At Royal Hen, Tim Goodell's New Balboa Island Bistro, You Want the Chicken Pot Pie

Chicken pot pie and kale salad at Pop Pie in Costa Mesa (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG) The best way to ruin a savory pot pie is to cover it with flimsy puff pastry, which disintegrates into mush after the first bite. Real...

Noah Blom, who now has two restaurants at Costa Mesa's SOCO, cooks everything with wood—and I do mean everything. The four-layered cakes? Baked in an oven with a crackling fire at the back. The fries? Cooked in a cast-iron pot heated by burning...

Yes, we Forkers drink a lot and get to charge it to the company. I usually spend my allotted amount on drinks that has a lot of fruit juice in it. That and variations of gin and tonic. Because well, I like gin and tonic. So without further ado,...

I was at Irvine Spectrum recently in search of a private dining room for an upcoming small gathering of friends. I considered Paul Martin's and Capital as options, but then I realized Brio Tuscan Grille and Del Frisco's Grille, the two brand new...

Redbird may be the most anticipated Los Angeles restaurant of the current decade, a venture involving the city’s highest-profile food entrepreneur at the moment, an actual deconsecrated cathedral and a chef for whom greatness has lain just out of...