'Angels N Demons' Is Holy Crap, But Not Entirely Un-Fun

Pork Is a Nice, Sweet MeatAnd you can cook your own on the screaming-hot shield-shaped thingies at Wako Honey Pig Korean restaurants have a monopoly on two things: creative names and the cook-your-own-meat barbecue joint. Wako Honey Pig? Yeah, it...

Bean ThereThe new KNan Coffee in Tustin has a familiar feel—and smell and taste When we broke the news last September that Martin Diedrich was opening a second KNan Coffee—in what used to be Starbucks in Tustin—I scrounged for analogies to pair...

The Wiching HourOCNs only outpost of the Which Wich chain should have Subway and Quiznos quaking in their toasters My first summer job as a teen was at an ice-cream-and-sandwich shop in Fullerton. They didnNt let me handle the deep fryer or the...

A Very CGI ChristmasThis canNt be what Charles Dickens had in mind ItNs not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved (and much lampooned) Dickens tale that has survived nearly two...

Truck Season!In which our critic recounts his hunt for the Kogi Korean-barbecue taco truck—using considerably more than 140 characters Last fall, out of the blue, I got an e-mail from someone named Alice. She reads my food blog, she said, and she...