100 Favorite OC Dishes, #7: Family-Style Dinner at Mai's Kitchen

A few months ago, Cafe Hiro had a special called “Garlic Shrimp”, a plate of a dozen shrimp that's 10 times better than anything I've had from Oahu's much ballyhooed shrimp trucks. Not only are butter and garlic employed as the name of the dish...

As we said in our Best Of OC Issue (out today): Sushi Noguchi is the best sushi restaurant in Orange County. Now, what to order? Everything, but especially Hiro's Omakase. But if you're too light on the finances this month to spend the $100 per...

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...

Like Kasey Kasem, we're counting down the hits, except ours nourish your belly as well as your soul. Just a few weeks left in our listicle of listicles known as 100 Favorite Dishes (INSERT YEAR). YEAH!!! Hey, don't ding us for listicles: Weekly...

As I said in my review, eating at Mountain is like being fed by an army of Korean mothers and aunts who who want nothing else but to see you well-fed and happy. Upon seeing that we finished the first serving of their sweet potato salad panchan,...