Best thing I ate: The pozole at Panxa Cocina in Belmont Heights is a wormhole into New Mexico

Has this ever happened to you? You’re at a National Park or someplace tranquil, finding your moment of Zen, when all of a sudden, you sense a disturbance in the Force. A bus pulls up, and within seconds, hundreds of photo-snapping tourists pour...

The taco salad, a midcentury Mexican American dish, has never gotten much respect in food circles. Its credibility hit an all-time low May 5, 2016, when then-presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted a picture of his lunch: a mystery meat “taco...

Whole Foods is recalling organic and non-organic raw hazelnuts (known also as filberts) sold in bulk at stores in California, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington. So far, according to the company, no illnesses have been...

Got word that a new Mexican restaurant called SOL Cucina is slated to open in Newport Beach at the end of the month in the space vacated by Ristorante Mama Gina (251 Pacific Coast Highway, Newport Beach, CA 92660).  Here are snippets from the...

Yet another restaurant slips into history while another begins to write its own. Ferdussi Taste of Persia — the Santa Ana institution that proudly wore its Best of OC badge from OC Weekly on its door — closed a few months ago. Now open in its...