5 Long-Shuttered OC Restaurants That I Miss

Tasty pastry. Photo by Shannon Aguiar When I included the new Moroccan place in Costa Mesa called Casablanca The Restaurant in my weekly blog roundup of new eateries a few months ago, I had no intention of reviewing it. It was previously another...

Recently I was interviewed by Jay Rayner, the longtime restaurant critic at the Observer in London, about the differences between American and U.K. restaurant criticism. (In a nutshell: He thinks we American critics are an overly serious,...

Healthy. Photo by Edwin Goei At the new Indian restaurant in Costa Mesa called Nourish, you can’t order takeout chicken tikka masala or gorge yourself at an all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. This is a different kind of Indian place, one that operates...

It has been a radical decade in dining for Los Angeles — a time when once-quiet neighborhoods became restaurant destinations, when voices at every tier of the industry diversified, when culinary spaces decentralized, when a sense of ownership and...

The first time I encountered a Nobu restaurant, it was at Caesars Palace in Vegas. The next time, it was at the Four Seasons in Lana’i, Hawaii, and then at a fancy mall in Melbourne, Australia. All three times, I said to myself, “Someday, when I...