AnQi at South Coast Plaza Scheduled To Open December 10th

There is a moment on season three, episode three of Julia Child’s Baking with Julia where a young Nancy Silverton is visibly gripped with terror. After eating a forkful of Silverton’s brioche tart with hot wine syrup, Child starts to weep....

My buddy Chris and I are old-school: Instead of Twitter or Instagram, we still text food pictures to each other. Random times during the week, our phones will chime on receipt of another sumptuous food shot of what the other was eating at that...

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...

I didn’t pay much attention to the Cut when it was just a food truck. As with so many luxe loncheras before it, the Cut did burgers, and I was tired of burgers. To me, it sounded like more of the same. Sure, it employed the right buzzwords:...

Barbecue-pork-filled buns at Tim Ho Wan. Photo by Edwin Goei A Taiwanese co-worker had something to tell me: He said he’d just gone to a new restaurant I’d be interested in. But before he even got the chance to pull the business card out of his...