine episodes of it — in which I highlight excellent fried chicken around Los...

Despite 2020 being so upsetting, I still managed to enjoy some astonishingly delicious moments. I uncovered a few of these gems in January, February and March before the pandemic exploded, whereas some of these things I discovered later while...