Alta Baja Market Serves Comfort Food That Soothes and Nourishes

Photo by Edwin Goei Welcome to our annual Top 5 countdown, where our SAFII writers tell you what impressed them over the past year! Here, we have food critic Edwin Goei’s Top 5 Drinks and Restaurants – enjoy, and dig in! Edwin Goei’s Top 5 Drinks...

Downtown Fullerton’s Commonwealth Lounge and Grill closed early last month and quickly transformed itself to OddFellow Drinkery, which serves “Old Timey Drinks” such as Bees Knees and Clover Club. But it also begat Gonzo’s Tacos & Beer in the same...

When you hit Irenia at the right time in the afternoon, maybe late on a Saturday when the lunch rush has faded away, you may run into a couple of old guys who look as if they’ve never left their table in the bar, nursing bottles of San Miguel and...

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José R. Ralat made headlines last fall when Texas Monthly, the “national magazine of Texas,” appointed him the publication’s first-ever taco editor. The role requires him to travel the state for about two weeks every month to report on the state’s...

I have a confession to make: The pandemic has turned me into the real-life version of the Condiment King, the most excellent, most underrated villain from “Batman: The Animated Series.” Instead of hoses that shoot powerful streams of ketchup and...