Best thing I ate: Critic Brad A. Johnson’s 20 best dishes of 2020

I don’t want to sound grateful for the pandemic. It’s been awful, and I welcome its demise. But if COVID-19 hadn’t dramatically disrupted the restaurant scene — and my job along with it — I likely wouldn’t have discovered some of the more...

When you eat out every day like I do, it’s easy to forget about much of what you eat. But then there are those other meals or dishes that won’t let you stop thinking about them: a pizza, a burger, a bowl of ramen, Spanish, Italian, Bosnian… These...

Dry January has been canceled. We’ll try again next year. For now, it’s margaritas for everyone! Correct me if I’m wrong, but margaritas to-go might be the greatest innovation of the pandemic. I’ve taste-tested a lot of restaurant margaritas at...

Most of last year’s temporary outdoor dining tents and parking-lot patios have already been dismantled and put away, perhaps somewhat prematurely. A lot of people still want to dine outdoors, especially right now in the dead of winter while it’s...

Just because you are quarantined doesn’t mean you have to subsist on beans and canned soup. You can still have pizza. Great pizza. Here are 20 of the best pizzas in Orange County that are still available right now for takeout or delivery. Stock...

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