Au NatuRaw: Cooks Who Don't Cook

Gustavo wrote about a planned raw-foods restaurants located directly across from Weekly favorite Memphis at the Santora in January. This weekend the place opened. It is, indeed a raw-food restaurant, the kind that does not heat its food above 118...

What a busy month this was. Not only did we get another tenant at “The Most Cursed Restaurant Location in Tustin” (see picture above), we also witnessed the opening of Burger Parlor, Chef Joseph Mahon's once homeless burger joint. Now that it's...

If you've not noticed, the reason Fountain Valley's been buzzed about lately is because of donuts. There's Afters, which blew everyone's mind with their ice cream-stuffed donuts. And then there's The Donut Bar, which will do the same crazy...

When I told my date we were going to a raw foods restaurant, her face wrinkled with worry. “You mean they don't cook the meat?” she asked. “It's a vegan place, so there is no meat,” I said. “Just raw organic veggies.” Then she brightened: A...

If you opened a French restaurant, you, too, would have the songs of Edith Piaf playing so that her rich-as-foie-gras voice could float through the air. You, too, would hang a poster of Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic portrait of Aristide Bruant, his...